1 | '''Basic Trope''': A new character in a franchise created outside of the original Canon. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob was created for the TV series ''Legends of Troperia'', which is based off of the book series of the same name. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': The show features loads of new characters that never appeared in the books. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': |
5 | ** Bob was actually just a nameless background character in the books that got [[AscendedExtra fleshed out for the show]]. |
6 | ** Bob was actually an nameless regular or recurring character in the books who was [[NamedByTheAdaptation given a name for the show]]. |
7 | * '''Justified''': |
8 | ** Alice has internal monologues frequently in the original ''Legends'' books, but she can't just be seen talking to herself all the time in the television version. |
9 | ** ''Legends of Troperia'' was a GameBook series, Bob plays the role [[SecondPersonNarration originally filled by the reader(s)]]. |
10 | * '''Inverted''': [[AdaptedOut Bob was completely cut in ''Legends of Troperia X'', which is the sequel to ''Legends of Troperia''.]] |
11 | * '''Subverted''': [[CanonCharacterAllAlong Bob turns out to be Robby]], another character already from the books, either having gone incognito as "Bob" or just simply goes by a different nickname and is just different enough that the fans can't tell it's him until after TheReveal. |
12 | * '''Double Subverted''': It turns out "Robby" was just an alias Bob created in the show, merely existing as a MythologyGag to the original. |
13 | * '''Parodied''': Alice outright states she doesn't remember any Bob [[BreakingTheFourthWall from the book]]: "Which chapter and page were you in?" |
14 | * '''Zig Zagged''': ??? |
15 | * '''Averted''': The show's writers create no new characters, only using ones from the book. |
16 | * '''Enforced''': |
17 | ** [[ExecutiveMeddling The execs]] demand the show crew create Bob [[KidAppealCharacter to appease the younger audience]] watching the show. |
18 | ** Some of the book's narration didn't translate well without [[FramingDevice someone for the narrator to narrate to]]. |
19 | * '''Lampshaded''': "[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall You weren't always around here, were you?]]" |
20 | * '''Invoked''': ??? |
21 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
22 | * '''Defied''': The creator of ''Legends of Troperia'' disallowed the creation of new characters. |
23 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
24 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
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28 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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30 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
31 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
32 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
33 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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