Basic Trope: A fake object is broken.
- Straight: A "diamond" is shattered and breaks into thousands of glass shards.
- Exaggerated: Bob slightly touches the diamond causing a glitch within the simulation that makes the universe delete itself.
- Downplayed: A red diamond turns out to be a painted white diamond after someone rubs the dye off.
- Justified:
- The glass was thrown in a rage after the buyer was scammed.
- The glass was a shard buried deep underground near a lost city. It was mistaken for a diamond by miners and one pickaxe swing shattered the whole thing.
- The diamond was used to make tools, but broke instantly.
- Bob's attempt at Film Felons ran afoul of the fact that most banks use props in lieu of the real deal when assisting in a movie.
- Inverted: A diamond is lost under the debris of a museum after a hurricane and flood destroy it. A cleaner throws away the diamond, mistaking it for a chunk of glass.
- Subverted:
- The diamond was real, Bob ends up on the headlines as the world's strongest man.
- Bob suspects that the diamond is fake and throws it. It stays intact.
- Double Subverted:
- The shards were tested again and were actually another gem.
- The diamond shatters after being touched.
- Parodied: The diamond is poorly drawn and got slightly touched. Bob gets the death penalty for the slight tear.
- Zig-Zagged: The diamond gets slowly replaced by glass over the years in an attempt to restore damages to the diamond. The glass ends up breaking far more than the diamond parts.
- Averted:
- The chunks is obviously labeled as glass.
- The diamond is real.
- No one touches the fake diamond.
- Enforced:
- The diamond's reveal needed to be obvious, breaking it with low force will make it very clear since diamond does not break that easily.
- The production had a Special Effects Failure regarding the 'diamond' and the producer, conscious of their budget, decided to save a dime by throwing it in.
- Lampshaded: "Why won't the other conmen start making their fake diamonds out of stronger glass?"
- Invoked: Carl creates a fake diamond and breaks it to make himself look stronger than he really is.
- Exploited: Bob breaks a glass diamond and records it to expose the scammer.
- Defied: Bob refuses to touch fake items, paranoid of it being a mimic.
- Discussed: "Shoot the diamond, it is glass that will shatter like a frag grenade".
- Conversed: "I'm betting $500 that the diamond is glass and shatters".
- Implied: During a police shootout in a museum, the diamond breaks along with the glass case and the diamond shards are suspiciously indistinguishable from the glass.
- Deconstructed: The seller of the fake diamond gets arrested for fraud.
- Reconstructed: After an attempt to bribe the judge the conman gets sent to a prison that has iron bars that snapped suspiciously easily.
- Played for Laughs: The diamond was from a toy store and was bought for billions of dollars. World War III starts as every contry fights for it. It gets opened and has a small action figure in it. World War 4 breaks out as everyone kills each other to find it.
- Played for Drama: The diamond that a family tried to sell to live ended up shattering as their family heirloom turned out to be fake.
- Played for Horror: The diamond was actually an evil mimic that goes on a killing spree in the mines. Someone eventually kills it.
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