Basic Trope: An object serves as a reminder and so is important to a character.
- Straight: Alice cherishes the locket her Missing Mom gave her.
- Exaggerated: Alice runs into a burning building to avoid losing the locket. Alice's mother isn't even dead, she's just living on the other side of town.
- Downplayed: Alice certainly cherishes the locket but won't do stupid things just to get it back.
- Justified: Alice feels alone and isolated and relies on the locket to remind her of happier times.
- Inverted: Alice makes sure she throws away anything her mother gave her.
- Subverted: It's an act, to convince the Big Bad that she's silly, and the locket is really not important, when it's the MacGuffin.
- Double Subverted: She used the locket to hold the MacGuffin and is glad when it's over, so she doesn't have to risk it anymore.
- Parodied: Alice will throw away her friends' lives to keep that locket.
- Zig Zagged: Alice is considering flushing the locket, but decides to retain it upon her mother's death.
- Averted:
- Alice is against sentimentalism.
- Alice's mother never gave her anything she could use as a memento.
- Enforced: "We've got a merchandise deal for those angel lockets, so she has to wear it for the rest of the season."
- Lampshaded: "Is that the object of sentimental importance? I should break it."
- Invoked: The mother, dying, gave the locket to Alice to remember her by.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice throws away the locket to help shake off her mother's control.
- Discussed: "No, she never takes it off. Her mother gave it to her."
- Conversed: "So... the gold locket with the lingering camera closeup is important, right?"
- Deconstructed: Alice is so obsessed with her mother that the locket is keeping her trapped, away from healthy relationships.
- Reconstructed: But that's just her way of coping with grief; she gets over it.
- Implied: Alice is closer to her locket than all her other items; the reason is never explained.
T-this back button is just so... beautiful! *sniff sniff* I shall cherish it forever!
