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'''Basic Trope''': Someone has a lot of keys on a chain, and it takes them a bit to figure out which is the one they need.
* '''Straight''': Bethany is looking through her keyring to open her house door. She takes out her back door key and mailbox key before finding the right one.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bethany has twenty keys on a ring, and lists through all of them before finding what she needs.
* '''Downplayed''': Bethany is confused between two identical-looking locker keys.
* '''Justified''':
** The keys are identical.
** Bethany doesn't remember what the key she needs looked like.
* '''Inverted''':
** Bethany gets confused with which lock to put a key into.
** Bethany gets confused even though there's only one key.
* '''Subverted''': Bethany has a giant ring of keys, and she's not very good at distinguishing them. However, she effortlessly picks out one key.
* '''Double Subverted''': But it doesn't fit in the lock, so she looks back through her ring for one that does.
* '''Parodied''': Bethany pulls out items while she looks for her key: "Car key, house key, monkey, turkey, whiskey, key lime pie..."
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Sometimes Bethany finds the right key, and sometimes she doesn't. But it's not certain whether she's ''actually'' right until she tries them.
* '''Averted''': Bethany finds the right key on her first try.
* '''Enforced''': "Bethany sure does have a lot of keys. What if we made a joke when she was looking through them?"
* '''Lampshaded''': "I have so many keys! Which is the right one?"
* '''Invoked''': For whatever reason, Bethany gets all her keys to look the same.
* '''Exploited''': Mary the key-maker explicitly models one of Bethany's keys after her others, so she'll get confused and waste time.
* '''Defied''': Bethany labels her keys, color-codes them, or has some sort of helpful mnemonic to remember which is which.
* '''Discussed''': "Look at that keyring! How long do you think it takes Bethany to unlock her front door?"
* '''Conversed''': "Cartoon characters can never seem to find the right keys, can they?"
* '''Played for Drama''': DangerousKeyFumble
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Front door, back door, back garden, mailbox... ah, here it is! KeyConfusion!
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%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
%% * '''Implied''': ???
%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Horror''': ???

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