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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The animated ''[[Hellsing]]'' reverses the "male predator = vampire" expectation in an early episode when a fat, lecherous man hires a prostitute and feels her up in while leering at her. The viewer is cringing for the inevitable [[Disposable Sex Worker]] scene when Alucard reveals himself and calls out the vampire... who is the prostitute. (Though [[The Vamp|dangerously sexy women]] are also a trope, so make of that what you will.)
* The [[Alternate Continuity|2009 TV Special]] of ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]'' inverts the [[Adaptational Badass]] trope; the title character went from being the poster-cub of [[Killer Rabbit]]s to a wimpy coward.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Birds of Prey]]'', [[Black Canary]] [[Invoked Trope|deliberately tries to reform]] [[Dark Action Girl|Lady Shiva]] [[Morality Pet|by giving her honest friendship and human contact]]. Shiva, however, is perfectly aware of Dinah's intentions, and lets Dinah get a good look at her real personality and history for one reason: she wants to make her ''stop''.
* ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' used to feature a recurring 'scenes we'd like to see', which often featured subverted or inverted tropes (for example, the (in)famous 'car races train' film ends up with train hitting car, car survives, train gets smashed to smithereens).
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* ''[[Hunting the Unicorn]]'' plays a lot with its [[Troperiffic|many, many tropes.]] But as a [[Deconstruction Fic]] of [[Glee|Blaine and Kurt's]] canonical [[But Not Too Gay]] status, it turns out that Blaine {{spoiler|lost his virginity at sixteen because he wanted to invoke [[Sex Equals Love]]}}. Being [[Reality Ensues|real life]] as opposed to a fairy tale, [[Break the Cutie|it didn't work at all]]—leading to a very painful inversion of ''[[You Need to Get Laid]].''
== [[Film]] ==
* In the beginning of ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'' inverts the [[Artificial Limbs]] trope with the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160308012045/http://filmjunk.com/images/weblog/treknobabble12_firstcontact.jpg android Data] by {{spoiler|having living flesh grafted onto his body by the Borg queen.}} It doesn't last.
* ''[[A Kid
* Sweet Pea in [[Sucker Punch]] goes through most of the story being the stereotypical [[Sour Supporter]], reluctantly joining the team, reminding everyone of how dangerous and stupid the plan is, and eventually calling it quits when things get too dangerous. When it is revealed that the Sour Supporter - which is usually a left of center character at most - is actually the [[Decoy Protagonist|plot central character]] and the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] is made ''for'' her instead of ''by'' her, the trope inverts.
* ''The Caveman's Valentine'' inverts the generally parent-to-child [[So Proud of You]] by having Lulu say this to her [[Samuel L. Jackson|crazy father]].
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Terry Jones]]'s ''[[Starship Titanic]]'' inverts the [[Aliens Speaking English]] trope. When one of the protagonists, aboard a Blerontinian spaceship, asks how can aliens speak English, he's told that actually, thanks to [[Applied Phlebotinum]], he's currently speaking and understanding Blerontinian.
* Marc in [[Chronicles of the Kencyrath]] is a classic [[Big Guy]], but he fakes [[The Berserker|berserker rages]] so he doesn't have to fight.
== [[Live
* In the pilot of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', an apparently high-school-age couple is in the school at night; the girl is nervous about being out at night while the boy reassures her. Since it's clear from the title that this is a vampire show, the expectation is the boy will suddenly reveal himself as a vampire and bite the girl; instead the opposite happens, and the girl is the vampire.
** Buffy herself is an inverted trope. Blonde teen girl who hunts down monsters, when normally they would hunt her. [[Word of God]] states that this was the entire point of the story.
* Invoked by
* In the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode "There all the honor lies," a gift shop opens in the space station that sells [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|human masks for space aliens to wear]].
** Similarly, Londo takes issue with the state of the genitalia present on the dolls made in his likeness; when it's assumed he's upset about a breach of decency, he clarifies that he's upset ''because'' there are none shown. It turns out that
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'' played straight the [[Hide Your Lesbians]] trope throughout the series, giving only the tiniest of hints that Maggie Sawyer was gay, despite her status as an out-lesbian in the comics since 1988. However, the series not only subverted, but ''inverted'' the [[Bury Your Gays]] trope when it came to Maggie. The opening scene of ''Apokolips...Now!'' contained a perfect set up for [[Bury Your Gays|her death]], she is blown out of her car during an attack by Intergang and the next shot has her badly burned and motionless beneath a crushing pile of rubble, ''without'' [[Eye Awaken|moving her eyes]] or [[Finger-Twitching Revival|her fingers]], but she ultimately survives the encounter. That is a straight subversion of the [[Bury Your Gays]] trope. However, the show then went on to invert the trope as well, as the same scene that revealed that Maggie had survived (Subverting the trope) was also the first scene to hint at her sexuality, when she was visited in the hospital by a woman the DVD commentary and credits reveal to be Toby Raines, her partner from the comics. [[Bury Your Gays]] is often used as a way of getting rid of homosexual characters, of obscuring their nature before it could be brought into the story, but here it is used as a way to ''reveal'' a homosexual character. Also Inverted when {{spoiler|her straight beat partner Dan Terpin is [[Killed Off for Real]].}}
== [[Other Media]] ==
* Pictures by Gleb Androsov about [http://www.androsov.com/cartoons/vampires/vampire01.jpg vampire surgery], [http://www.androsov.com/cartoons/buratines/buratino01.JPG pinocchio pirate], [http://www.androsov.com/cartoons/dragons/dragon02.JPG a dragon] and [http://www.androsov.com/cartoons/ratcatchers/ratcatcher03.JPG Hameln chapel-master].
* ''[http://leelaforge.deviantart.com/art/Reversal-186587606 Reversal]'' by LeeLaForge on [[Deviant ART]] - the picture of nudes painting an artist (obviously, [[NSFW]])
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* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]] and [[Hot Amazon]]
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The real-life phenomenon of [[streaking]] was beautifully inverted in June 2009 when a [http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/jun/14/naked-rugby-new-zealand fully-clothed person] ran across the field at an annual naked rugby game in New Zealand.
* [[James Buchanan]] knew upon leaving office that he was unpopular, and that he was blamed by many for the [[American Civil War|national crisis]] that was starting. Buchanan said at the time [[Vindicated by History|"history will vindicate me"]]. No such luck, as he's still considered one of the worst American Presidents,
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