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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- Obfuscating Stupidity/Playing With
- Oblivious to Love/Playing With
- Obnoxious In-Laws/Playing With
- Obsolete Mentor/Playing With
- Obstructive Bureaucrat/Playing With
- Obvious Rule Patch/Playing With
- Obviously Evil/Playing With
- Odd Name Out/Playing With
- Off the Rails/Playing With
- Offscreen Teleportation/Playing With
- Oh Crap/Playing With
- Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List/Playing With
- Ojou/Playing With
- Old Flame Fizzle/Playing With
- Old Man Marrying a Child/Playing With
- Old Shame/Playing With
- Older Alter Ego/Playing With
- Older Than They Look/Playing With
- Ominous Floating Castle/Playing With
- Ominous Latin Chanting/Playing With
- Ominous Save Prompt/Playing With
- Omnicidal Maniac/Playing With
- Omnicidal Neutral/Playing With
- Omniglot/Playing With
- Omniscient Morality License/Playing With
- Once Is Not Enough/Playing With
- One Head Taller/Playing With
- One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce/Playing With
- One Last Smoke/Playing With
- One Mario Limit/Playing With
- One of the Boys/Playing With
- One Phone Call/Playing With
- One True Sequence/Playing With
- One-Dollar Retainer/Playing With
- One-Hit Kill/Playing With
- One-Hit-Point Wonder/Playing With
- One-Man Army/Playing With
- One-Note Cook/Playing With
- One-Winged Angel/Playing With
- Only a Flesh Wound/Playing With
- Only Child Syndrome/Playing With
- Only Cool People Matter/Playing With
- Only I Can Kill Him/Playing With
- Only Sane Employee/Playing With
- Only Sane Man/Playing With
- Only Six Faces/Playing With
- Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending/Playing With
- Opera Gloves/Playing With
- Operator From India/Playing With
- Opponent Switch/Playing With
- Opposed Mentors/Playing With
- Opposing Sports Team/Playing With
- Opposite Gender Clone/Playing With
- Opposite Gender Protagonists/Playing With
- Opposites Attract/Playing With
- Optional Party Member/Playing With
- Orcus on His Throne/Playing With
- Ordered to Cheat/Playing With
- Orgasmically Delicious/Playing With
- Orifice Invasion/Playing With
- Original Generation/Playing With
- Ornamental Weapon/Playing With
- Our Dwarves Are All the Same/Playing With
- Our Elves Are Better/Playing With
- Our Hero Is Dead/Playing With
- Our Werewolves Are Different/Playing With
- Our Zombies Are Different/Playing With
- Out with a Bang/Playing With
- Out-of-Character is Serious Business/Playing With
- Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions/Playing With
- Over-the-Shoulder Carry/Playing With
- Overly Long Gag/Playing With
- Overprotective Dad/Playing With
- Overshadowed by Awesome/Playing With
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- Pac-Man Fever/Playing With
- Paedo Hunt/Playing With
- Painful Transformation/Playing With
- Painting the Medium/Playing With
- Pair the Smart Ones/Playing With
- Pair the Spares/Playing With
- Pals with Jesus/Playing With
- Panty Shot/Playing With
- Papa Wolf/Playing With
- Paparazzi/Playing With
- Paper-Thin Disguise/Playing With
- Parental Abandonment/Playing With
- Parental Marriage Veto/Playing With
- Parenting the Husband/Playing With
- Passive Rescue/Playing With
- Path of Inspiration/Playing With
- Patricide/Playing With
- Patrick Stewart Speech/Playing With
- Pedophile Priest/Playing With
- People Sit on Chairs/Playing With
- People's Republic of Tyranny/Playing With
- Percussive Maintenance/Playing With
- Perfect Pacifist People/Playing With
- Performance Anxiety/Playing With
- Perma-Stubble/Playing With
- Perpetual Poverty/Playing With
- Personal Raincloud/Playing With
- Personal Space Invader/Playing With
- Pet Heir/Playing With
- Pet the Dog/Playing With
- Petting Zoo People/Playing With
- Phlebotinum Muncher/Playing With
- Pinball Scoring/Playing With
- Pint-Sized Kid/Playing With
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse/Playing With
- Pizza Boy Special Delivery/Playing With
- Platonic Prostitution/Playing With
- Player Nudge/Playing With
- Player Versus Player/Playing With
- Playing Both Sides/Playing With
- Playing with Fire/Playing With
- Please Kill Me If It Satisfies You/Playing With
- Please Shoot the Messenger/Playing With
- Please Spare Him, My Liege/Playing With
- Plot Armor/Playing With
- Plot Coupon/Playing With
- Plot Tailored to the Party/Playing With
- Pocket Protector/Playing With
- Pointy-Haired Boss/Playing With
- Pokémon-Speak/Playing With
- Police Are Useless/Playing With
- Police Brutality Gambit/Playing With
- Politically-Incorrect Villain/Playing With
- Politically-Motivated Teacher/Playing With
- Polyamory/Playing With
- Popular Is Dumb/Playing With
- Positive Discrimination/Playing With
- Possession Sue/Playing With
- Post-Climax Confrontation/Playing With
- Pottery Barn Poor/Playing With
- Potty Dance/Playing With
- Potty Emergency/Playing With
- Potty Failure/Playing With
- Power Born of Madness/Playing With
- Power Copying/Playing With
- Power Fantasy/Playing With
- Power Floats/Playing With
- Power Gives You Wings/Playing With
- Power Glows/Playing With
- Power Nullifier/Playing With
- The Power of Trust/Playing With
- Power-Up Food/Playing With
- Power-Up Letdown/Playing With
- Powers as Programs/Playing With
- Pre-Climax Climax/Playing With
- Precision-Guided Boomerang/Playing With
- Predators Are Mean/Playing With
- Pregnant Badass/Playing With
- Pregnant Hostage/Playing With
- Prenup Blowup/Playing With
- Press X to Not Die/Playing With
- Pride Parade/Playing With
- The Prima Donna/Playing With
- Prince and Pauper/Playing With
- Prince Charming/Playing With
- Prince Charmless/Playing With
- Princess Classic/Playing With
- Princesses Prefer Pink/Playing With
- Professor Guinea Pig/Playing With
- Progressively Prettier/Playing With
- Promethean Punishment/Playing With
- Promotion to Opening Titles/Playing With
- Proper Tights with a Skirt/Playing With
- Protagonist-Centered Morality/Playing With
- Protected by a Child/Playing With
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend/Playing With
- Psycho for Hire/Playing With
- Psycho Lesbian/Playing With
- Psychopathic Manchild/Playing With
- Ptero-Soarer/Playing With
- Public Service Announcement/Playing With
- Punch Clock Hero/Playing With
- Punch Clock Villain/Playing With
- Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh/Playing With
- Punishment Detail/Playing With
- Punk in the Trunk/Playing With
- Puny Earthlings/Playing With
- A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil/Playing With
- Puppy Love/Playing With
- Pure Energy/Playing With
- Purely Aesthetic Glasses/Playing With
- Purity Sue/Playing With
- Putting on the Reich/Playing With
- Pyromaniac/Playing With