Zig-Zagging Trope: Difference between revisions

 

== Fanfic ==

* ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' does this with [[Recurring Dreams]]: Kanae's favorite dream is kissing her [[Sempai-Kohai|sempai]] at the beach and magically teleporting to a shadowy wooded glade surrounded by bunnies and flowers. The dream isn't psychic or precognitive but [[Contrived Coincidence|events happen]] so her sempai is in a very similar position to the start of her dream. With Kanae sightly dazed (enough to realize the differences on her usual dream but not enough to realize she's awake, [[It Makes Sense in Context]]) she kisses her sempai for the first time, everybody watching.

 

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

** Mrs. Benson in the first and second seasons is clearly a Carly/Freddie shipper, going so far as to ask Carly ''"Why won't you love my son!"'' In Season 3 she [[Zig Zagged]] into an anti-Carly/Freddie shipper, blaming Carly for Freddie getting hit by the truck in ''iSaved Your Life'', for Freddie deciding to move out during ''iMove Out'' and basically blaming him for Freddie hitting puberty:

{{quote| '''Mrs. Benson:''' You're the one who got Freddie interested in girls, and ever since then his boy chemistry's been all out of whack.}}

* [[Knight in Shining Armour]] trope in ''[[Braid]]''.

* ''[[Frontlines: Fuel of War]]'' zig zags with [[Bag of Spilling]]: Each mission comes in two halves, and you keep all of your gear if you die... But when the second half of the level loads you're suddenly stuck with a regular weapon set and ''none'' of the collected gear from the first section.

* ''[[Portal 2]]'' does this with [[Boss Arena Idiocy]]. In the course of a few short minutes, the [[Final Boss]] of the game defies it, plays it straight, subverts it, and double subverts it. The subversion is itself set up with a justification earlier in the game: there are elements of the mainframe room that are not under the control of the supervisory AI. This does not, however, prevent it from setting traps.

* [[Nethack]] has a triple subversion of [[Useless Useful Spell]]. The game has an [[Standard Status Effects|instant death]] spell (and wand that contains the spell in consumable form) that's [[Too Awesome to Use]] against regular enemies. However, the list of things immune to it is "everything that's already dead", which, in the first subversion, does not include all the bosses (it's about half; as an extreme example, two of the three endgame bosses are vulnerable to it, one is immune). However, the most powerful bosses (that are vulnerable to it) will simply respawn, making it much less powerful against them than you'd expect. However, it's still the most effective weapon to use against them anyway...