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** [[KarmaHoudini Alice robs a bank and gets away with it.]]

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** [[KarmaHoudini Alice robs a bank and gets away with it.]]rewarded for it]].
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* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Conversed''': ??????
* '''Deconstructed''': If Karma is dependent on an individual's actions/morality, what's stopping people from doing bad things to each other, and claim that [[BlamingTheVictim if their victim hasn't done anything wrong]], [[TheScourgeOfGod surely they wouldn't be a victim in the first place?]]

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* '''Basic Trope''': The universe rewards and punishes characters based on the morality of their actions or non-actions, during their Earthly lives.
* '''Straight''': Alice cheats on an important test. When she actually has to use the skill that was being tested, she's ''completely'' clueless.
** Alice holds the door for someone carrying a large load of boxes and bags. The person rewards Alice with the {{MacGuffin}} she's been seeking.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice goes to a party, [[PokeThePoodle wearing a slinky dress]], [[KarmicRape and gets raped]].
** Alice holds the door for someone carrying a large load of boxes and bags. An hour later, Publisher's Clearinghouse shows up at her house, with a giant novelty check for $10 million.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice holds the door for someone, who quickly says "Thank you," and continues on their way. Minutes later, she finds a $1 bill.
** Alice insults someone, and they stop talking to her.

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* '''Basic Trope''': The universe rewards and punishes characters based on the morality of their actions or non-actions, during their Earthly lives.
lives.
* '''Straight''': '''Straight''':
**
Alice cheats on an important test. When she actually has to use the skill that was being tested, she's ''completely'' clueless.
clueless.
** Alice holds the door for someone carrying a large load of boxes and bags. The person rewards Alice with the {{MacGuffin}} MacGuffin she's been seeking.
seeking.
* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
**
Alice goes to a party, [[PokeThePoodle wearing a slinky dress]], [[KarmicRape and gets raped]].
raped]].
** Alice holds the door for someone carrying a large load of boxes and bags. An hour later, Publisher's Clearinghouse shows up at her house, with a giant novelty check for $10 million.
million.
* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
**
Alice holds the door for someone, who quickly says "Thank you," and continues on their way. Minutes later, she finds a $1 bill.
** Alice insults someone, and they stop talking to her.



* '''Inverted''': Alice is rewarded or punished for her actions/non-actions during her life ''as a whole'', when she dies and gets to the afterlife.
** [[KarmaHoudini Alice robs a bank and gets away with it]].
* '''Subverted''': Alice holds the door for someone, but doesn't even get a "thank you."

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
**
Alice is rewarded or punished for her actions/non-actions during her life ''as a whole'', when she dies and gets to the afterlife.
afterlife.
** [[KarmaHoudini Alice robs a bank and gets away with it]].
it.]]
** [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Alice gives away all her disposable income to charity and is framed for a crime.]]
* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
**
Alice holds the door for someone, but doesn't even get a "thank you."



* '''Double Subverted''': Later, she wins $100 on a scratch ticket.
** She looks back on her life so far (maybe following a NearDeathExperience), and realizes that quite possibly the reason her life isn't so great, or is missing something, is that she's been such a lowlife.
** She wasn't supposed to eat that sandwich, according to her religious beliefs.
* '''Parodied''': Alice is a CosmicPlaything to an IncrediblyInconvenientDeity.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Sometimes, Alice gets away with misdeeds or gets rewarded for good deeds, other times not.
* '''Averted''': Alice is a KarmaHoudini.
* '''Enforced''': BlackAndWhiteMorality, CantGetAwayWithNuthin, CompressedVice, CompressedVirtue, InMysteriousWays, MaybeMagicMaybeMundane.
Lampshaded: ???
* '''Invoked''': ???

