Basic Trope: A character receives tickets to some event, and has one extra ticket, so they must choose who to invite.
- Straight: Bob wins two tickets for a big concert from his favorite band. Alice and Carol both want the other ticket. Bob worries that whoever doesn't get the extra ticket will become jealous.
- Exaggerated: Carol challenges Alice to a Duel to the Death over the ticket. Bob can only watch in horror as Alice chops off Carol's head.
- Downplayed: Alice and Carol both want the ticket, but Carol doesn't complain when Bob finally invites Alice.
- Justified: Alice and Carol haven't exactly been the best of friends lately, and Bob doesn't want to make things any worse.
- Inverted:
- Evil Overlord Bob has been defeated, and must decide which hero to bring with him to hell.
- Alice is the main character, and is trying to convince Bob to give her his other ticket.
- Subverted:
- Bob didn't expect to win, so he had already bought another ticket for himself, letting Alice and Carol share the remaining tickets.
- Carol doesn't actually wanna see that concert.
- Double Subverted:
- But the ticket that Bob bought turns out to be a scam, and he really doesn't wanna miss the concert.
- But Dave is eager to see his favorite band perform, and is constantly begging Bob for his other ticket, which Alice is not about to let go of.
- Parodied: The tickets are for watching a todler playing with a music box. Yet Carol insists on challenging Alice to a Duel to the Death.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Averted:
- Bob never received any tickets, nor did he claim to have them.
- The lottery price was three tickets.
- Enforced: The author wants to demonstrate how much Bob hates favoring one friend over another.
- Lampshaded: "How convenient that Bob received exactly two tickets. I bet whoever designed this lottery is laughing like a maniac right now."
- Invoked: Dave intentionally drives a wedge between Alice, Bob, and Carol by buying and scalping all but two remaining tickets, ensuring that Bob will have to make a tough choice.
- Exploited: Bob is forced to buy another ticket from a scalper.
- Defied: Bob doesn't even sign up for the lottery, because he knows Alice and Carol would fight over the other ticket.
- Discussed:
- Conversed:
Back to Just One Extra Ticket.
