Basic Trope: A substance manages to dissolve or deform the utensil stirring it.
- Straight: Wilma is a witch making a potion. When she takes out the spoon she's using to stir it with, she finds that part of it has dissolved.
- Exaggerated:
- The entire spoon dissolves within seconds of Wilma putting it into the potion.
- Wilma starts dissolving after the spoon dissolves.
- Downplayed: The spoon doesn't dissolve entirely, but does start deforming slightly or develops surface corrosion.
- Justified:
- The substance is very hot and/or corrosive.
- The utensil used isn't able to withstand the substance it's being used to stir things with.
- Inverted: The utensil somehow absorbs part of the substance it's in!
- Subverted: The spoon starts going further down into the potion, but it's actually because it's just slipping.
- Double Subverted: After Wilma takes the spoon out, it actually is starting to dissolve.
- Parodied:
- The potion makes eating sounds when it dissolves the spoon.
- EVERYTHING dissolves when the substance is made.
- This trope is used for any substance that nobody wants to ingest, such as the school lunch.
- Zig-Zagged: Some of Wilma's potions dissolve the spoon, but some of them don't.
- Averted: No substances can dissolve utensils.
- Enforced: A quick way to show how dangerous the potion is.
- Lampshaded: "Did that substance just eat the spoon?"
- Invoked: Wilma is trying to make a corrosive substance, and sticks a spoon in there to see if it'll work.
- Exploited: Wilma realizes that if the substance is strong enough to dissolve a spoon, it can probably do worse to organic material. She decides to use it as a defense against her enemies.
- Defied: Wilma notices the potion is too corrosive and adds more neutralizing ingredients.
- Discussed: "Considering what that substance just did to the spoon, I don't think I wanna get anywhere near that."
- Conversed: "I wonder why that substance just destroyed that spoon."
- Deconstructed: The materials of the spoon mix with the substance, causing it to be less effective, have a strange taste, and/or even become poisonous.
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