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Author: ThreeferFAQMinorityChick

Nov 20th 2011 at 1:40:40 PM

^ I think it still counts as Marge reacts this way to finding a single visibly silver strand. By the way, anyone think we should sort out what makes a subersion, aversion, etc.? Here's my idea for a potential Playing With page. Feel free to copy it and post it with your additions

'''Basic Trope''': A character finds a silver strand amongst his or her otherwise colored hairs and immediately feels old
* '''Straight''': Alice finds a single gray hair and complains to her friends about how she is getting old 
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob finds a single gray hair and acts as if his death is immminent.
* '''Justified''': Bob has a "family curse" where a man always dies a week after finding a gray hair
* '''Inverted''': Daniel has lived a long life and has a full head of silvers to show for it. But then he finds that he has a single strand of brown hair amongst them, making him feel younger than he has in years.
* '''Subverted''': Alice finds a gray hair but just shrugs and goes on with her day
** Claire, who is known for her vanity, is combing her beautiful brown hair one day and finds some silver in there. She notes how starkly pretty it looks contrasted with her darker brown hair.
** Bob looks in the mirror and finds a grey hair, to his surprise.  But then he smiles- it turns out he's happy for being able to look more mature and experienced.
* '''Double Subverted''': And then Alice thinks some more about her having found gray hair and freaks out because it means she's getting old(er) and that later will come wrinkles.
* '''Parodied''': The entire plot revolves around multiple people finding gray hairs and all having [[HeroicBSOD HeroicBSODs]] over their revelations that they are getting old.
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice finds a gray hair and this makes her feel old, but she says nothing about it and starts plucking her silvers as she finds them
* '''Reconstructed''': And Alice complains to her friends about her feeling old because she discovered gray hairs and the change in her hair care routine besides
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Unexpectedly for someone of his age, Bob never finds any gray hairs at all.
** Alternatively, Bob has found a gray hair one of many times and doesn't think much of it at all.
** Alice is visibly acquiring more silver in her sable and she thinks it is beautiful rather than automatically synonymous with getting old
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': Daniel knows how much Alice values her [[OlderThanTheyLook naturally youthful appearance]], so to play a prank on her, he sneaks up on her while she sleeps and selectively dyes one or more strands of hair to make them apparently silver.
* '''Defied''': Bob refuses to make a big deal about the one gray hair he found that morning
* '''Discussed''': "Um, Sally, aren't you overreacting a bit? It's just one gray hair and it's completely normal to get those. Just 'cause you found one now doesn't necessarily mean that you're an old lady."
** "Man, Bob's been really down since he found his first gray hair this morning."
* '''Conversed''': "How come whenever a character finds a gray hair, they always freak out about getting old?"
* '''Played For Laughs''': Carlos finds a gray hair and declares himself to be having a midlife crisis, leading him to do one or more ridiculously hilarious things to cheer himself up.
* '''Played For Drama''': ???