Category:Playing With
Welcome to the category for Playing with a Trope.
What is 'Playing With' a trope? Showing what the trope would look like under the usual transformations. The usual transformations are listed in detail on the Playing with a Trope page. They are things like subverted, inverted, enforced, exaggerated, and so on.
In the pages found in this category, examples are generic, rather than specific to any given show or series. For example, for The Power of Love trope:
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Valid: Double Subverted: The heroine's love for the hero fails to prevent his death, but as she's led away in despair, she is rescued by a reincarnated hero. |
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Here some are some sort-of rules for playing with tropes
- Please make sure you've studied and memorized the trope definition and are 100% sure that it is what you think it is. Nothing ruins a Playing With page faster than shoehorning Square Peg, Round Trope examples into places the basic trope doesn't support.
- When creating a Playing With page for a trope, link to the trope being played with, but not the transformation you are working on. We don't need a zillion links to "Subverted Trope", or the other Trope Tropes.
- Go ahead and list as many transformations as you can. If you can't think up a good example, go ahead and leave an entry blank. The Wiki Magic will bring examples.
- If a trope's subversion, inversion (etc.) is distinct enough to be a separate page on its own, just naming and linking to the separate page is fine.
- A template is conveniently provided at Playing With Subpage, available on the boilerplate dropdown when creating a new page. Using it will make the pages consistently formatted.
- Start by creating your new page by going to the trope and clicking on "Playing With" under the Create New menu
- If you are unfamiliar with the various transformations, this page gives a nice short description of the standard expanded set, as does the Playing with a Trope page.
- Alice and Bob and their friends are always happy to appear in your examples.
Some common misunderstandings, and things to keep in mind
- The "Basic Trope" entry provided in the template above should only be a simple one sentence description of the trope. No excessive cleverness needed. Save the cleverness for the actual entries.
- Make sure you know what each transformation means and don't get them confused with each other:
- "Conversed" does not mean "Discussed" -- conversed means talking about a trope in another work, and discussed means having a character explicitly discuss the trope in Genre Savvy way in a situation in which it would normally appear.
- "Exaggerated" and "Parodied" are not the same, despite the overlap. It helps get the point across better if your exaggerated examples are not also parodies, and your parodies are not also exaggerated. Having your parody example be "see Exaggerated" is right out.
- "Parodied" is when the trope or parts of the trope are directly mocked or spoofed for explicit humour value.
- "Exaggerated" is an extreme or over-the-top manifestation of the trope, but may still be played straight or taken entirely seriously.
- "Lampshaded" and "Discussed" are separate things. A Lampshade Hanging is when the trope is used, and the characters point it out. Discussed Trope is when the characters talk about a trope which might apply to their situation, even if it doesn't actually occur.
- "Invoked" vs. "Exploited": An Exploited Trope is when a Genre Savvy character can predict that the trope will be in effect and adjusts his behavior accordingly. An Invoked Trope is when the character is even more pro-active and deliberately goes out of his way to set up the situation for the trope to occur.
- "Averted" vs. "Subverted" vs. "Downplayed": Keep in mind to avoid confusion, tropes are Averted when they don't occur at all; the trope is absent from the work completely. Subversions occur only when the audience is made to believe in advance that a trope will happen, but then it doesn't actually happen at all. For a trope to be Downplayed means it does occur, but to less of an extent than usual, regardless of the setup. Aversions and downplayings are not subversions of the trope.
- "Justified" is specifically defined as IN-UNIVERSE. That means the writers made a reason for the trope to occur in the setting. Not that meta-reasons make it a good choice to make it happen. If the writers do something because of outside influence that's usually "Enforced". Remember that Tropes Are Tools, and a Justification isn't necessarily good.
Pages in category "Playing With"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 2,824 total.
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- A Bloody Mess/Playing With
- A Boy and His X/Playing With
- A Darker Me/Playing With
- A Date with Rosie Palms/Playing With
- A Day in Her Apron/Playing With
- A Death in the Limelight/Playing With
- A Dog Ate My Homework/Playing With
- A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted/Playing With
- A Hell of a Time/Playing With
- A Lady on Each Arm/Playing With
- A Man Is Not a Virgin/Playing With
- A Million Is a Statistic/Playing With
- A Party - Also Known as an Orgy/Playing With
- A Real Man Is a Killer/Playing With
- A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside An Enigma/Playing With
- A Taste of Power/Playing With
- A Year and a Day/Playing With
- A-Cup Angst/Playing With
- A-Team Firing/Playing With
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot/Playing With
- Abduction Is Love/Playing With
- Abnormal Ammo/Playing With
- Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder/Playing With
- Absent Aliens/Playing With
- Absolute Cleavage/Playing With
- Absurd Altitude/Playing With
- Absurdly High Level Cap/Playing With
- Absurdly Powerful Student Council/Playing With
