1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character tries to pass a mistake off as a planned move. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice falls over, knocks over a PricelessMingVase, and lands in a pile of wool. She says, "I meant to do that." |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': [[BookDumb Alice]] claims she meant to flunk a test she had previously hoped to get straight A's on. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': |
5 | ** Alice claims a half-intentional stunt was all-intentional. |
6 | ** Alice claims an accidental stunt was half-intentional. |
7 | * '''Justified''': Alice is not above lying and is easily embarrassed. |
8 | * '''Inverted''': Alice claims something she meant to do was an accident. |
9 | * '''Subverted''': |
10 | ** When Bob says, "Pull the other one," Alice says, "No, I really did mean to do it." |
11 | ** "I meant to do that -- [[NoodleIncident thing I did before this, with the lollipop]]." |
12 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
13 | ** But she's lying. |
14 | ** "But I meant to do what I did before, too." |
15 | * '''Parodied''': Alice [[BlatantLies claims she meant to do something she obviously didn't]], or Alice really DID mean to do "that". |
16 | * '''Averted''': |
17 | ** Nobody is clumsy. |
18 | ** Nobody lies. |
19 | ** Nobody lies about being clumsy. |
20 | * '''Enforced''': This is Alice's first scene on the show, and the writers want to show she is klutzy, easily embarrassed, and not above lying. |
21 | * '''Lampshaded''': "I don't think you did mean to do that." |
22 | * '''Invoked''': Alice is easily embarrassed and not above lying and [[ThePrankster Bob]] trips her up. |
23 | * '''Exploited''': Alice is not allowed to make mistakes, and she has made one, so she lies, and gets away with it as her friends are holding the IdiotBall. |
24 | * '''Defied''': Alice has sworn to never tell a lie. |
25 | * '''Discussed''': "Why does Alice always lie and say she meant to do that? She isn't fooling anybody!" |
26 | * '''Conversed''': "Why do these characters claim they meant to do something they obviously didn't?!" |
27 | * '''Deconstructed''': There are only so many times this excuse works. Once Alice has used up her allotment thereof, she becomes a laughingstock, or worse, a pariah. |
28 | * '''Reconstructed''': Alice becomes [[ImprovisationalIngenuity good enough at improvising]] that it doesn't really matter whether she meant to do something or not. Intended or not, things work out in her favor either way. |
29 | * '''Played for Laughs''': Alice and/or other people incur AmusingInjuries. |
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31 | I meant to take you back to IMeantToDoThat. |
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33 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
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