Basic Trope: Someone who collects bizarre things.
- Straight: Alice collects old candy wrappers.
- Exaggerated: Every single character has some weird collection.
- Downplayed: Alice collects rare candies (no, not that kind), but takes it a little too far sometimes by taking the wrappers too.
- Justified:
- Alice thinks the candy wrappers look pretty.
- Alice is fascinated by the Values Dissonance of the candies, if not the wrappers themselves. Ayds, Cancer pops* , Choco-Boy…
- Inverted: Alice has an Absurd Phobia of old candy wrappers.
- Subverted:
- Alice is seen keeping a bunch of candy wrappers in a box, but it turns out that she wanted them to burn.
- Alice actually has a friend who buys old candy wrappers off of her. It might be a strange trade, but hey, money talks.
- Double Subverted:
- But she does collect lichen.
- ...and then, there's her personal stash.
- Parodied:
- Zigzagged:
- Averted:
- Alice is not a collector.
- Alice collects something normal, like stamps.
- Enforced: only kind of collection for which they had enough props without resorting to Take Our Word for It.
- Lampshaded: "You collect what?!"
- Invoked: "I dunno, start a candy wrapper collection or something."
- Exploited: Bob sells some candy wrappers to Alice.
- Defied: Alice is thinking of becoming a collector, but rejects ideas that seem too weird.
- Discussed: "I went to college with this woman who collected, of all things, old candy wrappers."
- Conversed: "The things fictional characters collect!"
- Implied:
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs:
- Played for Drama: The reason Alice collects candy wrappers is because she's too poor to afford candy.
- Played for Horror: Living Doll Collector.
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