Basic Trope: The action of using something in an unintended fashion.
- Straight: Bob uses The Sword of Heroes and its constantly pristine blade as a mirror constantly for both tactics and vanity.
- Exaggerated: Bob uses The Sword of Heroes as almost everything but a sword.
- Downplayed: Bob simply uses The Sword of Heroes and its undulling edge to chop wood for the village.
- Justified:
- Bob doesn't have all the tools so he has to make use with what he has.
- The alternative uses makes just as much sense as the intended one.
- The only distinction between the proper tool and the tool used, is 'the intended use'.
- Inverted: Bob uses The Hero's Tool Kit only as a bludgeon on combat.
- Subverted:
- Bob seems about ready to toss his weapon at Drake only run up and attack normally.
- Double Subverted:
- ...However once Drake's on the ground he backs up and tosses the weapon at Drake before it magically returns to his hand.
- Parodied: Bob literally challenges himself to use The Sword of Heroes for anything but the sword, and finds a magic sword has a lot of uses.
- Zig Zagged: Bob is always pushing the boundries of what a magic sword can do. Sometimes it works better than expected, sometimes Bob expected too much of it.
- Averted: Bob only ever uses his Sword of Heroes as a sword.
- Enforced: The sword was their most expensive budget item, so they make sure it gets plenty of screentime.
- Lampshaded: "Wait you can use swords as a hat rack? Good lord the ancient blacksmiths must be rolling in their graves."
- Invoked: Bob finds himself bored with conventional tactics and decides to make this whole adventuring thing more interesting while saving money on supplies.
- Exploited: Drake starts encouraging Bob to use the sword in various ways while setting up challenges that will eventually negate the power of the sword with Bob's solution putting it right in the trap.
- Defied: Bob refuses to break tradition, and thus uses the sword as a sword.
- Discussed: "Is there something wrong with Bob? I don't think he's familiar with swords."
- Conversed: "Bob is clearly crazy, who would use a magical sword like that!?"
- Implied: Bob isn't the focus character. While Zack uses various powers and boons to traverse and solve challenges Bob seems to be just as capable and only answers "my trusty sword" when asked.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob comes off as eccentric for the various intentional misapplications he uses, from being considered a poor chosen one to people being concerned about how he uses the weapon. He gets little support, to say the least.
- There's a reason tools are made for their intended use. Bob ends up damaging The Sword of Heroes or injuring himself by using it in an unorthodox manner.
- Reconstructed: Whilst Bob comes off as a hazard or crass to most people, he sticks with it and slowly opens people's eyes to the power of creative thinking, his consistency and success despite "misusing" the Sword of Heroes gets people to realize the difference between honoring tradition and trying to force an ideology.
- Played For Laughs: Bob seems to go out of his way to use his weapon wrong in front of people, making the tales of the noble blade used by heroes for centuries seem misused as he temporarily uses it as a strut for a bridge until a replacement is made.
- Played For Drama: Bob's "mishandling" of the sword gives his enemies no shortage of fuel to try and ruin his reputation. Despite being the Chosen One few people trust him thanks to the rumors, and a few try to kill him for "dishonoring the blade".
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