Basic Trope: Saying that if one little thing will happen, it'll lead to another thing, which will lead to yet another thing, and so on, eventually resulting in something extreme, usually a disaster.
- Straight: Alice tells Bob not to get the last piece of cake out of the fridge or else he'll trip on their cat on his way there, get mad at the cat, then the cat will take offence and run away to Carol's house, and without the cat to kill rats, Alice and Bob will have a rat infestation.
- Exaggerated: Alice tells Bob not to take the cake out of the fridge, or else he'll trip on the cat, get mad at the cat, the cat will run away to Carol's house, they'll have a rat infestation, the rats will give them fleas, the fleas will give them plague, and the plague will spread to everyone, causing humanity's extinction.
- Downplayed: Alice tells Bob not to get the cake out of the fridge or he'll trip on the cat, get mad at the cat, and the cat will scratch him.
- Justified:
- Alice was lying so she could have the cake.
- Alice is paranoid and has a vivid imagination.
- Inverted: Reverse Slippery Slope Fallacy — Alice tells Bob that he's gotten the cake out of the fridge and it didn't cause him to trip over the cat, therefore, she asserts that if the cat had run away, they wouldn't have a problem with rats.
- Subverted: "If you take the cake out of the fridge, you might trip over the cat, then you'll get mad, then the cat'll run away, then we'll get a rat infestation.... actually, no, that's highly unlikely."
- Double Subverted: "But if I dismiss this situation as highly unlikely, then soon I'll become very dismissive! No one likes a dismissive person. Best not take that slice of cake."
- Parodied: Bob dismisses Alice's slippery slope as ridiculous, only for the events to actually happen.
- Zigzagged: Alice is indecisive about whether her "cake— cat— rat infestation" assertion is valid.
- Averted:
- Alice tells Bob not to take the cake out, simply because it's meant to be for later.
- Alice lets Bob have the cake.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded: "Not necessarily."
- Invoked:
- Exploited: "That's a slippery slope, so you must be wrong!"
- Defied: "No, no, no, that's a slippery slope. Just let Bob eat the cake, it'll be fine."
- Discussed: "Now, if I were to tell you not to take the cake out of the fridge because you might trip over the cat, offending the cat, then the cat might run away and we'd have a rat infestation, that'd be an example of the Slippery Slope Fallacy."
- Conversed: "Slippery slopes can be great if used for comedy, but terrible if used to invoke a moral."
- Implied: "Don't take the cake out of the fridge" —(Time Skip)— "...And then we might get a rat infestation."
- Deconstructed: Bob becomes very paranoid of tripping over the cat, so he avoids the cat.
- Reconstructed: Alice makes sure Bob doesn't become too paranoid of tripping over the cat... lest he offend the cat, causing the cat to run away, and so on.
- Played for Laughs: The writers want to see what crazy consequences Alice can come up with for the smallest of actions.
- Played for Drama:
- Played for Horror:
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