Flat Yes/Playing With
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Basic Trope: A character answers a question with a simple yes, with little emotion, if any.
- Straight: Alice asks Bob a question and he replies with a flat yes.
- Exaggerated: Alice tells Bob all about her horrible day yesterday and asks a question at the end, and Bob replies with a yes.
- Downplayed: Alice makes a boring offhand comment and Bob says yes.
- Justified: Bob doesn't really care about what Alice has to say.
- Inverted: Little No
- Subverted: Alice asks Bob a question. When he was about to reply, he pondered about the question for a while.
- Double Subverted: Then he replies with a flat yes.
- Parodied: Alice asked Bob stupid question like "Are you a girl?", "Does 1+1=3?" etc. Bob replies all of them with a yes.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: ???
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Alice want to make Bob look stupid. Knowing he'll reply with a yes, she asks him a stupid question.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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