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Basic Trope: An eyewitness gives a very vague and useless description of a suspect.

  • Straight: Alice is interviewing Bob on a criminal he saw. Bob states that he remembers that they wore a shirt and pants, him not being able to remember their colors.
  • Exaggerated: Bob tells Alice that the criminal looked human-shaped.
  • Downplayed: ???
  • Justified: ???
  • Inverted: Bob gives an extremely accurate description of the criminal.
  • Subverted: Bob starts to remember more details about the criminal.
  • Double Subverted: It's still more vague and useless details about them.
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted: ???
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: Bob is in league with the criminal in question, so he lies so they won't get caught.
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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