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* '''Downplayed''': Hectate made Bob frog-like.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Hectate made Bob frog-like.frog-like.
** Hecate gives Bob the head of a frog.



* '''Implied''':
** Bob insults Hecate. GilliganCut to her enjoying a meal of frog legs and cream sauce.
** King Bob mentions a dream where Princess Pure (now his Queen) never visited his pond.



** Hecate threatens to turn Bob into a frog and she fires a beam of magic at him, but then... nothing happens.



** But then... Bob starts turning into a frog over the next couple of hours.



* '''Lampshaded''': "Shut up, or I'll turn you into a toad!"

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* '''Lampshaded''': '''Lampshaded''':
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"Shut up, or I'll turn you into a toad!"toad!"
** "You want to turn me into a toad? [[SarcasmMode as if that's a new idea...]]


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* '''Implied''':
** Bob insults Hecate. GilliganCut to her enjoying a meal of frog legs and cream sauce.
** King Bob mentions a dream where Princess Pure (now his Queen) never visited his pond.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Hecate is a very powerful magic user who could inflict curses so bad that they'd be a FateWorseThanDeath, but she chooses to turn Bob into a frog because [[ItAmusedMe frogs are funny to her]].


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* '''Played For Horror''': Hecate turns Bob into a frog because she wants to eat him, but she doesn't want to make it look like [[ImaHumanitarian she is a cannibal.]]
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* '''Inverted''': Hecate turns a frog into a human being.

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* '''Inverted''': Hecate [[HumanityEnsues turns a frog into a human being.being]].

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Hecate turns Bob into a fantasy creature that resembles a frog, but is shown to lack many traits that real amphibians have.



* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???Hecate, a character in a show for children, is not allowed to inflict any curses that would be too scary for kids, so she turns people into cute frogs.



* '''Invoked''': Bob insults Hecate

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* '''Invoked''': Bob insults Hecate???



* '''Played For Drama''': By turning him into a toad, Hecate reduces Bob to a harmless, short-lived creature with barely enough intelligence to keep himself alive. Bob's friends are devastated, knowing that their friend no longer remembers anything about his life and will likely die within a few years.



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** Hecate turns the entire town into one huge frog, with each body part being a different person.



** Bob is Hecate's PsychoEx



** Hecate believes Bob is a menace to society and he's less dangerous as a frog than as a human.



* '''Subverted''': Bob asks, "What are you gonna do, turn me into a toad?" To which Hecate replies that it's not practical, or violates the rules of magic, or something like that.
* '''Double Subverted''': He keeps pushing her, and she turns him into a toad out of anger.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Implied''':
** Bob insults Hecate. GilliganCut to her enjoying a meal of frog legs and cream sauce.
** King Bob mentions a dream where Princess Pure (now his Queen) never visited his pond.
* '''Subverted''':
** The camera pans over to Bob, lacerated and tied to the wall but still very much in his original form, as Hecate taunts him by waving the frog legs in front of his mouth.
** A flashback to the dream is initiated, showing that King Bob wasn't a frog, he was just a park ranger at 'his pond'.
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Bob asks, "What are you gonna do, turn me into a toad?" To which Hecate replies that it's not practical, or violates the rules of magic, or something like that.
* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
** Eventually, Bob does get a morsel, but that ends up frogging him.
** Within the flashback, the entity that looks like park ranger Bob is actually a MobileSuitHuman piloted by the real Bob, who is a frog.
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He keeps pushing her, and she turns him into a toad out of anger.



* '''Defied''': Hecate decides it's not worth her time, and doesn't hex Bob.

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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
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Hecate decides it's not worth her time, time and doesn't hex Bob.cancels the spell.
** Bob [[ParryingBullets knocks the spell out of the air]] with his guitar before it can get to him.



* '''Implied''':
** Bob insults Hecate. GilliganCut to her enjoying a meal of frog legs and cream sauce.
** King Bob mentions a dream where Princess Pure (now his Queen) never visited his pond.

