History PlayingWith / ItsACostumePartyISwear

** Sarah dresses up as a monster and is killed when a partygoer mistakes her for an actual monster. Alice takes extremes to cover up her own involvement, even killing the partygoer herself.

** Sarah dresses up as a monster and is killed when a partygoer mistakes her for an actual monster. Alice takes pains to cover up her own involvement.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice pulls this trick on every girl regularly. And they always fall for it.

** Alice tells Claire about the "costume party" in front of Sarah, who fails to notice there obvious winking and nudging.

* '''Implied''':

* '''Played For Horror''': Sarah is a [[{{Understatement}} little]] [[AxCrazy nuts]]; upon seeing that Alice tricked her into wearing a pirate costume, she decides to [[DisproportionateRetribution kill everyone]] at the party as a slasher.

** Several other people packed costumes just in case. When they see Sarah in costume they change into there costumes.

* '''Enforced''': "We need an excuse for Sarah to wear that Pirate Ship thing"

** Alice and Sarah constantly pull pranks on each other and this is one of Alice's favourites.

* '''Inverted''': The party is a costume party but Sarah shows up wearing a normal outfit.

** Sarah doesn't fall for the trick and wears normal clothes to the party.
** It actually is a costume party and Sarah and the rest of the guests wear costumes.

* '''Averted''': It's a costume party and everyone shows up in costume.

* '''Downplayed''': Sarah turns up wearing a pirate-themed T-shirt. Too bad, the dress code was "formal".
* '''Justified''': Alice and Sarah constantly pull pranks on each other and this is one of Alice's favourites.

** It really WAS a costume party, and Sarah was just being WrongGenreSavvy.

* '''Invoked''': Alice's BFF Amy suggests that she throw a party and then tell Sarah it's a costume party.

** Like the Reconstruction, Sarah wears an outfit that could pass as both a costume and normal clothes.

** Or, Sarah routinely dresses in clothes that most people would think looked more like a costume, so she's wearing what she would have normally worn anyway.

* '''Played For Drama''': Sarah is a bully victim and this is the final straw that pushes her over the edge.

** Alice doesn't account for sarah being TheSlacker, and [[AchievementsInIgnorance she can't be arsed to put on a costume either way.]]

* '''Double Subverted''': The rest of the guests then change into costumes so Sarah is still the odd one out.

* '''Downplayed''': Sarah turns up wearing a pirate-themed T-shirt. Too bad the dress code was "formal".

* '''Exaggerrated''': Alice pulls this trick on every girl regularly. And they always fall for it.
* '''Downplayed''': ???

** Like the Reconstruction above, Sarah wears an outfit that could pass as both a costume and normal clothes.

'''Basic Trope:''' A character is invited to a party being told it is a costume party and shows up wearing an elaborate costume only to find out the party wasn't a costume party.
* '''Played Straight:''' Alice invites Sarah to a party at her house and says the theme is pirates. Sarah shows up dressed as a Pirate Ship only to be embarrassed and find everyone else in normal clothes.
* '''Exaggerrated:''' Alice pulls this trick on every girl regularly. And they always fall for it.
* '''Justified:''' Alice and Sarah constantly pull pranks on each other and this is one of Alice's favourites.
* '''Inverted:''' The party is a costume party but Sarah shows up wearing a normal outfit.
* '''Subverted:'''

* '''Double Subverted:''' The rest of the guests then change into costumes so Sarah is still the odd one out.
* '''Parodied:'''

* '''Deconstructed:''' When she is invited to the party, Sarah checks with a few people to see if it is a costume party, and when this is confirmed, she goes in costume.
* '''Reconstructed:'''

* '''Zig Zagged:''' The party starts out as a costume party, but Alice keeps changing her mind about it and eventually decides to make it a normal party. Nobody tells Sarah.
* '''Averted:''' It's a costume party and everyone shows up in costume.
* '''Enforced:''' "We need an excuse for Sarah to wear that Pirate Ship thing"
* '''Lampshaded:''' "Come on, Sarah, when is it actually a costume party? It's just the sort of prank Alice would pull."
* '''Invoked:''' Alice's BFF Amy suggests that she throw a party and then tell Sarah it's a costume party.
* '''Defied:'''
** Sarah decides not to go the party just in case she's being tricked.
** Like the Reconstruction above, Sarah wears an outfit that could pass as both a costume and normal clothes.
* '''Discussed:''' "Alice just invited me to a costume party. You think anyone else will wear costumes?"
* '''Conversed:''' "Why did Sarah fall for that trick? It's so common"
* '''Played For Laughs:''' Sarah sees the funny side of the trick and works with it.
* '''Played For Drama:''' Sarah is a bully victim and this is the final straw that pushes her over the edge.

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* '''Subverted:''' Sarah doesn't fall for the trick and wears normal clothes to the party.

* '''Parodied:''' Alice has a checklist of all the girls she has pulled this trick on.

* '''Reconstructed:''' The people she asked lied to her, but Sarah wears a neutral costume that helps her to blend in.

* '''Defied:''' Sarah decides not to go the party just in case she's being tricked.

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