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:
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. |
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 2,828 total.
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- Hopeless Boss Fight/Playing With
- Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday/Playing With
- Hostage for Macguffin/Playing With
- Hot Amazon/Playing With
- Hot Scientist/Playing With
- Hot-Blooded/Playing With
- House Husband/Playing With
- How Do I Shot Web?/Playing With
- HP to One/Playing With
- Hufflepuff House/Playing With
- Hulk Speak/Playing With
- Humanity Ensues/Playing With
- Humanity Is Infectious/Playing With
- Humans Are the Real Monsters/Playing With
- Humans Are Warriors/Playing With
- Humans Are White/Playing With
- Humiliation Conga/Playing With
- Humongous Mecha/Playing With
- Hunk/Playing With
- Husky Russkie/Playing With
- Hyperactive Metabolism/Playing With
- Hyperspace Arsenal/Playing With
- Hypnotize the Princess/Playing With
- Hypocritical Heartwarming/Playing With
- Hysterical Woman/Playing With
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- I Am Not Left-Handed/Playing With
- I Am Not Spock/Playing With
- I Ate What?/Playing With
- I Call Him "Mister Happy"/Playing With
- I Call It "Vera"/Playing With
- I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me/Playing With
- I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!/Playing With
- I Cannot Self-Terminate/Playing With
- I Coulda Been a Contender/Playing With
- I Don't Know Mortal Kombat/Playing With
- I Hate Past Me/Playing With
- I Hate You, Vampire Dad/Playing With
- I Have to Wash My Hair/Playing With
- I Have You Now, My Pretty/Playing With
- I Just Shot Marvin in the Face/Playing With
- I Just Want to Be Special/Playing With
- I Just Want to Have Friends/Playing With
- I Kiss Your Foot/Playing With
- I Know Madden Kombat/Playing With
- I Know Mortal Kombat/Playing With
- I Let You Win/Playing With
- I Love Nuclear Power/Playing With
- I Love You Because I Can't Control You/Playing With
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog/Playing With
- I Never Said It Was Poison/Playing With
- I Thought That Was/Playing With
- I Want Grandkids/Playing With
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy/Playing With
- I Was Beaten by a Girl/Playing With
- I Was Told There Would Be Cake/Playing With
- I Will Protect Her/Playing With
- I Will Wait for You/Playing With
- I Work Alone/Playing With
- I'm Mr. Future Pop Culture Reference/Playing With
- I'm Not a Hero, I'm X/Playing With
- I'm Not Angry/Playing With
- Idea Bulb/Playing With
- Identity Amnesia/Playing With
- Identity Impersonator/Playing With
- Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels/Playing With
- Idiot Ball/Playing With
- Idiot Hero/Playing With
- Idiot Plot/Playing With
- If I Can't Have You/Playing With
- If I Wanted You Dead.../Playing With
- If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You/Playing With
- If It's You It's Okay/Playing With
- If Jesus, Then Aliens/Playing With
- If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her.../Playing With
- If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him/Playing With
- If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten/Playing With
- Ignored Epiphany/Playing With
- IKEA Erotica/Playing With
- Ill Girl/Playing With
- Imaginary Friend/Playing With
- Immortality Immorality/Playing With
- Immune to Bullets/Playing With
- Immune to Fate/Playing With
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy/Playing With
- Implausible Deniability/Playing With
- Implied Love Interest/Playing With
- Important Haircut/Playing With
- Impossible Item Drop/Playing With
- Impossibly Compact Folding/Playing With
- Impossibly Delicious Food/Playing With
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes/Playing With
- Impoverished Patrician/Playing With
- Improbable Age/Playing With
- Improbable Food Budget/Playing With
