Keep-Away/Playing With

Basic Trope: A group of characters try to prevent another character from obtaining an artifact by tossing it from one to another.
 * Straight: Bob and Alice toss a doomsday device to each other away from Emperor Evulz.
 * Exaggerated: Every hero tries to keep the doomsday device from Emperor Evulz.
 * Downplayed: Alice holds up the doomsday device high over her head where Emperor Evulz can't reach.
 * Justified: The heroes know that it will be bad if Emperor Evulz gets a hold of the doomsday device, and thus decide to work together to keep it away from him.
 * Inverted: Hot Potato
 * Subverted: Bob and Alice start to play keep away from Emperor Evulz, but hand it to him after being threatened
 * Double Subverted: But the doomsday device they handed him was a fake.
 * Parodied: The heroes and villains act like school children at a playground.
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: ???
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: Carol knew Bob and Alice will do it with her toy again, and shake it. But Carol can be mean too, so now they both got bugs crawling over them.
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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