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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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