Basic Trope: Police sketch artists are unrealistically accurate.
- Straight: Alice is a police sketch artist, and Bob gives her a fairly vague description of Charlie the Criminal. She ends up drawing a picture of Charlie that looks spot-on.
- Exaggerated: Bob saw Charlie from a far distance for only a few seconds, and he gives Alice a very vague description. Her portrait is so accurate that it looks as though Charlie posed for it.
- Downplayed: Bob gives Alice a rather detailed description of what Charlie looks like. She gets most of the details correct.
- Justified:
- Alice can read minds.
- Charlie is a notorious criminal, and Alice has drawn his portrait multiple times already.
- Bob gave a very precise description of Charlie - likely because he just saw him.
- Inverted:
- Facial Composite Failure
- Bob gives a highly detailed description of Charlie. Alice's drawing looks absolutely nothing like him.
- Subverted: Alice goes along with Bob's description for a while. When she finally shows the picture to him, he claims that it looks nothing at all like Charlie...
- Double Subverted: ...because he was misremembering what Charlie looked like.
- Parodied: Bob just says "I saw a criminal" and Alice immediately whips out a fully-detailed portrait of Charlie.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Police sketch artists aren't portrayed as unrealistically accurate.
- Enforced: The writers need Charlie's capture to be relatively quick, so they make it easy for the police sketch artists to correctly identify who he is.
- Lampshaded: "I only gave you a very vague description... how did you get it so accurate?!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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