Basic Trope: A character's calculations appear on screen as formulas, graphs, etc.
- Straight: Alice has to solve a physics problem. As she quietly works on it, the screen is filled with formulas and trajectory graphs of her calculations.
- Exaggerated: The problem Alice has to solve is very complex, causing the screen to get flooded with so many formulas and graphs that they can't be told apart.
- Downplayed: Alice has to solve a quick math problem. A single formula appears on screen.
- Justified: Alice has a fictional condition that causes her to see her calculations.
- Inverted: Formulas are constantly shown on screen representing different calculations Alice knows how to do. Whenever she gets to work, the formula she's currently using disappears from screen.
- Subverted: A formula appears on screen as Alice starts thinking, but immediately disappears as Bob interrupts her with an emergency.
- Double Subverted: The emergency turns out to be solved through math, so Alice gets to calculate things which then appear on screen after all.
- Parodied: Alice is The Ditz, and formulas start appearing on screen when all that was asked of her was to add together the cost of everything she has to buy.
- Zig-Zagged: The calculations on screen are intermittent, repeatedly vanishing and reappearing to indicate Alice's difficulty focusing.
- Averted: No formulas, graphs or other abstract elements appear on screen.
- Enforced: The creators determined this was the only way the audience would understand what Alice is doing.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: While Alice is working on the problem, a mind-reading wizard casts a spell to display Alice's thoughts to the other characters. Her thoughts appear as formulas.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "Please give me some space to work on this one". "Alright, Alice. Am I going to see formulas around you?"
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice is offscreen, and the formulas appear faintly from the screen's edge.
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: ???
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