Basic Trope: The fragility of a soufflé is exaggerated for comedy, usually by having it fall over for seemingly no reason.
- Straight: Bob is trying to carry a soufflé to another room, but it falls after he breathes on it.
- Exaggerated: As soon as Bob gets within 20 feet of the soufflé, it collapses.
- Downplayed: The soufflé collapses after Bob experiences a Sneeze of Doom.
- Justified: Bob did not prepare the soufflé properly.
- Inverted: Bob has no idea how to make a soufflé, and just completely wings it. He is successful.
- As chaos ensues all around Bob, the soufflé surprisingly manages to hold up.
- Subverted: Bob is Crazy-Prepared, and made another one just in case.
- Double Subverted: ...Which doesn't make it either.
- Parodied: The ingredients to the soufflé (even the utensils) collapse when Bob tries to make one.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob makes several soufflés. Some of them hold up, while others get taken out by a stiff breeze.
- Averted: Bob successfully gets the soufflé to its destination.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded: "Aw, dammit! Not again!"
- Invoked: Alice sabotages the soufflé.
- Defied: Bob reads the recipe very carefully, and does meticulous research to make sure it's a credible one.
- Discussed:
- Conversed:
- Implied: Bob said he was going to make a soufflé, and announces that it's done, but then he groans angrily, and it takes him awhile to come back.
