Playing With / Emotionally Tongue-Tied

• Basic Trope: A character is unable to speak when they're trying to say something emotional.
• Straight: Bob is trying to tell Matt that his mother died yesterday, but Cannot Spit It Out.
• Exaggerated: Bob's head literally explodes trying to communicate to Matt.
• Downplayed: Bob stutters and chokes on his words trying to tell Matt that his mother died.
• Justified: Bob was as close to Matt's mother as Matt himself was.
  • Bob is worried about how Matt will react, and wants to break bad news gently.
• Inverted: Bob bluntly and deadpanly tells Matt that his mother "fucking died".
• Subverted: Bob has a stutter.
• Double Subverted: ...That gets worse when he is emotionally stressed.
• Zig Zagged: Bob is able to tell Matt that his mother passed away, but starts struggling trying to tell him how she died, and how she felt in her final moments.
• Averted: Bob is able to tell Matt about the tragedy.
• Enforced: The director wants to elongate the scene so the audience has time to notice the black sun rising in the background.
• Lampshaded: "I have no idea what you're trying to say, but I know it's not going to be good."
• Defied: Bob brings someone else who took the death fairly well.
• Deconstructed: Matt immediately realizes that whatever Bob is about to say is going to suck.