Basic Trope: The hero must cross a desert.
- Straight: Bob has to cross a desert in order to reach a water source.
- Exaggerated: The desert is across the entire planet.
- Downplayed: Bob has to cross several kilometers of desert before being picked up.
- Justified: Bob lives in the desert, so crossing it is a normal occurrence.
- Inverted: Bob has to brave the blizzard.
- Subverted: Bob finds an alternate route that allows him to bypass the desert.
- Double Subverted: ...but the route is several times more dangerous so he decides to cross the desert anyway.
- Parodied:
- Bob has to cross a beach resort.
- Bob has to cross Antarctica, which is technically a desert insofar as it receives less than ten inches of precipitation per year. He still acts as though he's crossing a hot desert — sweating, short sleeves, etc.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Bob doesn't have to cross a desert.
- Deserts aren't present in the work.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Alice offers to sell him bottled water and/or an air-conditioned car ride to make the journey easier.
- Defied: Bob actively finds a way to avoid the desert at all costs.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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