Basic Trope: A question that isn't supposed to be answered gets an answer anyway.
- Straight: Alice asks, "Can this day possibly get any worse?" after suffering a Humiliation Conga, and Bob says "Yes—for example, your least favorite song could play on the radio."
- Exaggerated: Bob lists all the possible reasons as to how this day could possibly get any worse.
- Downplayed: Bob simply responds "Yes" to the question.
- Justified:
- Bob is Sarcasm-Blind.
- Or he did know and is messing with Alice.
- Inverted: Alice asks Bob a question that he's supposed to answer, but Bob doesn't answer.
- Subverted: Alice asks a strange question, which Bob jokingly responds to. However, this was a legitimate question she needed an answer for, and Bob's response gave her an epiphany.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody answers any rhetorical questions.
- Enforced: To show how Sarcasm-Blind (or how much of a Deadpan Snarker) Bob is.
- Lampshaded: "You weren't supposed to answer that, you know."
- Invoked: Alice has to ask a weird question and get a response from someone to save her soul from a demon, but can't explain the situation. She asks Bob, the local Deadpan Snarker, who gives his response and inadvertently saves her soul.
- Exploited: Alice has a bet with Bob that he won't talk at all for a certain amount of time, which she wins by asking a weird question that Bob instinctively responded to.
- Defied:
- "I am going to say a sarcastic phrase with a rhetorical question for the sake of getting some stress out of my chest—so for the love of God, don't answer it."
- "Are you too stupid to understand what I'm saying? Don't bother answering that, I know the answer already."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
"Is this the link back to Rhetorical Question Blunder?"
"No, I think it's a cheese sandwich."
