Woman Scorned/Playing With
- Basic Trope: Girl gets rejected, disaster ensues.
- Played Straight: Alice asks Bob to the Sadie Hawkins Dance, and Bob turns her down. She slashes his tires.
- Exaggerated: Alice murders Bob over this.
- Alice kills all the boys at school (or all the other girls) because Bob turned her down.
- Downplayed: Alice gets treated like dirt by Bob. She publicly humiliates him as revenge.
- Justified: Alice is a Yandere.
- Inverted: Bob asks Alice to a dance, and Alice turns him down. He slashes her tires.
- Subverted: Alice appears to accept Bob's rejection of her invitation.
- Double Subverted: But she spends the rest of the day plotting her revenge.
- Deconstructed: Alice goes to jail for her vengeful actions.
- Reconstructed: ???
- Parodied: Bob is obviously a Bastard Boyfriend. Cue Alice gagged and bound after slashing his tires.
- Lampshaded: "Nobody rejects Alice Troper and lives to tell about it!"
- Enforced: Love Makes You Crazy, Love Makes You Evil
- Averted: Alice accepts Bob's refusal at face value.
- Invoked: Bob tries to make Alice jealous by canoodling in the hallway with Claire.
- Exploited: Alice asks Bob to the Sadie Hawkins Dance and he accepts. However, Colin, Bob's enemy, told Alice that Bob changed his mind behind his back. Colin grins as Alice slashes Bob's tires.
- Defied: Alice finds another guy to ask to the dance.
- Discussed: "I wouldn't want to date a girl like that..."
- Conversed: "Alice is such a psycho!"