Basic Trope: A character who stays inside for inordinately long periods of time.
- Straight: Alice is a recluse who is afraid of going outside.
- Exaggerated: Alice is so terrified of the outdoors that she screams whenever someone opens the window.
- Downplayed: Alice is more comfortable staying indoors, but occasionally goes outside.
- Justified: Alice suffers from a phobia or illness that prevents her from going outside.
- Alice is shut in because of a very traumatic event that happened in her past.
- Inverted: Alice can't bring herself to enter any sort of building.
- Subverted: The opening shot of the episode introduces a new character, Alice. She's shown in the dark using a computer, but it turns out she was just having trouble sleeping that night and decided to browse the internet.
- Double Subverted: After staying cooped up indoors, Alice finally decides to step outside for some fresh air... shortly before returning inside.
- Parodied: Alice is extremely shut in, to the point that she forgets how to go outside, or that there even is an outside.
- The Exaggerated example could also fit here.
- Zig Zagged: Alice spends most of the day inside, then most of the next day outside, then inside again.
- Averted: Alice doesn't mind going outside, or at least isn't scared of it.
- Enforced: "How do we make Alice more relatable?" "I dunno, let's just make her very shut in"
- Lampshaded: "I don't go outside."
- Invoked: Alice secludes herself indoors to escape the outside world and all it implies.
- Exploited: Alice finds some advantages of not stepping out, and alternatives to experience outside life at the comfort of her home.
- Defied: Alice refuses to be cooped up, no matter how she feels.
- Discussed: "Some people spend most of the day indoors."
- Conversed: "Isn't that Alice? I heard she never leaves the house."
- Deconstructed: Alice has spent the longest time indoors. She is determined to overcome her obstacles and reclaims her life outdoors.
- Alice can't bring herself to go outside, and thus never goes to the store to buy any real food, leading to malnourishment.
- Reconstructed: Something scares her back in.
- Played For Drama: Alice's shut-in lifestyle makes her feel very lonely and depressed. Over time the lack of social interaction causes Alice to develop serious mental health issues or drives her to suicide.
