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'''Basic Tropes''': When something happens so that you'd expect X, but you end up with the opposite of X.
* '''Straight''': A fire station catches fire.
* '''Exaggerated''': A massive disaster happens, during which a fire station catches fire, several police get arrested, a doctor gets severely injured, and the day is ultimately [[HandicappedBadass saved by]] a DeafComposer.
* '''Downplayed''': An ''abandoned'' fire station catches fire.
* '''Justified''': During a FireFightingEpisode, the fire department was somehow put out of commission and hired a bunch of incompetents instead, who [[IgnorantAboutFire made a blunder and set the place on fire.]]
* '''Inverted''':
* '''Subverted''': There is smoke coming from the fire station, so it appears to be on fire, but it turns out that the firefighters are just burning something on purpose.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...But then the fire spreads uncontrollably.
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zigzagged''':
* '''Averted''': The fire station does not catch fire.
* '''Enforced''': "This is a {{Dramedy}} -- how about adding a serious, but ironic, emergency?"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Of all the places to catch fire, it had to be the fire station?"
* '''Invoked''': Alice the arsonist sets the fire station on fire as a sick joke.
* '''Exploited''': Alice decides to set several buildings on fire, starting with the fire station so that the firefighters won't be able to deal with it.
* '''Defied''': The firefighters set it up so that their building can't catch fire.
* '''Discussed''': "What if there was a fire ''in'' the fire station? That'd be ironic!"
* '''Conversed''': "Irony doesn't just mean bad luck. Irony is situations like in that episode of ''Disaster of the Week'' when the fire station burned down."
* '''Implied''': We see a seriously run-down fire station that ''appears'' to have burned, but it's ultimately left unclear why it's in such bad shape.
* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Played for Laughs''': The fire station catching fire is played for BlackComedy.
* '''Played for Drama''': DeathByIrony.
* '''Played for Horror''': A zombie fighter gets turned into a zombie.
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