River of Insanity/Playing With

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Basic Trope: Crazy leader of party decides to continue down the path despite everyone's calling to stop and save their selves.

  • Straight: Hiro insists on continuing to his expedition into the jungle, despite the fact that his party members are exhausted, sick, or dying.
  • Exaggerated: Hiro insists on continuing his expedition into Eldritch Abomination's lair, even though almost everyone in the party is on the brink of dying.
  • Justified: Whatever the party is after, or needs to do, will prevent the world from being destroyed.
  • Inverted: Hiro's party members want to continue on the expedition, but Hiro thinks it's a horrible idea.
  • Subverted: The expedition moves along swimmingly, and no one is injured in its course.
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied: Hiro drags his party down into a patch of wilderness covered in danger signs, stating that there's nothing to worry about, even as half the expedition party is being attacked by Eldritch Abominations.
  • Deconstructed: Hiro's actions causes his party to desert him, as he obviously does not care for their welfare.
  • Reconstructed: ???
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted: ???
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "I've got a bad feeling about this..."
  • Invoked: ???
  • Defied: Hiro calls off the expedition when his party members are in no condition to carry on any longer.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
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