Basic Trope: Buying flashy, expensive items is supposed to make your loved one forgive you when you screw up.
- Straight: Alice sees her fiancé, Bob, meeting with another woman in private. When she confronts Bob, he drapes a dark brown sable jacket over her shoulders, and Bob is Easily Forgiven.
- Exaggerated: He then tells Alice to check the pockets of her new fur, and she finds a diamond necklace, keys to a Rolls Royce, and keys to a mansion. Alice is so overjoyed, she doesn't care when Bob tells her he was also sleeping with her sister (whom he had bought a mink coat and star sapphire ring).
- Downplayed:
- Alice loves the coat, but Bob still has to sleep on the couch for a few days.
- Alice stops yelling at Bob when he puts the coat on her, but fumes and says she’ll confront him later.
- Justified: There was nothing to distract from. Bob was just talking to this lady who was selling off her aunt's estate, and he wanted a good price to buy Alice such a nice fur coat.
- Inverted: Alice is angry at Bob for cheating, which distracts her from how much of their money Bob blew on Alice's new fur.
- Subverted:
- Alice loves the coat, but she slaps Bob across the face.
- A furious Alice announces, "I'd rather go naked than wear a garment a cheater gave me!", and defiantly strips naked.
- Double Subverted:
- This is how the two get in the mood for make-up sex.
- Alice is a Reluctant Fanservice Girl, and eventually she puts on the coat, albeit reluctantly.
- Parodied:
- Alice loves the feel of her new fur so much, she's still running her hands over it as Bob confesses to also murdering a few people.
- Alice buys her mistress a fur, to apologize for forgetting their anniversary, and making love to her husband that day.
- Alice still isn't happy Bob bought her an ermine coat, since it's a white fur, and he cheated on her after Labor Day.
- Alice and Bob are so poor that he can buy her a Shoddy Knockoff Product of the fur coat she's been eyeing to make her forgive him.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice has mood swings between hating Bob's action and loving his gift.
- Averted: Alice just walks out on Bob, who doesn't try to dissuade her.
- Enforced: The coat is Product Placement.
- Lampshaded: "You think I'll just ignore that for … this wonderful … Dammit, I'm so mad at you, but I always wanted a fur like this!"
- Invoked: Bob hypnotizes Alice so that she forgives him when presenting gifts to her.
- Exploited: Alice is a Gold Digger. She went for a guy like Bob, because he has a habit of cheating, and then giving expensive gifts to make up for it.
- Defied:
- Bob will not buy such a thing just to shut Alice up. He instead admits his mistake, and agrees to go into couples' counselling.
- Alice knows this will only get worse if she just lets it slide. So she accepts the fur, on the condition they get counselling.
- Discussed:Carol: What, Bob buys you a coat and all is forgiven? Have a little self-respect, Alice.
- Conversed: "I don't care how fancy the coat is, if any guy treated me like the men in this show treat their wives, he'd be out on the street."
- Deconstructed: Alice lives in a society or culture where she couldn't leave Bob for cheating if she wanted to, so she takes comfort in his luxurious gifts and convinces herself they're evidence he really loves her. Bob suffers a crippling sex addiction and feels horribly guilty about his serial infidelities, and so needs to make it up to Alice with ever more elaborate gifts. Their household is deep in debt and on the verge of financial ruin as a result.
- Reconstructed: Alice joins a women's movement dedicated to giving women greater rights to divorce. Bob gets help and overcomes his addiction, apologises to Alice, and they work together to repay their debts.
- Implied: Alice is about to chew Bob out for some unspecified action of his, but in the next scene, she's hugging him in what looks like a brand-new designer dress that she wasn't wearing before.
Back to Distracted by the Luxury. Oh, and if you see Token Lesbian, tell her I'm inviting her for a Fancy Dinner. She's kinda mad at me right now, but she'll listen to you.
