Basic Trope: Aliens really like some mundane earth food.
- Straight: Troperians really love chocolate, and will go to some lengths to get it.
- Exaggerated: Troperians base their entire civilization off acquiring chocolate.
- Downplayed: Troperians find chocolate to be tasty, and after allying with humans, Troperia gets some chocolate shops.
- Justified: There are many chemicals in chocolate that have an effect on humans, and they have an even greater effect on Troperians due to Bizarre Alien Biology.
- Inverted:
- Chocolate is a deadly poison to Troperians, or is incredibly disgusting to them.
- Humans end up absolutely loving Troperian food.
- Subverted: Troperians are quite interested in trying chocolate, but don't really like it that much.
- Double Subverted: They were downplaying their interest for negotiating purposes.
- Parodied: Troperians are only interested in humanity for chocolate, and they dramatically demand it during first contact, to the amusement of world governments.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Troperians don't have strong opinions about earth food, or can't eat earth food at all.
- Enforced: There's a product placement deal with Hershey, and the execs need an excuse for characters to eat a lot of chocolate.
- Lampshaded: "So, I guess no matter where you go in the universe, if there's life...there's chocoholics."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Humans are able to gain a lot of negotiating leverage by offering the Troperians chocolate.
- Defied: Troperians are forbidden from eating the food of other races for fear of its weird effects.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: When meeting with the Troperians, a human ambassador brings many kinds of chocolate.
- Deconstructed: Troperians may like chocolate, but they're aliens with different biologies, and they can't actually digest it. Eating chocolate is very damaging to them, and it becomes a serious problem for their society.
- Reconstructed: Troperians figure out how to synthesize the chocolate flavor in food they can digest.
- Played for Laughs: Chocolate is a G-Rated Drug for Troperians, with amusing consequences.
- Played for Drama:
- Troperians want chocolate so much they take over all chocolate-producing areas on Earth and enslave the populace so they can have it all for themselves.
- The bastard humans of the plot are The Aggressive Drug Dealers, trading chocolate for money and power (and death to all obstacles). The heroic humans of the cast try to stop them before these idiots accidentally begin an intergalactic war.
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