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** An AntiClimacticUnmasking is used this way when it comes to Calendar Girl. As Batman moves to unmask her, she panics, screaming and sobbing about how no-one can be allowed to see how hideous she is. This sets up the expectation that maybe she has some form of horrific scar from botched plastic surgery after she was forced away from modelling... but, when the mask is removed, Calendar Girl looks exactly like an attractive woman in her late thirties.
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** An AntiClimacticUnmasking is used this way when it comes to Calendar Girl. As Batman Detective Bullock moves to unmask her, she panics, screaming and sobbing about how no-one can be allowed to see how hideous she is. This sets up the expectation that maybe she has some form of horrific scar from botched plastic surgery after she was forced away from modelling... but, when the mask is removed, Calendar Girl looks exactly like an attractive woman in her late thirties.
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** An AntiClimacticUnmasking is used this way when it comes to Calendar Girl. As Batman moves to unmask her, she panics, screaming and sobbing about how no-one can be allowed to see how hideous she is. This sets up the expectation that maybe she has some form of horrific scar from botched plastic surgery after she was forced away from modelling... but, when the mask is removed, Calendar Girl looks exactly like an attractive woman in her late thirties.
** An AntiClimacticUnmasking is used this way when it comes to Calendar Girl. As Batman moves to unmask her, she panics, screaming and sobbing about how no-one can be allowed to see how hideous she is. This sets up the expectation that maybe she has some form of horrific scar from botched plastic surgery after she was forced away from modelling... but, when the mask is removed, Calendar Girl looks exactly like an attractive woman in her late thirties.
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* A BigHonkingTrafficJam is turned tragic in ''Film/TheDayBritainStopped''. The big honking traffic jam envelops the whole nation and is the cause of many disasters that ruin people's lives, and even get them killed, [[TwistedChristmas and on Christmas, too]].
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* ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'': AndThereWasMuchRejoicing is PlayedForHorror and Drama in the aftermath of [[spoiler:Tommy's death]], as the Eggpire throw a party in the victim's house--and after getting kicked out, rent a room in the victim's hotel to continue their revelries.
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* ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'': AndThereWasMuchRejoicing is PlayedForHorror and Drama in the aftermath of [[spoiler:Tommy's death]], as the Eggpire throw a party in the victim's house--and house -- and after getting kicked out, rent a room in the victim's hotel to continue their revelries.
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* CompetitionCouponMadness is played for drama in ''Film/PunchDrunkLove''. Barry Egan's obsession with getting enough promotional coupons to trade for frequent flyer miles just comes across to those close to him as more evidence that he is an unstable {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. It becomes more heartwarming when he proposes to his LoveInterest and adds that he'll be able to get enough airline miles to accompany her anywhere in the world on her frequent overseas business trips.
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* AshesToCrashes is played for tearjerker value in ''Styrofoam Plates'' by Music/DeathCabForCutie, where the singer [[CallingTheOldManOut calls out]] the GlorifiedSpermDonor father.
-->''There's a saltwater film on the jar of your ashes; I threw them to sea,\\
but a gust blew them backwards and the sting in my eyes\\
that you then inflicted was par for the course just as when you were living.''
-->''There's a saltwater film on the jar of your ashes; I threw them to sea,\\
but a gust blew them backwards and the sting in my eyes\\
that you then inflicted was par for the course just as when you were living.''
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* [[ILoveTheDead Necrophilia]] is turned sad in the Music/LindiOrtega song "Lived And Died Alone". The lonely narrator's love for living people has gone constantly unrequited, so she looks for people who died alone and gives them the love they never got in life.
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* [[ILoveTheDead Necrophilia]] is turned sad in the Music/LindiOrtega song "Lived And Died Alone". The [[AllLoveIsUnrequited lonely narrator's love for living people has gone constantly unrequited, unrequited]], so she looks for people who died alone and gives them the love they never got in life.
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* AnimalSweetOnObject is turned into a tragic love story in the Creator/ShelSilverstein poem "The Bagpipe Who Didn't Say No". The poem tells how a tired turtle found a bagpipe on the beach and fell in love with it. Of course, the bagpipe can't speak, so the "relationship" progresses through a long string of requests from the turtle until he tries cuddling the bagpipe and it says "aaooga". Taking this as a sign he's offended his "love", the turtle begs "her" to tell him that it's not over and "she" doesn't want him to leave, but [[DownerEnding of course the bagpipe can't speak]].
