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Basic Trope: A contest with the prize of meeting someone famous.

  • Straight: Bob enters a contest where the grand prize is meeting starlet Alice Troperena.
  • Exaggerated: Bob enters a contest where the grand prize is meeting celebrities every day for a year.
  • Downplayed:
    • Bob enters a contest where the grand prize is meeting Alice Troperena, a local actress.
    • Bob enters a contest where the winner gets to see Alice but not talk to her.
  • Inverted: Bob enters a contest where the loser gets to meet starlet Alice Troperena.
  • Subverted: ???
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted: No contests happen in the story.
  • Enforced: The prize for the contest was a million dollars in the original script, but the producers didn't want the status quo to change that much, so they changed it to meeting a celebrity.
  • Lampshaded:
    Bob: I just have to win that contest! Alice Troperena is my favorite movie star.
  • Invoked: Charlie, one of the contest promoters, suggests having a day with Alice be the prize.
  • Exploited: Bob is a Stalker with a Crush and uses the contest to get close to Alice.
  • Defied: Alice Troperena overhears her agent discussing the possibility of her giving a day to a contest winner. She puts her foot down and says she doesn't want to be the prize.
  • Implied: Bob walks up to a ballot box, muttering excitedly about Alice, and places an envelope in it.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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