Basic Trope: A Genre Savvy character counts down from three until a trope happens.
- Straight: When Bob finds out that he got fired, Alice counts down from three until he does a Big "NO!"
- Exaggerated: When Bob is about to get Caught in a Snare, Alice counts down from ten as he is walking through the forest.
- Downplayed: Alice doesn't do any counting, just saying "And... now." when a trope happens.
- Justified: Alice is Genre Savvy and can tell when a trope is about to happen.
- Inverted: When Bob finds out that he got fired, Alice counts up to three until he does a Big "NO!"
- Subverted: Alice counts down, but the Big "NO!" doesn't happen.
- Double Subverted: However, that was just only one time where she was wrong, and other tropes she knows happen when she counts.
- Parodied: When nothing is happening, Alice suddenly counts down from one thousand. When she finishes counting, Bob gets fired and he does a Big "NO!"
- Zig-Zagged: Alice can only tell when a trope is about to happen sometimes.
- Averted: Alice does no counting.
- Enforced:
- "I need to show how smart Alice is. Let's have her count down whenever a trope is about to happen."
- Alice is played by the cue girl, this is the handwave for her cueing up the tropes.
- Lampshaded: "Did she really just count down for Bob to yell no after he got fired?"
- Invoked: ?
- Exploited: The group decides to use Alice's genre savviness in order to avoid danger in time.
- Defied: Alice decides not to count down whenever a trope is about to happen in order to avoid being seen as seeing others' bad situations as merely stories.
- Discussed: "How in the world could you tell that that was going to happen?" "I watch lots of movies."
- Conversed: "It'd be kinda neat to tell whenever a trope is happening just like Alice, y'know?"
- Implied: Alice shows tics that signify that she recognizes tropes, but never reveals it outright.
- Deconstructed: Alice's habit of counting down whenever a trope happens causes her to lose her friends because they believe that she sees all their suffering as merely a game or fictional story.
- Reconstructed: ?
Back to Three... Two... One....
