Basic Trope: A character is barred from ever returning to a certain business or governmental jurisdiction.
- Straight: Bob gets banned from the local club for mouthing off at other members.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is never again allowed within 100 miles of the club.
- Bob is not only banned for life, but none of his children, children's children, immediate family, distant relatives, close friends, nor even his casual acquaintances will ever be allowed access as well.
- Bob is not allowed to set foot in Tropestan, or he'll be shot on sight.
- Un-person
- Downplayed:
- Bob is temporarily suspended from the club after losing his temper.
- Bob is only banned from a single activity of the club but is still welcomed for the most part.
- Justified: Bob's behavior was really outrageous and utterly unforgivable by the club's standards.
- Inverted:
- Bob is never allowed to leave the club.
- Although the people in charge of the club want Bob to become a member, he refuses.
- Subverted:
- Bob messes up badly and it seems like he will be banned, but the people in charge let him off with a fair warning.
- The people in charge think they just ejected Bob, whom they no longer want because he doing something bad, but that was Rob.
- Double Subverted:
- That is until Bob messes up again.
- They then let Rob in and ban Bob.
- Parodied:
- Bob intentionally gets banned from the club just so he can prance around and brag about his persona-non-grata status.
- Twenty years after getting banned, Bob gets plastic surgery and legally changes his name to Charles. The moment he walks in the club, the owner yells, "GET OUT, BOB!"
- Bob won't get out of the club, and says he's not at the club. The owner keeps yelling at him to get out. Alice comes to the club, and is asked if she could get him out. She enters the club and won't get out. Basically the GET OUT OF MY CAR situation, except it's the bar the morons needs to get out of.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob gets banned, only for the club officials to have a change of heart and readmit him, only for Bob to mess up again. Repeat the cycle.
- Averted:
- Bob is still a member of the club.
- Bob was never a member of the club, so he could never be banned from it in the first place.
- Enforced:
- Bob's banning serves as an example of how strict some establishments' policies can be.
- Bob's actor is leaving and/or the writers got tired of coming up with any new antics for Bob to do, so they have him banned to write him out of the story.
- Lampshaded: "Looks like Bob is the club's latest persona non grata."
- Invoked: Bob can't or won't just decline to go to the club, so he acts to make himself unwelcome there.
- Exploited: Alice wants to avoid Bob, so she goes to the club from which he's banned.
- Defied: Bob is on his best behavior wherever he goes and whatever he does, so nobody has a reason to ban him.
- Discussed: "Did you get banned from the club, Bob?"
- Conversed: "Wow, I thought the next Story Arc was going to involve Bob's attempt to take over the club. Clearly, I was mistaken."
- Implied: Bob walks up to the club and the waiters and doorkeeper glare at him. He says, "Oh, right," and walks away.
- Deconstructed: Bob gets himself banned from every club in town, depleting his social cachet.
- Reconstructed:
- So he forms his own club from which he can't be removed.
- He is welcomed back into the various clubs as his transgressions are forgotten, forgiven, and other people leave the setting.
- Played for Laughs: Bob incurs Amusing Injuries when he's kicked out of the club.
- Played for Drama: Bob is Driven to Suicide after being kicked out of his favorite club.
- Played for Horror:
- Bob is expelled from the club on a very cold, dark, rainy night with Everything Trying to Kill You in the area.
- Bob is expelled and subsequently plans and carries out a horrifying vengeance on everyone even vaguely associated with the club.
You're not welcome here. Get back to Persona Non Grata.
