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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- Gainax Ending/Playing With
- Game-Favored Gender/Playing With
- Gameplay Ally Immortality/Playing With
- Garbage Post Kid/Playing With
- Gargle Blaster/Playing With
- Gas Mask Mooks/Playing With
- Gatling Good/Playing With
- Gay Groom in a White Tux/Playing With
- Gay Moment/Playing With
- Gayborhood/Playing With
- Gayngst/Playing With
- Gender Bender Friendship/Playing With
- Gender Bender/Playing With
- Gender Blender Name/Playing With
- Gender Equal Ensemble/Playing With
- Gender Equals Breed/Playing With
- Gender-Restricted Ability/Playing With
- Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique/Playing With
- General Failure/Playing With
- General Ripper/Playing With
- Generation Xerox/Playing With
- Generic Doomsday Villain/Playing With
- Genius Bruiser/Playing With
- Genius Ditz/Playing With
- Genius Loci/Playing With
- Genki Girl/Playing With
- Genocide Backfire/Playing With
- Genocide Dilemma/Playing With
- Genre Blindness/Playing With
- Genre Savvy/Playing With
- George Jetson Job Security/Playing With
- Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!/Playing With
- Get Back in the Closet/Playing With
- Get It Over With/Playing With
- Getting Crap Past the Radar/Playing With
- Ghibli Hills/Playing With
- Ghost Shipping/Playing With
- Ghostapo/Playing With
- Giant Space Flea From Nowhere/Playing With
- GIFT/Playing With
- Gigantic Gulp/Playing With
- Gilligan Cut/Playing With
- Girl Posse/Playing With
- Girl with Psycho Weapon/Playing With
- Girl-On-Girl Is Hot/Playing With
- GIRL/Playing With
- Girlfriend in Canada/Playing With
- Girls Behind Bars/Playing With
- Girls Need Role Models/Playing With
- Give Away the Bride/Playing With
- Give Me a Sword/Playing With
- Give Me Your Inventory Item/Playing With
- Glacier Waif/Playing With
- Glad I Thought of It/Playing With
- "Glad to Be Alive" Sex/Playing With
- Glamour Failure/Playing With
- Glass Cannon/Playing With
- Global Currency/Playing With
- Glorified Sperm Donor/Playing With
- Glowing Eyes of Doom/Playing With
- Go Out with a Smile/Playing With
- Go-Go Enslavement/Playing With
- A God Am I/Playing With
- God and Satan Are Both Jerks/Playing With
- God Is Evil/Playing With
- God of Good/Playing With
- God Save Us From the Queen/Playing With
- God-Emperor/Playing With
- Gods Need Prayer Badly/Playing With
- Godwin's Law/Playing With
- Goggles Do Nothing/Playing With
- Going by the Matchbook/Playing With
- Going Native/Playing With
- Going to See the Elephant/Playing With
- Goldfish Poop Gang/Playing With
- Gone Horribly Right/Playing With
- Good Angel, Bad Angel/Playing With
- Good Cop, Bad Cop/Playing With
- Good Guy Bar/Playing With
- Good Is Not Nice/Playing With
- Good Is Not Soft/Playing With
- Good Old Ways/Playing With
- Good People Have Good Sex/Playing With
- Good Thing You Can Heal/Playing With
- Good Versus Good/Playing With
- Gosh Dang It to Heck/Playing With
- Got Volunteered/Playing With
- Gotta Kill Them All/Playing With
- Government Drug Enforcement/Playing With
- Grail in the Garbage/Playing With
- Granola Girl/Playing With
- Gravity Is Only a Theory/Playing With
- Gray Rain of Depression/Playing With
- Green Aesop/Playing With
- Green Rocks/Playing With
- Green Thumb/Playing With
- Green-Eyed Epiphany/Playing With
- Grievous Harm with a Body/Playing With
- Groin Attack/Playing With
- Growing the Beard/Playing With
- Grows on Trees/Playing With
