Basic Trope: A character is shown/mentioned to have never had toys when they were a child.
- Straight: Bob wasn't allowed to play with toys as a child, and as an adult he's now something of a manchild who loves to collect toys.
- Exaggerated: Toys don't even exist in this setting at all.
- Downplayed:
- Bob mostly played with random objects rather than toys.
- Bob only had a few toys when he was a child.
- Justified:
- Bob had strict, neglectful, or even abusive parents that didn't want him to have fun.
- Bob's family was poor, and couldn't afford to buy him toys.
- Bob lives in a culture where toys are uncommon or nonexistent.
- Bob was raised by wild animals.
- Bob has always been extremely boring and had no interest in playing with toys.
- Inverted: Bob had way too many toys when he was a child.
- Subverted: Bob commonly says that he didn't have any toys when he was a child. It's later revealed that he made up the story to garner sympathy.
- Double Subverted: Although Bob did have a few toys when he was a child, they were all toys he found uninteresting and didn't play with them much.
- Parodied: Bob commits a lot of hilariously over the top awful acts, and then blames it all on the fact that he didn't have toys when he was a child.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob had toys when he was a child.
- Enforced: The writers want to give Bob a Freudian Excuse.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Bob's parents never gave him toys and always got rid of any he received as a gift.
- Exploited: Bob can easily be bribed with toys.
- Defied:
- Bob's parents make sure to buy him toys.
- From a young age, Bob stole toys, quickly leading his parents to give up.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I feel so bad for Bob, knowing he never got to play with toys as a kid."
- Implied: In a flashback to Bob's childhood, there aren't any toys around.
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