Basic Trope: The main characters all share a hug.
- Straight:
- The main characters of Tropetown—Alice, Bob, Charles, and Diane—share a hug.
- Bob, Charles, and Diane hug Alice.
- Exaggerated: All the characters of Tropetown share a hug, even the background characters.
- Downplayed:
- Only Alice, Bob, and Charles hug each other.
- Alice and Bob share a hug, while Charles and Diane share another one.
- Justified: Alice announced that she was leaving Tropetown, and her friends wanted to say goodbye.
- Inverted: Alice, Bob, Charles, and Diane start beating each other up.
- Subverted:
- Bob is an Affection-Hating Kid and refuses to hug the rest.
- Alice, Bob, and Charles look like they’re going to hug Diane, but they actually were trying to catch Charles’ dog, Fred, who got loose from his leash.
- Double Subverted:
- Diane pulls him into the group hug before he can leave.
- Diane catches Fred, and the rest of the group hugs her to say thanks.
- Parodied: All the people in the universe have a sudden urge to hug Alice, causing planes to be overfull, cars to get into traffic jams, and sudden landings of satellites in space. As a result, the main characters are forced to hold their hug for hours.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice, Bob, Charles, and Diane share a hug. Soon, Ethan comes into the scene and hugs all of them at once for an excessively long time. Charles, who is tired of the hug, pulls out of it and retreats to his home. Ethan chases after Charles to get him back into the hug. Once both are out of sight, Alice comments, “What in the world just happened?”
- Averted: No one has a hug.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: “I could use a hug every once in a while.”
- Invoked: Alice pushes Bob and Charles together, then makes a hugging gesture.
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz sees Alice, Bob, Charles, and Diane sharing a hug. He decides to stir up trouble by tossing invisibility potion on them while they’re not looking.
- Defied: Ethan pulls all four of them away from each other, because he really hates hugs.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Drama: Alice is dying from a fatal wound, and her friends want to share one last hug before she passes.
- Implied: Alice is telling a story from her life to her daughter, Georgia. The only part we get to hear is the end, where Alice says, “—and then my friends and I shared a hug together!” We don’t get to hear which friends Alice is talking about.
Back to Group Hug.
