1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character is given a new home and a new identity as protection in exchange for testimony against an individual or an organization. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice Jones testifies against TheDon, and has her name changed to Anne Smith and is moved out with her husband and children to [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere a small town]] [[FlyoverCountry in]] [[DownOnTheFarm farm]] [[LovecraftCountry country]]. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** ''All'' of Alice's relatives and friends are put into the program, too. |
5 | ** Alternatively, Alice is put into the program, but [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou her husband and children are not allowed to go in with her]]. |
6 | ** The government forces Alice to become the exact opposite of her old self, even making her get an EasySexChange. |
7 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice spends a few weeks being shuffled between motels under false names, until the petty crime ring she witnessed against is finally dismantled. |
8 | * '''Justified''': If members of TheMafia have a way of finding Alice and/or members of her immediate family, they could harm or kill her (and her husband and kids, too). |
9 | * '''Inverted''': A criminal organization gives a criminal a new identity after they've committed a crime, to help them hide from the law. |
10 | * '''Subverted''': Alice moves away to the aforementioned small town, but is not part of a government program. |
11 | * '''Double Subverted''': But she has changed her name and her hair color, and her past history is a bit sketchy. |
12 | * '''Parodied''': |
13 | ** Alice goes into WP for doing something mildly embarrassing, like [[CuteClumsyGirl tripping on the stairs in front of everyone.]] |
14 | ** Alice's "new identity" is a PaperThinDisguise. |
15 | ** Alice is put in a witness protection program so incompetent that [[WitlessProtectionProgram it probably would be safer for her to take off on her own]]. |
16 | * '''Zig Zagged''': ??? |
17 | * '''Averted''': Alice is not placed in WP and goes about her normal life. |
18 | * '''Enforced''': |
19 | ** RuleOfDrama |
20 | ** The writers needed an excuse to have Alice PutOnABus. |
21 | * '''Lampshaded''': ??? |
22 | * '''Invoked''': Alice testifies against TheDon in a high-profile, federal case. |
23 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
24 | * '''Defied''': |
25 | ** Alice doesn't want to be put into a program that would force her to start all over again from scratch and decides to take her chances. |
26 | ** Alice's family members dissuade her from testifying against TheDon because they refuse to turn their lives upside-down just to ''maybe'' increase the chance of The Don being convicted. |
27 | ** Everyone involved in TheMafia is caught, and then executed or jailed for life, so there's no one left to threaten Alice anyway. |
28 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
29 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
30 | * '''Implied''': Anne Smith's birth certificate was issued by a hospital that didn't exist yet when she was born. [[note]]Could also be a case of it being a copy issued by a successor hospital to the original.[[/note]] |
31 | * '''Deconstructed''': Alice misses her family and friends, and worries if they might be in danger, too. And what if someone finds her? |
32 | * '''Reconstructed''': Alice does everything in her power to keep her identity secret and makes new friends, and starts a new life. She knows that contacting old family and friends could put herself and her family in danger. |
33 | * '''Played For Drama''': Alice's husband Bob and their children resent Alice because they were forced to turn their lives upside-down as a result of her decision to testify: Everyone had to cut off all of their old friends, and then abandon their beloved home for good. Bob had to give up a well-paying job he enjoyed to become a farmer, which he despises. Worse, it's AllForNothing, as TheDon only got a slap on the wrist (or even got OffOnATechnicality) anyway. In the end, Alice has ''no one'' from her old life left: Bob has divorced her, and her children left as soon as they turned 18. |
34 | * '''Played For Horror''': Bob is so upset about having to abandon his highly successful career and his entire social life that he cuts a deal with TheMafia to blow Alice's cover in exchange for leaving him alone when he returns to his old life. |
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38 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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40 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
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