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• Straight: Jane states in a confessional that everyone in the game thinks they're making all these great friends, but she's not there to make friends, she's there to win.
• Exaggerated: Jane not only doesn't want to make friends, she wears a button to that effect and actively eschews friendly relationships.
• Downplayed: Jane isn't there to make friends, but she's not mean about it and acts reasonably polite and sociable.
• Justified: Avoiding deep friendships really does get Jane further in the game, or whatever her goal might be.
• Inverted: Jane is there to make friends and couldn't care about winning the game or whatever else might be at stake.
• Subverted: Jane is specifically cast for the show because she's a friendly person and won't show this type of behavior.
• Double Subverted: ...but the game gets to Jane and she ends up acting this way anyway.
• Parodied:
  • Jane is an archetype on a fake reality show.
  • Jane says the eponymous line... While being at a "How To Make Friends" seminary!
  Bob: That kinda defeats the whole point of this exercise, don't you think?
• Zig Zagged: Jane is nice and friendly one minute, but in the next displays Not-Here-To-Make-Friends sort of behaviors.
• Averted: Everybody on the program is reasonably sociable and understands that this sort of behavior can come to no good end.
• Enforced: The show's producers deliberately manipulate and manage events to encourage this kind of behavior.
• Lampshaded: The contestant's behavior is mocked by other Genre Savvy contestants in confessionals.
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: The contestant is featured in most footage because the producers think the behavior makes for good ratings.
• Defied: The contestant is cast for this purpose, but does everything to avoid it, and if portrayed this way in confessionals, argues it later.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???