Basic Trope: Two characters get mad at each other and stay on their own sides.
- Straight: Alice gets mad at Bob and draws a line, then makes Bob stay on his side of the line while Alice stays on hers.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice's "side" is half of the house.
- Everyone in Alice and Bob's family creates their own "side"s.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob share a bedroom, so they split it in half.
- Subverted: It seems like Alice is going to draw a line to separate her and Bob, but she actually draws on a blackboard instead.
- Double Subverted: She draws a diagram of the area Bob is not allowed to cross.
- Parodied: Alice draws a small circle around Bob and says, "Stay there."
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes Alice and Bob are allowed to go into each other's areas, and other times they aren't.
- Averted: Alice and Bob do not create any "side"s.
- Enforced: The creator of the work did this a lot as a child and wants to include a reference to it.
- Lampshaded: "Stay on your side! You can not cross this line!"
- Invoked: "I'm gonna draw a line and you can't cross it!"
- Exploited: Alice wants to relax, so her "side" is her bedroom.
- Defied:
- Alice realizes that she wants to walk around the house as she pleases, even if it means dealing with Bob.
- Jim demolishes the house.
- Bob leaves the house.
- The law very explicitly says that this kind of acts are not allowed, even in the most sadistic of divorces.
- Conversed: "Would this really work in real life?"
- Implied: "I can't go there. Alice says it's on her side."
- Played For Laughs: Bob has a Potty Emergency, but the bathroom is on Alice's side.
- Played For Drama: Alice and Bob destroy all of the things of the other person that are on their respective side, making their mutual hatred burn brighter.
- Played For Horror: Alice enforces this rule with lethal consequences for Bob.
Hey! Stay on your side of the unabridged version!