-->''And the turtle crept off crying and he ne'er came back no more''
-->''And he left the bagpipe lying on that smooth and sandy shore.''
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* AnimalSweetOnObject is turned into a tragic love story in the Creator/ShelSilverstein poem "The Bagpipe Who Didn't Say No". The poem tells how a tired turtle found a bagpipe on the beach and fell in love with it. Of course, the bagpipe can't speak, so the "relationship" progresses through a long string of requests from the turtle until he tries cuddling the bagpipe and it says "aaooga". Taking this as a sign he's offended his "love", the turtle begs "her" to tell him that it's not over and "she" doesn't want him to leave, but [[DownerEnding of course the bagpipe can't speak]].
-->''And the turtle crept off crying and he ne'er came back no more''
-->''And he left the bagpipe lying on that smooth and sandy shore.''
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'': An AdorableFluffyTail is played for drama as Horse, a hardened war horse, starts to become [[FisherKingdom softened by the magic of Centaurworld]]. [[spoiler: Her long, straight mane and tail are the first things to turn fluffy as part of this gradual ForcedTransformation into a cuter form more befitting Centaurworld. This freaks Horse out since she's scared her rider won't recognize her when they reunite, but her friends think it's wonderful.]]
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* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': AllForNothing is played for drama and cruelly straight in the worst way possible in the end in this story. Kiritaka Nagare was bullied for months by a group of satanic thugs and bullies. The bullying Nagare suffered is more than bullying; it is more like inhuman torture. The reason Nagare endured all the torture he got for months was that he was gathering evidence on the bullies; it was implied that he wanted to protect his classmates from the bullies; when he took the place of another classmate, whom the bullies were torturing, and he did not want to worry his mother Mari Nagare who he loved greatly. Nagare was killed by a prank by the bullies, which his mother saw; an investigation by the police told his parents that his death was a suicide caused by abusive parents. His mother, Maria, depressed by his death and the reasons given for his death, discovered his journal about the bullying he suffered and swears revenge on the bullying. Two years later, Maria is under a new identity, Maria Akeboshi, and is hunting and killing Nagare's bullies one by one; she throws away her marriage and her previous life to get revenge. It is clear that her son's death has completely destroyed Maria, and even though she's getting revenge for her son, it will likely cost Maria her sanity and life. All in all, Kiritaka Nagare failed to report his bullies, and it's implied that the two years after his death, his bullies had free reign to destroy his classmate's lives, while his mother is avenging his death since she has been broken by his death and her life has been destroyed, him sacrificing his life to protect her from being exploited was ultimately pointless.
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** MiseryTrigger is played for dramaand cruelly straight in the worst way possible in the end in this story. Kiritaka Nagare was bullied for months by a group of satanic thugs and bullies. The bullying Nagare suffered is more than bullying; it is more like inhuman torture. The reason Nagare endured all the torture he got for months was that he was gathering evidence on the bullies; it was implied that he wanted to protect his classmates from the bullies; when he took the place of another classmate, whom the bullies were torturing, and he did not want to worry his mother both Mari Nagare who he loved greatly. Nagare was killed by and Taiichiro Nagare.
*** Mari is normally calm and collected with aprank by the bullies, which his mother saw; an investigation by the police told his parents smile on her face, even when commiting murderous acts, but ''anything that his death was a suicide caused by abusive parents. His mother, Maria, depressed by his death and the reasons given for his death, discovered his journal about the bullying he suffered and swears revenge on the bullying. Two years later, Maria is under a new identity, Maria Akeboshi, and is hunting and killing Nagare's bullies one by one; she throws away reminds her marriage and of her previous life to get revenge. It is clear that with her son's death has completely destroyed husband and son'', no matter how big or small, is enough to shake her and bring her to tears.
*** Similarly to Maria,and even though she's getting revenge for her son, it will likely cost Maria her sanity and life. All in all, Kiritaka Nagare failed to report his bullies, and it's implied Taiichiro is greatly affected whenever he sees something that reminds him of the two years after his death, his bullies had free reign to destroy his classmate's lives, while his mother is avenging his death since she has been broken by his death and her life has been destroyed, him sacrificing his life to protect her from being exploited was ultimately pointless.he lost with Mari and Kiritaka.
