Basic Trope: A dramatic person and a stoic one who walk around together.
- Straight: Wacky Wayne likes to exaggerate everything he does, is easily amused, enthusiastic, and a bit of a Cloud Cuckoo Lander. Serious Steve is his best friend and they're hardly ever seen apart, but Steve hardly ever expresses emotion.
- Exaggerated: Wacky Wayne will make a huge deal out of even the most normal things, but Serious Steve never expresses any emotion whatsoever, even when he's in serious danger.
- Downplayed: Wayne is slightly dramatic and Steve is more down-to-Earth, but Wayne is not quite a Large Ham and Steve expresses emotion.
- Justified:
- Those are just their personalities, and their friendship is based on other aspects.
- Wayne Hariksön and Steve Hariksön are younger and older brother.
- Inverted: Wayne and Steve are both dramatic or both stoic.
- Subverted:
- It turns out that Wayne was just acting hammy and weird because he was drunk.
- It turns out that Steve was only pretending to be stoic.
- Double Subverted:
- Steve only thought Wayne was drunk, or he's just as dramatic and wacky when sober.
- Steve was asked to pretend to be stoic, but it's easy for him because he is stoic.
- Parodied: Wayne and Steve are anthropomorphic objects: respectively, a kazoo and a plank.
- Zig-Zagged: Sometimes it's Steve who overacts and Wayne who's stoic, sometimes it's the other way around, and sometimes both fall somewhere in between.
- Averted: Neither Wayne nor Steve is particularly hammy or stoic.
- Enforced: "We need someone to ham it up so it'll be funny, but we also need someone to stop the drama king from going too overboard."
- Lampshaded: "Steve hardly ever expresses emotion, but Wayne makes it up for him, and then some."
- Invoked: Steve deliberately avoids expressing emotion and Wayne deliberately overacts.
- Exploited: Bob, knowing that a Freudian Trio is the most effective trio, joins Wayne and Steve and becomes their up-the-middle commander.
- Defied: Wayne refuses to overact and Steve decides to express emotion.
- Discussed: "I have these two friends Wayne and Steve. Wayne can be dramatic and Steve doesn't really express emotion, but I'm sure you'll like them."
- Conversed: "My favorite character is Wayne, so funny and over-the-top, and Steve's so level-headed, which makes it funnier!"
- Implied: A photo is seen of Wayne smiling widely and doing a Fist Pump and Steve next to him with a blank expression.
- Deconstructed: Steve grows bored of Wayne's antics.
- Reconstructed:
- Wayne stops before he annoys Steve.
- Despite not expressing it, Steve doesn't find Wayne's antics annoying and they actually amuse him even if he doesn't outright laugh.
- Played for Laughs: Wayne comically overreacts to things and Steve serves as The Comically Serious.
- Played for Drama: Wayne is a jovial friend but a Horrible Judge of Character who regularly says the wrong thing at the wrong time in the wrong company. Steve is also a Horrible Judge of Character with the opposite problem: he won't say the right thing even when it's the right time and in the right company. They prove to be the Millstones of their group and are jointly kicked out for their shortcomings.
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