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 148 pages are in this category, out of 2,828 total.
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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
- Word Salad Title/Playing With
- Working Title/Playing With
- World of Action Girls/Playing With
- World of Badass/Playing With
- World of Funny Animals/Playing With
- Worthless Foreign Degree/Playing With
- Would Be Rude to Say Genocide/Playing With
- Would Hit a Girl/Playing With
- Would Hurt a Child/Playing With
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl/Playing With
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child/Playing With
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit/Playing With
- Wrestling Doesn't Pay/Playing With
- Written by the Winners/Playing With
- Wrong Genre Savvy/Playing With
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- Yamato Nadeshiko/Playing With
- Yandere/Playing With
- Year Inside, Hour Outside/Playing With
- Year Outside, Hour Inside/Playing With
- Yin-Yang Bomb/Playing With
- Yoko Oh No/Playing With
- You All Look Familiar/Playing With
- You All Meet in a Cell/Playing With
- You All Meet in An Inn/Playing With
- You Already Changed the Past/Playing With
- You and What Army?/Playing With
- You Are Worth Hell/Playing With
- You Cloned Hitler/Playing With
- You Didn't Ask/Playing With
- You Do NOT Want to Know/Playing With
- You Don't Want to Catch This/Playing With
- You Don't Want to Die a Virgin, Do You?/Playing With
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair/Playing With
- You Have Failed Me.../Playing With
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness/Playing With
- You Have Researched Breathing/Playing With
- You Have Waited Long Enough/Playing With
- You Just Ruined the Shot/Playing With
- You Killed My Father/Playing With
- You Lose At Zero Trust/Playing With
- You Mean "Xmas"/Playing With
- You Require More Vespene Gas/Playing With
- You Shall Not Pass/Playing With
- You Should Have Died Instead/Playing With
- You Would Do the Same For Me/Playing With
- Younger Than They Look/Playing With
- Youngest Child Wins/Playing With
- Your Approval Fills Me with Shame/Playing With
- Your Costume Needs Work/Playing With
- Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb/Playing With