1 | '''Basic Trope''': Volcanoes always erupt. |
2 | * '''Straight''': In ''AliceAndBob: TheMovie'', they go to an island with a volcano. In the middle of the film it erupts. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** In the middle of the film, all the volcanoes in the world erupt. |
5 | ** The volcano is a supervolcano. |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': The volcano starts smoking, but doesn't quite erupt. |
7 | * '''Justified''': The volcano was dormant, but not extinct. |
8 | * '''Inverted''': A volcano that people say will erupt doesn't. |
9 | * '''Subverted''': The volcano keeps looking like it may erupt but doesn't. |
10 | * '''Double Subverted''': It does in TheStinger. |
11 | * '''Parodied''': The volcano can talk, and says "Don't say I won't erupt, or I will!" |
12 | * '''Zigzagged''': |
13 | ** The volcano appears like it might erupt several times before actually erupting. |
14 | ** The volcano does erupt early on before going quiet and it is assumed it has calmed down before it is revealed that it was just a prelude to the real, much worse, eruption. |
15 | * '''Averted''': The volcano does not erupt. |
16 | * '''Enforced''': |
17 | ** The writers say "We need the volcano on that island to ''do'' something". |
18 | ** The {{documentary}}/HistoricalFiction centers on [[ForegoneConclusion one of the volcano's better known eruptions]]. [[note]][[Series/SecondsFromDisaster Disasters don't just happen…]][[/note]] |
19 | * '''Lampshaded''': "It's gonna erupt. I can tell." |
20 | * '''Invoked''': The BigBad rigs the volcano to cause an explosive, volcanic reaction. |
21 | * '''Exploited''': Warriors use the lava as a weapon. |
22 | * '''Defied''': The characters refuse to go anywhere near a volcano [[GenreSavvy for fear of invoking this trope]]. |
23 | * '''Discussed''': |
24 | -->'''Alice:''' Is this volcano gonna erupt?\ |
25 | '''Bob:''' Ah, don't worry, it ain't erupted in years!\ |
26 | '''Carol:''' Don't say that!! [[TemptingFate Now, it's]] ''[[TemptingFate bound]]'' [[TemptingFate to erupt!]]\ |
27 | '''Dave:''' [[TheSpock That assumption is not logical]]. |
28 | * '''Conversed''': "There's a volcano in this film. What's to bet it'll erupt?" |
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32 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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34 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
35 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
36 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
37 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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