Basic Trope:
- Straight:
- Alice’s family photo shows her frowning and distant from her stern parents. Bob’s family has them grinning in a group hug.
- Alice is seen reading a book in her family photo, befitting her status as a bookworm.
- Alice's portrait is regal, showing off her family's wealth, while Bob's is worn down.
- Alice's portrait has her parents' faces torn off.
- Exaggerated: Alice is outright glaring at her parents or fighting with her siblings.
- Downplayed:
- Alice and her parents’ smiles are strained or fake looking. Bob and his family’s are more genuine looking.
- While Alice has a strained relationship with her parents, she does love them and vice versa.
- Justified: Alice had a bad fight with her family and is still sore about it.
- Inverted:
- Alice’s family is the more stable one despite their distant demeanour while Bob’s is more dysfunctional.
- The photos show a hidden past to Alice's seemingly stable family.
- Subverted:
- Over time, Alice's family becomes more stable while Bob's becomes more dysfunctional.
- The faces were ripped off by accident or through wear-and-tear and Alice has a fine relationship with her parents.
- Double Subverted: Things go downhill or get better, and the photos accurately reflect the family again.
- Parodied: Alice is the only one naked in her family picture.
- Averted:
- Defied:
- Alice's family order her to look.
- Neither family like to take portraits.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: A psychic makes assumptions about Alice and Bob's families after seeing a family photo of them.
- Played for Laughs:
- Played for Drama: Alice is seen bruised from a beating her parents gave her.
- Played for Horror:
- Alice’s father is holding the dead body of her brother, who he and her mother killed.
- Alice's father is seen groping her as her mother looks away.
- Alice is posing next to her parents' dead bodies.
- Implied: Faded photos of what look like a family are shown.
- Unparodied:
- Alice is naked because her parents punished her for a petty reason.
- Alice is naked because her parents are pimping her out, and the photo is meant to promote her.
- Alice is naked in the photo because her parents are molesting her right in that picture.
- Untwisted: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
Back to Last-Second Photo Failure.
