Basic Trope: A character uses powers based on astronomical objects.
- Straight: Astro Alice has powers based on stars. Her special move involves summoning a supernova to blow her foes up to kingdom come.
- Exaggerated: Astro Alice can warp space and exert control over stars, planets and suns. She can also make galaxies larger than the Milky Way and make entire universes via a hundred Big Bangs.
- Downplayed: Astro Alice can can make tiny little stars, but that's basically it.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: Astro Alice is a cosmic sorceress who can bend the fabric of space-time. If she's only shooting cartoon stars, it's either a sign that she's holding back or drastically weakened.
- Subverted: Astro Alice says she has powers based on stars, but she turns out to be a fraud.
- Double Subverted: And THEN she turns out to have lied about being a fraud.
- Parodied: Astro Alice shoots inverted pentagrams at foes and is hence deemed a Satanist.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Star-based magic / superpowers don't exist in the setting.
- Enforced: The writers have to follow an executive mandate stating that the protagonist must have star-based magic / superpowers and none have the same kit as them.
- Lampshaded: "That's star magic? Gee, I expected something cooler than simply throwing decagon-shaped projectiles at people."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Astro Alice is invited by an astronomy organization to further the study / exploitation of stars.
- Defied: Star magic is deemed taboo in the setting.
- Discussed: "Want to hear how star sorcery came into existence?" "Star sorcery... the magic that is possessed by none other than Astro Alice."
- Conversed: "The main character of this show holds the power of the stars." "That's new."
- Deconstructed: The stars Astro Alice generate produce radiation, dooming Alice and the world.
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