** MiseryTrigger is played for drama
*** Mari is normally calm and collected with a
*** Similarly to Maria,
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* ''Franchise/TheFlash'' has at least one example of AcquiredSituationalNarcissism turning tragic. As Hunter shamefully admits in the flashback of issue #197, his ego got out of control with tragic consequences. Hunter predicted that the suspect won't have a gun, and thus urges his team to make the arrest without waiting for backup. He turns out to be wrong, and the killer shoots him in the knee, crippling him, before gunning down his father-in-law. In a brutally ironic twist, years later it turned out that Hunter was right all along, and [[spoiler:Professor Zoom was the one who gave the suspect the gun in order to engineer the incident that turned Hunter into Zoom.]]
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** This series has at least one example of AcquiredSituationalNarcissism turning tragic. As Hunter shamefully admits in the flashback of issue #197, his ego got out of control with tragic consequences. Hunter predicted that the suspect won't have a gun, and thus urges his team to make the arrest without waiting for backup. He turns out to be wrong, and the killer shoots him in the knee, crippling him, before gunning down his father-in-law. In a brutally ironic twist, years later it turned out that Hunter was right all along, and [[spoiler:Professor Zoom was the one who gave the suspect the gun in order to engineer the incident that turned Hunter into Zoom.]] ''Flash'' #800 later revealed that all of Hunter's time spent in the Speed Force, ruminating on how Thawne gave the Clown the gun all those years ago, has led him to understand that he was right. And if he was right about the Clown not having a gun, then to him, his methods to turn Wally West into a better hero are right as well.]]
** StarterMarriage is played for drama. In a flashback in Flash #197, it was revealed that Hunter Zolomon has only been married to his college sweetheart Ashley for a few months after they graduated college together and join the FBI together before Hunter tragic mistake that cost the life of his father in law, causing Ashley to divorce him and him being kicked out of the FBI. Hunter still very much loves Ashley but knows it unlikely she forgive him; he accepts the divorce and tries to move on with his life. Later, when Ashley learns that Hunter transformed into supervillain Zoom, she left the FBI to come to Keystone City to take over his former spot as the local metahuman profiler to help reform him—showing that she still loves and regrets leaving him. Tragically it's implied that had that misjudgment on Hunter's part that cost his father's life in law never happen, Hunter and Ashley would have had a long and lasting marriage.
** This series has at least one example of AcquiredSituationalNarcissism turning tragic. As Hunter shamefully admits in the flashback of issue #197, his ego got out of control with tragic consequences. Hunter predicted that the suspect won't have a gun, and thus urges his team to make the arrest without waiting for backup. He turns out to be wrong, and the killer shoots him in the knee, crippling him, before gunning down his father-in-law. In a brutally ironic twist, years later it turned out that Hunter was right all along, and [[spoiler:Professor Zoom was the one who gave the suspect the gun in order to engineer the incident that turned Hunter into Zoom.
** StarterMarriage is played for drama. In a flashback in Flash #197, it was revealed that Hunter Zolomon has only been married to his college sweetheart Ashley for a few months after they graduated college together and join the FBI together before Hunter tragic mistake that cost the life of his father in law, causing Ashley to divorce him and him being kicked out of the FBI. Hunter still very much loves Ashley but knows it unlikely she forgive him; he accepts the divorce and tries to move on with his life. Later, when Ashley learns that Hunter transformed into supervillain Zoom, she left the FBI to come to Keystone City to take over his former spot as the local metahuman profiler to help reform him—showing that she still loves and regrets leaving him. Tragically it's implied that had that misjudgment on Hunter's part that cost his father's life in law never happen, Hunter and Ashley would have had a long and lasting marriage.
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* ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'': AndThereWasMuchRejoicing is PlayedForHorror and Drama in the aftermath of [[spoiler:Tommy's death]], as the Eggpire throw a party in the victim's house--and after getting kicked out, rent a room in the victim's hotel to continue their revelries.
