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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- Kill the Poor/Playing With
- Kill'Em All/Playing With
- Killed Mid-Sentence/Playing With
- Killer Game Master/Playing With
- Killer Rabbit/Playing With
- Kimono Is Traditional/Playing With
- Kind Restraints/Playing With
- Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better/Playing With
- Kiss of the Vampire/Playing With
- Klatchian Coffee/Playing With
- Kleptomaniac Hero/Playing With
- Kneel Before Zod/Playing With
- Knight in Sour Armor/Playing With
- Knight of Cerebus/Playing With
- Knight Templar Big Brother/Playing With
- Knight Templar/Playing With
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All/Playing With
- Knuckle-Cracking/Playing With
- Kryptonite Is Everywhere/Playing With
- Kung Fu Wizard/Playing With
- Kuudere/Playing With
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- La Résistance/Playing With
- Lady Land/Playing With
- Lady of War/Playing With
- Lampshade-Wearing/Playing With
- Language Equals Thought/Playing With
- Large and In Charge/Playing With
- Large Ham Title/Playing With
- Last Chance Hit Point/Playing With
- Last Grasp at Life/Playing With
- Last-Second Word Swap/Playing With
- Latex Space Suit/Playing With
- Laugh Track/Playing With
- Laughing Mad/Playing With
- Law of Inverse Fertility/Playing With
- Lawful Stupid/Playing With
- Lazy Backup/Playing With
- Lean and Mean/Playing With
- Leeroy Jenkins/Playing With
- LEGO Genetics/Playing With
- Lemon Stu/Playing With
- Lemon/Playing With
- Leonine Contract/Playing With
- Les Collaborateurs/Playing With
- Lesbian Vampire/Playing With
- Let's You and Him Fight/Playing With
- Lethal Chef/Playing With
- Lethal Joke Character/Playing With
- Level Up At Intimacy 5/Playing With
- Level-Locked Loot/Playing With
- Life Drain/Playing With
- Life Energy/Playing With
- Life or Limb Decision/Playing With
- Light Is Good/Playing With
- Light Is Not Good/Playing With
- Light'Em Up/Playing With
- Lighter and Softer/Playing With
- Lightning Bruiser/Playing With
- Lightswitch Surprise/Playing With
- Like You Were Dying/Playing With
- Likes Older Women/Playing With
- Limited Wardrobe/Playing With
- Line-of-Sight Name/Playing With
- Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards/Playing With
- Lions and Tigers and Humans, Oh My!/Playing With
- Lipstick Lesbian/Playing With
- Literal Cliff Hanger/Playing With
- Literal Genie/Playing With
- Literal-Minded/Playing With
- Little Miss Almighty/Playing With
- Little Miss Badass/Playing With
- Living Forever Is Awesome/Playing With
- Living Lie Detector/Playing With
- Living Weapon/Playing With
- Load-Bearing Boss/Playing With
- Locked Out of the Loop/Playing With
- Lolicon/Playing With
- Lonely at the Top/Playing With
- Lonely Rich Kid/Playing With
- Lonely Together/Playing With
- Loners Are Freaks/Playing With
- Long-Distance Relationship/Playing With
- Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places/Playing With
- Loser Son of Loser Dad/Playing With
- Losing the Team Spirit/Playing With
- Losing Your Head/Playing With
- Lost Him in a Card Game/Playing With
- Lost in Character/Playing With
- Lottery of Doom/Playing With
- Lotus Eater Machine/Playing With
- Loud of War/Playing With
- Louis Cypher/Playing With
- Lovable Alpha Bitch/Playing With
- Lovable Libby/Playing With
- Lovable Rogue/Playing With
- Love At First Sight/Playing With
- Love Goddess/Playing With
- Love Martyr/Playing With
- Love Triangle/Playing With
- Lovecraft Lite/Playing With
- Loves My Alter Ego/Playing With
- Lower Deck Episode/Playing With
- Lowest Common Denominator/Playing With
- Lowest Cosmic Denominator/Playing With
- Luke, I Am Your Father/Playing With
- Luxury Prison Suite/Playing With
- Lysistrata Gambit/Playing With
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- MacGuffin/Playing With
- Machiavelli Was Wrong/Playing With
- Machine Empathy/Playing With
- Mad Oracle/Playing With
- Mad Scientist/Playing With
- Made a Slave/Playing With
- Made of Evil/Playing With
- Made of Explodium/Playing With
- Made of Iron/Playing With
- Made of Plasticine/Playing With
- Magic A Is Magic A/Playing With
- Magic Ampersand/Playing With
- Magic by Any Other Name/Playing With
- Magic Countdown/Playing With
- Magic Feather/Playing With
- Magic Music/Playing With
- Magic Pants/Playing With
- Magic Skirt/Playing With
- Magical Girl Warrior/Playing With
- Magical Girlfriend/Playing With
- Magical Negro/Playing With
- Magikarp Power/Playing With
- Magnetic Girlfriend/Playing With
- Magnetic Hero/Playing With
- The Magnificent Seven Samurai/Playing With
- Mail Order Bride/Playing With
- Major Injury Underreaction/Playing With
- Make Me Wanna Shout/Playing With
- Make My Monster Grow/Playing With
- Make the Dog Testify/Playing With
- Making a Splash/Playing With
- Making Love in All the Wrong Places/Playing With
- Male Gaze/Playing With
- Malicious Slander/Playing With
- Maligned Mixed Marriage/Playing With
- Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal/Playing With
- Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe/Playing With
- Man Child/Playing With
- Man in the Iron Mask/Playing With
- Man, I Feel Like a Woman/Playing With
- Mandatory Motherhood/Playing With
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl/Playing With
- Manipulative Editing/Playing With
- Manly Tears/Playing With
- Marathon Boss/Playing With
- Marijuana Is LSD/Playing With
- Marriage to a God/Playing With
- Mars Needs Women/Playing With
- Martial Arts Uniform/Playing With
- Mary Sue/Playing With
- Mary Suetopia/Playing With
- Mary Tzu/Playing With
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy/Playing With
- Masquerade/Playing With
- Mass Super-Empowering Event/Playing With
- Mating Dance/Playing With
- Matryoshka Object/Playing With
- Matter of Life and Death/Playing With
- Mauve Shirt/Playing With
- May Contain Evil/Playing With
- May-December Romance/Playing With
- McNinja/Playing With
- Mean Character, Nice Actor/Playing With
- Meaningful Name/Playing With
- Medals for Everyone/Playing With
- The Medic/Playing With
- Medieval Stasis/Playing With
- Meekness Is Weakness/Playing With
- Meganekko/Playing With
- Melee à Trois/Playing With
- Memento MacGuffin/Playing With
- Memory Gambit/Playing With
- Men Are Uncultured/Playing With
- Men Don't Cry/Playing With
- Menstrual Menace/Playing With
- Mentor Occupational Hazard/Playing With
- Mermaid Problem/Playing With
- Metaphorically True/Playing With
- Mexican Standoff/Playing With
- Mickey Mousing/Playing With
- Middle Child Syndrome/Playing With
- Mighty Glacier/Playing With
- Mighty Whitey/Playing With
- Miko/Playing With
- Mildly Military/Playing With
- Miles Gloriosus/Playing With
- Military Mashup Machine/Playing With
- Milking the Giant Cow/Playing With
- Mind Screw/Playing With
- Mini Boss/Playing With
- Minor Flaw, Major Breakup/Playing With
- Minor Injury Overreaction/Playing With
- Mirror Match/Playing With