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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- Didn't Want an Adventure/Playing With
- Die for Our Ship/Playing With
- Die or Fly/Playing With
- Different for Girls/Playing With
- Difficult but Awesome/Playing With
- Difficulty Spike/Playing With
- Digital Piracy Is Okay/Playing With
- Dinky Drivers/Playing With
- Dinner Deformation/Playing With
- Diplomatic Impunity/Playing With
- Directionless Driver/Playing With
- Dirty Cop/Playing With
- Dirty Coward/Playing With
- Disability Immunity/Playing With
- Disability Superpower/Playing With
- Disappeared Dad/Playing With
- Disappointing Last Level/Playing With
- Disc One Final Boss/Playing With
- Disco Dan/Playing With
- Discredited Trope/Playing With
- Dismotivation/Playing With
- Disney Death/Playing With
- Disposable Fiancé/Playing With
- Disposable Sex Worker/Playing With
- Disproportionate Retribution/Playing With
- Dissimile/Playing With
- Disturbed Doves/Playing With
- Divergent Character Evolution/Playing With
- Divided States of America/Playing With
- Divided We Fall/Playing With
- DIY Disaster/Playing With
- Do with Him as You Will/Playing With
- Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Project/Playing With
- Does Not Like Men/Playing With
- Does Not Like Shoes/Playing With
- Does Not Understand Sarcasm/Playing With
- Doesn't Like Guns/Playing With
- The Dog Bites Back/Playing With
- Dog Food Diet/Playing With
- Dogged Nice Guy/Playing With
- Dominatrix/Playing With
- Domino Revelation/Playing With
- Don't Fear the Reaper/Playing With
- Don't Look At Me/Playing With
- Don't Sneak Up On Me Like That/Playing With
- Don't Try This At Home/Playing With
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!/Playing With
- Donut Mess with a Cop/Playing With
- Doomed Supermarket Display/Playing With
- Door Step Baby/Playing With
- Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest/Playing With
- Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)/Playing With
- Down in the Dumps/Playing With
- Dr. Jerk/Playing With
- Draco in Leather Pants/Playing With
- The Dragon/Playing With
- Dramatic Shattering/Playing With
- Dramatic Wind/Playing With
- The Dreaded/Playing With
- Dream Within a Dream/Playing With
- Dreaming of a White Christmas/Playing With
- Dreaming of Things to Come/Playing With
- Dreaming of Times Gone By/Playing With
- Dreaming the Truth/Playing With
- Dresses the Same/Playing With
- Dressing as the Enemy/Playing With
- Drill Tank/Playing With
- Driven by Envy/Playing With
- Driven to Suicide/Playing With
- Dropped a Bridge on Him/Playing With
- Drugs Are Bad/Playing With
- Drunk with Power/Playing With
- Drunken Master/Playing With
- Drunken Song/Playing With
- Dry-Docked Ship/Playing With
- Dual-Wielding/Playing With
- Duck Season! Rabbit Season!/Playing With
- Duct Tape for Everything/Playing With
- Dude, She's a Lesbian/Playing With
- Due to the Dead/Playing With
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness/Playing With
- Dumb Blonde/Playing With
- Dumb Is Good/Playing With
- Dumb Muscle/Playing With
- Dumbass Has a Point/Playing With
- Dummied Out/Playing With
- Dungeon Bypass/Playing With
- Dungeon Shop/Playing With
- Dungeon Town/Playing With
- Dungeonmaster's Girlfriend/Playing With
- The Dutiful Son/Playing With
- Dye or Die/Playing With
- Dying Like Animals/Playing With
- Dynamic Entry/Playing With
- Dysfunction Junction/Playing With
- Dysfunctional Family/Playing With
- Dystopia/Playing With
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- Earth-Shattering Kaboom/Playing With