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* ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'': ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'': AndThereWasMuchRejoicing is PlayedForHorror and Drama in the aftermath of [[spoiler:Tommy's death]], as the Eggpire throw a party in the victim's house--and after getting kicked out, rent a room in the victim's hotel to continue their revelries.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', KarmaHoudiniWarranty is used for drama. Ming commits a lot of antics that in real life would have probably gotten her arrested and served with a dozen restraining orders. Ming hasn't gotten in trouble for her actions only because her neighbors find her more ridiculous than threatening. She doesn't get in trouble for falsely accusing a drugstore clerk of sexually grooming a minor, let alone assaulting and battering (she did kick him) the security guard at the school, when most schools would have banned her. In fact, he allows her to drop off dumplings for Mei while reminding her she can't hide behind trees. [[spoiler:Then she unleashes her kaiju form at the concert, literally bringing the facilities down on innocent children, and assaults Mei by grabbing her in a painful hold to berate her. Mei is forced to knock out Ming when the latter won't see reason and make her redo the red moon ritual. Afterward, Ming is apologetic about the whole fiasco, and the family's been ordered to pay CA$100 million for the damage she caused. Also, she has to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking constantly feed her new red panda Tamagotchi]] because it contains her primal panda form]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', KarmaHoudiniWarranty is used ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' does this with a couple of tropes that are usually played for drama. laughs.
** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Ming commits a lot of antics that in real life would have probably gotten her arrested and served with a dozen restraining orders. Ming hasn't gotten in trouble for her actions only because her neighbors find her more ridiculous than threatening. She doesn't get in trouble for falsely accusing a drugstore clerk of sexually grooming a minor, let alone assaulting and battering (she did kick him) the security guard at the school, when most schools would have banned her. In fact, he allows her to drop off dumplings for Mei while reminding her she can't hide behind trees. [[spoiler:Then she unleashes her kaiju form at the concert, literally bringing the facilities down on innocent children, and assaults Mei by grabbing her in a painful hold to berate her. Mei is forced to knock out Ming when the latter won't see reason and make her redo the red moon ritual. Afterward, Ming is apologetic about the whole fiasco, and the family's been ordered to pay CA$100 million for the damage she caused. Also, she has to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking constantly feed her new red panda Tamagotchi]] because it contains her primal pandaform]].form]].
** Mei's struggle with her panda spirit turns HowDoIShotWeb into a serious problem. She figures out the connection between [[EmotionalPowers getting excited and transforming]] pretty quickly, but also finds that having that knowledge and being able to use it are two different things. Because the transformation happens when she feels any sort of strong emotion, she keeps [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting changing when she doesn't want to change]], and the more she fights it the more often she transforms. [[EmotionSuppression Showing no emotion at all]] doesn't work either; she just can't keep it up for very long. The lack of control leads her parents to [[MadwomanInTheAttic quarantine her in her room]] for a ''month'', cutting her off from school, her friends, helping at the temple -- in short, everything she enjoys in life. It's only when she learns how to use her friends for inner support that she gets it partially under control. [[spoiler:After the ritual where she chooses to keep the red panda instead of getting rid of it, Mei gains full control of her panda form, allowing her to transform at will.]]
** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Ming commits a lot of antics that in real life would have probably gotten her arrested and served with a dozen restraining orders. Ming hasn't gotten in trouble for her actions only because her neighbors find her more ridiculous than threatening. She doesn't get in trouble for falsely accusing a drugstore clerk of sexually grooming a minor, let alone assaulting and battering (she did kick him) the security guard at the school, when most schools would have banned her. In fact, he allows her to drop off dumplings for Mei while reminding her she can't hide behind trees. [[spoiler:Then she unleashes her kaiju form at the concert, literally bringing the facilities down on innocent children, and assaults Mei by grabbing her in a painful hold to berate her. Mei is forced to knock out Ming when the latter won't see reason and make her redo the red moon ritual. Afterward, Ming is apologetic about the whole fiasco, and the family's been ordered to pay CA$100 million for the damage she caused. Also, she has to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking constantly feed her new red panda Tamagotchi]] because it contains her primal panda
** Mei's struggle with her panda spirit turns HowDoIShotWeb into a serious problem. She figures out the connection between [[EmotionalPowers getting excited and transforming]] pretty quickly, but also finds that having that knowledge and being able to use it are two different things. Because the transformation happens when she feels any sort of strong emotion, she keeps [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting changing when she doesn't want to change]], and the more she fights it the more often she transforms. [[EmotionSuppression Showing no emotion at all]] doesn't work either; she just can't keep it up for very long. The lack of control leads her parents to [[MadwomanInTheAttic quarantine her in her room]] for a ''month'', cutting her off from school, her friends, helping at the temple -- in short, everything she enjoys in life. It's only when she learns how to use her friends for inner support that she gets it partially under control. [[spoiler:After the ritual where she chooses to keep the red panda instead of getting rid of it, Mei gains full control of her panda form, allowing her to transform at will.]]
