Basic Trope: Sprinklers in a building automatically go off the second they detect a heat source.
- Straight: Bob holds a lighter to a fire sprinkler and every sprinkler in the building goes off.
- Exaggerated: Bob holds a lighter to a fire sprinkler, causing every sprinkler in every building on the street to go off.
- Downplayed: Bob holds a lighter to a fire sprinkler, setting off all the sprinklers on the floor and only that floor.
- Justified: The building stores highly flammable chemicals or explosives and rapid fire spread is a concern.
- Inverted: Bob holds a lighter to an already active fire sprinkler and it promptly shuts off.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Only the fire sprinkler that Bob held a lighter to goes off.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Bob knows that all the sprinklers in the building are linked and decides to set one off to put out a quickly spreading fire that he can't reach in time.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob holds a lighter to a fire sprinkler. Ten seconds later, Charlie, who is soaking wet, rushes into the room.
- Played For Laughs: ???
- Played For Horror: ???
Hold a lighter up to the sprinkler to go back to Telepathic Sprinklers.
