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* '''Justified''': Alice didn't even know what London was and Bob was the first Londoner she met, therefore she mistook it as a synonym for 'pessimist'.

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* '''Justified''': Alice didn't even know what assumes from Bob demeanor that London was must be a miserable place, and Bob was that other people from London must have the first Londoner she met, therefore she mistook it as a synonym for 'pessimist'.safe attitude.
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* '''Justified''':'''Justified''': Alice didn't even know what London was and Bob was the first Londoner she met, therefore she mistook it as a synonym for 'pessimist'.



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* '''Parodied''':'''Parodied''': [[IResembleThatRemark There are a bunch of very offended pessimistic Londoners who start off by saying that "Just because we are in the rainy capital at the heart of a dying empire increasingly isolating itself...."]]. They forget what they were offended by before the end of the speech.
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'''Basic Trope''': Assuming that if something has qualities A and B, then everything to do with A must also have quality B.
* '''Straight''': Alice meets Bob, who's a pessimist and comes from London. She then assumes that all Londoners must be pessimists.
* '''Exaggerated''': After meeting Bob, Alice assumes that everyone from London must look and behave exactly like Bob, be named "Bob", and be all men.
* '''Downplayed''': After meeting Bob, the pessimistic guy from London, Alice assumes there must be a lot of pessimists in London.
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* '''Inverted''': Alice meets Bob, a pessimist from London, and somehow concludes that he's the only pessimist in London.
* '''Subverted''': It seems as though Alice's assumption that all Londoners are pessimists comes from Bob, however, it's actually because of a combination of Bob's pessimism, the fact that [[SharedFamilyQuirks his family are said to be pessimistic too]], and the fact that she has read a few gritty books that were published in London.
* '''Double Subverted''': She then concludes that all gritty books must have been published in London.
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zigzagged''': After meeting Bob, Alice has an internal debate over whether this means that all Londoners are pessimists.
* '''Averted''': Alice meets Bob, who's a pessimist and comes from London, but she doesn't make an assumption about all Londoners from him.
* '''Enforced''': "Let's put some logical fallacies in here to see if our viewers are smart enough to notice them as such."
* '''Lampshaded''': "No, no, just because one guy from London is a pessimist doesn't mean the city's full to the brim with them!"
* '''Invoked''': Bob, being a pessimist and all, feels that it would only go wrong if Alice went to London, so he tries to paint a bad picture of Londoners in her head.
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''': "No, just because I'm a pessimist doesn't mean all Londoners are."
* '''Discussed''': "So it's not logical to assume things are linked because of one thing, right?"
* '''Conversed''': "What is it with TV characters and assuming that because something applies to one thing, it must apply to everything to do with that thing?"
* '''Implied''': Alice assumes that all Londoners are pessimists, but we don't know where her assumption comes from. However, Bob, a recurring character from London, is a pessimist.
* '''Deconstructed''': This causes Londoners to hate Alice.
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* '''Played for Laughs''':
* '''Played for Drama''':
* '''Played for Horror''':
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Wait, you want to go back to AssociationFallacy? What's the point? Seeing as the main page is also on the Internet, they're practically the same thing!
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