- Improbable Use of a Weapon/Playing With
- Improbable Weapon User/Playing With
- In a Single Bound/Playing With
- In Mysterious Ways/Playing With
- In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You/Playing With
- In Spite of a Nail/Playing With
- In the Blood/Playing With
- In the End You Are on Your Own/Playing With
- In the Local Tongue/Playing With
- Inaction Sequence/Playing With
- Incendiary Exponent/Playing With
- Incompatible Orientation/Playing With
- Inconvenient Summons/Playing With
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness/Playing With
- Incredible Shrinking Man/Playing With
- Incredibly Obvious Bug/Playing With
- Indecipherable Lyrics/Playing With
- Indo-European Alien Language/Playing With
- Ineffectual Death Threats/Playing With
- Infant Immortality/Playing With
- Infinity+1 Sword/Playing With
- Informed Ability/Playing With
- Informed Attractiveness/Playing With
- Informed Equipment/Playing With
- Informed Loner/Playing With
- Infraction Distraction/Playing With
- Inn Security/Playing With
- Innocent Fanservice Girl/Playing With
- Innocent Flower Girl/Playing With
- Insignificant Little Blue Planet/Playing With
- Inspector Javert/Playing With
- Inspector Lestrade/Playing With
- Instant 180-Degree Turn/Playing With
- Instant Birth, Just Add Water/Playing With
- Instant Death Bullet/Playing With
- Instant Emergency Response/Playing With
- Instant Win Condition/Playing With
- Insufferable Genius/Playing With
- Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence/Playing With
- Intelligence Equals Isolation/Playing With
- Intelligent Gerbil/Playing With
- Internet Tough Guy/Playing With
- Interrogation by Vandalism/Playing With
- Interservice Rivalry/Playing With
- Interspecies Romance/Playing With
- Intrepid Reporter/Playing With
- Invaded States of America/Playing With
- Invisible Streaker/Playing With
- Invisible to Gaydar/Playing With
- Iron Butt Monkey/Playing With
- Ironic Birthday/Playing With
- It Always Rains At Funerals/Playing With
- It Came From the Fridge/Playing With
- It Gets Easier/Playing With
- It Never Gets Any Easier/Playing With
- It Only Works Once/Playing With
- It Was a Gift/Playing With
- It's a Costume Party, I Swear/Playing With
- It's a Wonderful Failure/Playing With
- It's All About Me/Playing With
- It's All Upstairs From Here/Playing With
- It's for a Book/Playing With
- It's Not You, It's My Enemies/Playing With
- It's Probably Nothing/Playing With
- Item number/Playing With
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- Jabba Table Manners/Playing With
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique/Playing With
- Jade-Colored Glasses/Playing With
- Jekyll and Hyde/Playing With
- Jerk Jock/Playing With
- Jerk Sue/Playing With
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold/Playing With
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk/Playing With
- Jerkass Facade/Playing With
- Jerkass Has a Point/Playing With
- Jerkass Woobie/Playing With
- Jerkass/Playing With
- Jesus Was Way Cool/Playing With
- Jewish Mother/Playing With
- Joker Immunity/Playing With
- Jumping the Shark/Playing With
- Junk Rare/Playing With
- Junkie Prophet/Playing With
- Jurisdiction Friction/Playing With
- Just a Kid/Playing With
- Just Friends/Playing With
- Just Hit Him/Playing With
- Just You and Me and My Guards/Playing With
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- Kaleidoscope Eyes/Playing With
- Kaleidoscope Hair/Playing With
- Kangaroo Court/Playing With
- Karma Houdini/Playing With
- Katanas Are Just Better/Playing With
- Kavorka Man/Playing With
- Kawaiiko/Playing With
- Kayfabe/Playing With
- Keep the Reward/Playing With
- Keep-Away/Playing With
- Keet/Playing With
- Kick the Dog/Playing With
- Kick Them While They Are Down/Playing With
- Kid Detective/Playing With
- Kid From the Future/Playing With
- Kid Sidekick/Playing With
- Kids Prefer Boxes/Playing With
- Kill Steal/Playing With