Basic Trope: Someone has a fear of thunder.
- Straight: Alice is scared of thunderstorms.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice constantly has her weather app open and immediately goes into hiding the second she hears thunder.
- Alice is panicked when there's even a chance of thunderstorms.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is somewhat bothered by thunderstorms, and has a tendency to listen to things (such as movies or music) in an attempt to drown out the sound.
- Alice is only scared of heavy thunderstorms.
- Justified:
- Truth in Television: A lot of people have a fear of thunderstorms, one of said terms for this is astraphobia.
- Alice is an animal of some sort (especially a dog), who often fears the sound of thunder.
- Alice is mostly scared of lightning, which is understandable - it is possible to be struck by lightning.
- Alice has had bad experiences with thunderstorms.
- Thunder can sound like artillery and explosions, which reminds Alice of her days in war. note
- Inverted: Alice loves the sound of thunder.
- Subverted: Alice only reacted in fear because she confused the thunder for the sound of an explosion.
- Double Subverted: Upon finding out that the "explosion" was actually thunder, Alice is even more terrified.
- Parodied: Thunderstorms are scared of Alice.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Nobody fears thunder.
- Thunderstorms never occur in the work.
- Enforced: "We should probably give one of the characters a minor conflict to face when they're dealing with the big storm in this episode. How about we make them afraid of thunder?"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz makes sure something bad happens to Alice during a thunderstorm, so she'll be associating thunder with the bad event.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice learns to get over her fear of thunder.
- Discussed: "My greatest fear? Thunder. I know it sounds childish, but I don't like it when extremely loud noises come from the sky."
- Conversed: "Was she always scared of thunder, or did they add that in to create a conflict for this episode?"
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