Twitchy Eye/Playing With

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Twitchy Eye: A character's eyelid spasms when emotionally unstable.

  • Straight: After she fired from her job, Alice's eye twitches whenever it is brought up.
  • Exaggerated: Alice is Ax Crazy, and this is her basic expression.
  • Justified: Alice has Tourette's Syndrome.
  • Inverted: Alice's eye twitches when she's trying to avoid laughing (of the genuinely humorous kind).
  • Subverted: Alice's eye twitches normally-no one's really noticed that until she was fired, and she keeps the twitch after she gets her job back.
  • Double Subverted: The reason nobody noticed it was that it only gets that bad under stress.
  • Parodied: Alice's eye twitches on every opportunity, except when she's unstable.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Alice's eye doesn't twitch.
  • Enforced: The writer's can't stand emotionally unstable people, so he mocks them by placing this character in one of his shows.
  • Lampshaded: "Um, Alice? Your eye is twitching. Are you sure you're taking this all right?"
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: "Um, is her eye like that normally?" "No, it isn't. Keep your distance, and try not to being up sensitive topics."

  • Twitch, twitch* (Gasp)....Finally done....*twitch*