Basic Trope: A character likes something despite thinking they would hate it before they tried it.
- Straight: Alice thinks she hates the Show Within a Show that Bob is watching, until she watches an episode and becomes a fan.
- Exaggerated: Alice hates everything she is not familiar with until she tries it, then she becomes a massive fan of it.
- Downplayed:
- Alice has watched one episode but it was one she didn't like, leading her to have a temporary aversion to the show until she watches the few episodes she prefers.
- Alice doesn't think she'll hate the show necessarily, but isn't very interested. She ends up finding the show better than she expected it to be.
- When Alice finally watches the show, she ends up finding it alright, when she initially thought that she was going to hate it.
- Justified:
- Alice only saw the ad for the show and hated it.
- Alice is scared of the unknown, and believes she's scared of it.
- Alice only got info on the show from a negative reviewer.
- Alice isn't usually a fan of the genre that the show is, and believes she won't like it for that reason.
- Alice has been disappointed by the creators of the show before, and has low or nonexistent expectations.
- Alice knows something unsavory about some of the people involved with the show, and wants nothing to do with it on principle.
- Inverted: Alice thinks she is going to like something and ends up not liking it.
- Subverted:
- Alice turns out to like the first episode of the show, but hates the next one.
- Alice doesn't think she'll like the show, but Bob asks her to check out the show anyway because he thinks she'll enjoy it. She ends up legitimately disliking the first episode.
- Double Subverted: But likes the next episode, and each one afterwards.
- Parodied: The show Alice hated before she watched it? Its Green Eggs and Ham, the Animated Series! (now de-fictionalized!)
- Zig Zagged: Alice thinks she will hate the show, and likes some episodes, is okay with others, and dislikes others.
- Averted: Everyone has correct expectations.
- Enforced: To set up An Aesop about how you never know until you try.
- Lampshaded: "I thought I hated this, but now I love it!"
- Invoked: Charlie tries to make Alice not like the show, whereas Bob wants her to watch it.
- Exploited: Bob uses Alice's unexpected enjoyment towards the show to introduce her to some other similar shows she may also like.
- Defied:
- Alice refuses to make any judgments on things she is not familiar with.
- Alice realizes she probably won't like the show and doesn't make any attempt to watch it for herself.
- Discussed: "Alice, why do you think you don't like it. Have you ever tried it?"
- Conversed: "Why do these characters think they don't like it if they didn't try it?"
- Implied:
- Alice is seen refusing something new, then acting like she enjoyed it.
- We don't get to see Alice's initial expectations of the show, but after watching the first episode, she remarks that it was a lot better than she expected it to be.
- Played for Laughs: Bob tries comically over the top ways to get her to watch it.
- Played for Drama:
- Alice refutes Bob's offers in a forceful, occasionally violent fashion.
- Alice doesn't just likes it — she gets hooked. And we're not talking "G-Rated Drug"-style, either.
- Played for Horror:
- Alice doesn't just "gets forceful" — she kills Bob.
- The "green eggs and ham" in this scenario is something atrocious like human blood.
- Accepting the "green eggs and ham" is the first step of Alice living a junkie tragedy a la Requiem for a Dream.
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