Basic Trope: A character that's great at dancing is popular enough to be treated like royalty.
- Straight: When Alice dances, a crowd gathers around her to watch her in awe. As a result, the pub she frequents gifts her a round of free drinks. Even the Girls Want Her.
- Exaggerated: Alice is such a dancing virtuoso that everyone who sees her pledges their undying loyalty to her and caters to her every whim. She's eventually crowned the city's queen.
- Downplayed: Alice's superb dancing earns her compliments from many people but that's about it.
- Justified: Alice's culture holds dancing in very high esteem, so being skilled at it is a sure way to gain social status.
- Inverted: Dancing well is regarded as a waste of time and associated with criminal activity, even outright sociopathy. Very similar to how possessing guns is perceived.
- Subverted: Alice starts dancing and the camera absolutely loves it, capturing every angle and embellishing her moves with colorful lightning. Shot back to the rest of the pub and everyone is just minding their own business.
- Double Subverted: However, the person in charge of the lights eventually notices her and decides to literally put her in the spotlight. This causes everyone to turn and swoon at her display.
- Parodied: The pub's crowd clears space for Alice but only because they are at risk of getting hit by Alice's pirouettes and twirls.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice absolutely rocks it on the dance floor but that doesn't make others treat her with deference.
- Enforced: The film is a musical about a dancing contest, so, naturally, by the time of the final Dance-Off, everyone has to go and join her as her backup dancers.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited:
- The pub's manager hires Alice to dance in the pub's front, so her superb dancing skills attract more clients.
- Alice schemes to get her crush to watch her dance, sure of herself that it will leave quite an impression.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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