Basic Trope: Glitter is portrayed as messy and difficult to clean up.
- Straight: Bob opens a tub of glitter, only for its contents to spill across the table, and any attempts to clean it up causes the glitter to be swept onto the floor.
- Exaggerated: Bob opens a tub of glitter, only for its contents to leak out and be spread out everywhere: between the floor tiles, on the ceiling, across the walls, in Bob's hair and on his skin, etc.
- Downplayed: Bob places the tub of glitter in a plastic bag before opening it so that any contents that spill out will remain inside the bag and be easy to dispose of.
- Justified: Truth in Television.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Bob opens a tub of glitter, only for more glitter than the tub is realistically able to contain to explode out and completely cover every surface in the entire apartment. When Bob's mother, Alice, comes home and opens the door, the glitter spills out across the threshold like an avalanche, covering her entirely, and spills into the corridor as well.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- No glitter is used or mentioned in the work.
- Glitter is only used for aesthetic purposes and does not cause a mess.
- Enforced:
- The work was created by an environmentally conscious creator or agency, who wants to dissuade the readers/viewers from buying plastic glitter.
- The work was a school PSA and intended to showcase how much work the school janitors had to put into cleaning up the school, so as to to encourage students to show appreciation for their school janitors.
- Lampshaded:
- "Oh no, the glitter got everywhere!"
- Alice is spring-cleaning and finds some leftover glitter in the rafters.Alice: Bob, is this glitter from your art project last year? How did it end up in the rafters of all places?
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The Troublemaker of the class, Carol, sets up a glitter bomb prank just before spring break.
- Defied:
- Bob slowly and carefully opens the tub of glitter to make sure none of its contents spring out of the container when he opens it.
- The school bans the use of glitter in art projects because it would otherwise cause the school's janitors to have to work overtime to clean everything.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Laughs: The school janitors' reaction to the students doing an art project is to give an Aside Glance that screams, "Oh, No... Not Again!"
- Played For Drama: Bob accidentally spills a tub of glitter on the floor and has to clean it up before his Neat Freak mother, Alice, gets home.
- Deconstructed: The glitter ends up in Bob's eyes and respiratory tract when he opens the container, forcing him to be rushed to the hospital for treatment.
- Reconstructed: ???
My God, who put a glitter bomb on my doorstep? It's gonna take ages to clean up all this Glitter Litter!
