1 | '''Basic Trope''': People are terrified of mice. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice sees a mouse run across the kitchen floor. She gets up on a chair and starts screaming. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Alice is terrified when she sees [[SwarmOfRats a swarm of mice]] getting out from that MouseHole. |
5 | ** Alice is terrified of ''all'' animals, from invertebrates (even sea sponges!) all the way up to non-human primates, not ''just'' mice. |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': Seeing a mouse makes Alice momentarily unnerved, but she regains her composure and kills it with a MouseTrap or drives it away before too long. |
7 | * '''Justified''': |
8 | ** Mice carry diseases; Alice doesn't want that in her home. |
9 | ** Alice had a traumatic experience with a mouse. |
10 | ** The mouse that ran across Alice's kitchen was three feet tall and had fangs. |
11 | ** Even though the mouse is normal-sized, Alice herself is [[{{Lilliputians}} small enough to be eaten by a mouse]]. |
12 | * '''Inverted''': |
13 | ** The mouse sees Alice, squeaks, and runs away in fear. |
14 | ** Alice goes towards the mouse, offers it a piece of [[StockAnimalDiet cheese]], and makes it her newest pet. |
15 | * '''Subverted''': Alice screeches at the sight of a mouse, because she just stubbed her toe. |
16 | * '''Double Subverted''': The very reason she stubbed her toe was that she was distracted by her fear of the mouse. |
17 | * '''Parodied''': |
18 | ** [[HopelessWithTech Alice]] is cowering in fear of a ''computer'' mouse. |
19 | ** Alice herself is a mouse. |
20 | ** Alice has no fear of any animal but mice. |
21 | ** Alice is a GiantWoman who is scared of normal people. |
22 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': |
23 | ** Some women are afraid of mice, others are not. |
24 | ** Alice starts fretting when she sees a mouse running across the floor, but then she remembers her family's pet mouse. But the next time she looks at that spot on the floor, there are two mice -- one is the pet but the other [[IdenticalStranger looks like a carbon copy of it]], and she's torn by uncertainty over which is which. |
25 | * '''Averted''': |
26 | ** Alice is OK with mice. |
27 | ** Mice don't exist in this setting. |
28 | * '''Enforced''': WomenAreDelicate, HystericalWoman |
29 | * '''Lampshaded''': "EekAMouse Kill it!" |
30 | * '''Invoked''': Alice sees a mouse running across the floor. |
31 | * '''Exploited''': A KitschyLocalCommercial for a pest-control service uses this trope. |
32 | * '''Defied''': Alice scoops it up and takes it outside, no fuss. |
33 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
34 | * '''Conversed''': "Ugh, it's so sexist to assume that Alice is deathly afraid of mice just because she's a woman!" |
35 | * '''Played for Laughs''': A mouse [[SquirrelsInMyPants crawls into Alice's pant legging,]] [[ColossusClimb climbs up her leg,]] [[SquirrelsInMyPants and eventually crawls around inside of her shirt.]] Meanwhile, this all causes Alice to start [[AccidentalTickleTorture squirming, fidgeting, giggling, and laughing uncontrollably.]] |
36 | * '''Played for Drama''': During her encounter with a mouse, the creature actually bites Alice. She goes to the doctor as a precaution and discovers that she has indeed contracted Rabies (one of the Justified reasons listed above). |
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