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* '''Inverted''': Twenty-first century Bob uses only 16th century equipment.

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* '''Inverted''': [[DiscoDan Twenty-first century Bob uses only 16th century equipment.equipment]].



* '''Double Subverted''': Alice says "Hey Charles, check out my new cell phone!"

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Alice says "Hey Charles, check out my new cell phone!"smartphone!"
** The Medieval-themed amusement park is located in AncientRome
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** The film centers on [[WhatIf What if X had Y?]]

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* '''Exaggerated''': She also has a Twitter feed, an iPod full of artists that won't be born for another 400 years, and talks in TotallyRadical hip-hop slang.

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She also has a Twitter feed, an iPod full of artists that won't be born for another 400 years, and talks in TotallyRadical hip-hop slang.slang.
** The only indication the story is set in the past are calendars.

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* '''Subverted''': Alice picks up what appears to be a cell phone but turns out to be a piece of obscure technology from TheSixties.

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Alice picks up what appears to be a cell phone but turns out to be a piece of obscure technology from TheSixties.TheSixties.
** It turns out that it was only a Medieval-themed amusement park, and "Elizabeth" is yelled at by her boss for breaking character.



* '''Enforced''': The film uses RuleOfFunny heavily. Elizabeth I pulling out a cell phone is a throwaway gag.

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The film uses RuleOfFunny heavily. Elizabeth I pulling out a cell phone is a throwaway gag.gag.
** "We're setting this during Queen Elizbeth's era, but I don't have the time to research the period." "Eh, just let it be inaccurate. If it's [[RefugeInAudacity over-the-top enough]], the audience will think it's funny."



* '''Deconstructed''': This setting is an AlienSpaceBats alternate history in which Queen Elizabeth I genuinely does have modern technology. The result is a LowCultureHighTech society that commits many atrocities using their technology.



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* '''Justified''': The film uses RuleOfFunny heavily. Elizabeth I pulling out a cell phone is a throwaway gag.

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* '''Justified''': The film uses RuleOfFunny heavily. Elizabeth I pulling out a cell phone AlienSpaceBats or the time-traveller who insisted on GivingRadioToTheRomans engineered the setting to be this way. (This is given no more than a throwaway gag.passing mention.)



* '''Enforced''': Again, RuleOfFunny

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* '''Enforced''': Again, RuleOfFunnyThe film uses RuleOfFunny heavily. Elizabeth I pulling out a cell phone is a throwaway gag.
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* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???Again, RuleOfFunny
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice from TheSixties has modern equipment around the house.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice from TheSixties has modern equipment around the her house.

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* Basic Trope: Writers intentionally use anachronisms to the point the only thing setting it apart from the present are a few plot-based ideas.
* '''Straight Trope''': Queen Elizabeth I uses a microphone in a speech and uses an electric lamp.

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* Basic Trope: '''Basic Trope''': Writers intentionally use anachronisms to the point the only thing setting it apart from the present are a few plot-based ideas.
* '''Straight Trope''': '''Straight''': Queen Elizabeth I uses a microphone in a speech and uses an electric lamp.



* '''Zigzagged''': The historical accuracy of the work varies.
* '''Averted''': The work is completely period accurate.
* '''Enforced''': The writers thought the cell phone gag would be funny.

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* '''Zigzagged''': '''Zig Zagged''': The historical accuracy of the work varies.
* '''Averted''': '''Averted''': The work is completely period accurate.
* '''Enforced''': The writers thought the cell phone gag would be funny.???



* '''Exploited''': In the late Fifties, Danny comes out with a laptop, too.
* '''Defied''': "Cell phones? Preposterous! This is 1589!"
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* '''Exploited''': In the late Fifties, Danny comes out The above inventor makes a fortune with a laptop, too.
the patents of such revolutionary ideas.
* '''Defied''': "Cell phones? Preposterous! This is 1589!"
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* '''Invoked''': Brilliant inventor Danny from TheFourties invents an early cell phone in an AlternateHistory story, and cell phones become common place by TheFifties, making it look like this trope.
* '''Exploited''': In the late Fifties, Danny comes out with a laptop, too.

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* '''Invoked''': Brilliant inventor Danny from TheFourties TheForties invents an early cell phone in an AlternateHistory story, and cell phones become common place by TheFifties, making it look like this trope.
* '''Exploited''': In the late Fifties, Danny comes out with a laptop, too.too.
* '''Defied''': "Cell phones? Preposterous! This is 1589!"
* '''Discussed''': ?
* '''Conversed''': ?
* '''Deconstructed''': ?
* '''Reconstructed''': ?
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* '''Enforced''': The writers thought the cell phone gag would be funny.

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* '''Enforced''': The writers thought the cell phone gag would be funny.funny.
* '''Lampshaded''': "This, good Queen, is a cell phone. I have brought it from the far away distant land known as 2008."
* '''Invoked''': Brilliant inventor Danny from TheFourties invents an early cell phone in an AlternateHistory story, and cell phones become common place by TheFifties, making it look like this trope.
* '''Exploited''': In the late Fifties, Danny comes out with a laptop, too.
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* Basic Trope: Writers intentionally use anachronisms to the point the only thing setting it apart from the present are a few plot-based ideas.
* '''Straight Trope''': Queen Elizabeth I uses a microphone in a speech and uses an electric lamp.
* '''Exaggerated''': She also has a Twitter feed, an iPod full of artists that won't be born for another 400 years, and talks in TotallyRadical hip-hop slang.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice from TheSixties has modern equipment around the house.
* '''Justified''': The film uses RuleOfFunny heavily. Elizabeth I pulling out a cell phone is a throwaway gag.
* '''Inverted''': Twenty-first century Bob uses only 16th century equipment.
* '''Subverted''': Alice picks up what appears to be a cell phone but turns out to be a piece of obscure technology from TheSixties.
* '''Double Subverted''': Alice says "Hey Charles, check out my new cell phone!"
* '''Parodied''': This trope is often used for parody of AnachronismStew in more serious works.
* '''Zigzagged''': The historical accuracy of the work varies.
* '''Averted''': The work is completely period accurate.
* '''Enforced''': The writers thought the cell phone gag would be funny.

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