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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- 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
- Mirror Universe/Playing With
- Misery Poker/Playing With
- Misfit Mobilization Moment/Playing With
- Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher/Playing With
- Misplaced Wildlife/Playing With
- Missed the Bus/Playing With
- Missed the Call/Playing With
- Missing White Woman Syndrome/Playing With
- Mission Control Is Off Its Meds/Playing With
- Mistaken Age/Playing With
- Mistaken for Cheating/Playing With
- Mistaken for Junkie/Playing With
- Mistaken for Special Guest/Playing With
- Mistaken for Terrorist/Playing With
- Mister Seahorse/Playing With
- Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold/Playing With
- Mix-and-Match Critters/Playing With
- Mock Millionaire/Playing With
- Modest Royalty/Playing With
- Modesty Bedsheet/Playing With
- Modesty Shorts/Playing With
- Mole in Charge/Playing With
- Monochrome Casting/Playing With
- Monster Fangirl/Playing With
- Monster of the Week/Playing With
- Monster Protection Racket/Playing With
- Monster Town/Playing With
- Monty Haul/Playing With
- Mook Bouncer/Playing With
- Moral Dissonance/Playing With
- Moral Event Horizon/Playing With
- Morality Chain/Playing With
- More Dakka/Playing With
- Morning Sickness/Playing With
- Morphic Resonance/Playing With
- Mortal Wound Reveal/Playing With
- Most Common Superpower/Playing With
- The Most Dangerous Video Game/Playing With
- Most Definitely Not a Villain/Playing With
- Mother Nature, Father Science/Playing With
- Mother of a Thousand Young/Playing With
- Motherly Scientist/Playing With
- The Mourning After/Playing With
- Mr. Fanservice/Playing With
- Ms. Fanservice/Playing With
- Mugging the Monster/Playing With
- Muggles Do It Better/Playing With
- Mukokuseki/Playing With
- Multinational Team/Playing With
- Multiversal Conqueror/Playing With
- Munchkin/Playing With
- Mundane Made Awesome/Playing With
- Mundane Utility/Playing With
- Murder the Hypotenuse/Playing With
- Muscles Are Meaningful/Playing With
- Mutagenic Food/Playing With
- Mutually Exclusive Party Members/Playing With
- My Beloved Smother/Playing With
- My Biological Clock Is Ticking/Playing With
- My Country, Right or Wrong/Playing With
- My Girl Is a Slut/Playing With
- My Girl Is Not a Slut/Playing With
- My Hair Came Out Green/Playing With
- My Instincts Are Showing/Playing With
- My Name Is Inigo Montoya/Playing With
- My Nayme Is/Playing With
- My Own Private I Do/Playing With
- Mysterious Backer/Playing With
- Mysterious Protector/Playing With
- Mysterious Teachers' Lounge/Playing With
- Mysterious Waif/Playing With
- Mystical Waif/Playing With
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- N-Word Privileges/Playing With
- Naked Apron/Playing With
- Naked First Impression/Playing With
- Naked on Arrival/Playing With
- Naked People Are Funny/Playing With
- Names to Run Away From Really Fast/Playing With
- Narm/Playing With
- National Geographic Nudity/Playing With
- Naughty by Night/Playing With
- Naughty Nuns/Playing With
- Naughty Tentacles/Playing With
- Near-Victory Fanfare/Playing With
- Neat Freak/Playing With
- Negative Space Wedgie/Playing With
- Nerds Are Virgins/Playing With
- Nerf/Playing With
- Neutral Female/Playing With
- Never a Self-Made Woman/Playing With
- Never Accepted in His Hometown/Playing With
- Never Bareheaded/Playing With
- Never Be a Hero/Playing With
- Never Bring a Knife to A Fist Fight/Playing With
- Never Live It Down/Playing With
- Never Recycle a Building/Playing With
- Never Say "Die"/Playing With
- Never the Selves Shall Meet/Playing With
- Never Trust a Trailer/Playing With
- Nice Character, Mean Actor/Playing With
- Nice Guy/Playing With
- Nice Hat/Playing With
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero/Playing With
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain/Playing With
- Nice to the Waiter/Playing With
- Nietzsche Wannabe/Playing With
- Nightmare Fetishist/Playing With
- Nightmare Fuel/Playing With
- Nineties Anti-Hero/Playing With
- Ninja Maid/Playing With
- No Campaign for the Wicked/Playing With
- No Canon for the Wicked/Playing With
- No Cure for Evil/Playing With
- No Experience Points for Medic/Playing With
- No Export for You/Playing With
- No Fair Cheating/Playing With
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished/Playing With
- No Guy Wants an Amazon/Playing With
- No Guy Wants to Be Chased/Playing With
- No Indoor Voice/Playing With
- No Man of Woman Born/Playing With
- No Name Given/Playing With
- No One Could Survive That/Playing With
- No Ontological Inertia/Playing With
- No OSHA Compliance/Playing With
- No Party Given/Playing With
- No Party Like a Donner Party/Playing With
- No Periods, Period/Playing With
- No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup/Playing With
- No Pregger Sex/Playing With
- No Scope/Playing With
- No Social Skills/Playing With
- No Such Thing as Space Jesus/Playing With
- No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus/Playing With
- No Swastikas/Playing With
- No Transhumanism Allowed/Playing With
- No True Scotsman/Playing With
- No Waterproofing in the Future/Playing With
- No Woman's Land/Playing With
- No Yay/Playing With
- No Zombie Cannibals/Playing With
- No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine/Playing With
- No, You Hang Up First/Playing With
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown/Playing With
- No-Tell Motel/Playing With
- Noble Bigot with a Badge/Playing With
- Noble Demon/Playing With
- Noble Fugitive/Playing With
- Noble Savage/Playing With
- Nobody Is Above the Law/Playing With
- Nobody Poops/Playing With
- Non Sequitur Scene/Playing With
- Non-Action Big Bad/Playing With
- Non-Action Guy/Playing With
- Non-Entity General/Playing With
- Non-Interactivity/Playing With
- Non-Mammal Mammaries/Playing With
- Nonhuman Lover Reveal/Playing With
- Nonhumans Lack Attributes/Playing With
- Noodle Implements/Playing With
- Noodle Incident/Playing With
- Normally I Would Be Dead Now/Playing With
- Nostalgia Filter/Playing With
- Not a Game/Playing With
- Not a Scratch on It/Playing With
- Not a Zombie/Playing With
- Not Good with People/Playing With
- Not Me This Time/Playing With
- Not Quite Dead/Playing With
- Not Quite Saved Enough/Playing With
- Not Rare Over There/Playing With
- Not So Different/Playing With
- Not So Stoic/Playing With
- Not the Fall That Kills You/Playing With
- Not Using the Z Word/Playing With
- Not Wearing Tights/Playing With
- Not What It Looks Like/Playing With
- Not-So-Harmless Villain/Playing With
- Nothing but Hits/Playing With
- Nothing Is Scarier/Playing With
- Nothing Up My Sleeve/Playing With
- Nouveau Riche/Playing With