Playing with a Trope: Difference between revisions

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[[File:~~playingwithredux3_867~~.png|frame|An easy visual reference.]]

[[File:playingwithredux3 867.png|frame|An easy visual reference.]]

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** A huge glowing bomb is assumed to be a superweapon, and is then revealed to not have any effective blast due to its inefficiency.

* {{smallcaps|[[Double Subversion|Doubly Subverted]]}}: Like a [[Subverted Trope]], but then later it turns out that the apparent subversion was misleading, too. [[Mind Screw|Again,]] compare [[Red Herring]].

** The butler is the prime suspect at the beginning, but then eliminated as a ~~suspect -- except~~ he ''did'' do it, and the exonerating evidence is false.

** The butler is the prime suspect at the beginning, but then eliminated as a suspect—except he ''did'' do it, and the exonerating evidence is false.

** A huge glowing bomb is assumed to be a superweapon, and is then revealed to not have any effective blast due to its inefficiency. But the glow itself [[Nuke'Em|is super-effective]].

* {{smallcaps|[[The Untwist|Untwisted]]}}: The audience expects a trope to be subverted, but it is played straight instead. (Highly subjective; any plot development can become [[The Untwist]] to a [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|sufficiently paranoid reader.]])

** The butler is shown early on as the suspect with the flimsiest alibi, like a typical [[Red Herring]] with a [[Big Secret]], but after a series of twists and turns the detective reveals to everyone's surprise that it ''was'' old Alfred, after all.

** The glowing weapons appear to not glow at ~~all -- at~~ least, not in the visible spectrum.

** The glowing weapons appear to not glow at all—at least, not in the visible spectrum.

* {{smallcaps|[[Parodied Trope|Parodied]]}}: The form of the trope is twisted and often used in a silly way for comic effect.

** Butlers learn their trade at butler college where they are taught [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|cleaning, cooking, and murdering.]]

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[[Trope~~|Tropes~~]] can also be played differently in terms of tone and style:

[[Trope]]s can also be played differently in terms of tone and style:

* {{smallcaps|[[Played for Laughs]]}}: The humorous elements of a trope are played up. Differs from Parody, when different, by being a straight use.

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** The Butler did it, but is quite [[Sympathetic Murderer|sympathetic]], and the reasons he did it are gone into in great detail.

** [[Unholy Holy Sword|Only evil weapons glow, causing the user much angst.]]

* {{smallcaps|[[Exaggerated Trope|Exaggerated]]}}: The trope is used [[Up to Eleven|to an extreme.]] Please note that this does not necessarily have to be used ~~humourously -- a~~ trope can be exaggerated yet still played completely seriously.

* {{smallcaps|[[Exaggerated Trope|Exaggerated]]}}: The trope is used [[Up to Eleven|to an extreme.]] Please note that this does not necessarily have to be used humourously—a trope can be exaggerated yet still played completely seriously.

** All the butlers in the city go on a killing spree, and nobody suspects a thing.

** The strongest weapons completely obscure the screen by their glow.