Clap Your Hands If You Believe/Playing With

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Straight: Alice and Bob believe in something makes it real or allows it to happen.
  • Zig-Zagged: Belief becomes a good thing...and a bad thing at the same time.
  • Deconstructed: Alice and Bob are at risk for monster attacks because they believe in them. The monsters feed off of their beliefs and become stronger.
  • Reconstructed: But because Alice and Bob believe that the monsters cannot hurt them or that they can defeat the monsters, they have power over them.
  • Parodied: "I believe I will have a cone of ice cream soon...HUZZAH! there it is!"
  • Discussed:
    • "Tinkerbell needs your help - clap your hands if you believe in fairies!"
    • Alternatively, "How come if we believe in something, it comes true?"
  • Justified: Alice and Bob are wizards, believe in magic is what gives them power. When they stop believing? Then they lose their powers.
  • Averted: It doesn't make a difference whether they believe in it or not.
  • Exaggerated: Alice and Bob are cornered by a monster. They renounce their belief in the monster, causing it to immediately vanish.
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