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'''Basic Trope''': A "how-to" guide doesn't give any useful information.
* '''Straight''':
** Alfred reads a guide on "How to Publish a Book". All it does is tell him "Step 1: Write a book. Step 2: Publish it."
** Alfred reads a guide called "How to Sit in a Chair". The steps are "1: Find a chair. 2: Sit in it."
* '''Exaggerated''': Alfred reads a "how-to" guide that goes on for a long time, but it still gives no relevant information about what he's trying to do.
* '''Downplayed''': The guide on how to publish a book gives some decent advice, but still notably misses several important details.
* '''Justified''': Whoever wrote the guide didn't care to give a detailed explanation.
* '''Inverted''': ???
* '''Subverted''':
** The guide on "How to Publish a Book" only has those two steps as its intro. It gives more information afterwards.
** "How to Sit in a Chair" actually turns out to be giving advice on how to correctly sit in a chair to help one's posture.
** The guide seems to be giving advice about something everyone knows how to do, but it turns out it's actually a guide aimed at young children.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** The rest of "How to Publish a Book" doesn't give a lot of helpful information, either.
** "How to Sit in a Chair" gives incorrect or incomplete information about sitting in a chair correctly.
** The guide ''is'' aimed at kids, but it doesn't provide enough information to be useful to them.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''': The how-to guides that Alfred reads provide some helpful information, as well as some unhelpful information.
* '''Averted''': The guide gives helpful and useful information.
* '''Enforced''': RuleOfFunny
* '''Lampshaded''':
** "I didn't know publishing a book was ''that'' easy."
** "Who needs a guide for sitting in a chair?!"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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To make a FauxToGuide, all you have to do is... believe in yourself!
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