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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- Selective Enforcement/Playing With
- Self-Made Man/Playing With
- Seme/Playing With
- Serendipitous Symphony/Playing With
- Serious Business/Playing With
- Sesquipedalian Smith/Playing With
- Sex Changes Everything/Playing With
- Sex God/Playing With
- Sex Is Evil/Playing With
- Sex Is Good/Playing With
- Sex Tourism/Playing With
- Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll/Playing With
- Sexier Alter Ego/Playing With
- Sexless Marriage/Playing With
- Sexual Extortion/Playing With
- Shame If Something Happened/Playing With
- Shameless Fanservice Girl/Playing With
- Shaped Like What It Sells/Playing With
- Shapeshifter Guilt Trip/Playing With
- Shapeshifter Mode Lock/Playing With
- Shapeshifting Lover/Playing With
- Shark Pool/Playing With
- She Cleans Up Nicely/Playing With
- She Is Not My Girlfriend/Playing With
- She's a Man In Japan/Playing With
- She's All Grown Up/Playing With
- Sheet of Glass/Playing With
- Sherlock Scan/Playing With
- Ship Sinking/Playing With
- Ship-to-Ship Combat/Playing With
- Shipper on Deck/Playing With
- Ships That Pass in the Night/Playing With
- Shirtless Scene/Playing With
- Shock Site/Playing With
- Shocking Swerve/Playing With
- Shoddy Knockoff Product/Playing With
- Shoo Out the New Guy/Playing With
- Shoot the Dog/Playing With
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog/Playing With
- Shooting Superman/Playing With
- Short Cuts Make Long Delays/Playing With
- Shotacon/Playing With
- Shotgun Wedding/Playing With
- Shout-Out/Playing With
- Show Within a Show/Playing With
- Shower of Angst/Playing With
- Shower of Love/Playing With
- Shown Their Work/Playing With
- Shrinking Violet/Playing With
- Shrug of God/Playing With
- Shut UP, Hannibal/Playing With
- Shut Up, Kirk/Playing With
- Shy Blue-Haired Girl/Playing With
- Sibling Yin-Yang/Playing With
- Silent Scapegoat/Playing With
- Silk Hiding Steel/Playing With
- Silly Reason for War/Playing With
- Single Line of Descent/Playing With
- Single Mom Stripper/Playing With
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man/Playing With
- Sink-or-Swim Mentor/Playing With
- Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer/Playing With
- Sir Swearsalot/Playing With
- Sissy Villain/Playing With
- Six-Student Clique/Playing With
- Sixth Ranger Traitor/Playing With
- Sixth Ranger/Playing With
- Skill Slot System/Playing With
- Skip to the End/Playing With
- Skirt Over Slacks/Playing With
- Slap Slap Kiss/Playing With
- Slap-On-The-Wrist Nuke/Playing With
- Sleeping Single/Playing With
- Sleeps with Everyone but You/Playing With
- Slept Through the Apocalypse/Playing With
- Slippery Soap/Playing With
- Slow Transformation/Playing With
- Slower Than a Speeding Bullet/Playing With
- Slut Shaming/Playing With
- Small Girl, Big Gun/Playing With
- Small Name, Big Ego/Playing With
- Smart People Play Chess/Playing With
- Smart People Wear Glasses/Playing With
- Smelly Skunk/Playing With
- Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!/Playing With
- Smoke Shield/Playing With
- Smoking Hot Sex/Playing With
- Smoking Is Cool/Playing With
- Smoldering Shoes/Playing With
- Smug Snake/Playing With
- Smug Super/Playing With
- The Smurfette Principle/Playing With
- Snap Back/Playing With
- Sniper Pistol/Playing With
- Snow Means Cold/Playing With
- Snow Means Death/Playing With
- Snow Means Love/Playing With
- So Bad It's Horrible/Playing With
- So Beautiful It's a Curse/Playing With
- So Long and Thanks For All the Gear/Playing With
