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Basic Trope: A coin that has matching sides, usually to cheat in a game.

  • Straight: Alice and Bob are supposed to do a coin flip to decide on whether they should go to the movies or the museum. Alice really wants to see a movie, so she uses a coin with two heads to get her way.
  • Exaggerated: Alice has a whole bunch of coins that match on both sides just so she can win in these kinds of games.
  • Downplayed: Alice has a coin that's different on both sides, but still somewhat more likely to flip to the side she wants.
  • Justified: Alice wants her way, but still wants it to look like she's won fair and square.
  • Inverted: Alice and Bob have the choices of going to the museum or the movies, but they want more options, so instead they use a many-sided die.
  • Subverted:
    • Alice's coin seems to have matching sides, but there is actually a difference between the two sides...
    • Alice's coin's two-headedness is only a rendering error.
  • Double Subverted: ...which is so minuscule that Alice doesn't bother.
  • Parodied: Alice uses a two-headed coin, and calls tails.
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted:
    • Alice does not use a coin that has matching sides.
    • No coin toss happens.
  • Enforced:
    • To give Alice a way to cheat.
    • Due to either texture rendering error or limitation the front-side texture is used for both sides of the coin.
    • This was the only coin at hand for the scene.
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: Bob knows Alice's coin is two-headed, so he calls out heads before she can and wins the toss.
  • Defied: Bob notices Alice cheating, and doesn't let her use the coin.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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