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* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice's fear of heights is used as a way to get Alice to make a fool out of herself every-time the roller-coaster starts going up, much to the audience's amusement.

* '''Reconstructed''': Alice's constant panic attacks motivate her to stand up against her fear, and she eventually becomes immune to heights.

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** Alice refuses to let fear of heights rule the rest of her life, and ultimately [[EarnYourtHappyEnding manages to overcome her phobia after lots of work and tears.]]

** Alice refuses to let fear of heights rule the rest of her life, and ultimately [[EarnYoutHappyEnding manages to overcome her phobia after lots of work and tears.]]

* '''Basic Trope:''' A character in a story has a phobia of a certain animal or object, such as mice, dolls, enclosed spaces, insects, ect.

* '''Played Straight:''' Alice is terrified of heights, and cannot go up tall mountains or fly in a plane without getting queasy.

* '''Exaggerated:''' Alice screams for her mother whenever she looks downstairs from her bedroom because the height is too much for her.

* '''Downplayed:''' Alice is afraid of heights, but it's not too great to prevent her from doing things such as rock climbing or other small height-related activities.

* '''Justified''': Alice nearly died falling off a cliff when she was very young, and had to be taken to the hospital. That experience prevents her from finding joy in being high up somewhere.

* '''Inverted:''' Alice finds immense comfort being in high places, and feels very small being on ground level.

* '''Subverted:''' Alice looks concerned whenever she's in a helicopter, but when Bob asks her if she's okay, she responds by saying that she's perfectly fine.

* '''Double Subverted:''' Alice is just saying that to comfort herself. She's terrified as all can be.

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* '''Zig Zagged:''' Alice appears to be afraid of the height that the small glass elevator she's in is going, but tells Bob that she's fine. But wait, now the elevator's gotten stuck, and Alice is terrified that the elevator will crash and kill them both. However, the elevator starts moving again, and Alice says that she's fine. Then they get to the top of the building, and Alice faints from the sheer height that the building is at.

* '''Lampshaded:''' "Oh god, we're going up...please tell me we won't fall..."

* '''Invoked:''' Alice was born in scientific laboratory, and the scientists there do several height-related experiments on her that scar Alice for life.

* '''Defied:''' Alice refuses to let a silly fear of heights rule the rest of her life, and ultimately becomes immune to the phobia.

* '''Discussed:''' "Ever since I lost my uncle in a plane crash, I've never been able to be go higher than 3 feet off the ground in my life".

* '''Conversed:''' "I wonder how Alice became so afraid of heights all of a sudden? She's never mentioned it in Season 2 at all."

* '''Implied:''' Alice gets on a roller coaster looking nervous. Minutes later, she's seen throwing up over a balcony.

* '''Deconstructed:''' Alice's fear of heights goes to the point where she has a panic attack, and is unable to look to go up any sort of height without a nervous breakdown.

* '''Reconstructed:''' Alice's constant panic attacks motivate her to stand up against her fear, and she eventually becomes immune to heights.
** Bob and Carl both take Alice to a therapist, where Alice is treated to let go of her fear of heights.

* '''Played For Laughs:''' Alice's fear of heights is used as a way to get Alice to make a fool out of herself everytime the rollar coaster starts going up, much to the audience's amusement.

* '''Played For Drama:''' Alice has to climb the tallest mountain in the world in order to hit a switch that shuts down TheDragon's powers. Her fear of heights is pushed to the very limit during this time.

* '''Lampshaded:''' "Oh god, we're going up...please tell me we won't fall...

* '''Zig Zagged:''' Alice appears to be afraid of the height that the small glass elevator she's in is going, but tells Bob that she's fine. But wait, now the elevator's gotten stuck, and Alice is terrified that the elevator will crash and kill them both. However, the elevator starts moving again, and Alice says that she's fine. Then they get to the top of the building, and Alice faints from the sheer height that the building is at.

'''Basic Trope:''' A character in a story has a phobia of a certain animal or object, such as mice, dolls, enclosed spaces, insects, ect.

'''Played Straight:''' Alice is terrified of heights, and cannot go up tall mountains or fly in a plane without getting queasy.

'''Exaggerated:''' Alice screams for her mother whenever she looks downstairs from her bedroom because the height is too much for her.

'''Downplayed:''' Alice is afraid of heights, but it's not too great to prevent her from doing things such as rock climbing or other small height-related activities.