Basic Trope: A character makes an impression by cutting, burning, blasting, or otherwise leaving a symbol on the clothes, wall, or person of their nemesis.
- Straight: Zach carves a Z into Alice’s dress with his rapier without cutting her.
- Exaggerated:
- Zach slashes Alice’s dress and underwear into shreds in public, leaving her naked and humiliated but without a scratch on her body.
- Zachary Edward Thurston Richard Marshall Cornelius Bobson III carves his full name into Alice’s dress.
- Downplayed: Lionel carves a lowercase “l” onto Alice’s body with a vertical slash.
- Justified: ???
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Inverted: Zach slashes a Z into Alice stomach or neck without cutting her dress.
- Parodied: Zach, undetected, slashes "KICK ME" into the back of Alice's dress.
- Averted: There is no sign of Zach's Z on Alice's dress.
- Defied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
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