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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- Transformation of the Possessed/Playing With
- Transformation Sequence/Playing With
- Transforming Mecha/Playing With
- Translation Convention/Playing With
- Transparent Closet/Playing With
- Trap Door Fail/Playing With
- Trapped in Another World/Playing With
- Trash of the Titans/Playing With
- Trauma Inn/Playing With
- Treacherous Advisor/Playing With
- Trial Balloon Question/Playing With
- Trickster Mentor/Playing With
- Trojan Gauntlet/Playing With
- Troll/Playing With
- Trope Name/Playing With
- Tropes Will Ruin Your Life/Playing With
- Tropical Epilogue/Playing With
- Truck Driver's Gear Change/Playing With
- Truck-kun/Playing With
- True Final Boss/Playing With
- True Love's Kiss/Playing With
- Tsundere/Playing With
- Turn Out Like His Father/Playing With
- Turned Against Their Masters/Playing With
- Turns Red/Playing With
- Twenty Bear Asses/Playing With
- Twenty-Four-Hour Party People/Playing With
- Twist Ending/Playing With
- Twitchy Eye/Playing With
- Two Aliases, One Character/Playing With
- Two Gamers on a Couch/Playing With
- Tyke Bomb/Playing With
- Type Caste/Playing With
- Typecasting/Playing With
- Tyrant Takes the Helm/Playing With
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- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife/Playing With
- Uke/Playing With
- Ultimate Job Security/Playing With
- Ultimate Lifeform/Playing With
- The Un-Reveal/Playing With
- The Un-Smile/Playing With
- Uncle Tomfoolery/Playing With
- Underdogs Never Lose/Playing With
- Understanding Boyfriend/Playing With
- The Unfair Sex/Playing With
- The Unfavourite/Playing With
- Unflinching Walk/Playing With
- The Unfought/Playing With
- Ungrateful Bastard/Playing With
- Unholy Matrimony/Playing With
- Unicorn/Playing With
- Unkempt Beauty/Playing With
- Unknown Character/Playing With
- Unknown Rival/Playing With
- Unlimited Wardrobe/Playing With
- Unnamed Parent/Playing With
- Unnecessary Makeover/Playing With
- Unperson/Playing With
- Unreliable Narrator/Playing With
- Unreliable Voiceover/Playing With
- Unrequited Love Switcheroo/Playing With
- Unresolved Sexual Tension/Playing With
- Unsettling Gender Reveal/Playing With
- Unskilled but Strong/Playing With
- Unusable Enemy Equipment/Playing With
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight/Playing With
- Unwanted Harem/Playing With
- Unwinnable by Design/Playing With
- Unwitting Pawn/Playing With
- Uplifted Animal/Playing With
- Urban Segregation/Playing With
- Uriah Gambit/Playing With
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid/Playing With
- Useless Useful Spell/Playing With
V
- Vacation Episode/Playing With
- Vagina Dentata/Playing With
- Vague Age/Playing With
- Vain Sorceress/Playing With
- Valley Girl/Playing With
- Values Dissonance/Playing With
- Vampire Invitation/Playing With
- Van Helsing Hate Crimes/Playing With
- Vasquez Always Dies/Playing With
- Vegetarian Vampire/Playing With
- Verbal Tic/Playing With
- Vertical Kidnapping/Playing With
- Very False Advertising/Playing With
- Victory-Guided Amnesia/Playing With
- Video Game Cruelty Potential/Playing With
- Video Game Cruelty Punishment/Playing With
- Villain Decay/Playing With
- Villain Episode/Playing With
- Villain Forgot to Level Grind/Playing With
- Villain Protagonist/Playing With
- Villain Song/Playing With
- Villain Sue/Playing With
- Villain with Good Publicity/Playing With
- Villainous Breakdown/Playing With
- Villainous Rescue/Playing With
- Villains Out Shopping/Playing With
- Violently Protective Girlfriend/Playing With
- Virgin Power/Playing With
- Virgin Sacrifice/Playing With
