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* '''Averted''': Nothing is in the backseat.

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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Nothing is in the backseat. backseat.
** No cars or other vehicles applicable for this trope appear in the work.



* '''Defied''': Bob always locks his doors and leaves a variety of objects to scare away intruders.
* '''Discussed''': ???

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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
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Bob always locks his doors and leaves a variety of objects to scare away intruders.
** Alice stops Bob from going to his car because she has a gut feeling that a threat is lurking inside.
* '''Discussed''': ???"Always inspect the backseat of a vehicle. You might get ambushed".


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* '''Deconstructed''': We see this trope from the intruder's perspective, who struggles to get inside the car because it's securely locked, and even upon making it in gets bored because Bob is taking too long to return, falls asleep and misses the chance completely, waking up after Bob has already driven home and gotten out of the car again.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** This still means the intruder is now in front of Bob's house and can try breaking in to ambush him in his own home.
** The intruder decides to only attempt this on people who don't lock their cars securely, and only when having a clear notion of when the victim will return.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob gets inside his car and gets ambushed by his SitcomArchNemesis Dave, who was in the backseat. Dave gives Bob a {{Slapstick}} beatdown.
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* '''Downplayed''': The intruder and Bob have a [[TresspassingToTalk simple conversation]] albeit one with threatening undertones.

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* '''Downplayed''': The intruder and Bob have a [[TresspassingToTalk [[TrespassingToTalk simple conversation]] albeit one with threatening undertones.undertones due to Bob being a captive audience.



** Bob climbs into a bus. A monster attacks him from behind, only to be attacked by another monster behind it, and so on and so forth until the end of the bus.

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** Bob climbs into a bus. A monster attacks him from behind, only to be attacked by another monster behind it, and so on and so forth until the end back of the bus.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???The intruder and Bob have a [[TresspassingToTalk simple conversation]] albeit one with threatening undertones.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob, Alice, Charlie, Dracone, and Eva get attacked by a werewolf, a vampire, a SerialKiller, a BlobMonster, and a zombie (respectively) hiding in the backseat of their cars.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob, Alice, Charlie, Dracone, Bob steps into an armored vehicle, and Eva get attacked by performs a werewolf, a vampire, a SerialKiller, a BlobMonster, and a zombie (respectively) hiding in the backseat of their cars. thorough search before locking down. The killer still [[OffscreenTeleportation finds his way in]].

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* '''Double Subverted''': But later Bob gets bitten by a vampire that was hiding in the backseat.

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** Bob thinks he saw something in the mirror... but nothing's there.
* '''Double Subverted''': But later Bob gets bitten by a vampire that was hiding in the backseat. backseat.
** Turns out there was a vampire, they just remained hidden until he got out.

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* '''Parodied''': The backseat spews monster after monster like a ClownCarGrave.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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The backseat spews monster after monster like a ClownCarGrave. ClownCarGrave.
** Bob climbs into a bus. A monster attacks him from behind, only to be attacked by another monster behind it, and so on and so forth until the end of the bus.
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* '''Invoked''': Dr. Evilstein hides a werewolf in the backseat to attack Bob.

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* '''Invoked''': Dr. Evilstein hides a werewolf in the backseat to attack Bob.Bob, and personally escorts him into the vehicle.
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'''Basic Trope''': Something horrifying lurks in the backseat.
* '''Straight''': Bob gets into his car and gets attacked by a werewolf that was hiding in the backseat.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob, Alice, Charlie, Dracone, and Eva get attacked by a werewolf, a vampire, a SerialKiller, a BlobMonster, and a zombie (respectively) hiding in the backseat of their cars.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': The horrifying something [[ItCanThink can think]] and wants to ambush Bob.
* '''Inverted''':
** Bob goes to his car and finds a werewolf lurking in the front seat.
** Bob goes to his car and finds his sister Alice sitting in the backseat.
* '''Subverted''': Bob goes to his car and finds a werewolf in the backseat...but it turns out to be friendly and was just trying to hide from an [[VanHelsingHateCrimes overenthusiastic hunter.]]
* '''Double Subverted''': But later Bob gets bitten by a vampire that was hiding in the backseat.
* '''ZigZagged''': Bob goes to his car and finds a werewolf in the backseat...but it turns out to be friendly and was just trying to hide from an overenthusiastic {{hunter|OfMonsters}}. However, later Bob gets bitten by a vampire that was hiding in the backseat. However, it turns out that Bob has a terminal illness and the vampire [[EmergencyTransformation was trying to help.]] The next time he goes out to his car, he finds his sister Alice in it, and the time after that, it's empty.
* '''Parodied''': The backseat spews monster after monster like a ClownCarGrave.
* '''Averted''': Nothing is in the backseat.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''':
-->'''Bob''': Wait, breathing in the backseat...uh oh.
* '''Invoked''': Dr. Evilstein hides a werewolf in the backseat to attack Bob.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Bob always locks his doors and leaves a variety of objects to scare away intruders.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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