Basic Trope: A character, usually in a Ship Tease scenario with another, trains them up close.
- Straight: Bob helps Alice work on her golf swing by getting behind her and manually adjusting her body.
- Exaggerated: Any time Bob teaches Alice anything, he stands closely behind her.
- Downplayed: Bob stands relatively close to Alice anytime he has to teach her something.
- Justified: Learning a golf swing is a fairly non-intuitive process, so Bob just decides it’s easier to manually show her than explain it.
- Inverted: Bob trains Alice in a very physical discipline (such as martial arts) with a dry, lengthy lecture.
- Subverted: Bob walks behind Alice to...hand her a different club.
- Double Subverted: Which he then puts in her hand, adjusting her body.
- Parodied: Bob gets ridiculously handsy with Alice while showing her how to do her taxes. She later credits Bob’s extreme handsiness as how she learned to do her taxes properly.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob doesn’t put his hands on Alice.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: “Lemme guess, you can only show me by touching me?”
- Invoked: Chuck mentions that Alice wants to learn golf, and this gives Bob an idea...
- Exploited: Bob knows Alice isn’t a quick learner, so he teaches her golf as an excuse to cop a feel.
- Defied: Bob tries to manually adjust Alice’s body to show her a golf swing. She slaps him.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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