History Main / AvertedTrope

'''Aversions should ''almost never'' be listed on trope pages, as they're almost always [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs completely meaningless]]. Generally, only nigh OmnipresentTropes, AcceptableBreaksFromReality or Administrivia/NoStraightExamplesPlease tropes should have aversions listed as examples. Simply not using a trope does not mean a work is an example of a trope.'''

'''Aversions should ''almost never'' be listed on trope pages, as they're almost always [[PeopleSittingOnChairs completely meaningless]]. Generally, only nigh OmnipresentTropes, AcceptableBreaksFromReality or Administrivia/NoStraightExamplesPlease tropes should have aversions listed as examples. Simply not using a trope does not mean a work is an example of a trope.'''

'''Aversions should ''ALMOST NEVER'' be listed on trope pages. 99.9% of the time they are the exact same thing as just not using the trope. Generally, only nigh OmnipresentTropes, AcceptableBreaksFromReality tropes or aversion-only tropes should have aversions listed as examples. Simply not using a trope does not mean a work is an example of a trope.'''

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[[caption-width-right:350:On this very page on January 1, 2022, absolutely no trope was used.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:On this very page on January 1, 2022 absolutely no trope was used.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:On this very page on January 1, 2022 absolutely no trope is used.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:As you can clearly see, she is not [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs sitting on a chair]].]]

{{Trope}}s have exceptions. Sometimes, a writer uses a situation that seems indelibly married to a trope, but the trope never appears. It's not a SubvertedTrope, because the trope is never hinted. Nor is it a LampshadeHanging, because the presence of trope is never pointed out. Nor is it a DefiedTrope because the trope is never acknowledged and avoided by the characters. The trope just isn't there.

'''Aversions should ''ALMOST NEVER'' be listed on trope pages. 99.9% of the time they are the exact same thing as just not using the trope. Generally, only nigh OmnipresentTropes, NecessaryWeasel tropes or aversion-only tropes should have aversions listed as examples. Simply not using a trope does not mean a work is an example of a trope.'''

* Averted: A villain plants a small, camouflaged bug on a chair. It goes undetected by the hero. The trope never comes into play.

Example of the difference between [[SubvertedTrope subverting]], [[DefiedTrope defying]], and averting a trope:

* Defied: A villain plants an IncrediblyObviousBug on a chair. He sees this and realizes the hero will find the bug, so he gets rid of it and plants an even more camouflaged bug on the chair.

Using words like averted ''hard'', brutally averted, and other such intensifiers is considered Administrivia/WordCruft, and thus should be [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs brutally averted ''hard''.]]

Using words like averted ''hard'', brutally averted, and other such intensifiers is considered Administrivia/WordCruft, and thus should be brutally averted ''hard''.

Using words like averted ''hard'', brutally averted, and other such intensifiers is considered Administrivia/WordCruft, and thus should be brutally averted 'hard'.

Using words like averted ''hard'', brutally averted, and other such intensifiers is considered Administrivia/WordCruft, and thus should be avoided.

* Averted: A villain plants a small, camouflaged bug on a chair, although in other points of the fiction it is pointed that bugs are large and flashing. It goes undetected by the hero. The trope never comes into play.

* Subverted: A villain plants an IncrediblyObviousBug on a chair. {{The hero}} finds it and throws it out, muttering, [[WhatAnIdiot "Does he think I'm blind?"]]

* Double Subverted: A villain plants an IncrediblyObviousBug on a chair. {{The hero}} finds it and throws it out. Then it turns out it was just a decoy and the real bug, better hidden but still much more obvious than a realistic one, goes unnoticed. Or, if double subverted for laughs, the bug that the hero ignores is significantly larger and flashier than the decoy and even more poorly hidden.

* Averted in ''Literature/HarryPotter'', where nothing like this ever happens.

On some occasions, an averted trope is basically inbetween the straight and the inverted trope. This doesn't count as downplay as long as the trope isn't there.

* Averted: A villain plants a small, camouflaged bug on a chair. It goes undetected by the hero. The trope never comes into play.

* Double Subverted: A villain plants an IncrediblyObviousBug on a chair. {{The hero}} finds it and throws it out. Then it turns out it was just a decoy and the real bug, better hidden but still much more obvious than a realistic one, goes unnoticed.

* Double Subverted: A villain plants an IncrediblyObviousBug on a chair. {{The hero}} finds it and throws it out. Then it turns out it was just a decoy for a much better hidden bug.