Basic Trope: A character dances the same dance move repeatedly when music plays.
- Straight: Music starts playing and Alice does a dance that consists of her bobbing up and down while simultaneously moving her hands from side to side, over and over.
- Exaggerated:
- Even when the music shifts genres, Alice keeps bobbing and hand-twitching.
- The whole cast dances in the same way.
- Downplayed: Alice alternates between several different loops.
- Justified:
- It's the only dance move Alice can think of.
- Alice is a robot and this was the only dance move programmed in her.
- Inverted: Alice dances perfectly to the beat and never repeats a move.
- Subverted: Alice starts off doing her endless bob-up-and-down-and-move-hands routine but then starts getting more creative.
- Double Subverted: Then goes back to bobbing and hand-twitching
- Parodied: The dance is actually called the Endless Loop.
- Zig-Zagged: Some characters dance in a stilted loop, some dance in a good way but with a few loops, and some have no loops while dancing.
- Averted: Alice dances normally.
- Enforced:
- "Animation is expensive, let's use this loop of Alice dancing to save money."
- The actress playing Alice has a mobile disability that restricts her movements and this was the only dance she could do, so the creators decided to Throw It In!
- The creators know a person who only danced the same move repeatedly so they decided to add it into their work.
- Lampshaded: "Is that your only move?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "No way I'm dancing the same way over and over! I'll spice it up!"
- Discussed: "Last week, I went to the disco and everybody danced the same way over and over!"
- Conversed: "Cartoons look so weird when they dance!"
- Played for Horror: Alice, a Serial Killer, dances the same move over and over again as she closes into her victims, as scary nursery rhymes play in the background.
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