Basic Trope: Special powers, provided the holder acts within certain parameters.
- Straight: Alice has healing hands, but loses her abilities if she breaks a vegan diet.
- Exaggerated: If Alice so much as handles meat, eggs, or dairy, she loses her powers.
- Downplayed: Alice's powers weaken if she eats meat, but they reset fairly quickly.
- Justified:
- Alice is a sworn protector of animal life.
- Meat enzymes inhibit the production of healing power cells.
- Inverted: Alice can use her powers no matter what. However, after doing so, she has a cooldown period where she can't digest meats.
- Subverted: As it turns out, Alice can eat meat, eggs, and dairy without losing her powers. She just chooses a vegan diet out of respect to the animal spirits who granted her powers.
- Double Subverted:
- ...However, she is lactose intolerant, and can't use powers on an upset stomach.
- ...However, as she grows less reverent and more disrespectful towards the spirits they come back to revoke her healing.
- Parodied: Alice consumes a plant-animal hybrid. She is then taken to powers court where she tries to get off on a technicality.
- Zig Zagged: Alice has several powers. She presumes them to be conditional, but does not know the applicable conditions, and can only learn by trial and error.
- Averted:
- Alice has no powers.
- Alice can use her powers, no strings attached.
- Enforced: Powers are given conditions in Alice's universe, in order to prevent anyone from becoming overpowered.
- Lampshaded: "Now, as you'd expect, these powers do come with a catch."
- Invoked: The animal spirits deliberately add the veganism clause, ensuring Alice remains grateful to them.
- Exploited: Alice's nemesis force feeds her eggs to take her healing factor out of the equation.
- Defied: While the animal spirits contemplate a veganism clause, they ultimately decide against it, as there may be cases Alice lacks any other food options.
- Discussed: "I appreciate your cooking, but I can't eat meat. That's how my powers work, no ifs ands or buts."
- Conversed: "I can believe Alice's healing is linked to her veganism, but Bob only has super strength if he doesn't tell a lie?"
- Implied: Alice goes on a jury into the spirit woods. When she comes back, she has healing powers, and astute viewers will notice from this point, she never eats meat again.
- Deconstructed: As conditional powers become better understood, both sides of the conflict get better at playing around them, where powers are either canceled out, or too situational to be useful.
- Reconstructed: Despite the current "power meta," however, creative power holders can still get an edge as long as they don't fall into any traps.
- Played For Laughs: Alice has healing powers. However, her list of conditions are so long and meticulous, she has to bring an attorney to battle to ensure she doesn't mistakenly void them.
- Played For Drama:
- Alice, formerly a butcher, struggles with the morality of her past profession after gaining her powers.
- Alice is forced to cope without her powers after mistakenly eating cheese.
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