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* '''Implied''': Bob insults Hecate. GilliganCut to her enjoying a meal of frog legs and cream sauce.

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* '''Implied''': '''Implied''':
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Bob insults Hecate. GilliganCut to her enjoying a meal of frog legs and cream sauce. sauce.
** King Bob mentions a dream where Princess Pure (now his Queen) never visited his pond.
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** Bob disrupted Hecate's spell casting and [[MagicMisfire got hit by the backfire]].
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* '''Straight''': Hecate [[BalefulPolymorph turns Bob into a toad]].

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* '''Straight''': Hecate [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcedTransformation turns Bob into a toad]].

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* '''Subverted''':
** Bob asks, "What are you gonna do, turn me into a toad?" To which Hecate replies that it's not practical, or violates the rules of magic, or something like that.
** Hecate doesn't turn Bob into a toad.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** He keeps pushing her, and she turns him into a toad out of anger.
** She turns ''herself'' into a toad.

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* '''Subverted''':
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'''Subverted''': Bob asks, "What are you gonna do, turn me into a toad?" To which Hecate replies that it's not practical, or violates the rules of magic, or something like that.
** Hecate doesn't turn Bob into a toad.
* '''Double Subverted''':
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Subverted''': He keeps pushing her, and she turns him into a toad out of anger.
** She turns ''herself'' into a toad.
anger.



* '''Averted''':
** Hecate does not turn anyone into any sort of amphibian InUniverse.
** Hecate is not a witch as ''most'' people would think of it, but a [[UsefulNotes/{{Wicca}} Wiccan]].

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* '''Averted''':
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'''Averted''': Hecate does not turn anyone into any sort of amphibian InUniverse.
** Hecate is not a witch as ''most'' people would think of it, but a [[UsefulNotes/{{Wicca}} Wiccan]].
amphibian.

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* '''Exploited''': Hecate uses the threat of being turned into a toad to get what she wants.

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* '''Exploited''': '''Exploited''':
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Hecate uses the threat of being turned into a toad to get what she wants.wants.
** Bob lets himself be turned into a toad so that he'll have an excuse to get a kiss from a princess.
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** Turns out every toad in existence is actually some poor chump who had a bad run with a witch somewhere.
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* '''Implied''': Bob insults Hecate. GilliganCut to her enjoying a meal of frog legs and cream sauce.
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** Hecate turns Bob into [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog.]]
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Hectate made Bob frog-like.

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* '''Basic Trope''': A wizard or witch (usually, though not always, of the [[WickedWitch wicked]] variety) turns someone into a frog or toad.

* '''Straight''': Hecate [[BalefulPolymorph turns Bob into a toad]].
* '''Exaggerated''': Hecate turns Bob into a ''tadpole'', and he will eventually become a frog.
** Hecate turns an entire town of QuirkyTownsfolk into frogs and toads.

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* '''Basic Trope''': A wizard or witch (usually, though not always, of the [[WickedWitch wicked]] variety) turns someone into a frog or toad.

toad.
* '''Straight''': Hecate [[BalefulPolymorph turns Bob into a toad]].
toad]].
* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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Hecate turns Bob into a ''tadpole'', and he will eventually become a frog.
** Hecate turns an entire town of QuirkyTownsfolk {{Quirky Town}}sfolk into frogs and toads. toads.



* '''Justified''': Hecate is angry with Bob for insulting her, or otherwise doing her wrong.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Hecate is angry with Bob for insulting her, or otherwise doing her wrong. wrong.



