Basic Trope: A couple's possessions are labeled "His" and "Hers", denoting what belongs to whom.
- Straight: Bob's towel is labeled "His" and Alice's towel is labeled "Hers".
- Exaggerated: Alice and Bob have their own en suite bathrooms ... and everything in them is labeled "His" or "hers", too.
- Downplayed: Alice's towel is labeled "Alice" and Bob's towel is labeled "Bob".
- Justified:
- Alice and Bob are Sleeping Single.
- Alice and Bob are touchy about their possessions.
- It reduces the risk of accidental crossdressing.
- Inverted:
- Alice and Bob share everything.
- Alice's towel is labeled "his," and Bob's "hers."
- Subverted: Alice and Bob have their own bath towels, but they are not labeled.
- Double Subverted: At least, they aren't monogrammed. Alice's towel is pink, and Bob's is blue.
- Parodied:
- Alice and Bob have an extra (little) towel labeled "Its" for their goldfish.
- Everything in Alice and Bob's house is like this, from towels, to telephones, to front doors.
- Alice and Bob have towels labeled "His" and "Hers", but they use the towels opposite their own sex.
- Aaron and Bob have towels labeled "His" and "His". Nobody can figure out whose is whose except them — if even them.
- In a gender-inverted version of the above, Alice and Betty have towels labeled "Hers" and "Hers" and even they sometimes use the wrong one.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice and Bob get sets of items with these labels on them, then they misplace them, then they get labels added to their unlabeled possessions.
- Averted: Alice and Bob don't label their possessions.
- Enforced: The original plan was to use Pink Girl, Blue Boy to distinguish Bob's things from Alice's, but budgetary constraints and/or Executive Meddling got in the way, so everything they didn't share was labeled "His" and "Hers" instead.
- Lampshaded:
- Bob: "You can tell this is mine because it has 'His' on it."
- Alice: "You can tell this is mine because it has 'Hers' on it."
- Invoked: Alice and Bob receive towels labeled "His" and "Hers" as wedding gifts.
- Exploited: Alice and Bob have Covert Pervert roommates who want to see one or both of them naked, and knowing they only use their "His" and "Hers" towels, they hide the towel belonging to the one they want to see naked more at that moment.
- Defied: Alice and Bob agree to share everything.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Bob breaks up with Alice and gets all the towels in the settlement. He immediately gives them to his new girlfriend, Claire, showing how depersonalized a simple pronoun is.
- Played for Drama: The fact that Alice and Bob are so touchy about their possessions shows gaps in their marriage.
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