1 | '''Basic Trope''': A person (usually a woman) wears specific clothing to show mourning. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice attends her late husband Bob's funeral or visits his grave while wearing a black dress and veil. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Forever in mourning, every article of clothing Alice wears from then on is solid black. So is all of the decor in her home--furniture, curtains, carpets, etc. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice wears a basic black dress to the funeral, but no veil, and returns to her regular wardrobe when the funeral is over. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** The show is a PeriodPiece placed in Victorian society where it would be required to wear a mourning dress. |
7 | ** Alice is recently widowed and doesn't want to appear "available" to new suitors. |
8 | * '''Inverted''': Special clothes for happy events. For example, Alice wears a white dress at the christening of Bob Jr. |
9 | * '''Gender Inverted''': Alice is the deceased. Bob wears a black suit or armband to mourn her. |
10 | * '''Subverted''': Alice states that she will not wear black. |
11 | * '''Double Subverted''': ...but she does, anyway. |
12 | * '''Parodied''': |
13 | ** Alice is the deceased. [[WholesomeCrossdresser Bob]] wears a black ''dress and veil'' to mourn her. |
14 | ** Someone protesting the election of a high official they don't approve of wears mourning for the death of the nation. |
15 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Multiple funerals take place. Traditional mourning is worn to some but not all of them. |
16 | * '''Averted''': The society has no particular color or style that indicates mourning. |
17 | * '''Enforced''': Victorian England is the setting of the story, where mourning would be required. |
18 | * '''Lampshaded''': Alice is shopping for the funeral clothes and tells the sales clerk it should be black for mourning. |
19 | * '''Invoked''': Bob is leaving on a dangerous mission. To lighten the mood, he jokingly assures Alice he'll be careful, because she doesn't look good in black. |
20 | * '''Exploited''': A funeral director designs a line of mourning clothes and profits from selling it. |
21 | * '''Defied''': Bob has left a last request that people are to wear bright, cheery clothes to his funeral. |
22 | * '''Discussed''': |
23 | ** Alice wears a blue dress to Bob's funeral, and her sisters wonder why she didn't wear black. |
24 | ** Alice wears a black dress to school or work. She is not mourning anyone, but her friends teasingly ask, "Who died?" |
25 | * '''Conversed''': Alice and Bob wonder how black became the traditional color of mourning, research the question, and compare notes. |
26 | * '''Played For Laughs:''' Bob is leaving on a dangerous mission. After he assures Alice he will be careful, there is a GilliganCut to her in a black dress and veil. It becomes a RunningGag with Charlie, David, Edward, Frank.... |
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30 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
31 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
32 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
33 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
34 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
35 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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