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* '''Double Subverted''': ...because his real goal is to figure out where she lives so he can lie in wait for her there.

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* '''Double Subverted''': ...because Because his real goal is to figure out where she lives so he can lie in wait for her there.
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* '''Straight''': Pete accepts a ride from Carol. Then he pulls a knife on her.
* '''Exaggerated''': Pete accepts a ride from Carol. Then he goes into a week-long killing spree using her car to move around, torturing her, or even chasing after her and doing StalkerWithACrush acts if she manages to run away.
* '''Downplayed''': Pete doesn't do anything violent, but he does surreptitiously steal the change out of Carol's glove compartment.
* '''Justified''': Pete is an escaped convict or mental patient. Carol ''really'' should have obeyed those warning signs that were placed near the penitentiary.
* '''Inverted''': Pete accepts a ride from Carol. Then ''she'' pulls a knife on him.

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* '''Straight''': Pete accepts a ride from Carol. Then he pulls out a knife on (or gun) and robs her.
* '''Exaggerated''': Pete accepts a ride from Carol. Then he goes into a week-long killing spree using He assaults her (possibly even kidnapping, raping, or murdering her), and then steals her car to move around, torturing her, or even chasing after her and doing StalkerWithACrush acts if she manages go on a road trip in order to run away.
commit more crimes.
* '''Downplayed''': Pete doesn't do anything violent, but he does surreptitiously steal the change some money out of Carol's glove compartment.
* '''Justified''': Pete is an escaped convict or mental patient. Carol ''really'' should have obeyed those warning signs that were placed near the penitentiary.
penitentiary / psychiatric hospital.
* '''Inverted''': Pete accepts a ride from Carol. Then ''she'' pulls out a knife (or gun) on him.



* '''Zig Zagged''': Both Pete and Carol are psychopaths. Once they are in the same car, they spend the rest of the night taking turns being the cat and the mouse.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Both Pete and Carol are psychopaths.psycho criminals. Once they are in the same car, they spend the rest of the night taking turns being the cat and the mouse.
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* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???Writer: "Think we can get away with a WholePlotReference to ''Film/TheHitcher''?"
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* '''Exaggerated''': ???

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* '''Exaggerated''': ???Pete accepts a ride from Carol. Then he goes into a week-long killing spree using her car to move around, torturing her, or even chasing after her and doing StalkerWithACrush acts if she manages to run away.



* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': Pete accepts a ride from Carol. Then she pulls a knife on him.

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* '''Justified''': ???
Pete is an escaped convict or mental patient. Carol ''really'' should have obeyed those warning signs that were placed near the penitentiary.
* '''Inverted''': Pete accepts a ride from Carol. Then she ''she'' pulls a knife on him.



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

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Both Pete and Carol are psychopaths. Once they are in the same car, they spend the rest of the night taking turns being the cat and the mouse.



* '''Lampshaded''': ???

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* '''Lampshaded''': ???"Haven't you noticed that recently everybody who is walking by the side of the road looks like a maniac?"
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* '''Defied''': Carol is afraid Pete will turn out to be violent, so she doesn't stop for him.

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* '''Defied''': Carol is afraid sees Pete will turn out to be violent, thumbing and doesn't like the look of him, so she doesn't stop for him.stop.
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'''Basic Trope''': A hitchhiker attacks or victimizes the driver who picks them up.
* '''Straight''': Pete accepts a ride from Carol. Then he pulls a knife on her.
* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': Pete doesn't do anything violent, but he does surreptitiously steal the change out of Carol's glove compartment.
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': Pete accepts a ride from Carol. Then she pulls a knife on him.
* '''Subverted''': Pete has the FaceOfAThug and first appears in a LightningReveal, but he is actually perfectly pleasant to Carol.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...because his real goal is to figure out where she lives so he can lie in wait for her there.
* '''Parodied''': Pete tries to thumb a ride while decked out in full HockeyMaskAndChainsaw.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** Pete and Carol have a completely uneventful ride together.
** Nobody hitchhikes at all.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': Carol is a DeathSeeker and picks up Pete hoping he'll murder her.
* '''Exploited''': While riding with Carol, Janet spots her SitcomArchNemesis Pete by the side of the road and, out of a petty desire to inconvenience him, warns Carol about the dangers of picking up hitchhikers.
* '''Defied''': Carol is afraid Pete will turn out to be violent, so she doesn't stop for him.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

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