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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- Caffeine Bullet Time/Playing With
- The Cake Is a Lie/Playing With
- Caligula's Horse/Playing With
- Calling Card/Playing With
- Calling the Old Man Out/Playing With
- Calling Your Attacks/Playing With
- Came Back Wrong/Playing With
- Camera Screw/Playing With
- Camp Gay/Playing With
- Can You Hear Me Now?/Playing With
- Can't Argue with Elves/Playing With
- Can't Get Away with Nuthin'/Playing With
- Can't Get in Trouble For Nuthin'/Playing With
- Can't Have Sex Ever/Playing With
- Can't Hold His Liquor/Playing With
- Canned Orders Over Loudspeaker/Playing With
- Cannot Spit It Out/Playing With
- Capital Letters Are Magic/Playing With
- Captain Obvious/Playing With
- Captain Patriotic/Playing With
- Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough/Playing With
- Capulet Counterpart/Playing With
- Car Fu/Playing With
- Car Meets House/Playing With
- Card-Carrying Villain/Playing With
- Cardboard Prison/Playing With
- Career-Building Blunder/Playing With
- Cargo Ship/Playing With
- Carpet of Virility/Playing With
- Cartwright Curse/Playing With
- Casanova Wannabe/Playing With
- Cassandra Truth/Playing With
- Cast From Lifespan/Playing With
- Cast Full of Gay/Playing With
- Cast Full of Pretty Boys/Playing With
- Casting Couch/Playing With
- Castle in the Sky/Playing With
- Cat Scare/Playing With
- Catch Phrase/Playing With
- Cats Are Mean/Playing With
- Caught Up in the Rapture/Playing With
- Cavemen vs. Astronauts Debate/Playing With
- Celibate Hero/Playing With
- Cerebus Retcon/Playing With
- Cerebus Syndrome/Playing With
- Chained to a Railway/Playing With
- Chainmail Bikini/Playing With
- The Chains of Commanding/Playing With
- Chainsaw Good/Playing With
- Chalk Outline/Playing With
- Changing of the Guard/Playing With
- Chaotic Stupid/Playing With
- Character Class System/Playing With
- Character Derailment/Playing With
- Character Filibuster/Playing With
- Character Select Forcing/Playing With
- Characterization Marches On/Playing With
- Charles Atlas Superpower/Playing With
- Charm Point/Playing With
- Check Point Starvation/Playing With
- Cheek Copy/Playing With
- Chekhov's Armoury/Playing With
- Chekhov's Classroom/Playing With
- Chekhov's Gun/Playing With
- Chekhov's Gunman/Playing With
- Chekhov's Skill/Playing With
- Chekov's Gun/Playing With
- Cherry Blossoms/Playing With
- Chess with Death/Playing With
- Chest Burster/Playing With
- Chest Monster/Playing With
- The Chick/Playing With
- Chickification/Playing With
- Child Mage/Playing With
- Child Prodigy/Playing With
- Child Soldiers/Playing With
- Childhood Friend Romance/Playing With
- Children Are a Waste/Playing With
- Children Are Innocent/Playing With
- Children in Tow/Playing With
- Children Raise You/Playing With
- Chivalrous Pervert/Playing With
- The Chosen One/Playing With
- Christmas Cake/Playing With
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder/Playing With
- Chronic Hero Syndrome/Playing With
- Chubby Chaser/Playing With
- Church Militant/Playing With
- Cinderella Circumstances/Playing With
- Circumcision Angst/Playing With
- City of Weirdos/Playing With
- Civvie Spandex/Playing With
- Clairvoyant Security Force/Playing With
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe/Playing With
- Clark Kenting/Playing With
- Clean Up the Town/Playing With
- Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends/Playing With
- Cliff Hanger/Playing With
- Climax Boss/Playing With
- Clingy Costume/Playing With
- Cloning Blues/Playing With
- Close-Knit Community/Playing With
- Clothing Damage/Playing With
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder/Playing With
- Cloudcuckoolander/Playing With
- Cluster F-Bomb/Playing With
- Cock Fight/Playing With
- Cold Sniper/Playing With
- Colon Cancer/Playing With
- Colony Drop/Playing With
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience/Playing With
- Color-Coded Patrician/Playing With
- Combat by Champion/Playing With
- Combat Clairvoyance/Playing With
- Combat Medic/Playing With
- Combat Stilettos/Playing With
- Combined Energy Attack/Playing With
- Combining Mecha/Playing With
- Combo-Platter Powers/Playing With
- Come to Gawk/Playing With
- Comedic Sociopathy/Playing With
- Comedy of Remarriage/Playing With
- Comfort Food/Playing With
- Comic Sutra/Playing With
- Comically Missing the Point/Playing With
- Commonplace Rare/Playing With
- Compensating for Something/Playing With
- Competence Zone/Playing With
- Composite Character/Playing With
- Compressed Hair/Playing With
- Compressed Vice/Playing With
- Compulsory School Age/Playing With
- Con Men Hate Guns/Playing With
- Conflict/Playing With
- Conscience Makes You Go Back/Playing With
- Conservation of Ninjutsu/Playing With
- Conspiracy Kitchen Sink/Playing With
- Construct Additional Pylons/Playing With
- Contagious Powers/Playing With
- Continuing Is Painful/Playing With
- Contractual Purity/Playing With
- Controllable Helplessness/Playing With
- Convection, Schmonvection/Playing With
- Convenience Store Gift Shopping/Playing With
- Conveniently an Orphan/Playing With
- Conveniently-Common Kink/Playing With
- Conveyor Belt O' Doom/Playing With
- Cool Motive, Still A Crime/Playing With
- Cool Pet/Playing With
- Cooldown Hug/Playing With
- Cooldown/Playing With
- Copy Cat Sue/Playing With
- Cordon Bleugh Chef/Playing With
- Corrupt Corporate Executive/Playing With
- Cosmetic Award/Playing With
- Cosmic Horror Story/Playing With
- Costume Porn/Playing With
- Couldn't Find a Pen/Playing With
- Counterpart Comparison/Playing With
- Coup De Grace Cutscene/Playing With
- Courtly Love/Playing With
- Cowboy Cop/Playing With
- Crack is Cheaper/Playing With
- Crack Pairing/Playing With
- Cranial Eruption/Playing With
- Crap Saccharine World/Playing With
- Crapsack World/Playing With
- Crash Into Hello/Playing With
- Crate Expectations/Playing With
- Crazy Cat Lady/Playing With
- Crazy Prepared/Playing With
- Creator Breakdown/Playing With
- Creator's Pet/Playing With
- Credit Card Plot/Playing With
- Critical Existence Failure/Playing With
- Cross-Dressing Voices/Playing With
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass/Playing With
- Crowd Song/Playing With
- Cruel Twist Ending/Playing With
- Crush Parade/Playing With
- Crutch Character/Playing With
- Crying Wolf/Playing With
- Crystal Dragon Jesus/Playing With
- Cue the Flying Pigs/Playing With
- Cue the Rain/Playing With
- Cue the Sun/Playing With
- Cultural Posturing/Playing With
- Curb Stomp Battle/Playing With
- Cure Your Gays/Playing With
- Curse Cut Short/Playing With
- Cursed with Awesome/Playing With
- Curtains Match the Window/Playing With
- Cut and Paste Suburb/Playing With
- Cut Himself Shaving/Playing With
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check/Playing With
- Cute and Psycho/Playing With
- Cute Bruiser/Playing With
- Cuteness Overload/Playing With
- Cutscene Boss/Playing With
- Cutscene Incompetence/Playing With