Keep-Away/Playing With

Basic Trope: A group of characters try to prevent another character from obtaining an artifact by tossing it from one to another.

Straight: Bob and Alice toss a doomsday device to each other away from Emperor Evulz.
Exaggerated: Every hero tries to keep the doomsday device from Emperor Evulz.
Downplayed: Alice holds up the doomsday device high over her head where Emperor Evulz can't reach.
Justified: The heroes know that it will be bad if Emperor Evulz gets a hold of the doomsday device, and thus decide to work together to keep it away from him.
Inverted: Hot Potato
Subverted: Bob and Alice start to play keep away from Emperor Evulz, but hand it to him after being threatened
Double Subverted: But the doomsday device they handed him was a fake.
Parodied: The heroes and villains act like school children at a playground.
Zig Zagged: ???
Averted: ???
Enforced: ???
Lampshaded: ???
Invoked: ???
Exploited: Carol knew Bob and Alice will do it with her toy again, and shake it. But Carol can be mean too, so now they both got bugs crawling over them.
Defied: ???
Discussed: ???
Conversed: ???