1 | '''Basic Trope''': The effect something has on living beings is demonstrated by its effect on a plant. |
2 | * '''Straight''': |
3 | ** MadScientist Doctor Phylophobe demonstrates his new supertoxin by dropping a small amount on the leaf of a nearby pot plant, causing it to shrivel up and die on the spot. |
4 | ** Dr. Hazel Roseflower demonstrates her health-boosting nanobots by introducing them to a blotchy, pest-eaten plant, which instantly begins repairing its damage and visibly growing larger, as dead caterpillars drop to the soil around it. |
5 | * '''Exaggerated''': Phylophobe drips his toxin on a blade of grass in an arboretum—a [[EnemyToAllLivingThings black wave spreads across the ground as every plant in a 100-yard radius dies off]]. |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': Nothing happens, at first. Then the Doctor produces OneIPreparedEarlier, which is blackened and wilted. |
7 | * '''Justified''': The scientist is developing an Agent Orange-esque fast-acting herbicide. Killing plants is precisely what it's designed to do. |
8 | * '''Inverted''': |
9 | ** "Is the herbicide ready, doctor? We must drive out the TreetopTown-dwellers!" "[[HerrDoktor It seems to be vorking]] beyond my vildest predictions! It efen effects animal life - observe ze effect on zis hamster..." |
10 | ** Doctor Phylophobe tests a substance for safety on a plant and notices the plant seems unaffected. He touches the substance itself and drops dead instantly. |
11 | * '''Subverted''': |
12 | ** The toxin does nothing, and the scientist angrily declares his return to the drawing board. |
13 | ** Doctor Phylophobe looks at the nearby potted plant meaningfully... and then puts the toxin into another cup. |
14 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
15 | ** ...Then a fly lands on the plant, and dissolves. |
16 | ** [[AteTheSpoon The other cup is reduced to a purple splotch.]] Carefully, Doctor Phylophobe picks up some of this goo in an eyedropper, and uses THAT on the plant. |
17 | * '''Parodied''': The Board of Evil Financiers crowd around the plant on the desk with bated breath as the scientist drips a purple liquid on its leaves. He looks up, puzzled. "Oh, zis? No, zis is just to get rid of ze aphids. I asked you here to see my Death Ray..." |
18 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Phylophobe tests his concoctions on whatever's nearby, including potted plants.... but also including [[PlantPeople unpotted plants]], small animals, large animals, [[DeathTrap nearby heroes]], distant heroes, other minions, [[BadBoss his own minions,]] and [[ProfessorGuineaPig himself.]] |
19 | * '''Averted''': Phylophobe starts to go into the gory details of his extensive AnimalTesting experiments, but his boss queasily announces that he'll take his word for its efficacy. |
20 | * '''Enforced''': We need a visual demonstration of the effects, but we're not going to show AnimalTesting on a Saturday morning cartoon... |
21 | * '''Lampshaded''': "What do I care what it does to a frickin' rosebush? Does it work on ''people?''" |
22 | * '''Invoked''': Phylophobe's boss has potted plants in his room specifically for the doctor's benefit. |
23 | * '''Exploited''': Bob sabotages Phylophobe's efforts at funding by replacing the actual plant with a plastic one. |
24 | * '''Defied''': "You really think I'm going to test this stuff on a plant? We're trying to kill ''people'', not shrubbery." |
25 | * '''Discussed''': "Plants make excellent test subjects. [[PlayingWithSyringes They don't scream much, for one.]]" |
26 | * '''Conversed''': "I used to wonder why they always tested poison on a plant if it's meant to kill people, but then I remembered how most herbicides would still kill YOU if they are drunk." |
27 | * '''Deconstructed''': The toxin kills the plant instantly... but only gives humans a rash, because its effectiveness was based on how deadly to plants it was. |
28 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
29 | ** After some further testing, it kills ''everything''. |
30 | ** Defoliation is a useful weapon in it's own right... particularly on enemy crops. |
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32 | Back to ThatPoorPlant |
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34 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
35 | %% |
36 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
37 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
38 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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