Basic Trope: Being lost in a field of corn or tall grass gets Played for Horror.
- Straight: Bob gets lost in a cornfield while trying to get gas for his car and runs afoul of a Scary Scarecrow.
- Exaggerated: Stepping into a cornfield spells almost certain, horrible death.
- Downplayed: Bob gets lost in a cornfield and gets scared but not injured.
- Justified: Bob gets lost in a cornfield while trying to retrieve a baseball that got knocked in the cornfield.
- Inverted: Bob ducks into the cornfield so he can hide from a monster. It works.
- Subverted: Bob gets lost in a cornfield. He hears a rustling noise coming closer and closer...and it turns out to be Alice, who came looking for him after he took so long to come back.
- Double Subverted: ...But then a Scary Scarecrow springs out and the two have to run for their lives.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- There are no cornfields in the story.
- Cornfields in the story are no more dangerous than in real life.
- Enforced: The author has a very limited budget and is using a cornfield so the characters can walk around a lot and experience a spooky, claustrophobic atmosphere without the need for a fancy set.
- Lampshaded:Bob: Oh look, a spooky cornfield. I hate spooky cornfields.
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob is Properly Paranoid and bypasses the cornfield.
- Discussed:Bob: We've been stuck in this cornfield for five hours.Alice: Is a scarecrow supposed to jump out and kill us or something? Cause that's usually what happens in the movies.
- Conversed: "What, is this sitcom character scared of corn or something?"
Back to Lost in the Maize... and don't get turned around; you don't want to see what's out here.
