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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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