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1	'''Basic Trope''': A hitchhiker attacks or victimizes the driver who picks them up.
2	* '''Straight''': Pete accepts a ride from Carol. Then he pulls out a knife (or gun) and robs her.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Pete accepts a ride from Carol. He assaults her (possibly even kidnapping, raping, or murdering her), and then steals her car to go on a road trip in order to commit more crimes.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Pete doesn't do anything violent, but he does surreptitiously steal some money out of Carol's glove compartment.
5	* '''Justified''': Pete is an escaped convict or mental patient. Carol ''really'' should have obeyed those warning signs that were placed near the penitentiary / psychiatric hospital.
6	* '''Inverted''': Pete accepts a ride from Carol. Then ''she'' pulls out a knife (or gun) on him.
7	* '''Subverted''': Pete has the FaceOfAThug and first appears in a LightningReveal, but he is actually perfectly pleasant to Carol.
8	* '''Double Subverted''': ...Because his real goal is to figure out where she lives so he can lie in wait for her there.
9	* '''Parodied''': Pete tries to thumb a ride while decked out in full HockeyMaskAndChainsaw.
10	* '''Zig Zagged''': Both Pete and Carol are psycho criminals. Once they are in the same car, they spend the rest of the night taking turns being the cat and the mouse.
11	* '''Averted''':
12	** Pete and Carol have a completely uneventful ride together.
13	** Nobody hitchhikes at all.
14	* '''Enforced''': Writer: "Think we can get away with a WholePlotReference to ''Film/TheHitcher''?"
15	* '''Lampshaded''': "Haven't you noticed that recently everybody who is walking by the side of the road looks like a maniac?"
16	* '''Invoked''': Carol is a DeathSeeker and picks up Pete hoping he'll murder her.
17	* '''Exploited''': While riding with Carol, Janet spots her SitcomArchNemesis Pete by the side of the road and, out of a petty desire to inconvenience him, warns Carol about the dangers of picking up hitchhikers.
18	* '''Defied''': Carol sees Pete thumbing and doesn't like the look of him, so she doesn't stop.
19	* '''Discussed''': ???
20	* '''Conversed''': ???
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26	%%* '''Implied''': ???
27	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
28	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
29	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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