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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- Enfant Terrible/Playing With
- Ensemble Darkhorse/Playing With
- Entitled Bastard/Playing With
- Epic Race/Playing With
- Equal Opportunity Evil/Playing With
- Equippable Ally/Playing With
- Ermine Cape Effect/Playing With
- Erotic Eating/Playing With
- Escapist Character/Playing With
- Eternal Engine/Playing With
- Ethical Slut/Playing With
- Ethnic Scrappy/Playing With
- Eureka Moment/Playing With
- Even Evil Has Standards/Playing With
- Even the Dog Is Ashamed/Playing With
- Every Car Is a Pinto/Playing With
- Every Car Is Rear Wheel Drive/Playing With
- Everybody Hates Hades/Playing With
- Everybody Hates Mathematics/Playing With
- Everybody Remembers the Stripper/Playing With
- Everybody's Dead, Dave/Playing With
- Everyone Can See It/Playing With
- Everyone Is Armed/Playing With
- Everything Sounds Sexier in French/Playing With
- Everything Trying to Kill You/Playing With
- Everything's Better with Bob/Playing With
- Everything's Better with Monkeys/Playing With
- Everything's Better with Penguins/Playing With
- Everything's Better with Princesses/Playing With
- Evil Brit/Playing With
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good/Playing With
- Evil Chancellor/Playing With
- Evil Costume Switch/Playing With
- Evil Counterpart/Playing With
- Evil Genius (video game)/Playing With
- Evil Is Cool/Playing With
- Evil Is Petty/Playing With
- Evil Is Sexy/Playing With
- Evil Laugh/Playing With
- Evil Luddite/Playing With
- Evil Makes You Ugly/Playing With
- Evil Matriarch/Playing With
- Evil Overlord/Playing With
- Evil Power Vacuum/Playing With
- Evil Smells Bad/Playing With
- Evil Sounds Deep/Playing With
- Evil Tastes Good/Playing With
- Evil Twin/Playing With
- Evil-Detecting Dog/Playing With
- Exactly What I Aimed At/Playing With
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin/Playing With
- Excalibur in the Rust/Playing With
- Excited Show Title!/Playing With
- Exclusively Evil/Playing With
- Exiled to the Couch/Playing With
- Expanded States of America/Playing With
- Expansion Pack Past/Playing With
- Expectation Lowerer/Playing With
- Exploding Barrels/Playing With
- Exploding Calendar/Playing With
- Exploding Closet/Playing With
- Expose the Villain, Get His Job/Playing With
- Exposition Diagram/Playing With
- Exposition Fairy/Playing With
- Exposition of Immortality/Playing With
- Express Delivery/Playing With
- Expressive Hair/Playing With
- Expressive Mask/Playing With
- External Combustion/Playing With
- Extra Parent Conception/Playing With
- Extreme Doormat/Playing With
- Extreme Omnivore/Playing With
- Extremely Overdue Library Book/Playing With
- Extremely Short Timespan/Playing With
- Exty Years From Now/Playing With
- Eyepatch of Power/Playing With
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- Face Heel Turn/Playing With
- Face Monster Turn/Playing With
- Face on a Milk Carton/Playing With
- Faceless Goons/Playing With
- Fag Hag/Playing With
- Failure Hero/Playing With
- Failure Is the Only Option/Playing With
- Fair Cop/Playing With
- Fair for Its Day/Playing With
- Fake Kill Scare/Playing With
- Fake King/Playing With
- Fake Ultimate Hero/Playing With
- Fake-Out Make-Out/Playing With
- Fallen Hero/Playing With
- Falling Into the Cockpit/Playing With
- False-Flag Operation/Playing With
- Family-Unfriendly Aesop/Playing With
- Fan Service Pack/Playing With
- Fan Service with a Smile/Playing With
- Fan-Preferred Couple/Playing With
- Fangs Are Evil/Playing With
- Fantasy Contraception/Playing With
- Fantasy Helmet Enforcement/Playing With
- Fantasy Kitchen Sink/Playing With
- Far Side Island/Playing With
- The Farmer and the Viper/Playing With
- Fashionable Asymmetry/Playing With
- Fat Bastard/Playing With
- Fatal Family Photo/Playing With
- Faux Action Girl/Playing With
- Faux Affably Evil/Playing With
- Featureless Protagonist/Playing With
- Fed to the Beast/Playing With
- Feed the Mole/Playing With
- Female Feline, Male Mutt/Playing With
- Females Are More Innocent/Playing With
- Feminine Women Can Cook/Playing With
- Femme Fatale/Playing With
- Fertile Feet/Playing With
- Feuding Families/Playing With
- Fiction 500/Playing With
- Fidelity Test/Playing With
- Fiery Redhead/Playing With
- Fighting Irish/Playing With
- Fille Fatale/Playing With
- Filler Villain/Playing With
- Final Boss/Playing With
- Final Exam Boss/Playing With
- Financial Abuse/Playing With
- Finger Gun/Playing With
- Finger-Poke of Doom/Playing With
- Fire, Ice, Lightning/Playing With
- Fire-Forged Friends/Playing With
- First Contact/Playing With
- First Gray Hair/Playing With
- First Law of Gender Bending/Playing With
- First-Person Peripheral Narrator/Playing With
- First-Person Snapshooter/Playing With
- Fission Mailed/Playing With
- Five-Bad Band/Playing With
- Five-Man Band/Playing With
- Five-Token Band/Playing With
- Flame War/Playing With
- Flanderization/Playing With
- Flash of Pain/Playing With
- Flat Earth Atheist/Playing With
- Flat Yes/Playing With
- Florence Nightingale Effect/Playing With
- Fluffy Cloud Heaven/Playing With
- Flunky Boss/Playing With
- Flushing Toilet, Screaming Shower/Playing With
- Focal Character/Playing With
- Foe Yay/Playing With
- Foot Focus/Playing With
- Foot-Dragging Divorcee/Playing With
- For Great Justice/Playing With
- For Happiness/Playing With
- For the Evulz/Playing With
- Forbidden Friendship/Playing With
- Forbidden Fruit/Playing With
- Forced to Watch/Playing With
- Foreign Looking Font/Playing With
- Foreshadowing/Playing With
- Forgotten Birthday/Playing With
- Forgotten Childhood Friend/Playing With
- Forgotten Fallen Friend/Playing With
- Former Child Star/Playing With
- Formerly Fat/Playing With
- Four Is Death/Playing With
- Four-Element Ensemble/Playing With
- Four-Fingered Hands/Playing With
- Four-Temperament Ensemble/Playing With
- Fourth Date Marriage/Playing With
- Fourth Wall Observer/Playing With
- Fourth Wall Psych/Playing With
- Fragile Speedster/Playing With
- Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind/Playing With
- Free-Range Children/Playing With
- Freudian Couch/Playing With
- Freudian Excuse/Playing With
- Fridge Logic/Playing With
- Friend or Foe?/Playing With
- Friend to All Children/Playing With
- Friend to All Living Things/Playing With
- Friendly Enemy/Playing With
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire/Playing With
- Friendly Sniper/Playing With
- Friends Rent Control/Playing With
- Friends with Benefits/Playing With
- Frivolous Lawsuit/Playing With
- From Nobody to Nightmare/Playing With
- Frothy Mugs of Water/Playing With
- Funbag Airbag/Playing With
- Functional Addict/Playing With
- Fundamentally Female Cast/Playing With
- Funny Animal/Playing With
- Funny Character, Boring Actor/Playing With
- Furry Reminder/Playing With
- Future Me Scares Me/Playing With