* '''Subverted''': Bob asks, "What are you gonna do, turn me into a toad?" To which Hecate replies that it's not practical, or violates the rules of magic, or something like that.
** Hecate doesn't turn Bob into a toad.
* '''Double Subverted''': He keeps pushing her, and she turns him into a toad out of anger.
** She turns ''herself'' into a toad.
* '''Parodied''': Hecate casts the spell on a real PrinceCharmless, who has to get a princess to fall in love with him...which won't be easy, not only because he's a toad, but because he's got a revolting personality.
** Hecate turns her ex-boyfriend into a toad [[DisproportionateRetribution for cheating]] [[WomanScorned on her...and]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath tosses him into]] [[EyeOfNewt her next potion]].
** [[FunnyAnimal Bob]] already ''is'' a toad.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Bob asks, "What are you gonna do, turn me into a toad?" To which Hecate replies that it's not practical, or violates the rules of magic, or something like that.
** Hecate doesn't turn Bob into a toad.
toad.
* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
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He keeps pushing her, and she turns him into a toad out of anger.
anger.
** She turns ''herself'' into a toad.
toad.
* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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Hecate casts the spell on a real PrinceCharmless, who has to get a princess to fall in love with him...which won't be easy, not only because he's a toad, but because he's got a revolting personality.
personality.
** Hecate turns her ex-boyfriend into a toad [[DisproportionateRetribution for cheating]] [[WomanScorned on her...and]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath tosses him into]] [[EyeOfNewt her next potion]].
potion]].
** [[FunnyAnimal Bob]] already ''is'' a toad.



* '''Averted''': Hecate does not turn anyone into any sort of amphibian InUniverse.
** Hecate is not a witch as ''most'' people would think of it, but a [[UsefulNotes/{{Wicca}} Wiccan]].

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
**
Hecate does not turn anyone into any sort of amphibian InUniverse.
InUniverse.
** Hecate is not a witch as ''most'' people would think of it, but a [[UsefulNotes/{{Wicca}} Wiccan]].



* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Conversed''': ???
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*'''Basic Trope''': A wizard or witch (usually, though not always, of the [[WickedWitch wicked]] variety) turns someone into a frog or toad.

*'''Straight''': Hecate [[BalefulPolymorph turns Bob into a toad]].
*'''Exaggerated''': Hecate turns Bob into a ''tadpole'', and he will eventually become a frog.
** Hecate turns an entire town of QuirkyTownsfolk into frogs and toads.
*'''Downplayed''': ???
*'''Justified''': Hecate is angry with Bob for insulting her, or otherwise doing her wrong.
** Bob is Hecate's PsychoEx
** Bob hurt Hecate's [[{{Familiar}} pet frog]], and she wants to teach him empathy.
** Hecate is a WickedWitch, who likes to turn people into amphibians ForTheEvulz.
*'''Inverted''': Hecate turns a frog into a human being.
*'''Subverted''': Bob asks, "What are you gonna do, turn me into a toad?" To which Hecate replies that it's not practical, or violates the rules of magic, or something like that.
** Hecate doesn't turn Bob into a toad.
*'''Double Subverted''': He keeps pushing her, and she turns him into a toad out of anger.
** She turns ''herself'' into a toad.
*'''Parodied''': Hecate casts the spell on a real PrinceCharmless, who has to get a princess to fall in love with him...which won't be easy, not only because he's a toad, but because he's got a revolting personality.
** Hecate turns her ex-boyfriend into a toad [[DisproportionateRetribution for cheating]] [[WomanScorned on her...and]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath tosses him into]] [[EyeOfNewt her next potion]].
** [[FunnyAnimal Bob]] already ''is'' a toad.
*'''Zig Zagged''': ???
*'''Averted''': Hecate does not turn anyone into any sort of amphibian InUniverse.
** Hecate is not a witch as ''most'' people would think of it, but a [[UsefulNotes/{{Wicca}} Wiccan]].
*'''Enforced''': ???
*'''Lampshaded''': "Shut up, or I'll turn you into a toad!"
*'''Invoked''': Bob insults Hecate
*'''Exploited''': Hecate uses the threat of being turned into a toad to get what she wants.
*'''Defied''': Hecate decides it's not worth her time, and doesn't hex Bob.
*'''Discussed''': ???
*'''Conversed''': ???

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