Mating Dance/Playing With
Basic Trope: Hey, are those two characters dancing or doing something else entirely?
- Played Straight: Alice and Bob dance together suggestively.
- Exaggerated: The motions not only are suggestive, but Alice and Bob are...making a lot of noise and naked. And shortly after the dance scene, Alice is pregnant.
- Inverted: Alice and Bob have sex, but it looks like they're doing the Twist or some other dance moves (that couldn't easily be construed as sexual).
- Justified: Alice and Bob decided to get wild on the dancefloor.
- Alice and Bob are non-human creatures of some sort that actually do reproduce by dancing.
- Subverted: Alice and Bob are seen on the dance floor, dancing closely, but not doing any suggestive-looking moves.
- Double Subverted: But it is revealed afterwards that they got arrested for public sex, had a very loud orgasm, Alice is now pregnant, or something along those lines.
- Deconstructed: After a suggestive display on the dancefloor, Alice and Bob run off to have sex and it's clunky and awkward. As a result, they discover that they're not as compatible as they initially thought.
- Reconstructed: But after a long term relationship and plenty of practice, they begin to better understand the importance of passion and synchronization, making both their sex and dancing more sensual than ever.
- Parodied: Watching Alice and Bob on the dancefloor, a Grande Dame and her husband stare in horror. She faints, and he loses his monocle into his drink.
- Lampshaded: Alice: "Ow, something's poking me!"
- "Don't dance too closely, you two!"
- Averted: Alice and Bob's dance moves don't look even vaguely sexual.
- Alice and Bob don't dance in this setting.
- Enforced: This is a kids' program, so we need to have our main couple have sex in a way that isn't really sexual.
- Invoked: Alice and Bob start grinding to sexy music.
- Defied: Alice and Bob feel that this is wrong, and either don't dance or don't dance suggestively.
- Discussed: "Man, Alice and Bob are really going at it!"
- Conversed: "How did they go from dancing to...uh...dancing?"
- Played for Laughs: Bob dances with every girl on the floor...and all find themselves pregnant.
- Played for Drama: Alice's Overprotective Dad sees them dancing... and he doesn't like it at all.
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