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Basic Trope: A space that penalizes a player on a luck based game show or board game.

  • Straight: Picking the "Thief" card on a game show means you lose the money you earned on one turn.
  • Exaggerated: Picking "Super Thief" takes all the money you earned throughout the game.
  • Downplayed: Pick "Little Thief" and you lose a percentage of your earnings.
  • Justified: The "Thief" spaces are there to prevent players from running away with the game.
  • Inverted: Bonus Space.
  • Subverted: ???
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied: Pick a "Banned" card and you are UnPersoned from the game and banned from the studio.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: No such penalty space exists in the game.
  • Enforced: The producers want to control the bad luck aspect of the game based on how likely a Golden Snitch is to occur.
  • Lampshaded: "How am I going to get back in the game if the Thief stole my money?"
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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