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'''Basic Trope''': Simply turning sixteen puts the character into grave danger.
* '''Straight''': On Alice's sixteenth birthday, a {{Kaiju}} attacks her hometown, causing her MagicalGirl powers to awaken.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice's sixteenth birthday is the date of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, as she disappears on that date -- along with everyone else sixteen or older!
* '''Downplayed''': Alice gets a stomach bug on her sixteenth birthday party.
* '''Justified''':
** A WickedWitch put a curse on Alice's sixteenth birthday.
** Alice is descended from a long line of monster slayers, inheriting the requisite magical powers at the age of 16, along with [[ComesGreatResponsibility the associated responsibilities]] [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatOpposition and the fact that the monsters are now out to get her.]]
* '''Inverted''': Bad things have happened on every single one of Alice's previous birthdays--but her sixteenth is perfectly calm.
* '''Subverted''': Turns out the Kaiju was just a prank by her friends.
* '''Double Subverted''': Well, it was until it somehow gained its own life.
* '''Parodied''': Alice is a CosplayOtakuGirl, and her BirthdayEpisode consists largely of her playing out increasingly wacky disaster scenarios in her head.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Even though Alice's sixteenth birthday sucked, there was an equal amount of good to it.
* '''Averted''': Nothing catastrophic happens on Alice's sixteenth birthday--or on any of her birthdays, for that matter.
* '''Enforced''': The author had a horrible sixteenth birthday, and feels like making Alice go through the same horrors.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Well, ''of course'' a calm sixteenth birthday was too much to ask!"
* '''Invoked''': The villain sicks the Kaiju on the city as a twisted birthday present.
* '''Exploited''': TheGovernment knows about Alice's special destiny and puts the UsefulNotes/KaijuDefenseForce on full alert on her sixteenth birthday.
* '''Defied''': Alice drinks a potion to become TheAgeless at 11:59 and never become sixteen.
* '''Discussed''': "11:58... 11:59... 12:00! Alice is sixteen! The world is over!"
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''': Alice is an orphan and her exact birthday is unknown, but Kaijus do attack her hometown in her late teens.
* '''Deconstructed''': TheGovernment begins to take children away from their families on their sixteenth birthday, quarantining them off "for public safety".
* '''Reconstructed''': The "quarantine" turns into be a year-round free amusement park for the kids ''and'' makes Kaiju attacks manageable.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Convinced that bad things will happen on her birthday, Alice's CrazySurvivalist antics amuse her friends all day.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice's beloved grandma falls sick just before her birthday, and dies in the hospital as she is reluctantly hanging out with her friends.
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* '''Straight''': On Alice's sixteenth birthday, a {{Kaiju}} attacks her hometown, causing her MagicalGirl powers to awaken.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice's sixteenth birthday is the date of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, as she disappears on that date -- along with everyone else sixteen or older!
* '''Downplayed''': Alice gets a stomach bug on her sixteenth birthday party.
* '''Justified''':
** A WickedWitch put a curse on Alice's sixteenth birthday.
** Alice is descended from a long line of monster slayers, inheriting the requisite magical powers at the age of 16, along with [[ComesGreatResponsibility the associated responsibilities]] [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatOpposition and the fact that the monsters are now out to get her.]]
* '''Inverted''': Bad things have happened on every single one of Alice's previous birthdays--but her sixteenth is perfectly calm.
* '''Subverted''': Turns out the Kaiju was just a prank by her friends.
* '''Double Subverted''': Well, it was until it somehow gained its own life.
* '''Parodied''': Alice is a CosplayOtakuGirl, and her BirthdayEpisode consists largely of her playing out increasingly wacky disaster scenarios in her head.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Even though Alice's sixteenth birthday sucked, there was an equal amount of good to it.
* '''Averted''': Nothing catastrophic happens on Alice's sixteenth birthday--or on any of her birthdays, for that matter.
* '''Enforced''': The author had a horrible sixteenth birthday, and feels like making Alice go through the same horrors.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Well, ''of course'' a calm sixteenth birthday was too much to ask!"
* '''Invoked''': The villain sicks the Kaiju on the city as a twisted birthday present.
* '''Exploited''': TheGovernment knows about Alice's special destiny and puts the UsefulNotes/KaijuDefenseForce on full alert on her sixteenth birthday.
* '''Defied''': Alice drinks a potion to become TheAgeless at 11:59 and never become sixteen.
* '''Discussed''': "11:58... 11:59... 12:00! Alice is sixteen! The world is over!"
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''': Alice is an orphan and her exact birthday is unknown, but Kaijus do attack her hometown in her late teens.
* '''Deconstructed''': TheGovernment begins to take children away from their families on their sixteenth birthday, quarantining them off "for public safety".
* '''Reconstructed''': The "quarantine" turns into be a year-round free amusement park for the kids ''and'' makes Kaiju attacks manageable.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Convinced that bad things will happen on her birthday, Alice's CrazySurvivalist antics amuse her friends all day.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice's beloved grandma falls sick just before her birthday, and dies in the hospital as she is reluctantly hanging out with her friends.
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