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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- That One Attack/Playing With
- That Poor Cat/Playing With
- That Poor Plant/Playing With
- The Baby Trap/Playing With
- The Beard/Playing With
- The Bechdel Test/Playing With
- The Big Guy/Playing With
- The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In/Playing With
- The Brute/Playing With
- The Butler Did It/Playing With
- The Call Has Bad Reception/Playing With
- The Call Knows Where You Live/Playing With
- The Cape (2010 TV series)/Playing With
- The Captain/Playing With
- The Cassandra/Playing With
- The Cavalry/Playing With
- The Cheerleader/Playing With
- The Chew Toy/Playing With
- The Chief's Daughter/Playing With
- The Coats Are Off/Playing With
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes/Playing With
- The Complainer Is Always Wrong/Playing With
- The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard/Playing With
- The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much/Playing With
- The Cuckoolander Was Right/Playing With
- The Cutie/Playing With
- The Dark Side Will Make You Forget/Playing With
- The Dark Times/Playing With
- The Ditz/Playing With
- The Dog Shot First/Playing With
- The Dog Was the Mastermind/Playing With
- The Door Slams You/Playing With
- The Drunken Sailor/Playing With
- The Dulcinea Effect/Playing With
- The Extremist Was Right/Playing With
- The Face/Playing With
- The Faceless/Playing With
- The Fair Folk/Playing With
- The Fashionista/Playing With
- The Final Temptation/Playing With
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You/Playing With
- The Ghost/Playing With
- The Glasses Come Off/Playing With
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry/Playing With
- The Gods Must Be Lazy/Playing With
- The Guards Must Be Crazy/Playing With
- The Heavy/Playing With
- The Hero's Birthday/Playing With
- The Hero/Playing With
- The Immodest Orgasm/Playing With
- The Killer in Me/Playing With
- The Ladette/Playing With
- The Lancer/Playing With
- The Last DJ/Playing With
- The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort/Playing With
- The Legions of Hell/Playing With
- The Load/Playing With
- The Mad Hatter/Playing With
- The Magic Comes Back/Playing With
- The Man Behind the Curtain/Playing With
- The Man Behind the Man/Playing With
- The Man in the Mirror Talks Back/Playing With
- The Messiah/Playing With
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body/Playing With
- The Mole/Playing With
- The Moving Experience/Playing With
- The Neidermeyer/Playing With
- The Nicknamer/Playing With
- The Not-Secret/Playing With
- The Nudifier/Playing With
- The Obstructive Love Interest/Playing With
- The One Who Wears Shoes/Playing With
- The Ophelia/Playing With
- The Pig Pen/Playing With
- The Pollyanna/Playing With
- The Power of Love/Playing With
- The Power of Rock/Playing With
- The Power of the Sun/Playing With
- The Promised Land/Playing With
- The Psycho Rangers/Playing With
- The Real Man/Playing With
- The Red Stapler/Playing With
- The Roleplayer/Playing With
- The Slacker/Playing With
- The Smart Guy/Playing With
- The So-Called Coward/Playing With
- The Social Darwinist/Playing With
- The Spock/Playing With
- The Starscream/Playing With
- The Stoic/Playing With
- The Swear Jar/Playing With
- The Tape Knew You Would Say That/Playing With
- The Trope Without a Title/Playing With
- The War of Earthly Aggression/Playing With
- The Women Are Safe with Us/Playing With
- The Worf Effect/Playing With
- The World Is Not Ready/Playing With
- The World's Expert on Getting Killed/Playing With
- Theme Music Power-Up/Playing With
- Theme Naming/Playing With
- There Are No Therapists/Playing With
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill/Playing With
- There Was a Door/Playing With
- They Killed Kenny Again/Playing With
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich/Playing With
- They Were Holding You Back/Playing With
- They Would Cut You Up/Playing With
- Third Law of Gender Bending/Playing With
- Third Option Love Interest/Playing With
- Third-Act Stupidity/Playing With
- This Bed of Roses/Playing With
- This Is My Chair/Playing With
- This Is Not a Floor/Playing With
- This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman/Playing With
- This Was His True Form/Playing With
- Thou Shalt Not Kill/Playing With
- Three Chords and the Truth/Playing With
- Three-Round Deathmatch/Playing With
- Thrifty Scot/Playing With
- Thriving Ghost Town/Playing With
- Through His Stomach/Playing With
- Throw It In/Playing With
- Thunderbolt Iron/Playing With
- Tights Under Shorts/Playing With
- Time Abyss/Playing With
- Time-Delayed Death/Playing With
- Tin Man/Playing With
- Tin Tyrant/Playing With
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl/Playing With
- Toilet Humour/Playing With
- Toilet Seat Divorce/Playing With
- Token Evil Teammate/Playing With
- Token Human/Playing With
- Token Loli/Playing With
- Token Minority Couple/Playing With
- Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe/Playing With
- Tomato in the Mirror/Playing With
- Tomato Surprise/Playing With
- Tomboy and Girly Girl/Playing With
- Tomboyish Name/Playing With
- Tomboyish Ponytail/Playing With
- Tonight Someone Dies/Playing With
- Too Awesome to Use/Playing With
- Too Clever by Half/Playing With
- Too Cool to Live/Playing With
- Too Dumb to Live/Playing With
- Too Important to Walk/Playing With
- Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket/Playing With
- Too Many Belts/Playing With
- Too Many Halves/Playing With
- Too Much Information/Playing With
- Too Soon/Playing With
- Took a Level in Badass/Playing With
- Took a Level In Dumbass/Playing With
- Took a Level in Jerkass/Playing With
- Took a Level In Kindness/Playing With
- Torture Technician/Playing With
- Totally Radical/Playing With
- Trademark Favorite Food/Playing With
- Tragic Hero/Playing With
- Tragic Monster/Playing With
- Tragic Villain/Playing With
- Training from Hell/Playing With
- Training the Peaceful Villagers/Playing With
- Transformation Is a Free Action/Playing With
- 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