Basic Trope: Pagan clergy wield sickles.
- Straight: Alice is a priestess of a pantheon of ancient nature deities and wields a sickle in combat.
- Exaggerated: Alice refuses to speak the names of deities outside her pantheon or touch weapons other than her sickle.
- Downplayed: Alice is a warrior, not a priestess, but she worships the old nature deities. She uses several different weapons, but favors curved blades.
- Justified: Alice is attacked in the middle of a ritual and defends herself with her bolline because it's what she has on hand.
- Inverted:
- Alice is a fundamentalist Christian or the universe's equivalent and wields a sickle.
- Alice is a pagan priestess, and knows how to fight, but is completely incompetent with sickles.
- Subverted: Alice seems to be a sickle-wielding priestess...but it's just a disguise.
- While pagan clergy use sickles they are never to be used on humans or animals, only plants. Just nicking oneself accidentally is frowned upon and calls for ritual cleansing and atonement for their carelessness. Using it as a weapon would be blasphemous as a Christian sticking a cross where the sun doesn't shine.
- Double Subverted: ...but wait, she actually is a priestess, she just tends to stay low-key about it. The person she was trying to fool doesn't know about her position, so she used the trappings of her role as a disguise.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice's clerical vows include being an Actual Pacifist.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Ever noticed that ever since Alice became a priestess, she's been using that sickle as a weapon?"
- Invoked: The High Fruitful Mother, queen of the nature pantheon, commands that her clergy wield sickles.
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz knows Alice is a threat to him, so he uses skeletons as minions, knowing that sickles aren't meant for cutting bone.
- Defied: The High Fruitful Mother commands that her clergy do not fight.
- Discussed: "So now that Alice is a priestess, is she going to start fighting with sickles?"
- Conversed: "Why do druids always use sickles?"
- Played for Laughs: Alice keeps losing her sickle.
- Played for Drama: Alice can only use her sickle, even when other weapons would be better.
