Basic Trope: Microwaving an animal, usually a pet.
- Straight: Alice microwaves a hamster.
- Exaggerated: Alice microwaves a whole bunch of animals, and her microwave ends up being a mess.
- Downplayed: Alice does microwave a hamster, but kills it first.
- Justified:
- Alice is a horrible person to begin with.
- Alice was genuinely misguided and didn't know you can't dry off an animal in the microwave.
- Alice didn't notice that Mr. Whiskers had crawled into the microwave when she put her TV Dinner in.
- Inverted:
- Alice puts a jar of sludge into a microwave and it creates life.
- Alice puts her dead hamster in the microwave and ends up reanimating it.
- Subverted: Alice seems to be putting her hamster in the microwave, but is actually trying to reheat a hamster-shaped food item.
- Double Subverted: And then she puts the hamster in the microwave as well.
- Parodied: Alice has a whole separate microwave for animals.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody uses microwaves for anything other than their intended purpose.
- Enforced: To add some Black Comedy Pet Death, in most cases.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "What are you doing? Microwaving a hamster? Don't do that!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice walks into the kitchen with a hamster and the next time we see the microwave it's a bloody mess.
- Played for Laughs: Black Comedy Pet Death
- Played for Drama:
- Alice stole the hamster from Bob, and he becomes extremely upset after its death.
- In cases such as the second or third "justified" where it was an accident: Alice experiences My God, What Have I Done? afterward and feels terrible about accidentally killing a hamster.
- Played for Horror: Alice is a hamster caretaker who microwaves the owner's hamsters after a few weeks, leaving nothing but an empty terrarium and a freshly cleaned microwave.
Back to Microwave the Dog- oh no, what did you do to my hamster?
