Basic Trope: A deity gets angry and punishes the infractor with a lighting bolt (or other thing).
- Straight: Bob laughs on Zeus. He punishes him with a thunder in the face.
- Exaggerated: Zeus destroys Troperia because Bob (a Troperian) taunted him.
- Downplayed:
- Zeus arsons Bob's vegetables farm with a bolt because Bob taunted him.
- Zeus lets off Bob with a painful but otherwise harmless shock as a warning.
- Justified:
- Zeus is a Jerkass.
- Emperor Evulz has done a very horrible crime, and Zeus punishes him.
- Inverted:
- Bob is a good worshipper, so Zeus rewards him by using a lightning bolt to power his house during an outage.
- Bob is a wizard, but still mortal. However, when the gods enrage him, he fries them with a lightning bolt.
- Subverted:
- Bob does a joke about Zeus and immediately the sky gets clouded. But Zeus admitts the joke was funny and doesn't attack Bob.
- Bob is immune to lightning and Zeus can do nothing to stop his insults.
- Double-Subverted:
- But the joke offended God and He burns Bob with a lighting bolt that is 999 centillions stronger than Zeus's.
- Then Zeus decides to strike lightning on that pocket of volcanic lava right beneath Bob’s feet or calls in a favor with Apollo and shows Bob one of those sci-fi movies about Earth-incinerating solar flares starring his soon-to-be-roasted butt.
- Zigzagged: Deities sometimes use bolts to punish, another times they use fire or another element.
- Parodied: Zeus, Indra and Thor taunt God. God kills them with a bolts storm.
- Invoked: Bob, knowing Emperor Evulz is immortal, tempts him to taunt God. Evulz falls into the trap, and God kills him with a bolt.
- Exploited: Bob does Invoked against all villains.
- Defied:
- Bob knows that deities will burn him with thunders if he taunts them.
- Hermes, who is very fond of Bob, talks Zeus into letting Bob's insult slide.
- Averted:
- Deities don't use bolts.
- Deities don't punish humans.
- There are no deities.
- Played for Laughs: Bolts never kill their victims. So nobody gives importance to the fact that Zeus is always burning people with bolts..