- Guest Star Party Member/Playing With
- Guide Dang It/Playing With
- Guilt-Based Gaming/Playing With
- Guns Akimbo/Playing With
- Guns Are Worthless/Playing With
- Guys Are Slobs/Playing With
- Gypsy Curse/Playing With
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- Hacker Cave/Playing With
- Hair of Gold/Playing With
- Hair-Trigger Temper/Playing With
- Halfway Plot Switch/Playing With
- Hand or Object Underwear/Playing With
- Handicapped Badass/Playing With
- Hands Off My Fluffy/Playing With
- Hanging Judge/Playing With
- Hannibal Lecture/Playing With
- Hard Work Hardly Works/Playing With
- Harmless Freezing/Playing With
- Harmless Villain/Playing With
- Has Two Mommies/Playing With
- Hassle-Free Hotwire/Playing With
- Hates Small Talk/Playing With
- Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?/Playing With
- He Didn't Make It/Playing With
- He Who Fights Monsters/Playing With
- He Will Not Cry, So I Cry for Him/Playing With
- Head Desk/Playing With
- Headbutting Heroes/Playing With
- Healing Factor/Playing With
- Healing Potion/Playing With
- Healing Shiv/Playing With
- Heartwarming Moments/Playing With
- Heavily Armored Mook/Playing With
- Heavy Voice/Playing With
- Heel Face Revolving Door/Playing With
- Heel Face Turn/Playing With
- Heel Faith Turn/Playing With
- Heel Realization/Playing With
- Heir Club for Men/Playing With
- Hell of a Heaven/Playing With
- Her Child, but Not His/Playing With
- Hereditary Hairstyle/Playing With
- Hero Antagonist/Playing With
- Hero Stole My Bike/Playing With
- Hero with Bad Publicity/Playing With
- Hero-Killer/Playing With
- Heroes Prefer Swords/Playing With
- Heroes Want Redheads/Playing With
- Heroic Bastard/Playing With
- Heroic BSOD/Playing With
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath/Playing With
- Heroic Host/Playing With
- Heroic Mime/Playing With
- Heroic Resolve/Playing With
- Heroic RROD/Playing With
- Heroic Sacrifice/Playing With
- Heroic Second Wind/Playing With
- Heroic Self-Deprecation/Playing With
- Heroic Team Revolt/Playing With
- Heroic Vow/Playing With
- Heroic Willpower/Playing With
- Hesitation Equals Dishonesty/Playing With
- Het Is Ew/Playing With
- Heteronormative Crusader/Playing With
- Heterosexual Life Partners/Playing With
- Hidden Depths/Playing With
- Hidden Elf Village/Playing With
- Hiding Behind the Language Barrier/Playing With
- High Altitude Interrogation/Playing With
- High Heel Face Turn/Playing With
- High-Class Call Girl/Playing With
- High-Class Glass/Playing With
- High-Pressure Blood/Playing With
- Highly-Conspicuous Uniform/Playing With
- Highly-Visible Ninja/Playing With
- Hint Dropping/Playing With
- His and Hers/Playing With
- Historical Hero Upgrade/Playing With
- Historical Villain Upgrade/Playing With
- Ho Yay/Playing With
- Hoist by His Own Petard/Playing With
- Hoist Hero Over Head/Playing With
- Hold Your Hippogriffs/Playing With
- Hollywood Atheist/Playing With
- Hollywood Genetics/Playing With
- Hollywood Hacking/Playing With
- Hollywood Homely/Playing With
- Hollywood Pudgy/Playing With
- Hollywood Silencer/Playing With
- Home, Sweet Home/Playing With
- Homosexual Reproduction/Playing With
- Honor Before Reason/Playing With
- Honor-Related Abuse/Playing With
- Honorable Elephant/Playing With
- Honorable Marriage Proposal/Playing With
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold/Playing With
- Hookers and Blow/Playing With
- Hope Is Scary/Playing With
- Hope Spot/Playing With