His and Hers/Playing With

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  • Basic Trope: Objects are labeled "His" and "Hers" in a couple's house.
  • Played Straight: Bob's towel is labeled "His" and Alice's towel is labeled "Hers"
  • Exaggerated: Alice and Bob have their own en suite bathrooms
    • Up To Eleven: ... and everything in them is labelled 'his' or 'hers'
  • Downplayed: Alice's towel is labeled "Alice" and Bob's towel is labeled "Bob"
    • See "Double Subverted"
  • Justified: Alice and Bob are Sleeping Single
    • Alice and Bob are touchy about their possessions
  • Inverted: Alice and Bob share everything.
  • Subverted: Alice and Bob have their own bath towels, but they are not labeled.
  • Double Subverted: At least, they aren't monogrammed. Alice's towel is pink, and Bob's is blue.
  • Deconstructed: Bob breaks up with Alice and gets all the towels in the settlement. He immediately gives them to his new girlfriend, Claire, showing how depersonalized a simple pronoun is.
  • Reconstructed:
  • Parodied: Alice and Bob have an extra (little) towel labeled "Its" for their goldfish
    • Everything in Alice and Bob's house is like this, from towels, to telephones, to front doors.
    • Aaron and Bob have towels labelled 'his' and 'his'. Nobody can figure out whose is whose except them.
  • Lampshaded:
  • Averted: Alice and Bob don't label their possessions.
  • Enforced:
  • Invoked: Alice and Bob receive towels labeled "His" and "Hers" as wedding gifts.
  • Defied: Alice and Bob agree to share everything.
  • Discussed:
  • Conversed:
  • Played For Laughs: See "Parodied"
  • Played For Drama: Alice and Bob's marriage starts to fall apart because someone grabbed the wrong towel early in the morning while not quite awake yet.

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