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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24 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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26 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
27 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
28 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
29 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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