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1'''Basic Trope''': Stepping on a banana peel will result in the character slipping.
2* '''Straight''': Bob slips on a banana peel.
3* '''Exaggerated''':
4** Stepping on a banana peel sends Bob into a SlipperySkid that ends with a painful crash.
5** A banana peel on the train tracks causes the train to crash.
6* '''Downplayed''': Bob steps on a banana peel and slips a bit, but manages to regain his balance before falling.
7* '''Justified''': The banana peel is a prank item that has been treated to be extra slippery.
8* '''Inverted''':
9** Bob the Banana slips on a [[{{Squick}} piece of human skin]].
10** Bob trips on a peeled banana.
11* '''Subverted''': Bob is about to step on a banana peel but notices it just in time and avoids slipping.
12* '''Double Subverted''': ...only to slip on something else.
13* '''Parodied''':
14** Banana peels are outlawed because they're dangerous.
15** A character who is normally an IronButtMonkey is seriously injured after slipping on a banana peel.
16* '''Zig Zagged''': Banana peels vary in power - sometimes they aren't slippery at all, other times they function as makeshift landmines.
17* '''Averted''': Banana peels aren't slippery or aren't slipped on.
18* '''Enforced''': The show has to feature a PublicServiceAnnouncement on the dangers of banana peel slipping.
19* '''Lampshaded''': "A banana peel on the floor and someone slips on it? I didn't see that coming."
20* '''Invoked''': Bob eats a banana, considers the peel is meant to be slipped on, then puts it on the ground and steps on it intentionally.
21* '''Defied''': "Stop! There's a banana peel right in front of you!"
22* '''Exploited''': The hero drops a banana peel to slow down mooks in a chase.
23* '''Discussed''': Bob eats a banana and talks to himself about how, if he was a character in a comedy/cartoon, he could throw the peel on the ground and wait for someone to slip on it.
24* '''Conversed''': "With all that slipping, I'd assume those banana peels were made of soap."
25* '''Implied''': Alice eats a banana and throws the peel off-screen. We then hear Bob shout "Whoa!" and a crash noise.
26* '''Deconstructed''':
27** Bob slips on a banana peel. His hip is broken and he must spend a long time in a hospital.
28** Bob slips on a banana peel. [[VideoGame/UmJammerLammy He dies.]]
29* '''Reconstructed''': Bob makes new friends at the hospital and becomes the poster guy of a banana peel awareness campaign.
30* '''Played For Drama''': The book/movie/etc. is about Bob's wife Alice suffering through her husband's death/traumatic injury brought on by a single banana peel.
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32Back to BananaPeel. But make sure you don't slip!
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34%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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