Author Appeal/Playing With

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Basic Trope: An author tends to insert various quirks in his work.

  • Straight: Bob, the creator of Amazing Girl, Alice and Bob, and Legends of Tropealia, always inserts a scantily clad woman in the aforementioned works.
  • Exaggerated: Everything created by Bob has a scantily clad woman in it somewhere.
  • Downplayed: Bob's work occasionally features a woman with a revealing outfit, but not very often.
  • Justified: Bob likes scantily clad women and believes others will too.
  • Inverted: Bob outright refuses to put a scantily clad woman in any of his work, despite his own interest in that sort of thing.
  • Subverted: Fans of Bob's work are surprised to find that Tales of Tropeville has no scantily clad women at all.
  • Double Subverted: But one shows up in the series finale as a Mythology Gag.
  • Parodied:
    • Bob includes a chicken in every scene of everything he makes.
    • Bob puts a banana in every work of his.
  • Zig Zagged: Bob's work alternately do or do not include scantily clad women.
  • Averted: Bob doesn't have any recognizable quirks in his portfolio.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "Another nearly naked lady?! What's wrong with this guy?"
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ??
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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