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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: ???

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