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1	'''Basic Trope''': The tone and mood of a story fluctuate multiple times through its entire run.
2	* '''Straight''': ''Troper Adventures'' mixes darker episodes with lighter ones.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': ''Troper Adventures'' switches from dark to light ''every scene'', taking place in an outright SugarApocalypse.
4	* '''Downplayed''': ''Troper Adventures'' has minor fluctuations in tone, but nothing noticeable.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** “Troper Adventures has a wide variety of [[FourLinesAllWaiting plotlines]] and characters. If they all had the same tone the story could come across as flat.
7	** The show's staff is diversely talented. Some excel at writing drama and romance while others excel at writing comedy and fight scenes.
8	* '''Inverted''':
9	** ''Troper Adventures'' has ''no'' variation in tone whatsoever.
10	** ”Troper Adventures” is always wildly changing its characters, setting, themes, plot, and art style, but the tone remains consistent throughout.
11	* '''Subverted''': ''Troper Adventures'' adds [[KnightOfCerebus Mr.Nightmare to the plot]], but the tone stays the same.
12	* '''Double Subverted''': Later it gets darker moments mixed with comedic ones.
13	* '''Parodied''': ''Troper Adventures'' will intercut the [[KidHero Bobby’s]] slow and agonizing death with a highly choreographed pie fight and dance sequence.
14	* '''Zig Zagged''': Some arcs are pretty consistent in tone, but any arc involving Mr.Nightmare swings wildly in tone.
15	* '''Averted''': ''Troper Adventures'' keeps a consistent tone.
16	* '''Enforced''': The network is making them keep changing tone to appeal to multiple audiences.
17	* '''Lampshaded''': "Why can't we stick to one tone? Joe cancel our dark, gritty adventure that will come after this slice of life antic!"
18	* '''Invoked''': Bobby and Mr. Nightmare can’t agree whether to go on fun and silly adventures or dark and frightening ones, so they agree to alternate.
19	* '''Exploited''': In ''Troper Adventures'', Bobby knows that since there was a lighthearted adventure before, the next one will involve lots of pain and suffering, so he tries to prepare.
20	* '''Defied''': Through extensive planning and guile, [[PluckyComicRelief Pluck]] makes it his sole duty in life to keep the tone of his friends’ adventures light and humorous.
21	* '''Discussed''': ???
22	* '''Conversed''': "So is this the episode where the mom dies of cancer or the one where Bobby buys a robot?" “Both.”
23	* '''Deconstructed''': Bobby and friends are well aware of the MoodWhiplash that they constantly find themselves at the mercy of. This wears on their mood until even their most lighthearted adventures have a sense of [[CerebusSyndrome deep dread and anxiety hanging over them.]]
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30	%%* '''Implied''': ???
31	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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