Playing with a Trope: Difference between revisions

* [[Power Glows]]

* {{smallcaps|Played Straight}}: The trope is simply used. Note that this is the 'default' manifestation of a trope unless stated otherwise; when citing an example, it's usually [[Word Cruft|needless]] (and/or [[Department of Redundancy Department|redundant]]) to explicitly mention that it was "played straight". (Inversely, if a work plays the same trope several times in several different ways or it's a trope which is more commonly played with than played straight, like a [[Dead Horse Trope]], ''then'' it's worth noting it was "played straight".)

** [[The Butler Did It]], and everyone is genuinely surprised.

** [[Power Glows|Powerful weapons glow]] inexplicably.

** The butler did it because he's actually an assassin that took the job to ''be'' [[Beneath Suspicion]].

** Powerful weapons glow because our heroes are fighting [[Living Shadow|shadows]]. Or the weapons are powered by glowing [[Applied Phlebotinum|Phlebotinum]].

** The butler is the prime suspect at the beginning, and is later found innocent.

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

** 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]].

** The butler was defending himself from his [[Asshole Victim|cruel master]] who was about to murder the butler.

** Vision damage is a risk that the heroes must take to defeat the [[Ultimate Evil]]. And the heroes, at least, [[An Aesop|take]] [[Averted Trope|eye]] [[Goggles Do Nothing|protection]] [[Serious Business|seriously]].

** The butler did it, but he was under [[Mind Control]] at the time. And it later turns out that the one mind controlling the butler looked exactly like the butler. And then we find out that it was actually his [[Evil Twin]], who was also a butler. But it turns out it was a conspiracy hatched by the Butler and his [[Evil Twin]], one born of necessity because the victim was going to do something monstrous.

** There's a fifteen-page-long chart explaining [[Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors|how effective weapons with different glow intensities are against one another.]] And the authors ''still'' manage to do a complete [[Ass Pull]] every once in a while.

** "Unlike what you may read in detective stories, the butler is an unlikely suspect in any murder investigation of this sort."

** "I don't care what anime has taught you: [[This Is Reality|in the real world]], a [[Buffy-Speak|glowier]] sword is not more powerful."

** "In these shows, the butler always does it."

** "In a [[There's No B in Movie|bad movie like this]], the more powerful swords always glow."