Basic Trope: Someone liking socially unacceptable material is a sign of bad moral character.
- Straight: Grant tends to display Troubling Unchildlike Behavior. One of these is the fact that he enjoys reading true stories about Spree Killers.
- Exaggerated: Everything Grant reads is either pornographic, not safe for life, or vivid descriptions of gruesome torture (with pictures and instructions).
- Downplayed:
- The stories are fictional, but Grant does seem to enjoy them a bit more than most people would.
- Grant is a bit mean, and he's a fan of Gross Out Shows and Kafka Komedy shows.
- Justified: Grant is a homicide detective in training. Reading these kinds of stories helps him get accustomed to what he'll see on the job.
- Inverted: Grant is an All-Loving Hero who reads the most sweet, optimistic books known to man.
- Subverted:
- Grant has to read the book for school. He doesn't actually like what it's about.
- The book is the reason Grant is suspected of the crimes, but Bob is the real culprit, knowing Grant would be suspected.
- Double Subverted:
- But once he finishes it, he gets a taste for the genre and starts reading even darker books.
- The book belonged the Bob, who just recently lent it out to Grant.
- Parodied: Grant is a Straw Character representing whatever viewpoint the author disagrees with. So he's always seen buried in a copy of Mein Kampf.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Grant's hobbies and interests do not clue you into his character.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Oh, of course someone like Grant would spend his free time reading about unsolved murders."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Grant makes a public show of his unacceptable reading material in an attempt to make people think he's a "bad boy".
- Defied: Grant doesn't care about how people see him based on his likes.
- Discussed: "Man, Grant kind of scares me. I guess that fits with those books he's always reading."
- Conversed: ???
Back to Red-Flag Recreation Material, but I think you should watch out if anyone's really into that.
