History PlayingWith / FilibusterFreefall

* '''Parodied''': The author [[CutShort ends the story in the middle of a sentence]] to devote the next [[{{Doorstopper}} 500 pages]] (supposedly) to explaining why ReligionIsWrong and detailing [[RefugeInAudacity the various ways in which he'd like to decapitate religious leaders.]] He writes one paragraph before he gets bored and decides to "go yell at some of them carolers."

* '''Enforced''': The producers demand the writer include more political messages in his work.

** The book starts out as a political diatribe, but the Church eventually picks up enough unique, non-allegorical characteristics to feel like a neutral fictional invention. .

* '''Inverted''': As the book goes on, it gets DenserAndWackier and drops any serious symbolism it may have had.

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Exploited''': The church officials see that the heroes are [[BerserkButton utterly obsessed with going to extreme lengths to tear down anything to do with them]], and realize they can use that to make them BlindedByRage and, thus, vulnerable.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The author had no political intent and just thought the church would make a [[RuleOfCool cool villain]]. The logical step to tear a villainous church down would be to make its followers question their devotion, which incidentally gives the story an anti-religious tone. The author begins to realize this and later introduces a [[RenegadeSplinterFaction splinter sect]] who wants to help the protagonists. Except the splinter sect is ''also'' corrupt and only wants to help so they can take over the main branch, which turns the criticisms more ruthless than ever, until the heroes begin to think that [[HypocriteHasAPoint there might actually be something to their teachings, it's just that neither the main branch nor the splinter sect has been actually following them]].

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': The author had no political intent and just thought the church would make a [[RuleOfCool cool villain]]. The logical step to tear a villainous church down would be to make its followers question their devotion, which incidentally gives the story an anti-religious tone. The author begins to realize this and later introduces a [[RenegadeSplinterFaction splinter sect]] who wants to help the protagonists. Except the splinter sect is ''also'' corrupt and only wants to help so they can take over the main branch. Later the heroes begin to think that [[HypocriteHasAPoint there might actually be something to their teachings, it's just that neither the main branch nor the splinter sect has been actually following them]].

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???

* '''Enforced''': "SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped," sayeth the author. (Probably after he's taken a break from writing for a while.)
* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Parodied''': The author [[CutShort ends the story in the middle of a sentence]] to devote the next [[{{Doorstopper}} 500 pages]] to explaining why ReligionIsWrong and detailing [[RefugeInAudacity the various ways in which he'd like to decapitate religious leaders.]] He writes one paragraph before he gets bored and decides to "go yell at some of them carolers."

* '''Straight''': Midway through ''Chronicle Quest Genesis'', the heroes are suddenly prevented from continuing their mission by the corrupt church of CrystalDragonJesus. The story shifts focus to the main characters disproving religion and having the church shut down, with the original ending being more of an afterthought.

* '''Justified''': The lead characters are performing a very immoral-seeming act that they cannot explain to the church in fear of [[BrokenMasquerade breaking the Masquerade.]]

* '''Enforced''': "SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped," sayeth the author.

* '''Parodied''': The author [[CutShort ends the story in the middle of a sentence]] to devote the next [[{{Doorstopper}} 500 pages]] to explaining why ReligionIsWrong and detailing [[{{Gorn}} the various ways in which he'd like to decapitate religious leaders.]] He writes one paragraph before he gets bored and decides to "go yell at some of them clergymen."