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* {{Animorphism}} is used for tragedy in the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' DarkFic ''Fanfic/MyNameIsMolly''. All the humans have gone extinct, leaving a WorldOfFunnyAnimals. However, all the animals are actually transformed humans. A majority are forcibly transformed children who have had their memories repressed.
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* BringMyBrownPants is treated seriously in ''Film/TheFallout''. High school student Vada goes to the bathroom in the middle of class after her younger sister Amelia calls her when she has her first period. While in the bathroom, [[AxesAtSchool a school shooting happens]]. When Vada returns to school, she's too afraid to re-enter the bathroom she hid in and holds her bladder all day; after school ends, she heads down the school steps and accidentally steps on a soda can, the sound of which causes her to wet her pants in fear, which she gets angry at herself over.
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* ''Series/JudgeJohnDeed'': AmbiguousSyntax is played for drama. When a boy resists handing over his mobile phone which two thieves are attempting to steal, one of them shouts "Give it to him, let him have it before we're nicked"; the other thief then stabs the boy. They are asked in court what "Give it to him, let him have it" meant.
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* WishUponAShootingStar is played for both drama and [[PlayedForHorror horror]] in ''Anime/AldnoahZero''. Two children are ecstatic to see dozens of shooting stars flashing across the sky, and the younger brother happily tells his sister [[{{Irony}} he wished for world peace]] — [[DramaticIrony blissfully unaware]] that those "shooting stars" are actually huge alien spaceships descending to Earth at blinding speed, causing atomic bomb levels of devastation in the surrounding areas.
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* The AssShove trope is treated seriously in ''Film/SlaughterInXiAn'', an excruciatingly violent Chinese film, where [[spoiler:one of the characters is killed by having a long, steel rod pointed on one end shoved through his rectum, all the way until penetrating his guts]]. Apparently this was done to kill a person without leaving ''injuries on the outside''.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder is used for drama in ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812''. Part of what draws Natasha to Anatole is her uncertainty of when Andrey will ever come home from the war.
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* ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812'': AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder is used for drama in ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812''. Part as part of what draws Natasha to Anatole is her uncertainty of when Andrey will ever come home from the war. war.
* ''Theatre/LaNona'':
** BigEater is played for drama with the character of la Nona, whose ginormous food consumption severely strains her family's finances while she herself cares little for the situation. Every few hours, she re-enters the kitchen to demand snacks or meals and is appeased with increasingly smaller portions (what little her family can offer her). Later, she gets married to the owner of a bodega and manages to eat all of the establishment's candies in a month and a half. Her finishing monologue has her alone, [[spoiler:as all of her relatives have either died or left]], reminiscing about the fantastic meals she enjoyed in her youth.
** Tito is a perfect example of a LazyBum. He contributes exactly nothing to the household. He doesn't help with the chores, spends all day lazing around in his bed composing tangos, and is allergic to the idea of seeking a job. When the family's finances start tightening due to the crisis, he still makes excuse after excuse and plans harebrained schemes to avoid working. It's played for drama because his reluctance forces his relatives to make great sacrifices, [[spoiler:which ultimately leads to their demise.]]
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** BigEater is played for drama with the character of la Nona, whose ginormous food consumption severely strains her family's finances while she herself cares little for the situation. Every few hours, she re-enters the kitchen to demand snacks or meals and is appeased with increasingly smaller portions (what little her family can offer her). Later, she gets married to the owner of a bodega and manages to eat all of the establishment's candies in a month and a half. Her finishing monologue has her alone, [[spoiler:as all of her relatives have either died or left]], reminiscing about the fantastic meals she enjoyed in her youth.
** Tito is a perfect example of a LazyBum. He contributes exactly nothing to the household. He doesn't help with the chores, spends all day lazing around in his bed composing tangos, and is allergic to the idea of seeking a job. When the family's finances start tightening due to the crisis, he still makes excuse after excuse and plans harebrained schemes to avoid working. It's played for drama because his reluctance forces his relatives to make great sacrifices, [[spoiler:which ultimately leads to their demise.]]
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* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'' has Sheer Heart Attack, a dramatic example of ActionBomb. It's is [[NighInvulnerability completely indestructible]], survives its own explosions, and the only way it could be stopped was by getting its user, [[SerialKiller Yoshikage Kira]], to deactivate it, which was ''not'' an easy task to do.
