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Basic Trope: Someone asks a question, then the scene cuts to the answer.

  • Straight: After Alice's house has been robbed, she asks "Who could have done this?" Cut to Bob, who is riding away in his car after robbing Alice's house.
  • Exaggerated: After Alice asks "Who could have robbed my house?", it cuts to all possible suspects who could have robbed Alice's house.
  • Downplayed: After Alice asks "Who could have robbed my house?", it cuts to fingerprints on Alice's house walls that resemble Bob's fingerprints.
  • Justified: ???
  • Inverted: ???
  • Subverted: After Alice asks "Who could have robbed my house?", it cuts to who is seemingly Bob running away from the house... then it is revealed it was actually Charles.
  • Double Subverted: Charles is Bob's henchman; he was there with Bob robbing the house. Bob ran away in his car while Charles ran away on foot.
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted: After Alice asks "Who could have robbed my house?", it doesn't cut to anything.
  • Enforced: The creator wanted to show the audience who robbed Alice's house.
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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