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** Temple Fugate, The ClockKing, displays tropes that imply he is TheSociopath, but a high-functioning one. [[{{UsefulNotes/LackOfEmpathy}} His personality traits]] [[hottip:*: BlueAndOrangeMorality, DisproportionateRetribution, JerkAss, LackOfEmpathy, MisplacedRetribution, MoralSociopathy, NoSocialSkills, PrinciplesZealot, TheStoic, SmallNameBigEgo]]
are similar to those who suffer Antisocial Personality Disorder.

** Temple Fugate, The ClockKing, displays tropes that imply he is TheSociopath, but a high-functioning one. [[{{UsefulNotes/LackOfEmpathy}} His personality traits [[hottip:*: BlueAndOrangeMorality, DisproportionateRetribution, JerkAss, LackOfEmpathy, MisplacedRetribution, MoralSociopathy, NoSocialSkills, PrinciplesZealot, TheStoic, SmallNameBigEgo]]
are similar to those who suffer Antisocial Personality Disorder]].

When something is implied because it's inappropriate, that's GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

* BuryYourDisabled is implied in the ''{{Sherlock}}'' Series 2 finale. Sherlock has been called a Psychopath and self-diagnosed himself as a [[SociopathicHero high-functioning sociopath]]. In "The Hounds Of Baskerville", Watson had outright suggested he may have AspergerSyndrome. Moriarty uses Sherlock's rather [[InsufferableGenius abrasive]] reputation to [[HeroWithBadPublicity turn the public and his closest friends against him]] in "The Reichenbach Fall," making it so [[DeathEqualsRedemption the only way Sherlock can save his friends and his reputation is to kill himself]].

** ButYouScrewOneGoat In the same game, you get Cook-Cook, flamethrower wielding psychopathic rapist, who goes berserk when you kill his pet brahmin (mutated cow), and who really stinks.

* * ''[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]]'' fanfic ''FanFic/AshesOfThePast'' implies BringMyBrownPants happens to Damian, the guy who Ash's Charizard used to belong to and abandoned him.

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* ''SafetyNotGuaranteed'' implies YouAlreadyChangedThePast. Mark says he's going back in time to save his first girlfriend from being killed by a drunk driver. [[spoiler: Except that she's alive, they were never together, and ''he'' was the driver.]]

* HeroicSacrifice in ''Film/TheThing''. [[spoiler: Fuchs]] is found as a charred corpse. There was no reason for the Thing to kill him off instead of assimilating him, so it's safe to assume that he did it to himself in order to avoid being assimilated.

* HeroicSacrifice in ''Film/TheThing''. [[spoiler: Fuchs]] is found as a charred corpse. There was no reason for the Thing to kill him off instead of assimilating him, so it's safe to assume that he did it to himself in order to avoid being assimilated.

* An ArchaelogicalArmsRace is implied in {{Eberron}}. Several countries are gearing up for war and there are a great deal of powerful magical artifacts to uncover. Whether the trope is played straight is up to the DM, of course.

** BetYouScrewOneGoat In the same game, you get Cook-Cook, flamethrower wielding psychopathic rapist, who goes berserk when you kill his pet brahmin (mutated cow), and who really stinks.

* RageAgainstTheReflection in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. One of the characters you meet, Boone, is a ShellShockedVeteran [[spoiler:plagued by [[SympatheticMurderBackstory guilt over innocents he's had to kill]]]]. The bathroom mirror in his hotel room is broken, and there's a small bloodstain underneath.

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* RageAgainstTheReflection in ''FalloutNewVegas''. One of the characters you meet, Boone, is a ShellShockedVeteran [[spoiler:plagued by [[SympatheticMurderBackstory guilt over innocents he's had to kill]]]]. The bathroom mirror in his hotel room is broken, and there's a small bloodstain underneath.
* PartingWordsRegret in ''TheSimpsons''. When [[spoiler:Mona Simpson]] is KilledOffForReal, Homer tries to apologize to her for a fight they had before he notices she died.
* HeroicSacrifice in ''TheThing''. [[spoiler: Fuchs]] is found as a charred corpse. There was no reason for the Thing to kill him off instead of assimilating him, so it's safe to assume that he did it to himself in order to avoid being assimilated.
* ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou in TimBurton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland''. We know that Alice dismisses her first visit to Wonderland as a dream. At the garden party, she meets an old woman who has traits of the Red Queen, and twins (the Chataway sisters) who behave like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.
* DisabilityImmunity is implied in the fanfic ''FanFic/{{Objective}}'', where the bad guy needs to make eye contact with his victim and say, "[[TitleDrop Objective]]."

* BrotherSisterIncest in {{Film/Gladiator}}, with Commodus quite clearly lusting after Lucilla (though he is never shown to act upon those impulses).

An Implied Trope is one the author leaves a trail of clues to hint that a trope happened without actually showing it. This can be done by showing the build up to a trope, by showing the after-effects, or both. It is something between playing a trope straight and subverting it. As with a SubvertedTrope, an Implied Trope assumes the audience is familiar enough with the trope that they'll be able to understand what's being suggested, but rather than defying those expectations, the work uses them to create the same effect as the trope while leaving the details up to the audience's imagination.

An Implied Trope is one where the audience is left to speculate that the trope happened. This can be done by showing the build up to a trope, by showing the after-effects, or both. It is something between playing a trope straight and subverting it. As with a SubvertedTrope, an Implied Trope assumes the audience is familiar enough with the trope that they'll be able to understand what's being suggested, but rather than defying those expectations, the work uses them to create the same effect as the trope while leaving the details up to the audience's imagination.

They didn't show it happening. Nowhere in the dialogue is it explicitly stated that it happened. However, the evidence is pretty clear that it did happen. Maybe it happened before the work started. Maybe it happened between two sequels, or between two scenes. Maybe it was going on in the background just out of the audience's sight.

* HeroicSacrifice in ''TheThing''. One of the characters is found as a charred corpse. There was no reason for the Thing to kill him off instead of assimilating him, so it's safe to assume that he did it to himself in order to avoid being assimilated.

An ImpliedTrope is one where the audience is left to speculate that the trope happened. This can be done by showing the build up to a trope, by showing the after-effects, or both. It is something between playing a trope straight and subverting it. As with a SubvertedTrope, an ImpliedTrope assumes the audience is familiar enough with the trope that they'll be able to understand what's being suggested, but rather than defying those expectations, the work uses them to create the same effect as the trope while leaving the details up to the audience's imagination.

* RageAgainstTheReflection in ''Fallout:NewVegas''. One of the characters you meet, Boone, is a ShellShockedVeteran [[spoiler: plagued by [[SympatheticMurderBackstory guilt over innocents he's had to kill]]]]. The bathroom mirror in his hotel room is broken, and there's a small bloodstain underneath.

* PartingWordsRegret in ''TheSimpsons''. When [[spoiler: Mona Simpson]] is KilledOffForReal, Homer tries to apologize to her for a fight they had before he notices she died.

* DisabilityImmunity is implied in the fanfic ''FanFic/{{Objective}}'' where the bad guy needs to make eye contact with his victem and say "Objective."