Basic Trope: A friend (soi-disant) or neighbor drops in a lot.
- Straight: Alice shows up unannounced at Bob's house all the time.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice cuts a hole in the wall between their apartments.
- Every episode, a different character drops into Bob's house. The character isn't always human.
- The characters all visit one another regularly, without ever asking permission beforehand.
- Alice moves in with Bob uninvited.
- There is a constant stream of people coming in and out of Bob's house.
- Downplayed: Alice only shows up unannounced every so often.
- Justified:
- Alice's stuff is at Bob's place, with his permission.
- Alice subleases a room of Bob's.
- Inverted: Alice and Bob both live in an apartment, but Alice and her possessions are nowhere to be seen most of the time.
- Subverted: Alice was planning on stopping by, but she became ill.
- Double Subverted: She decides she can come back another day - without asking, of course.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: No one visits anyone else without first being invited.
- Enforced: Alice is an important member of the cast and, for plot reasons, needs some way to keep up to date with events.
- Lampshaded:
- "Any chance you could knock next time?"
- "Alice, don't you have your own place?"
- Invoked: Bob's door is left wide open.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Alice calls first.
- Bob locks the door.
- Discussed: "Thank you for not sneaking into my house earlier. A door that was accidentally left open is not an implicit invitation."
- Conversed: "Why does Alice keep coming to Bob's place uninvited? She should know it's against the law!"
- Deconstructed: Bob calls the police, and Alice is arrested for trespassing.
- Reconstructed: Alice is a Trickster God who simply warps her way out of any trouble she gets into for dropping in.
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