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Basic Trope: A character steals a scarecrow's clothes.

  • Straight: Alice steals the clothes off a scarecrow.
  • Exaggerated:
    • All of Alice's clothes were stolen off scarecrows.
    • All the characters steals
  • Downplayed:
    • Alice steals the scarecrow's hat.
    • Alice's steals clothes of a fashion mannequin.
  • Justified:
    • Alice is trapped naked outside and desperately needs new clothes before she is caught.
    • Alice needs the clothes to make a decoy.
    • Alice's plans to sell the clothes for money.
    • Alice needs to impersonate a homeless woman.
  • Inverted:
    • Alice is stripped naked by a sentient scarecrow.
    • Alice gets her clothes snagged on a scarecrow and has them all ripped off her.
    • Alice strips naked and puts her clothes on a naked scarecrow.
    • A sentient scarecrow lends it's clothes to Alice.
  • Subverted:
    • While at first glance it might seem that Alice stole her clothes from a scarecrow, closer inspection will tell you that the 'straw' is actually hay from rolling in it.
  • Double Subverted:
  • Parodied:
    • Alice mistakes Brittany for a scarecrow, strips her naked and steals her clothes (or tries to).
    • The scarecrow is sentient and later files charges against Alice for sexual assault.
  • Zig Zagged:
  • Averted:
  • Enforced:
  • Lampshaded:
  • Invoked:
  • Exploited:
  • Defied:
  • Discussed:
  • Conversed:
  • Implied:
    • Alice is locked out naked. She is later seen in tattered, dirty clothes.
    • A sarecrow, stripped off its clothes, is seen.
  • Deconstructed: Alice is arrested for theft.
  • Played For Laughs:
  • Played For Drama:

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