Basic Trope: A character has a hard time saying something they don't like.
- Straight: Alice tries to say "I'm wrong", but ends up mumbling some nonsense.
- Exaggerated: Alice is physically incapable of saying anything she doesn't feel like saying.
- Downplayed: Alice has a slight stammer, or says "uh" a lot, but manages to say she's wrong.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: Alice has troubles saying something she really wants to say.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Alice makes a white-noise sound whenever she doesn't want to say something.
- Zig Zagged: Some characters can't say things they don't like, some can.
- Averted: Nobody has to say anything they don't like, or they do but can say it fine, or nobody talks at all in this series.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "How come whenever Alice doesn't like a word or phrase, she stammers and gags as though she can't say it?!"
- Invoked: A wizard curses Alice to not be able to say a word she doesn't like, and then Bob makes her have to say it.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice goes to The Shrink, in order to learn how to say things she doesn't like.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "How come fictional characters have difficulty saying what they don't like."
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