Basic Trope: A talented actor is severely underutilized.
- Straight: Alice is a talented actress but can only find bit parts to play.
- Exaggerated: Alice can only find work in adult videos despite being a renowned theater actress.
- Downplayed: Alice can usually get good roles but occasionally has to act in something dumb.
- Justified:
- Alice was involved in a career-ruining scandal.
- Classically trained she may be, but so are her more experienced colleagues.
- Subverted:
- Double Subverted: ???
- Inverted: ???
- Parodied: Alice never shuts up about how much she hates the production.
- Averted: ???
- Defied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: ???
- Played for Horror: ???
- Implied:
- Alice is seen reading a collection of Shakespeare's plays.
- Alice discusses Shakespeare with another cast member.
- Alice is a Shakespearean actress, but is implied to be living in poverty.
- Unparodied: ???
- Untwisted: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
