Basic Trope: A clam bites or eats someone with its shell.
- Straight: Bob is bitten by a clam.
- Exaggerated: The clam actually rips Bob apart like a shark.
- Downplayed: A scallop gently closes its shell against Bob's body, but doesn't actually hurt him.
- Justified: The clam is a Chest Monster.
- Inverted:
- Bob eats the clam.
- The clam spawns smaller creatures by spitting them out.
- Subverted: Bob watches in terror as a giant clam closes its shell around him... but it's moving so slowly that Bob can swim out of the clam with little effort.
- Double Subverted: Then the clam jumps out and eats him anyway.
- Parodied: Bob has an Absurd Phobia of clams because he thinks they're all carnivores.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Clams pose no threat to anyone.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Watch out for clams. They tend to bite people with their shells."
- Invoked: Major Merman, an ocean-themed villain, locks Bob up in a cage made to look like a giant clam.
- Exploited: Bob dispatches Major Merman by dropping him into a clam bed, where Merman gets his Just Desserts.
- Defied: Bob sees a clam and Palate Props it with a stick to make sure it doesn't bite him.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: One of the treasure at the maritime museum is a human enveloped by nacre, which considering how pearls are made… tells a lot about how he died.
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