Basic Trope: Characters in a work treat mimes like crap.
- Straight: Everytime a mime is seen on the street, they are booed for not speaking.
- Exaggerated:
- The police in the work are trying to jail all mimes.
- A purge of mimes takes place.
- Downplayed: Mimes get frowned upon by the public.
- Justified:
- How can you understand a mime?
- Bob has a phobia of mimes.
- Ever since the 1800s, mimes were feared, hated and thought to be practicing witchcraft because of their convincing miming. This hatred persisted ever since.
- Mimes have legitimate miming powers that can warp reality, so they're feared and hated for a good reason.
- Inverted: People love mimes and praise them for their artistic genius.
- Subverted: It looks people are going to boo a mime, but they take no notice.
- Double Subverted: But they start jeering him or her after about five minutes.
- Parodied: Mimes are considered a nuisance by pest control, and several services exist solely dedicated to exterminating mimes.
- Zig-Zagged: Continued from Double Subversion: It turns out the mime actually has some talent; the audience is impressed and stops booing him.
- Averted:
- No-one notices mimes.
- Mimes don't appear.
- Mimes appear but aren't treated any worse than any other street performer.
- Enforced: The author hates mimes.
- Lampshaded: "The mimes are street performers, stop jeering them!"
- Invoked: Bob becomes a mime artist to get rid of his unwanted harem.
- Exploited: Wherever mimes perform, Bob sells rotten tomatoes that people will buy to hurl at the mime
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Gee, that mime sure goes through a lot of stuff, huh?" "Nah, that's the case for all of them."
- Deconstructed: Since mimes are universally hated by everyone, nobody wants to become one and there are no more mimes.
- Played For Laughs:
- Mimes are subject to Fantastic Racism and cliches like the rise of a Malcolm Xerox mime who over-acts his performances in lieu of the standard screaming about how "The Man sucks" appear.
- The mime in the cast is the Butt-Monkey and his suffering is an Unusually Uninteresting Sight.
- Played For Drama: Mimes are subject to Fantastic Racism and are subject to Police Brutality, profiling, and mistreatment.
- Played For Drama: Mimes are subject to Fantastic Racism. A Mime holocaust soon follows.
There is no point in miming how to go back to Everyone Hates Mimes, I'm telling you!!
