Basic Trope: Person bends a spoon via Psychic Powers.
- Straight: Bob uses telekinesis to bend a spoon without using physical force.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob uses telekinesis to try to bend a spoon, the spoon ends up melting into a puddle.
- Bob uses telekinesis to try to bend a spoon, ends up bending every piece of silverware in the Tri-state area as a result.
- Downplayed: The spoon bends so slightly that one could not notice unless they were looking directly at it. And squinting.
- Justified:
- Bob's psychic powers are too weak to do anything else.
- Bob keeps a spoon in his pocket so he can telekinetically turn it into whatever tool he needs (screwdriver, skeleton key, switchblade, etc.)
- Telekinetics in the world are only able to bend spoons and nothing else.
- The ore in common, household spoons stimulate psychic powers.
- Inverted: Bob tries bending a spoon, but ends up bending himself in the process.
- Subverted: Bob bends a spoon, but it is revealed that the spoon was a trick spoon designed to bend as a parlor trick.
- Double Subverted: Bob bends a spoon, but it is revealed that the spoon was a trick spoon designed to bend as a parlor trick (but Bob used his psychic powers to move it anyway).
- Parodied: Psychics using spoons as weapons.
- Zig Zagged: Bob bends a spoon with his mind, it is revealed that the spoon is a trick spoon, but Bob used his psychic powers to turn a regular spoon into the trick spoon.
- Averted: Bob tries bending a spoon with his mind and fails.
- Enforced: A kitchen utensil company funded the production.
- Lampshaded: "What do you mean you don't believe me? I read your fortune and it came true? What more do you want from me, a demonstration in spoon bending?!"
- Invoked: Bob needs to prove his psychic powers and the only way others can believe them is if he bends a spoon with his mind.
- Exploited: Bob in the middle of a superpower battle runs to a spoon store to gain an advantage.
- Defied: "Quick, hide all the spoons! Bob is coming and if we give him the chance to show off he’ll be at it all day!"
- Discussed: "How would bending spoons prove I have pyrokinesis?"
- Conversed: "Oh, spoons! Really impressive guys. What are you going to do next? Read my palm?"
- Deconstructed: Psychics use the bending of spoons and what directions they bends as a secret handshake.
- Reconstructed: ???
