Basic Trope: A character has buck teeth to show that they're goofy and/or nerdy.
- Straight: Alice has prominent buck teeth, and she's a Plucky Comic Relief as well as a Stereotypical Nerd.
- Exaggerated:
- Every single nerdy and/or silly character in the work has buck teeth.
- Alice has massive buck teeth.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is a goofy/geeky character who has buck teeth, but they're not as prominent (e.g. only visible if her mouth is open).
- Alice has buck teeth and is portrayed as a little silly, awkward, geeky, etc - however, this isn't the main aspect of her character.
- Justified: Alice is also an animal with continually-growing incisors that give the appearance of buck teeth, such as a rodent, lagomorph, or aye-aye
. - Inverted: Alice has buck teeth, and is the most serious character in the work.
- Subverted: Alice seems goofy and nerdy, based on her appearance, but when she speaks, she's actually quite serious and cool.
- Double Subverted: Alice was possessed by a very cool and serious ghost. She actually is very goofy and nerdy.
- Parodied: Alice's buck teeth are long enough to drag on the floor.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice does not have buck teeth.
- Enforced:
- The actress playing Alice has buck teeth, so it's worked into her character.
- "How do we make Alice look sillier?" "Let's give her buck teeth!"
- Lampshaded: "Is Alice a dork? Of course she is. Look at those buck teeth."
- Invoked: Alice puts on fake buck teeth to make herself look sillier.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Alice goes to an orthodontist to make her buck teeth look more normal.
- Alice refuses to be seen as silly because of her buck teeth.
- Discussed: "Do my buck teeth make me look like a dork?"
- Conversed: "Why is it that the goofy, dorky characters almost always have buck teeth?"
- Played for Laughs: Alice is the Plucky Comic Relief.
- Played for Drama: Alice gets bullied/mistreated because of her buck teeth.
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