Sometimes, when people talk of "Partial Subversion", they mean Downplayed Trope, where the trope is still present, but to a much lesser degree.īeware ye these abominable Weasel Words that refer to various methods of Playing with a Trope: There's also a related problem of people mislabelling things as deconstructions or Deconstructed Tropes when they aren't, but that's another matter. A Deconstructed Trope is played completely straight, and so is not a subversion even though they subvert people's expectations of the consequences of a trope. Occasionally, Deconstructions are also listed as subversions. Worse, occasionally a slight spin on the standard trope formula, such as the addition of a justification, is seized upon as a subversion by the occasional fan, perhaps because they don't want to acknowledge that a trope was played deadly straight to good effect in their favourite work. An inverted trope is where the usual setup of the trope is in some way swapped: sex-flipped versions are quite common, though by no means the only example.Ī trope can of course be both inverted and subverted, if the viewer or reader is led to expect the straight version only to be given an inversion of some kind, but an inverted trope is not automatically also a subverted one: there needs to be a genuine attempt to suggest that the trope is going to be used straight to qualify as a "subversion".
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However, if works in a series make notable use of a trope, then aversion in later installments also become notable.Ī slightly more subtle distinction inverted tropes are sometimes incorrectly described as "subverted". To quote Averted Trope, unless the trope is so universal within a genre that exceptions truly stand out, there's not much point in listing an aversion on an examples list that serves to illustrate a trope's patterns and their prevalence. Subversion: The pilot episode begins with an especially obnoxious laugh track that punctuates every line, but it turns out to be part of a Show Within a Show.Īversions hardly ever need to be noted.
It's an aversion when the genre itself sets it up.įor instance, if the trope in question is " pre-recorded laughter that punctuates every joke in a sitcom": It's only a subversion if the work sets up the trope, creating an expectation that the trope will be used, and then does something else. People tend to label any series that merely completely avoids a certain trope as a "subversion," when in fact that's called an aversion. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace.
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