History PlayingWith / MoodWhiplash

* '''Played for Horror''': SurpriseCreepy

** Bob is helping an old man cross the road. Cut to 20 people being slaughtered by a {{knife| Nut}} [[AxCrazy crazed]] [[RabidCop sociopathic cop.]]

* '''Played For Horror''': SurpriseCreepy

** "…to the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl, Charles!"

** CerebusRollercoaster

* '''Played For Laughs''':

* '''Played For Drama''': Bob is helping an old man cross the road, but then the old man ''[[UngratefulBastard kills]]'' Bob with a knife. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even the sociopathic cop thought this was wrong.]]

* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':

%%* '''Deconstructed''':
%%* '''Reconstructed''':

** "What a nice lad... Charless, ''take him out.''"

** Alternatively: "What a nice lad... Mark, ''take him out.''"

** Bob is sleeping with his wife Alice, [[SleepCute with their heads lying on each other's shoulders.] Cut to them being captured by a serial killer and them ending up [[EyeScream with a pair of rusty drills slowly drilling into their eyes.]]

** Bob is sleeping with his wife Alice, [[SleepCute with their heads lying on each other's shoulders.]]. Cut to them being captured by a serial killer and them ending up [[EyeScream with a pair of rusty drills slowly drilling into their eyes.]]

** WhamEpisode / WhamLine

* '''Zigzagged''':
** An '''ENTIRE EPISODE''' is dedicated to messing with your expectations about what will happen with Bob, the old man FlippingTheBird, and the badass policeman with the gun. {{Mind Screw}}s will be driven.

* '''Deconstructed''': Due to this trope, the old man and knife cop are both [[{{The Scrappy}} Scrappies,]] because they made Bob's day ''{{Hell}}.''
* '''Reconstructed''': However, they are later appreciated as [[EnsembleDarkhorse Ensemble Darkhorses]] who changed the Status Quo for ''once.'' Also, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Best. Villains. EVER.]]

** Bob is helping an old man cross the road. Cut to 20 people being slaughtered by a {{knife| Nut}} [[AxCrazy crazed]] [[DirtyCop sociopathic cop.]]

%%* '''Inverted''':

'''Basic Trope''': A scene that has its mood change from one to another.

* '''Inverted''': N/A

** Bob is helping an old man cross the road. Cut to 20 people being slaughtered by a {{knife| Nut}} [[AxCrazy crazed]] [[LawfulEvil sociopathic cop.]]