Basic Trope: The hero shares their home with a non-human.
- Straight: Tom is roommates with Bob the genie.
- Exaggerated: Tom has several roommates, and they're all non-human.
- Downplayed:
- Tom shares an apartment building with Bob the genie.
- Tom is roommates with a member of an otherwise human Mage Species.
- Justified: Tom lives in a universe where humans and non-humans frequently interact in various ways, including living together.
- Inverted: Tom is rooming with a local family of dragons in their cave.
- Subverted: Bob was dressed up for Halloween as the Genie from Aladdin.
- Double Subverted: Bob is a genie, they just don't look like that.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Tom only has human roommates.
- Enforced: The show was cobbled together from a Sitcom and an Urban Fantasy series, and this scenario allows both types of plot.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: A government non-discrimination ordinance gives tax credits to people who live with genies.
- Exploited: Tom gets some wishes out of Bob
- Defied: Tom refuses to live with a "filthy wish-granter".
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
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