Basic Trope: A trope (a common convention that you can expect to show up in certain works).
- Straight: The trope is played out normally.
- Exaggerated: The trope is played to a larger extent than normal.
- Downplayed: The trope is played to a smaller extent than normal.
- Justified: The trope has a logical In-Universe explanation.
- Inverted: The trope, in particulars or in total, happens the other way around.
- Gender-Inverted: A gender-specific trope is used on the opposite gender.
- Role-Inverted: A role-specific trope is used on the opposite role.
- Subverted: The trope is expected to be played straight, but isn't.
- Double Subverted: ...until later, when it is.
- Parodied: The trope is mocked, spoofed, or played straight to ridiculous levels for specific humour value. Sometimes, the trope is made into a Visual Pun.
- Zig-Zagged: The trope is simply "played with" in another way, or in several different ways.
- Averted: The trope is not used, implied, or mentioned at all, and it may not be possible in any present situation.
- Enforced: Something in Real Life that causes Executive Meddling or the authors to use the trope.
- Lampshaded: A Genre Savvy character calls attention to the trope as it's occurring or after it occurs, then carries on.
- Invoked: A Genre Savvy character sets up a situation where the trope can occur.
- Exploited: A Genre Savvy character takes advantage of a trope, or the fact that the trope will occur, possibly but not necessarily Invoking it in the process.
- Defied: A Genre Savvy character tries to prevent a trope from happening.
- Discussed: Genre Savvy characters talk about the trope in a situation where it is likely to occur.
- Conversed: Genre Savvy characters talk about the trope in a Show Within a Show.
- Implied: The trope isn't shown, but dialogue or scene setting hints to the audience that it happened or is happening off-screen.
- Deconstructed: The trope is played in a way that shows logical or moral problems with the trope as normally played.
- Reconstructed: The trope is played straight, but with the problems raised by the deconstruction dealt with or addressed.
- Played for Laughs: The trope is played straight in a comedic way.
- Played for Drama: The trope is played in a melodramatic or serious way.
- Played for Horror: The trope is played in a way that scares the audience.
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