1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character dreams of a dreaded future. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Georgiana dreams that at the archery competition, she shoots someone while aiming at the target. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Georgiana dreams that when she tries out for the team, she shoots everyone in the world to death. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Georgiana dreams of being a little nervous at the competition. |
5 | * '''Justified''': TruthInTelevision. |
6 | * '''Inverted''': |
7 | ** The more pressure on Georgiana, the better she sleeps. |
8 | ** Georgiana is looking forward to the competition and dreams of winning it. |
9 | * '''Subverted''': |
10 | ** Georgiana's strange dreams do not, after all, let up after she wins. |
11 | ** Alice expects to dream about the competition, but RealDreamsAreWeirder; she dreams about something that has no connection to the competition. |
12 | * '''Double Subverted''': They were really symbolical representations of other problems in her life, which she resolves, ending the dreams. |
13 | * '''Parodied''': Georgiana dreams of disasters -- such as being trampled by a stampede of T. rexes, every day because she dreads getting through the day. |
14 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice has a complex dream that partly involves the competition and partly involves other weird things, and the parts about the competition are sometimes good and sometimes bad. |
15 | * '''Averted''': |
16 | ** Georgiana's nervousness is manifested only through other tropes; she sleeps like a baby. |
17 | ** Georgiana can't sleep because of stress, therefore she didn't dream at all. |
18 | * '''Enforced''': ??? |
19 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Georgiana? You did NOT have a bad dream about the competition? [[WhoWritesThisCrap What kind of writer would put that into our show]]??" |
20 | * '''Invoked''': Georgiana looks at her schedule and predicts anxiety dreams. |
21 | * '''Exploited''': Sebastian watches how Georgiana sleeps to see if she's nervous. |
22 | * '''Defied''': Georgiana takes sleeping pills whenever she's nervous, to ensure DeepSleep. |
23 | * '''Discussed''': "Worrying about the future always gives me nightmares." |
24 | * '''Conversed''': "On TV, if a character has a nightmare it's because they're worried about something, and that happens a lot in real life, but sometimes in real life, nightmares just happen." |
25 | * '''Implied''': Georgiana wakes up from her sleep with a BigNo, implying she was having a nightmare, and she is nervous about the competition, but it's never outright said that the nightmare was about the competition. |
26 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
27 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
28 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
29 | * '''Played For Laughs''': Georgiana dreams about [[NotWearingPantsDream showing up naked]] to the competition, because NakedPeopleAreFunny. |
30 | * '''Played For Drama''': Georgiana has nightmares relating to her untreated anxiety disorder. |
31 | * '''Played for Horror''': The dream turns out to be [[DreamingOfThingsToCome prophetic]] and she ends up actually shooting someone. |
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