- Sobriquet/Playing With
- Soft Glass/Playing With
- Soft Water/Playing With
- Solve the Soup Cans/Playing With
- Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond/Playing With
- Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying/Playing With
- Son of a Whore/Playing With
- Soundtrack Dissonance/Playing With
- Space Friction/Playing With
- Space Jews/Playing With
- Space X/Playing With
- Spank the Cutie/Playing With
- Spared by the Adaptation/Playing With
- Spartan Sibling/Playing With
- Speak Ill of the Dead/Playing With
- Speaking Simlish/Playing With
- Species Surname/Playing With
- Speech Bubbles/Playing With
- Spikes of Doom/Playing With
- Spikes of Villainy/Playing With
- Spit-Take/Playing With
- Split Personality Merge/Playing With
- Split Personality Takeover/Playing With
- Spoiled Brat/Playing With
- Spoiled Sweet/Playing With
- Spoiler Opening/Playing With
- Spontaneous Human Combustion/Playing With
- Spot of Tea/Playing With
- Spousal Privilege/Playing With
- Springtime for Hitler/Playing With
- Spy Catsuit/Playing With
- Squishy Wizard/Playing With
- Stage Mom/Playing With
- Stairs Are Faster/Playing With
- Stalker with a Crush/Playing With
- Stalking Is Love/Playing With
- Stalking Mission/Playing With
- Standard Female Grab Area/Playing With
- Standard Hero Reward/Playing With
- Standing Between the Enemies/Playing With
- Star-Crossed Lovers/Playing With
- Starfish Aliens/Playing With
- Start of Darkness/Playing With
- Starter Equipment/Playing With
- Stating the Simple Solution/Playing With
- Status Quo Is God/Playing With
- Stay in the Kitchen/Playing With
- Stepford Smiler/Playing With
- Stepford Suburbia/Playing With
- Stepping Stones in the Sky/Playing With
- Stern Teacher/Playing With
- Steven Ulysses Perhero/Playing With
- Sticky Fingers/Playing With
- Stock Dinosaurs/Playing With
- Stone Wall/Playing With
- Stop Helping Me!/Playing With
- Story Reset/Playing With
- Stranger in a Familiar Land/Playing With
- Strangers on a Train Plot Murder/Playing With
- Strangled by the Red String/Playing With
- Straw Feminist/Playing With
- Strawman Has a Point/Playing With
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl/Playing With
- Stripperiffic/Playing With
- Strong Family Resemblance/Playing With
- Student and Master Team/Playing With
- Stuff Blowing Up/Playing With
- Stuffed Into a Locker/Playing With
- Stupid Good/Playing With
- Stupid Jetpack Hitler/Playing With
- Stupid Scientist/Playing With
- Suckiness Is Painful/Playing With
- Sufficiently Analyzed Magic/Playing With
- Sugar and Ice Personality/Playing With
- Sugar Bowl/Playing With
- Suicide by Cop/Playing With
- Summon Backup Dancers/Playing With
- Summon Bigger Fish/Playing With
- Sunny Sunflower Disposition/Playing With
- Super Drowning Skills/Playing With
- Super Empowering/Playing With
- Super Gender Bender/Playing With
- Super Prototype/Playing With
- Super Reflexes/Playing With
- Super Robot Genre/Playing With
- Super Window Jump/Playing With
- Super-Persistent Predator/Playing With
- Super-Powered Alter Ego/Playing With
- Super-Powered Evil Side/Playing With
- Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids/Playing With
- Surprise Creepy/Playing With
- Suspicious Videogame Generosity/Playing With
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute/Playing With
- Suspiciously Specific Denial/Playing With
- Sweet on Polly Oliver/Playing With
- Swiss Army Tears/Playing With
- Swiss Cheese Security/Playing With
- Sympathetic Criminal/Playing With
- Sympathetic Murderer/Playing With
- Sympathetic Sue/Playing With