Basic Trope: A thread pulls the whole outfit off.
- Straight:
- Alice’s sweater is unravelled when a loose thread is caught.
- Alice’s skirt is unravelled when a loose thread is caught in it.
- Exaggerated: Alice is stripped naked when a loose thread from her sweater is caught.
- Downplayed: Alice’s sweater gets a big hole ripped in it.
- Justified:
- Alice’s clothes are very low quality.
- The skirt still needed a final fitting, but Alice was impatient and skipped it.
- Inverted: Alice falls naked onto hanging spools of yarn, which form a coat over her.
- Subverted:
- Double Subverted:
- Zig-Zagged:
- Parodied:
- Averted:
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded:
- Invoked: To cause a diversion, Alice gets a string caught somewhere.
- Exploited: Brittany pulls on the string to humiliate Alice.
- Defied:
- Discussed:
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Implied: A huge bundle of string is seen snagged on a nail and Alice stumbles around naked.
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