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* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'' has Sheer Heart Attack, a dramatic example of ActionBomb. It's a tiny, tank-like Stand that can easily sneak up on and hide close to its victims before detonation, is [[NighInvulnerability completely indestructible]], survives its own explosions, and the only way it could can be stopped was is by getting its user, [[SerialKiller [[BigBad Yoshikage Kira]], to deactivate it, which it. Which, [[SerialKiller for obvious reasons]], was ''not'' an easy task to do.
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience is treated seriously with Dina of ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge''. She is obsessed with paleontology but doesn't really seem to understand other humans, by her own admission; at one point she gets depressed because some other girls mistook her for a handicapped child (aside from her behavior, she [[OlderThanTheyLook looks about twelve]]). Her roommate Amber has tried to help her read social cues with mixed results. The creator has gone on record saying that [[ShrugOfGod she's never been diagnosed with anything]], later acknowledging that she probably has Asperger's. For what it's worth, her parents behave similarly (at least, they're very laconic).
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** AintTooProudToBeg is played for drama. When Jasper finds Lapis in "Alone at Sea", she goes on bended knee and begs Lapis to [[spoiler: fuse with her again]]. Considering their fusion is the embodiment as an abusive relationship, and that Jasper generally comes across as an addict, it's rather disturbing.
** ButForMeItWasTuesday is used seriously in "Change Your Mind". Steven asks Blue Diamond how many times she locked Pink Diamond in the prison tower and used her EmotionBomb powers to make her cry. Blue Diamond thinks for a second and is promptly [[HeelRealization horrified to realize she has no idea,]] and now understands why Pink abandoned her.
** ButForMeItWasTuesday is used seriously in "Change Your Mind". Steven asks Blue Diamond how many times she locked Pink Diamond in the prison tower and used her EmotionBomb powers to make her cry. Blue Diamond thinks for a second and is promptly [[HeelRealization horrified to realize she has no idea,]] and now understands why Pink abandoned her.
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** AintTooProudToBeg is played for drama. When Jasper finds Lapis in "Alone at Sea", she goes on bended knee her knees and begs Lapis to [[spoiler: fuse [[spoiler:fuse with her again]]. Considering their fusion is Their relationship together was highly toxic, and Jasper's desperation despite the embodiment as an abusive relationship, and that Jasper generally pain it caused them both comes across as an addict, it's rather disturbing.
addict looking for a fix.
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** ButForMeItWasTuesday is used seriously in "Change Your Mind". Steven asks Blue Diamond how many times she
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I don't know if this still belongs here since it's YMMV now, but I'll leave it just in case.
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* AmbiguousDisorder is treated seriously with Dina of ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge''. She is obsessed with paleontology but doesn't really seem to understand other humans, by her own admission; at one point she gets depressed because some other girls mistook her for a handicapped child (aside from her behavior, she [[OlderThanTheyLook looks about twelve]]). Her roommate Amber has tried to help her read social cues with mixed results. The creator has gone on record saying that [[ShrugOfGod she's never been diagnosed with anything]], later acknowledging that she probably has Asperger's. For what it's worth, her parents behave similarly (at least, they're very laconic).
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* AmbiguousDisorder DiagnosedByTheAudience is treated seriously with Dina of ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge''. She is obsessed with paleontology but doesn't really seem to understand other humans, by her own admission; at one point she gets depressed because some other girls mistook her for a handicapped child (aside from her behavior, she [[OlderThanTheyLook looks about twelve]]). Her roommate Amber has tried to help her read social cues with mixed results. The creator has gone on record saying that [[ShrugOfGod she's never been diagnosed with anything]], later acknowledging that she probably has Asperger's. For what it's worth, her parents behave similarly (at least, they're very laconic).
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Two defunct tropes. The security guard example is preserved in a TRS sandbox already.
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* One comic-book tie-in to ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' used AcceptableProfessionalTargets to dramatic effect, specifically the stereotype of a security guard being a bumbling, incredibly stupid loser who desperately wants to be a real cop. In a Bluepill security guard's desire to be a real cop, he rushed to break up a fight between a Redpill and an Agent he was an accidental witness to. The fight being way above his head, he got pointlessly killed for it.
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* AcceptableEthnicTargets is used for drama in ''Film/{{Freaks}}'' where the normal-height, physically attractive Cleopatra toys with Franz's affections, thinking of him as a subhuman joke. The "normal" Cleopatra and Hercules are depicted as grotesque on the ''inside,'' whereas the "freaks" are mostly decent people...and if you harm one of them, you get to deal with ''all'' of them.
