1 | '''Basic Trope''': Living skeletons. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob is a skeleton. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Everyone in the work is a skeleton. |
5 | ** Whenever there happens to be a skeleton, it'll come to life eventually one way or another. |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': |
7 | ** [[NothingButSkinAndBones Bob is so emaciated he looks concerningly close to a skeleton.]] |
8 | ** SkullForAHead. |
9 | * '''Justified''': Bob was originally dead, but was brought back as a skeleton via FunctionalMagic. |
10 | * '''Inverted''': Bob's body contains everything a typical human body would have ''except'' for any bones whatsoever. |
11 | * '''Subverted''': Bob was actually just wearing a ludicrously well-designed costume. He's as human as anyone else. |
12 | * '''Double Subverted''': [[BecomingTheCostume Then he becomes a skeleton.]] |
13 | * '''Parodied''': Bob is a human being whose skeleton is a completely different sentient being from Bob himself. |
14 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': Once Bob's costume leads to him BecomingTheCostume, it turns out he later becomes human again, only for it to happen that he's fated to constantly switch between being a human and a skeleton. |
15 | * '''Averted''': Bob's a normal human. |
16 | * '''Lampshaded''': "How the hell is that skeleton alive?" |
17 | * '''Invoked''': Bob's turned into a skeleton by FunctionalMagic which is casted onto him by a WickedWitch. |
18 | * '''Exploited''': Bob's enlisted in a fighting group with the selling point of possibly scaring away any threats. |
19 | * '''Defied''': Bob goes on a journey to rid himself of his skeleton form. |
20 | * '''Discussed''': "You're a skeleton, for crying out loud!" |
21 | * '''Conversed''': "What's with all the skeleton characters?" |
22 | * '''Implied''': Sometimes people speak of a skeleton... |
23 | * '''Deconstructed''': Due to having little to hold him together, Bob can't stick for long. |
24 | * '''Reconstructed''': With the right crutches, he can still support himself and keep going. |
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