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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- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance/Playing With
- Astronomic Zoom/Playing With
- The Atoner/Playing With
- Atop a Mountain of Corpses/Playing With
- Attack Animal/Playing With
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever/Playing With
- Attack Pattern Alpha/Playing With
- Attack! Attack! Attack!/Playing With
- Attention Whore/Playing With
- Attractive Bent Gender/Playing With
- Attractiveness Isolation/Playing With
- Audience Surrogate/Playing With
- Author Appeal/Playing With
- Authority Equals Asskicking/Playing With
- Auto Erotica/Playing With
- Avenging the Villain/Playing With
- Away in a Manger/Playing With
- Awesome Anachronistic Apparel/Playing With
- Awesome but Impractical/Playing With
- Awesome McCoolname/Playing With
- Awful Wedded Life/Playing With
- Awkwardly-Placed Bathtub/Playing With
- Ax Crazy/Playing With
- An Axe to Grind/Playing With
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- The "B" Grade/Playing With
- Babies Make Everything Better/Playing With
- Baby Carriage/Playing With
- Back from the Dead/Playing With
- Backstab Backfire/Playing With
- Backup Twin/Playing With
- Bad Boss/Playing With
- Bad Dreams/Playing With
- Bad Future/Playing With
- The Bad Guy Wins/Playing With
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work/Playing With
- Bad News, Irrelevant News/Playing With
- Bad Powers, Bad People/Playing With
- Bad Powers, Good People/Playing With
- Badass Abnormal/Playing With
- Badass Decay/Playing With
- Badass Driver/Playing With
- Badass Family/Playing With
- Badass in a Nice Suit/Playing With
- Badass Israeli/Playing With
- Badass Longcoat/Playing With
- Badass Normal/Playing With
- Badass Preacher/Playing With
- Badass Teacher/Playing With
- Badly-Battered Babysitter/Playing With
- Bag of Spilling/Playing With
- Bait and Switch Credits/Playing With
- Bait the Dog/Playing With
- Balance Between Good and Evil/Playing With
- Balance of Power/Playing With
- Bald of Evil/Playing With
- Baleful Polymorph/Playing With
- Balloon Belly/Playing With
- Ballroom Blitz/Playing With
- Banana Peel/Playing With
- Bandage Babe/Playing With
- Banjo-Kazooie/Playing With
- Bank Robbery/Playing With
- Banned in China/Playing With
- Bar Brawl/Playing With
- Barbie Doll Anatomy/Playing With
- Bare Your Midriff/Playing With
- Barrier Maiden/Playing With
- Barrier Warrior/Playing With
- Basement Dweller/Playing With
- Bastard Bastard/Playing With
- Bastard Boyfriend/Playing With
- Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me/Playing With
- Bathroom Break Out/Playing With
- Batman Can Breathe in Space/Playing With
- Bavarian Fire Drill/Playing With
- Be a Whore to Get Your Man/Playing With
- Be Yourself/Playing With
- Beach Episode/Playing With
- Beard of Barbarism/Playing With
- Beard of Evil/Playing With
- Beard of Sorrow/Playing With
- Bears are Bad News/Playing With
- Beat Panel/Playing With
- Beautiful All Along/Playing With
- Beauty Equals Goodness/Playing With
- Beauty Is Bad/Playing With
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished/Playing With
- Becoming the Boast/Playing With
- Becoming the Mask/Playing With
- Bee-Bee Gun/Playing With
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy/Playing With
- Behind a Stick/Playing With
- Beleaguered Bureaucrat/Playing With
- Belly Dancer/Playing With
- Beneath the Mask/Playing With
- Benevolent Boss/Playing With
- Berserk Button/Playing With
- Best Her to Bed Her/Playing With
- Best Out of Infinity/Playing With
- Best Years of Your Life/Playing With
- Bested At Bowling/Playing With
- Beta Couple/Playing With
- Betty and Veronica/Playing With
- Beware the Nice Ones/Playing With
- Beware the Silly Ones/Playing With
- Beyond the Impossible/Playing With
- Bi the Way/Playing With
- Big Applesauce/Playing With
- Big Bad Duumvirate/Playing With
- Big Bad Friend/Playing With
- Big Bad Wannabe/Playing With
- Big Bad/Playing With
- Big Bra to Fill/Playing With
- Big Breasts, Big Deal/Playing With
- Big Brother Is Watching/Playing With
- Big Damn Heroes/Playing With
- The Big Damn Kiss/Playing With
- Big Eater/Playing With
- Big Fat Future/Playing With
- Big Freaking Gun/Playing With
- Big Fun/Playing With
- Big No/Playing With
- Big Red Button/Playing With
- Big Screwed-Up Family/Playing With
- Bigger Bad/Playing With
- Bigger Is Better in Bed/Playing With
- Bigger on the Inside/Playing With
- Billy Elliot Plot/Playing With
- Birthmark of Destiny/Playing With
- Bishie Sparkle/Playing With
- Bishonen Line/Playing With
- Bishonen/Playing With
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing/Playing With
- Black and White Magic/Playing With
- Black Best Friend/Playing With
- Black Blood/Playing With
- Black Dude Dies First/Playing With
- Black Magician Girl/Playing With
- Black Widow/Playing With
- Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word/Playing With
- Blade Below the Shoulder/Playing With
- Blade of Fearsome Size/Playing With
- Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce/Playing With
- Bleached Underpants/Playing With
- Blessed Are the Cheesemakers/Playing With
- Blessed with Suck/Playing With
- Bling of War/Playing With
- Block Puzzle/Playing With
- Blond Guys Are Evil/Playing With
- Blood-Splattered Warrior/Playing With
- Bloodier and Gorier/Playing With
- Bloodless Carnage/Playing With
- Blown Across the Room/Playing With
- Blue and Orange Morality/Playing With
- Blush Sticker/Playing With
- Body Count Competition/Playing With
- Body Horror/Playing With
- Bodyguard Crush/Playing With
- Bodyguarding a Badass/Playing With
- Bokukko/Playing With
- Boldly Coming/Playing With
- Bond One-Liner/Playing With
- Bond Villain Stupidity/Playing With
- Bondage Is Bad/Playing With
- Boobs of Steel/Playing With
- Book Dumb/Playing With
- Boomerang Bigot/Playing With
- Boring Failure Hero/Playing With
- Born in an Elevator/Playing With
- Born in the Saddle/Playing With
- Boss Dissonance/Playing With
- Boss Rush/Playing With
- Bottomless Bladder/Playing With
- Bound and Gagged/Playing With
- Bowdlerise/Playing With
- Boxed Crook/Playing With
- Boxing Lessons for Superman/Playing With
- Bragging Rights Reward/Playing With
- Brainless Beauty/Playing With
- Brains and Bondage/Playing With
- Brainwash Residue/Playing With
- Brainy Brunette/Playing With
- Bratty Teenage Daughter/Playing With
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick/Playing With
- Break the Haughty/Playing With
- Breaking the Fourth Wall/Playing With
- Breast Attack/Playing With
- Breast Expansion/Playing With
- Breather Level/Playing With
- Bribing Your Way to Victory/Playing With
- Bridal Carry/Playing With
- Bridezilla/Playing With
- Brilliant but Lazy/Playing With
- Bring My Red Jacket/Playing With
- Bring News Back/Playing With
- Britain Is Only London/Playing With
- British Stuffiness/Playing With
- Broken Ace/Playing With
- Broken Aesop/Playing With
- Broken Bridge/Playing With