Basic Trope: Sticking out your middle finger to be rude.
- Straight: Alice and Bob argue, and eventually Alice just gives Bob the middle finger and walks off.
- Exaggerated:
- A whole crowd of people flip off Bob with both hands.
- Bob flips Alice off with three fingers! (trust us, it's actually possible)
- Downplayed: Alice flips the bird behind her back.
- Justified:
- Alice is a bit coarse.
- Alice feels she has wasted enough words on arguing with Bob and that a gesture would be sufficient to get the point across.
- Inverted: For some reason, Alice raises all of her fingers except for her middle finger.
- Subverted:
- It appears like Alice is flipping the bird, but really she's just playing "Where is Thumbkin?".
- Alice meant to make the "number 1" gesture, she just extended the wrong finger.
- Double Subverted: She was doing it against her will and then flips off the person who made her do it.
- Parodied: Alice has a superpower which is activated by flipping the bird, which produces Cringe Comedy.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody flips the bird.
- Enforced: The creator of the work wanted to show that Alice is truly upset.
- Lampshaded: "Whoa, did you just give me the middle finger, Alice?!"
- Invoked: Charlie dares Alice to go flip off Bob.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Alice refuses to flip off Bob.
- Alice has her middle fingers chopped off to prevent her from ever making the gesture.
- Discussed: "How do I make up with Alice? She just flipped me off and walked away!"
- Conversed: "Remember that scene with Alice flipping the bird that became a meme?"
- Implied:
- There's a Censor Box over Alice's middle finger and she's holding her hand up with the rest of her fingers down.
- Alice is off-camera, but Bob mentions that she gave him a rude gesture.
- Played for Drama: Alice struggles to get a job after she's fired for flipping the bird to her boss.
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