Basic Trope: A character shakes their buttocks.
- Straight: Alice shakes her butt in front of Bob.
- Exaggerated: Alice is gyrating her butt that this causes everyone to join in dancing with her.
- Downplayed: Alice does a slight wiggle.
- Justified:
- Inverted: Alice wiggles her breasts in front of Bob.
- Subverted: It turns out that Alice has squirrels in her pants.
- Double Subverted: She gets them out, and does another butt shake to celebrate.
- Parodied: Alice posts a Youtube video of her twerking and gains over a thousand likes.
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes, she is shown doing that like this, and sometimes, she isn't.
- Averted: Alice doesn't shake her rump.
- Enforced: "Alice is the series' Ms. Fanservice. Let's have her shake her booty!"
- Lampshaded: "Alice knows how to use her assets really well."
- Invoked: Bob encourages Alice to shake her butt because he likes watching her do it.
- Exploited: Seeing that both Alice and Bob are indisposed, Carrie takes the chance to take his wallet.
- Defied: "I'm not going to lower myself in moving my buttocks to please you pervs!"
- Discussed:Bob: "Why are you shaking your butt?"
Alice: Because I like shaking my butt. - Conversed: "Remember the episode on Troperville where Alice was twerking? I'm surprised the Moral Guardians didn't take that episode off the air."
- Deconstructed:
- Alice is shaking her rump, and many of her friends think that she's acting weird.
- Bob shakes his rump, giving an opening for Charlie to deliver an Ass Shove.
- Reconstructed:
- ...however, she doesn't care. She likes it anyway.
- But Bob hides spikes within his ass, which wounds Charlie, so Bob gets to taunt him for his failed Ass Shove by shaking more of his rump!
- Implied: Alice is frequently The Ghost, but many people mention her as "shaking her buns."
- Played for Laughs: When Alice is shaking her buttocks, she will sometimes fart and make the people cover their noses in disgust.
- Played for Drama: The characters must shake their butts for a day, or they will die, due to a curse.
- Played for Horror:
- The rump-shaking is based on macabre subject matter.
- Continuing from Played for Drama, when Alice fails to shake her rump she dies a Cruel and Unusual Death.
- Alice shakes her rump, but gets a little too into it, and throws her back out. She is left confined to her bed in terrible pain.
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