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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- 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
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- G-Rated Sex/Playing With
- Gadget Watches/Playing With
- Gag Boobs/Playing With
- Gag Penis/Playing With
- Gaia's Lament/Playing With
- Gainax Ending/Playing With
- Game-Favored Gender/Playing With
- Gameplay Ally Immortality/Playing With
- Garbage Post Kid/Playing With
- Gargle Blaster/Playing With
- Gas Mask Mooks/Playing With
- Gatling Good/Playing With
- Gay Groom in a White Tux/Playing With
- Gay Moment/Playing With
- Gayborhood/Playing With
- Gayngst/Playing With
- Gender Bender Friendship/Playing With
- Gender Bender/Playing With
- Gender Blender Name/Playing With
- Gender Equal Ensemble/Playing With
- Gender Equals Breed/Playing With
- Gender-Restricted Ability/Playing With
- Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique/Playing With
- General Failure/Playing With
- General Ripper/Playing With
- Generation Xerox/Playing With
- Generic Doomsday Villain/Playing With
- Genius Bruiser/Playing With
- Genius Ditz/Playing With
- Genius Loci/Playing With
- Genki Girl/Playing With
- Genocide Backfire/Playing With
- Genocide Dilemma/Playing With
- Genre Blindness/Playing With
- Genre Savvy/Playing With
- George Jetson Job Security/Playing With
- Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!/Playing With
- Get Back in the Closet/Playing With
- Get It Over With/Playing With
- Getting Crap Past the Radar/Playing With
- Ghibli Hills/Playing With
- Ghost Shipping/Playing With
- Ghostapo/Playing With
- Giant Space Flea From Nowhere/Playing With
- GIFT/Playing With
- Gigantic Gulp/Playing With
- Gilligan Cut/Playing With
- Girl Posse/Playing With
- Girl with Psycho Weapon/Playing With
- Girl-On-Girl Is Hot/Playing With
- GIRL/Playing With
- Girlfriend in Canada/Playing With
- Girls Behind Bars/Playing With
- Girls Need Role Models/Playing With
- Give Away the Bride/Playing With
- Give Me a Sword/Playing With
- Give Me Your Inventory Item/Playing With
- Glacier Waif/Playing With
- Glad I Thought of It/Playing With
- "Glad to Be Alive" Sex/Playing With
- Glamour Failure/Playing With
- Glass Cannon/Playing With
- Global Currency/Playing With
- Glorified Sperm Donor/Playing With
- Glowing Eyes of Doom/Playing With
- Go Out with a Smile/Playing With
- Go-Go Enslavement/Playing With
- A God Am I/Playing With
- God and Satan Are Both Jerks/Playing With
- God Is Evil/Playing With
- God of Good/Playing With
- God Save Us From the Queen/Playing With
- God-Emperor/Playing With
- Gods Need Prayer Badly/Playing With
- Godwin's Law/Playing With
- Goggles Do Nothing/Playing With
- Going by the Matchbook/Playing With
- Going Native/Playing With
- Going to See the Elephant/Playing With
- Goldfish Poop Gang/Playing With
- Gone Horribly Right/Playing With