- Easily Forgiven/Playing With
- Easy Evangelism/Playing With
- Easy Mode Mockery/Playing With
- Eat Dirt Cheap/Playing With
- Eats Babies/Playing With
- Edit War/Playing With
- Education Mama/Playing With
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette/Playing With
- Efficient Displacement/Playing With
- Effortless Amazonian Lift/Playing With
- Egg MacGuffin/Playing With
- Ejection Seat/Playing With
- Elderly Sensei/Playing With
- Eldritch Abomination/Playing With
- Elemental Powers/Playing With
- Elephant in the Living Room/Playing With
- Elves Versus Dwarves/Playing With
- Emergency Broadcast/Playing With
- Emergency Transformation/Playing With
- Emotionless Girl/Playing With
- Ending Fatigue/Playing With
- Enemies with Death/Playing With
- Enemy Chatter/Playing With
- Enemy to All Living Things/Playing With
- Enemy Within/Playing With
- Enemy Without/Playing With
- Enfant Terrible/Playing With
- Ensemble Darkhorse/Playing With
- Entitled Bastard/Playing With
- Epic Race/Playing With
- Equal Opportunity Evil/Playing With
- Equippable Ally/Playing With
- Ermine Cape Effect/Playing With
- Erotic Eating/Playing With
- Escapist Character/Playing With
- Eternal Engine/Playing With
- Ethical Slut/Playing With
- Ethnic Scrappy/Playing With
- Eureka Moment/Playing With
- Even Evil Has Standards/Playing With
- Even the Dog Is Ashamed/Playing With
- Every Car Is a Pinto/Playing With
- Every Car Is Rear Wheel Drive/Playing With
- Everybody Hates Hades/Playing With
- Everybody Hates Mathematics/Playing With
- Everybody Remembers the Stripper/Playing With
- Everybody's Dead, Dave/Playing With
- Everyone Can See It/Playing With
- Everyone Is Armed/Playing With
- Everything Sounds Sexier in French/Playing With
- Everything Trying to Kill You/Playing With
- Everything's Better with Bob/Playing With
- Everything's Better with Monkeys/Playing With
- Everything's Better with Penguins/Playing With
- Everything's Better with Princesses/Playing With
- Evil Brit/Playing With
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good/Playing With
- Evil Chancellor/Playing With
- Evil Costume Switch/Playing With
- Evil Counterpart/Playing With
- Evil Genius (video game)/Playing With
- Evil Is Cool/Playing With
- Evil Is Petty/Playing With
- Evil Is Sexy/Playing With
- Evil Laugh/Playing With
- Evil Luddite/Playing With
- Evil Makes You Ugly/Playing With
- Evil Matriarch/Playing With
- Evil Overlord/Playing With
- Evil Power Vacuum/Playing With
- Evil Smells Bad/Playing With
- Evil Sounds Deep/Playing With
- Evil Tastes Good/Playing With
- Evil Twin/Playing With
- Evil-Detecting Dog/Playing With
- Exactly What I Aimed At/Playing With
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin/Playing With
- Excalibur in the Rust/Playing With
- Excited Show Title!/Playing With
- Exclusively Evil/Playing With
- Exiled to the Couch/Playing With
- Expanded States of America/Playing With
- Expansion Pack Past/Playing With
- Expectation Lowerer/Playing With
- Exploding Barrels/Playing With
- Exploding Calendar/Playing With
- Exploding Closet/Playing With
- Expose the Villain, Get His Job/Playing With
- Exposition Diagram/Playing With
- Exposition Fairy/Playing With
- Exposition of Immortality/Playing With
- Express Delivery/Playing With
- Expressive Hair/Playing With
- Expressive Mask/Playing With
- External Combustion/Playing With
- Extra Parent Conception/Playing With
- Extreme Doormat/Playing With
- Extreme Omnivore/Playing With
- Extremely Overdue Library Book/Playing With
- Extremely Short Timespan/Playing With
- Exty Years From Now/Playing With
- Eyepatch of Power/Playing With