Smelly Skunk/Playing With

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  • Basic Trope: Skunks smell bad
  • Played Straight: Stinky drives people off with his scent.
  • Exaggerated: Stinky's scent is foul enough to cause death.
  • Justified: Skunks do produce noxious-smelling chemicals.
  • Inverted: Stinky sprays out pink clouds of flowery perfume.
    • Or, standard skunk musk is considered attractive in this setting.
    • Everything stinks but skunks.
  • Subverted: Stinky doesn't smell all the time.
  • Double Subverted: Only when he's really ticked off.
  • Deconstructed:
  • Reconstructed:
  • Zig Zagged: Some skunks smell bad, others don't.
  • Lampshaded: " Peeeww!!! Who ran over a skunk?!"
  • Parodied: The smell can be smelled on the other side of the world, and maybe even from space!
  • Averted: Skunks don't smell in this setting, as with domesticated skunks.
    • Skunks don't even exist in this setting.
  • Enforced: Rule of Funny
  • Invoked: Bob and his drunk friends tease Stinky.
  • Defied: Stinky decides to conserve his stink for when he really needs it.
  • Discussed: "How could something so little and cute smell so bad?"
  • Conversed: "I got sprayed last week. It was horrible."
  • Played For Laughs: Almost always is.
  • Played For Drama: Stinky feels sad because no one likes him.