Basic Trope: A character dislikes a statue of themselves.
- Straight: Alice finds a statue built in her likeness. She hates it.
- Exaggerated: Alice is driven into insanity upon one glance at the statue and has to be institutionalised.
- Downplayed: Alice doesn't make a fuss about the statue, but she does go out of her way to avoid going near it.
- Justified:
- Alice is a Humble Hero.
- Alice is trying to lay low in town; the statue attracts attention.
- The statue is of Alice naked.
- The statue is a really poor likeness of Alice.
- The statue is of that embarrassing moment where the calf hogtied her during last year's rodeo.
- Inverted: Alice loves her statue. Almost everyone else thinks it's an eyesore.
- Subverted:
- Double Subverted:
- Parodied:
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Enforced: It's already established that Alice is embarrassed by the moment that the statue represents.
- Lampshaded: "!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Discussed: "."
- Conversed: "?"
- Implied:
- When Alice sees the statue, she is seen wincing.
- When a reporter mentions the statue to Alice, she winces and quickly changes the subjects.
- Played for Laughs:
- Played for Drama:
- Played for Horror: Alice hates the statue so much that she murders the sculptors who made her statue and the councilmen who approved it, using her good reputation to get away with it.
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