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* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
**
Later, she wins $100 on a scratch ticket.
ticket.
** She looks back on her life so far (maybe following a NearDeathExperience), and realizes that quite possibly the reason her life isn't so great, or is missing something, is that she's been such a lowlife.
lowlife.
** She wasn't supposed to eat that sandwich, according to her religious beliefs.
beliefs.
* '''Parodied''': Alice is a CosmicPlaything to an IncrediblyInconvenientDeity.
IncrediblyInconvenientDeity.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Sometimes, Alice gets away with misdeeds or gets rewarded for good deeds, other times not.
not.
* '''Averted''': Alice is a KarmaHoudini.
KarmaHoudini.
* '''Enforced''': BlackAndWhiteMorality, CantGetAwayWithNuthin, CompressedVice, CompressedVirtue, InMysteriousWays, MaybeMagicMaybeMundane.
Lampshaded:
MaybeMagicMaybeMundane.
* '''Lampshaded''':
???
* '''Invoked''': ???Alice's MoralityPet or MoralityChain has a direct line to the gods and doesn't hesitate to use it.



* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Defied''': ???TheGodsMustBeLazy.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice goes to a party, [[PokeThePoodle wearing a slinky dress]], [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming and gets raped]].

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice goes to a party, [[PokeThePoodle wearing a slinky dress]], [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming [[KarmicRape and gets raped]].

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Subverted: ???
Double Subverted: ???
Parodied: ???
Zig-Zagged: ???
Averted: ???
Enforced: ???

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Subverted: ???
Double Subverted: ???
Parodied: ???
Zig-Zagged: ???
Averted: ???
Enforced: ???
*'''Subverted''': Alice holds the door for someone, but doesn't even get a "thank you."
** Alice has a long ListOfTransgressions to her name as of middle age, that she's never ''really'' been punished for.
** Alice gets sick from eating a sandwich. It's a mundane case of food poisoning.
*'''Double Subverted''': Later, she wins $100 on a scratch ticket.
** She looks back on her life so far (maybe following a NearDeathExperience), and realizes that quite possibly the reason her life isn't so great, or is missing something, is that she's been such a lowlife.
** She wasn't supposed to eat that sandwich, according to her religious beliefs.
*'''Parodied''': Alice is a CosmicPlaything to an IncrediblyInconvenientDeity.
*'''Zig-Zagged''': Sometimes, Alice gets away with misdeeds or gets rewarded for good deeds, other times not.
*'''Averted''': Alice is a KarmaHoudini.
*'''Enforced''': BlackAndWhiteMorality, CantGetAwayWithNuthin, CompressedVice, CompressedVirtue, InMysteriousWays, MaybeMagicMaybeMundane.



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Defied: ???
Discussed: ???
Conversed: ???

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Invoked: *'''Invoked''': ???
Exploited: *'''Exploited''': ???
Defied: *'''Defied''': ???
Discussed: *'''Discussed''': ???
Conversed: *'''Conversed''': ???
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*'''Basic Trope''': The universe rewards and punishes characters based on the morality of their actions or non-actions, during their Earthly lives.
*'''Straight''': Alice cheats on an important test. When she actually has to use the skill that was being tested, she's ''completely'' clueless.
** Alice holds the door for someone carrying a large load of boxes and bags. The person rewards Alice with the {{MacGuffin}} she's been seeking.
*'''Exaggerated''': Alice goes to a party, [[PokeThePoodle wearing a slinky dress]], [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming and gets raped]].
** Alice holds the door for someone carrying a large load of boxes and bags. An hour later, Publisher's Clearinghouse shows up at her house, with a giant novelty check for $10 million.
*'''Downplayed''': Alice holds the door for someone, who quickly says "Thank you," and continues on their way. Minutes later, she finds a $1 bill.
** Alice insults someone, and they stop talking to her.
*'''Justified''': Actions have consequences, good and bad.
*'''Inverted''': Alice is rewarded or punished for her actions/non-actions during her life ''as a whole'', when she dies and gets to the afterlife.
** [[KarmaHoudini Alice robs a bank and gets away with it]].
Subverted: ???
Double Subverted: ???
Parodied: ???
Zig-Zagged: ???
Averted: ???
Enforced: ???
Lampshaded: ???
Invoked: ???
Exploited: ???
Defied: ???
Discussed: ???
Conversed: ???

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