Basic Trope: A seer has a strong negative reaction to a prediction of the future.
- Straight: Alice has the ability to see visions of the future. One vision she has is so shocking that she freaks out and ultimately faints.
- Exaggerated: Alice's vision is so shocking that she screams, rambles nonsense, and spasms, before dramatically falling to the floor, twitching.
- Downplayed: Alice is shocked by her vision, gasps, and momentarily loses her balance.
- Justified: Alice literally saw the end of the world.
- Inverted:
- Alice is already freaking out over something else, when she has a vision of the future that's so serious it knocks her back to her senses.
- One of Alice's visions is so shocking that she lets out a Big "YES!" out of exhilaration, jumping up and down like a rabbit.
- Subverted: Alice passes out after having a vision of the future, but it turns out her vision of the future is pretty mundane and she passed out for unrelated reasons.
- Double Subverted: Then, after waking up, she remembers her vision, and passes out a second time from the shock.
- Parodied:
- After fainting, Alice is taken to a special wing at a local hospital for seers who saw something they probably shouldn't have.
- Bob is going to visit various fortune tellers asking them to check something in the future for him. As he leaves each one, they're slouched over on their chair unconscious.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Averted:
- Alice doesn't have a vision of the future.
- Alice has a calm reaction to her vision.
- Enforced: Alice faints because she needs to be out of the picture for a while - her being able to tell her vision to the other characters would resolve the plot too easily.
- Lampshaded: "Wow! That must have been some vision..."
- Invoked: Bob tricks Alice into using her seer abilities to see the end of the world, expecting this to happen.
- Exploited: Bob is a villain - he tricked Alice believing her reaction will keep her out of commission for a while, preventing her from helping the heroes.
- Defied: Alice drinks tea before viewing the future, to keep her calm and awake in case she has a particularly shocking vision.
- Discussed: "If Alice looks at your future, she'll freak out!"
- Conversed:
- Implied: Bob enters Alice's room to ask her to see a vision of the future for him. A doctor enters a while later, and wheels out Alice's unconscious body on a gurney.
- Deconstructed: Alice has seen and reacted to many dramatic and disturbing visions of the future, and it's starting to take a more permanent physical and psychological toll on her.
- Played for Drama: Alice legitimately has a heart attack from the shock of her vision, and has to go to intensive care.
Your future! Fire! Destruction! Death! Chaos! Save yourself! Go back to Fainting Seer now before it's...
