Basic Trope: A sterotypical british gentleman found in not-so-british works
- Straight: Alan always enjoys a cuppa at noon, says "pip-pip" and cheerio, wears a top hat and a mourning coat, has a waxed moustache, wields a cane, rides around a rolls-royce, and enjoys fox hunting.
- Exaggerated: Alan is a combination of all the stock british gentleman traits, and he is played completely straight.
- Downplayed: While Alan loathes tea, he does does still do the above.
- Justified: Alan is well aware of the reputation of the UK in the States, and he gleefully enjoys the presentation. So he starts acting like a sterotypical brit.
- Inverted: Alan loathes tea, uses american english, years a nice suit, wields a suitcase, rides around in a Ford, and enjoys american football.
- Subverted: Alan was putting up that act for those Eaglelanders, once they leave he drops the act.
- Double Subverted: But he really liked the act so much he Becomes the Mask.
- Parodied: Exaggerated, but Played for Laughs
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- The Authors actually study British gentlemanly behavior.
- Or Alan acts just like all the other american characters.
- Enforced: "We need a british character for our work, but we don't want to bother with studying british behavior and Viewers Are Morons so lets take a few traits from here and we're all good to go."
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- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
Now lad, lets head back to Quintessential British Gentleman.
