Basic Trope: Subconscious thoughts come out by accident.
- Straight: "I'd like a mother" Beat "I mean another"
- Exaggerated: Freudian Slippery Slope
- Downplayed: A minor slip of the tongue results in a character saying something that they had intended to bring up anyway, rather than subconscious thoughts.
- Justified: The Shadow Archetype wants to come out somehow.
- Inverted: A character intending to make a confession of previously repressed feelings bungles the words so that it comes out as mundane and unsurprising.
- Subverted:
- Bob seemingly slips up, but then "corrects" himself in a sarcastic tone that makes it clear that it was intentional.
- Bob's slip up came not from his subconscious, but from still learning the local language. (EG: in Dutch the "oo"* and "uu"* sounds makes the difference between "whores"["hoeren"] and "rents"/"renting"["huren"])
- Double Subverted: Until it is revealed that the character did harbor more subconscious feelings in that direction than they were consciously aware of.
- Parodied: Bob's subconscious can only speak what his conscious brain is thinking, and vice-versa.
- Zig Zagged: A character's slip of the tongue brings out hidden feelings at one moment, then their choice for dinner the next.
- Averted: No Freudian Slip is made; the character says exactly what they intend to say.
- Enforced: Rule of Funny
- Lampshaded: "Dammit Bob, did you really mean to say that in a time like this?!"
- Invoked: Charlie plants ideas in Bob's mind, knowing they might slip out at a inopportune time.
- Exploited: Charlie uses Bob's accidental insult of Alice to further drive a wedge between the two of them, and curry favor with her.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: Executives consider that a potential Freudian Slip makes a nice High Concept to build a film around. (Eg. Liar Liar)
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played For Drama: Bob's slip of tongue during tense negotiations causes disastrous results.
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