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=== Quasi-subversions!: ===
* [[Hypocritical Humor|Partially subverted]] in TV Tropes Wiki, where the word subversion is often used to mean [[Averted Trope|aversion]], [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|parody]], straight use in a comical context, etc.
** Also subverted outside of TV Tropes Wiki, where a totally different definition of subversion exists, unrelated to subverted expectations.
* A more concrete, media-inspired example: in science fiction settings with transporter devices, time travel or faster-than-light travel, the viewer may be reminded that a slight miscalculation could cause a traveler, spacecraft or time machine to materialize inside solid rock. This almost never happens on screen. At the end of the 2nd season of the 2000's ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', {{spoiler|a spacecraft actually does "jump" inside solid rock, killing the crew immediately}}. Actually showing this instead of hinting at its danger (which the audience has come to expect from the genre) is an example of a subversion
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** A lot of people have been switching to Subversion, though. Then there are those who use [http://git-scm.com/ Git], and the fewer still who use [http://bazaar-vcs.org Bazaar].
** SVN (Subversion) is actually pretty common, especially on newer or larger open-source projects (the newer ones have no reason to use the defunct CVS, the larger ones have constant pressure to upgrade). In a subversion of the gradual change from CVS to SVN, changing projects over to various distributed version control systems has been slower because of the automatic holy wars already emerging among the three major DVCS contenders: Git, Bazaar, and Mercurial (hg).
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