Gilligan Cut/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A character protests against something, which they are immediately shown doing.

• Straight: Alice says there's no way she's joining a football team. Cut to her playing a football match.
• Exaggerated: Alice says there's no way she's joining a football team. Cut to her playing a football match at the World Cup.
• Downplayed: Alice says there's no way she's joining a football team, but the team persuades her to watch the match. Cut to Alice watching a football match.
• Justified:
  • Alice has always had trouble saying no.
  • Alice is Unstuck in Time, and has got used to this kind of thing happening in-universe.
• Inverted: Alice is playing football. Cut to her insisting she's never going to play football again.
• Subverted: Alice says there's no way she's joining a football team. Cut to her standing in exactly the same place, looking smug: "I told you I'd never join the football team."
• Double Subverted: Beat. Then cut to her playing a football match.
• Parodied: Alice says there's no way she's joining a sports team. Cut to her wearing a hula dress. "What the..."
• Deconstructed: Alice is repeatedly talked into doing things she doesn't want to. Eventually she stops hanging out with her so-called "friends".
• Reconstructed: Alice gripes about how she always gets talked into stuff, but sticks around because she secretly enjoys the wacky hijinks her friends cause.
• Zig Zagged: Alice says there's no way she's joining a football team. Cut to her standing on the football field, which was just an Imagine Spot - she's really on the American football field, where she's immediately buried under the other players. But fortunately, that was All Just a Dream. And her football match starts in an hour, so she'd better hurry.
• Averted:
  • Alice is simply shown at a football match without any form of protest preceding it.
  • Alternatively: Alice says she will never join the football team, and she never does.
• Enforced:
  • The writers are parodying a work that famously contained a Gilligan Cut.
  • It would be dull and unnecessary to show the conversation by which Alice is persuaded to change her mind, plus it's just funnier to show it with a Jump Cut.
• Lampshaded:
  • After the cut, Alice looks around and wonders how she suddenly got on a football field.
  • Alternatively: The narrator says, "But of course, you know what refusing ends up leading to."
• Invoked: Alice, who has a lot of Medium Awareness, is Briar Patching so that she may join the football team effortlessly.
• Exploited: Alice is visibly surprised by suddenly being on a football field, and tentatively says "And I will absolutely never own my own yacht!"
• Defied:
  • Alice, before protesting against being on the football team, checks the script to make sure this won't happen.
  • "...and don't think you can get around it by just flash-forwarding to me already on the team!"
• Discussed: After Alice protests against being on the football team, Bob warns her about Tempting Fate like that.
• Conversed: Alice mentions that her favourite character is always subject to these cuts.

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