Basic Trope: The Monster of the Week coincides with An Aesop the episode is dealing with.
- Straight: Alice is learning not to lie, and the Monster of the Week is a notorious liar.
- Exaggerated: Every Monster of the Week is a Monster of the Aesop.
- Downplayed: Alice is being reminded not to lie at various intervals, but the monster is the main focus, and while the monster is a liar, it is not its defining trait.
- Justified: The Lie Monster is trying to stop Alice from learning not to lie.
- Inverted: The Aesop is about the monster, not the other way round.
- Subverted: Alice is being taught not to lie and the Monster of the Week is a notorious liar, but the monster does not lie around Alice.
- Double Subverted: However, its lies to other people get back around to Alice after said lies trouble for her, and Alice realizes what terrible consequences lying has.
- Parodied:
- Even Evil Has Standards and the monster is shocked that Alice tells lies.
- Aesop himself is The Man Behind the Monsters.
- Zig Zagged: Alice is learning not to lie, and the monster is a notorious liar, but the lies it tells are not its defining trait, but they become its defining trait at intervals.
- Averted: The show has no Aesops, no monsters, or the two things are completely unrelated.
- Enforced: The authors are trying to teach lessons to the viewers in ways that are slightly subtler than just having the heroes announce them at the end.
- Lampshaded: "Hey, how come whenever one of us is learning a moral lesson, a monster comes along who needs to learn it way more than we do?"
- Invoked: The liar monster seeks out people who are learning not to lie, so he can pester them.
- Exploited: A local teacher makes a class around teaching the townsfolk certain things, keeping an eye on what monsters are near the town at the moment so he'll have a really effective addition to the curriculum.
- Defied: Emperor Evulz purposely makes sure Alice encounters the monsters out of order with the Aesop of the week, so she doesn't have the right one to hammer the lesson in for her at the same time.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "You know that thing where the monster has something to do with the moral of the story?"
- Implied: Bob writes in his journal "Today, the Monster of the Week taught Alice not to lie"
- Played For Drama: Alice needs to learn to tell the truth or she will turn into a monster.
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