- Virgin Vision/Playing With
- Virginity Makes You Stupid/Playing With
- Visible Invisibility/Playing With
- Visual kei/Playing With
- Vitriolic Best Buds/Playing With
- Vodka Drunkenski/Playing With
- The Voiceless/Playing With
- Voiceover Letter/Playing With
- Voices Are Mental/Playing With
- Vote Early, Vote Often/Playing With
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- Wacky Cravings/Playing With
- Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World/Playing With
- Walk and Talk/Playing With
- Walking Shirtless Scene/Playing With
- Walking the Earth/Playing With
- Walking Wasteland/Playing With
- Wangst/Playing With
- Wanting Is Better Than Having/Playing With
- Warrior Poet/Playing With
- Warts and All/Playing With
- Was Once a Man/Playing With
- Wasn't That Fun?/Playing With
- Wasteful Wishing/Playing With
- Wax On, Wax Off/Playing With
- We ARE Struggling Together!/Playing With
- We Can Rebuild Him/Playing With
- We Can Rule Together/Playing With
- We Cannot Go on Without You/Playing With
- We Hardly Knew Ye/Playing With
- We Have Reserves/Playing With
- We Have Those, Too/Playing With
- We Really Do Care/Playing With
- We Want Our Jerk Back/Playing With
- Weak but Skilled/Playing With
- Weakness Turns Her On/Playing With
- Weaksauce Weakness/Playing With
- Weapon for Intimidation/Playing With
- Weapon, Jr./Playing With
- Welcome Back, Traitor/Playing With
- Welcome to Corneria/Playing With
- Well, Excuse Me, Princess!/Playing With
- Well-Intentioned Extremist/Playing With
- Western Terrorists/Playing With
- What a Piece of Junk!/Playing With
- What Could Have Been/Playing With
- What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?/Playing With
- What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?/Playing With
- What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?/Playing With
- What Does She See in Him?/Playing With
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?/Playing With
- What Measure Is a Mook?/Playing With
- What Measure Is a Non-Cute?/Playing With
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?/Playing With
- What the Hell, Hero?/Playing With
- What the Hell, Townspeople?/Playing With
- What's Up, King Dude?/Playing With
- When All You Have Is a Hammer/Playing With
- When She Smiles/Playing With
- When You Coming Home, Dad?/Playing With
- Where Da White Women At?/Playing With
- Where I Was Born and Razed/Playing With
- White Magician Girl/Playing With
- White Shirt of Death/Playing With
- Who Wants to Live Forever?/Playing With
- Who Will Bell the Cat?/Playing With
- Who Would Want to Watch Us?/Playing With
- Who's Laughing Now?/Playing With
- Why Did You Make Me Hit You?/Playing With
- Why Waste a Wedding?/Playing With
- Wicked Cultured/Playing With
- Wicked Stepmother/Playing With
- Wide Open Sandbox/Playing With
- Wide-Eyed Idealist/Playing With
- Wife Husbandry/Playing With
- Wife-Basher Basher/Playing With
- Wild Teen Party/Playing With
- Wild Wilderness/Playing With
- Wimpification/Playing With
- Wings Do Nothing/Playing With
- Wise Beyond Their Years/Playing With
- Witch Hunt/Playing With
- Witch with a Capital B/Playing With
- With Due Respect/Playing With
- With Friends Like These.../Playing With
- With This Herring/Playing With
- Witness Protection/Playing With
- Wizard Needs Food Badly/Playing With
- Wolverine Publicity/Playing With
- Woman in Black/Playing With
- Woman Scorned/Playing With
- Women Are Wiser/Playing With
- Women Drivers/Playing With
- Women Prefer Strong Men/Playing With
- Wondrous Ladies' Room/Playing With
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds/Playing With
- The Woobie/Playing With
- Word Puree Title/Playing With