Basic Trope: A character hates the makeover that someone gave one of their items.
- Straight: While Bob is on vacation, Alice cleans and repaints his room. He gets very mad about it.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice renovates Bob's entire house while he's on vacation. He hates it so much that he kills her.
- A Running Gag is Alice giving a makeover to someone's item(s) that the person dislikes.
- Downplayed: Alice cleans Bob's room while he's on vacation. He gets a little mad that she did it without permission.
- Justified:
- Bob is mad that Alice made changes to his room without his permission.
- Alice is a Neat Freak and Bob is more of a messy person. No wonder their views on how rooms should look don't match up.
- The makeover has a theme that Bob dislikes.
- Bob is an Ungrateful Bastard.
- Alice is Innocently Insensitive, and/or didn't realize she was cleaning Bob's room anyway.
- Alice also got rid of items of Bob's that he wanted to keep.
- Inverted:
- Bob is mad when he finds out that Alice didn't renovate his room.
- Alice surprises Bob with a clean room, and he's overjoyed.
- Subverted: Bob gets mad when he sees that his room was renovated, but he later grows to like the change.
- Double Subverted: However, he's still mad that Alice did it without asking him first.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Alice doesn't renovate Bob's room.
- Alice renovates Bob's room, but he's okay with it.
- Enforced: The writers are trying to show that Alice doesn't always respect boundaries.
- Lampshaded: "Alice, what the hell did you do to my room?!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice makes sure that Bob is okay with a renovation, and even lets him come over and help so that he can make his own decisions.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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