- Absurdly Sharp Blade/Playing With
- Abuse Mistake/Playing With
- Abusive Parents/Playing With
- Academy of Adventure/Playing With
- Acceptable Feminine Goals/Playing With
- Accidental Art/Playing With
- Accidental Athlete/Playing With
- Accidental Hero/Playing With
- Accidental Marriage/Playing With
- Accidental Pervert/Playing With
- Accidental Truth/Playing With
- The Ace/Playing With
- Achievements in Ignorance/Playing With
- Acid Reflux Nightmare/Playing With
- Acrofatic/Playing With
- Acrophobic Bird/Playing With
- Acting Unnatural/Playing With
- Action Dress Rip/Playing With
- Action Girl/Playing With
- Action Survivor/Playing With
- Actor Allusion/Playing With
- Actual Pacifist/Playing With
- Adam and Eve Plot/Playing With
- Adam Smith Hates Your Guts/Playing With
- Adaptational Villainy/Playing With
- Adipose Rex/Playing With
- Adminisphere/Playing With
- Admiring the Abomination/Playing With
- Adorably Precocious Child/Playing With
- Adored by the Network/Playing With
- Adults Are Useless/Playing With
- Adventure Rebuff/Playing With
- Aerith and Bob/Playing With
- Aesop Amnesia/Playing With
- An Aesop/Playing With
- Affably Evil/Playing With
- Affair Hair/Playing With
- Affirmative Action Girl/Playing With
- After-Action Patchup/Playing With
- Against My Religion/Playing With
- Agent Peacock/Playing With
- The Aggressive Drug Dealer/Playing With
- Aggressive Negotiations/Playing With
- Air Vent Passageway/Playing With
- Alas, Poor Scrappy/Playing With
- Alas, Poor Villain/Playing With
- Alien Blood/Playing With
- Alien Catnip/Playing With
- Aliens in Cardiff/Playing With
- Aliens Never Invented the Wheel/Playing With
- Aliens Speaking English/Playing With
- All Amazons Want Hercules/Playing With
- All Animals Are Dogs/Playing With
- All Animals Are Domesticated/Playing With
- All Asians Are Alike/Playing With
- All Crimes Are Equal/Playing With
- All Gays Are Promiscuous/Playing With
- All Germans Are Nazis/Playing With
- All Girls Want Bad Boys/Playing With
- All Guys Want Cheerleaders/Playing With
- All Just a Dream/Playing With
- All Lesbians Want Kids/Playing With
- All Men Are Perverts/Playing With
- All Monks Know Kung Fu/Playing With
- All of the Other Reindeer/Playing With
- All Part of the Show/Playing With
- All Planets Are Earthlike/Playing With
- All Psychology Is Freudian/Playing With
- All There in the Manual/Playing With
- All Women Are Lustful/Playing With
- All Women Are Prudes/Playing With
- All Women Love Shoes/Playing With
- All Your Powers Combined/Playing With
- The Alleged Car/Playing With
- Allergic to Evil/Playing With
- Almighty Janitor/Playing With
- Almost Kiss/Playing With
- Alpha Bitch/Playing With
- Already Done for You/Playing With
- Already Undone for You/Playing With
- Always Close/Playing With
- Always Lawful Good/Playing With
- Always Save the Girl/Playing With
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife/Playing With
- Amazing Technicolor World/Playing With
- Amazon Brigade/Playing With
- Amazonian Beauty/Playing With
- Ambiguously Evil/Playing With
- Ambition Is Evil/Playing With
- Ambulance Cut/Playing With
- American Kirby Is Hardcore/Playing With
- Amnesiac Dissonance/Playing With
- Amusing Alien/Playing With
- Amusing Injuries/Playing With
- An Ice Person/Playing With
- Anachronism Stew/Playing With
- Anarchy Is Chaos/Playing With
- Ancient Conspiracy/Playing With
- Ancient Tradition/Playing With
- And I Must Scream/Playing With
- And Man Grew Proud/Playing With
- And Now for Someone Completely Different/Playing With
- And That's Terrible/Playing With
- And the Adventure Continues.../Playing With
- And Then John Was a Zombie/Playing With
- And There Was Much Rejoicing/Playing With
- Angry Black Man/Playing With
- Angst? What Angst?/Playing With
- Animal Assassin/Playing With
- Animal Athlete Loophole/Playing With
- Animal Cruelty is Just Wrong/Playing With
- Animal Gender Bender/Playing With
- Animal Jingoism/Playing With
- Animal Reaction Shot/Playing With
- Animal Superheroes/Playing With
- Animal Wrongs Group/Playing With
- Animated Armor/Playing With
- Anime Hair/Playing With
- Animorphism/Playing With
- Annoying Arrows/Playing With
- Annoying Younger Sibling/Playing With
- Antagonist in Mourning/Playing With
- Anti-Anti-Christ/Playing With
- Anti-Hero Substitute/Playing With
- Anti-Hero/Playing With
- Anti-Sue/Playing With
- Anti-Villain/Playing With
- Anxiety Dreams/Playing With
- Anyone Can Die/Playing With
- Anything That Moves/Playing With
- Apathetic Citizens/Playing With
- Apocalypse Maiden/Playing With
- Apocalyptic Log/Playing With
- Appeal to Authority/Playing With
- Appeal to Force/Playing With
- Appeal to Tradition/Playing With
- Appeal to Wealth/Playing With
- Appeal to Worse Problems/Playing With
- Appliance Defenestration/Playing With
- Arab Oil Sheikh/Playing With
- Arbitrary Headcount Limit/Playing With
- Arbitrary Skepticism/Playing With
- Arc Words/Playing With
- Arcadia/Playing With
- Are We Getting This?/Playing With
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?/Playing With
- Armed Legs/Playing With
- Armor Is Useless/Playing With
- Armor Piercing/Playing With
- Armor-Piercing Attack/Playing With
- Armor-Piercing Slap/Playing With
- Armoured Closet Gay/Playing With
- Arranged Marriage/Playing With
- Arrogant Kung Fu Guy/Playing With
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking/Playing With
- Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving/Playing With
- Art Evolution/Playing With
- Artifact of Death/Playing With
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence/Playing With
- Ascended Extra/Playing With
- Ascended Glitch/Playing With
- Asian Airhead/Playing With
- Asian and Nerdy/Playing With
- Asian Gal with White Guy/Playing With
- Ass in Ambassador/Playing With
- Assassin Outclassin'/Playing With
- Asshole Victim/Playing With
- Assimilation Plot/Playing With