Basic Trope: For a period of time, a character appears less than they appear otherwise.
- Straight: Alice has little screentime for a time.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice has one or two appearances in one of the seasons.
- Alice has zero speaking role in one of the seasons.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
- Demoted to Extra
- Downplayed: Alice seems like she barely appears for a period of time, but actually she appears slightly less than other times.
- Justified:
- Alice has little screentime for a period of time, but this is because she will become a major plot point.
- Bob and friends are a grade higher than Alice and during season 3 they started High school, while she was still in Junior High.
- Inverted: Character Focus
- Subverted: Alice might seem like she will appear rarely for the current season, but this is just to prove that she will eventually become more prominent than she ever was.
- Double Subverted: Her prominence is for only one episode, and she barely appears in that episode too.
- Parodied: Alice has been so much out of focus that other characters start forgetting her name, even her family.
- Zig Zagged: Alice seems like she will appear rarely for the current season, but she has two prominent episodes. After the two episodes, the only times her very existence is pointed out is when she speaks. Then she will have a Character Focus for a long time. But then she will be Out of Focus again.
- Alice remains around, except it's an entirely new character inhabiting her body. The real Alice has in fact been Out of Focus for awhile.
- Averted: Alice has the same prominence in the entire series.
- Enforced:
- Claudice, Alice's actress, is scaling down her acting gigs in favor of her newborn daughter.
- Claudice has a new acting gig as the lead for Space Trooper Thursmica, leaving little room for her role in Trope Avenue.
- Lampshaded: "She barely appears in these episodes, guys!"
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "How can someone appear this few?"
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Even after she becomes more prominent after appearing infrequently for a LONG period of time, Alice still does not appear very frequently and most of her appearances are cameos.
- Alice has a cameo where she is literally Out of Focus.
- Reconstructed: Because of Alice not appearing that frequently, she goes back to having very little screentime.
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