The Final Temptation/Playing With: Difference between revisions

* '''Double Subverted''': ...but Bob says, "This time I'm serious, Alice. Would you like to go live as a normal farmer, and put all this behind you?"

* '''Parodied''': Alice has been established as loving [[In Harm's Way|the adventure and the fighting]], and laughs off Bob's eloquent arguments for how she'd be happy as a civilian with "What, give up this exciting quest in favor of a boring, overrated normal life? Bob, really, you should lay off the drugs."

* '''Reconstructed''': Alice has every reason to want to continue her quest. Bob made it [[It's Personal|personal]], had members of Alice's family killed, destroyed everything or nearly everything that Alice held dear. Why would she back out now, at her opportunity to take revenge?

* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice thinks Bob is joking, but he isn't, and the offer stands. She temporarily refuses Bob's offer anyway, until he shows her his power, and then she surrenders and accepts. But the fulfillment of the offer takes place in a [[Lotus Eater Machine]], and she ends up running into [[Nakama|Charlie, Dorothy, and Edward]], all of whom are missing out on something they found during the adventure, which causes Alice to break out of the [[Lotus Eater Machine]] with pure willpower, at which time Bob gives her the same offer, promising that this time it's real and not an illusion.

* '''Invoked''': "I can see that Alice wants to go home and [[I Just Want to Be Normal|live a normal life]]. If I offer her that, maybe she'll leave me to my world-conquering."

* '''Defied''': "I'm not offering Alice a chance to go home. She wouldn't accept anyway."

* '''Conversed''': "Ugh, here it comes." "Here what comes?" "The part where Bob shows Alice the peaceful life she could be living if she'd just stop fighting. Heroines like Alice never accept, so why do villains keep offering it?"

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