Basic Trope: Assuming that if something has qualities A and B, then everything to do with A must also have quality B.
- Straight: Alice meets Bob, who's a pessimist and comes from London. She then assumes that all Londoners must be pessimists.
- Exaggerated: After meeting Bob, Alice assumes that everyone from London must look and behave exactly like Bob, be named "Bob", and be all men.
- Downplayed: After meeting Bob, the pessimistic guy from London, Alice assumes there must be a lot of pessimists in London.
- Justified: Alice assumes from Bob demeanor that London must be a miserable place, and that other people from London must have the safe attitude.
- Inverted: Alice meets Bob, a pessimist from London, and somehow concludes that he's the only pessimist in London.
- Subverted: It seems as though Alice's assumption that all Londoners are pessimists comes from Bob, however, it's actually because of a combination of Bob's pessimism, the fact that his family are said to be pessimistic too, and the fact that she has read a few gritty books that were published in London.
- Double Subverted: She then concludes that all gritty books must have been published in London.
- Parodied: There are a bunch of very offended pessimistic Londoners who start off by saying that "Just because we are in the rainy capital at the heart of a dying empire increasingly isolating itself....". They forget what they were offended by before the end of the speech.
- Zigzagged: After meeting Bob, Alice has an internal debate over whether this means that all Londoners are pessimists.
- Averted: Alice meets Bob, who's a pessimist and comes from London, but she doesn't make an assumption about all Londoners from him.
- Enforced: "Let's put some logical fallacies in here to see if our viewers are smart enough to notice them as such."
- Lampshaded: "No, no, just because one guy from London is a pessimist doesn't mean the city's full to the brim with them!"
- Invoked: Bob, being a pessimist and all, feels that it would only go wrong if Alice went to London, so he tries to paint a bad picture of Londoners in her head.
- Exploited:
- Defied: "No, just because I'm a pessimist doesn't mean all Londoners are."
- Discussed: "So it's not logical to assume things are linked because of one thing, right?"
- Conversed: "What is it with TV characters and assuming that because something applies to one thing, it must apply to everything to do with that thing?"
- Implied: Alice assumes that all Londoners are pessimists, but we don't know where her assumption comes from. However, Bob, a recurring character from London, is a pessimist.
- Deconstructed: This causes Londoners to hate Alice.
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs:
- Played for Drama:
- Played for Horror:
Wait, you want to go back to Association Fallacy? What's the point? Seeing as the main page is also on the Internet, they're practically the same thing!
