Basic Trope: Someone gets anxious despite being a minor role in some kind of Show Within a Show.
- Straight: Alice is in the School Play, and is playing a character who only appears for a scene. She gets very anxious over it.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice is playing a prop that doesn't even have any lines at all, and still gets extreme stage fright to the point in which she has to drop out of the play.
- All of the minor roles in the play have some sort of anxiety.
- Downplayed:
- Alice has a role as a supporting character, but not necessarily a minor character, and is somewhat anxious.
- Alice has some stage fright, but gets over it.
- Justified:
- Alice tends to get stage fright, and decided to play a minor character hoping that she won't get nearly as anxious.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Alice's one line is the plot's linchpin Wham Line.
- Alice is a Starving Artist, so she's stresses out over the part since her livelihood is on the line.
- Inverted:
- Alice plays the main character in the play and ends up getting anxious.
- Alice is a minor character in the play, and is very confident about it to the point in which she becomes an in-universe One-Scene Wonder.
- Subverted: Alice mentions playing the part of an inanimate object in the play, so it's believed that she's playing a very minor character. However, it turns out that the play is about an Animate Inanimate Object.
- Double Subverted: ...but instead of playing the Animate Inanimate Object, Alice actually does play a non-characterized prop.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- There is no play.
- Alice doesn't get anxious about being in the play.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why is Alice so worried about being such a minor role?"
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