Inspector Javert/Playing With

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Basic Trope: An officer believes The Hero is the bad guy and goes after him ruthlessly.

  • Straight: Detective Bob believes Alice, who has been framed, is a thief and does everything in his power to arrest her.
  • Exaggerated: Bob mistakes a ketchup stain on Alice's shirt for blood and attempts to arrest her for murder.
  • Downplayed: Bob, a truant officer, goes after Alice whom he believes is skipping school, but has graduated school years ago.
  • Justified: The hero is framed for all the shit, but without evidence, Bob is right in trying to apprehend her.
  • Inverted: Alice believes that Detective Bob is actually the villain in disguise and tries to capture him.
  • Subverted: Bob is after Alice, who claims to have been framed, but turns out, was lying and did commit the crime.
  • Double Subverted: But that was not the crime Bob is after Alice for.
  • Parodied: Alice is a completely innocent woman, but through a series of coincidences and misunderstandings, Bob accuses Alice of several crimes, and her every attempt to prove her innocence only makes things worse.
  • Deconstructed: After Bob has arrested Alice, evidence of Alice's innocence pop up, and Bob is fired for his inability to spot this evidence before.
  • Reconstructed: ???
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Alice really is guilty of the crime Bob accuses her of.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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