Basic Trope: A group of characters try to prevent another character from obtaining an artifact by tossing it from one to another.
- Straight: Alice and Bob toss a Doomsday Device to each other away from Emperor Evulz.
- Exaggerated: Every hero tries to keep the doomsday device from Emperor Evulz.
- Downplayed: Alice holds up the doomsday device high over her head where Emperor Evulz can't reach.
- Justified: The heroes know that it will be bad if Emperor Evulz gets a hold of the doomsday device, and thus decide to work together to keep it away from him.
- Inverted: Hot Potato
- Subverted: Bob and Alice start to play keep away from Emperor Evulz, but hand it to him after being threatened.
- Double Subverted:
- But the doomsday device they handed him was a fake.
- They returned it after removing the batteries.
- Parodied: The heroes and villains act like school children at a playground.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob and Alice play keep away for a while, then let Emperor Evulz have the doomsday device, but they've reprogrammed it to blow up only a very specific spot — and since Evulz is holding it, goodbye to the Big Bad.
- Averted: Alice and Bob just run away from Emperor Evulz with the doomsday device as quickly as they can.
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