Basic Trope: The work teaches a lesson against driving dangerously.
- Straight: In a Very Special Episode of Tropetacular!, Alice Drives Like Crazy while texting, and ends up getting in a car crash. She's seriously injured, and has to be hospitalized.
- Exaggerated: The episode goes to outright Scare 'Em Straight levels, showing graphic footage of injuries/deaths from car accidents in order to discourage the audience from driving recklessly.
- Downplayed: Alice nearly gets into an accident after driving while distracted, and realizes that she should put her phone away and focus on the road.
- Justified: Driving dangerously can cause someone to get in an accident.
- Inverted: The work shows Alice driving like crazy, and presents it as a good thing.
- Subverted: Alice is driving while distracted. She starts swerving off the road... but nothing bad happens to her.
- Double Subverted:
- However, she realizes that it could've gone worse, and decides to drive safer.
- Initially, nothing bad happens to Alice, but then she swerves right into another car.
- Alice starts driving more and more recklessly because she thinks she's invincible, at which point she does get into a crash.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: The work doesn't teach any lessons about how to drive safely.
- Enforced: The work is aimed at people who are learning how to drive.
- Lampshaded: "You bloody imbecile! You should've learned to drive safely so you wouldn't end up here. Good thing you survived that nasty car crash, innit? "
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Back to Safe Driving Aesop... but be careful when you drive there.
