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The simplest and most common method of applying [[Deconstruction]] to tropes in fiction among general audiences and fan bases, and the method most relevant to [[TVAll The Tropes]], takes the form of questioning "''How would this trope play out with [[Real Life]] consequences applied to it?''"

This doesn't mean magic and other fantastic or futuristic elements, or any other tropes must be removed or attacked for failing to match up with their own pretentionspretensions of self-consistent reality, of course. While sometimes perceived as an aggressive attack on the meaning or enjoyableness of a work or text, deconstruction is not properly about passing judgement (and in fact, the term "deconstruction" was picked over the German term "destruktion" to suggest careful attention to the detail within a text over violently emptying the work of all meaning). It means that all existing elements of a work are played without the [[Rule of Cool]], [[Rule of Drama]], [[Rule of Funny]], and so on, to see what hidden assumptions the work uses to make its point. Sometimes you will hear this referred to as "[[Playing With a Trope|played completely straight]]", and it can be thought of as taking a work more seriously on its own terms than even the work itself does, for the purpose of laying bare hidden meanings in the text.