"I even hold the speed record for running backwards!"
Ereh era seport gnivlovni sgniht taht era enod ni esrever.
Translation: Here are tropes involving things that are done in reverse.
Not to be confused with Inverted Trope or Opposite Tropes.
Seport:
- 6 Is 9: Misreading a letter or number by looking at it in the wrong angle.
- Alucard: Dracula spelled backwards, usually used either to hide his true identity, or by his son.
- Backing Away Slowly: Slowly backing away from an uncomfortable or awkward situation.
- Backing into Danger: Backing right into the very thing you were trying to avoid.
- Back to Front: A story presented in reverse order.
- Backwards-Firing Gun: A gun designed or modified to fire backwards, tricking the user into shooting himself.
- The Backwards Я: Plays on the Cyrillic letter Я ("ya") resembling a reversed Latin R.
- Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting: A character sits on a chair backwards to show his rebellious or untraditional behavior.
- Foreigners Write Backwards: A foreign language is written in a different direction, usually to show just how foreign it is.
- Had the Silly Thing in Reverse: The character mistakenly puts the vehicle, or uses an item or technique, in reverse.
- Head Turned Backwards: A character's head is turned backwards, usually due to some experiment malfunction.
- Level in Reverse: A video game level is mirrored or has the route reversed.
- Merlin Sickness: A character who lives his life in reverse.
- Now Do It Again, Backwards: Fixing a problem by doing the same thing in reverse.
- Opposite Day: The day when you say and do the opposite of what you normally would.
- Persecution Flip: A privileged group's and a non-privileged group's roles in society are reversed.
- Randomly Reversed Letters: Showing that someone (usually a child) is of limited literacy by occasional letters being reversed in his writing.
- Reverse Grip: Holding a weapon with the blade end towards the pinky finger.
- Reverse Polarity: A type of Technobabble where a futuristic machine works by reversing its polarity.
- Reverse Psychology: Manipulating someone by telling them to do the opposite of what you want them to do.
- Reverse Telescopic Vision: The character (usually The Ditz) looks through a telescope or binoculars backwards, which makes the target look farther away than it actually is.
- Rewind Gag
- Rushed Inverted Reading: A book is held upside down, in an attempt to cover nefarious behaviour.
- Russian Reversal: A common joke in which subject and object are reversed.
- Sdrawkcab Alias: A character creates a pseudonym for himself that's a reversal of his real name.
- Sdrawkcab Name: A character whose name is meaningful when spelled backwards.
- Sdrawkcab Speech: Something is spoken or written backwards.
- Upside-Down Blueprints: A building is made wrong by following upside-down instructions.
