Basic Trope: Grey is associated with unhappiness.
- Straight: Bob is seen wearing a grey suit and is very upset.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is always seen in grey and has depression.
- The nation of Troperia is a Crapsack World where the water, the plants, the sun, everything, is grey.
- Downplayed: Bob has a grey tie on and he is rather bored.
- Justified: Bob's suit colour changes with his mood.
- Inverted: Bob is wearing a rainbow suit and is ecstatic.
- Subverted:
- Bob only looks sad, he is, in fact, actually enjoying things.
- Grey is actually Bob's favorite colour. He wears his grey suit to make himself feel better.
- Double Subverted: He then gets bad news, which really makes him sad.
- Parodied:
- People being seen in a grey suit are assumed to be depressed, and get given therapy hotlines on sight.
- Wearing grey automatically turns you sad and miserable, and removing grey objects from your house can cure depression.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob uses his grey suit for sad and not sad momentts interchangeably.
- Averted: Grey is never showed in a gloomy light.
- Enforced: The author wants to nail in how sad Bob is, so they show him in drab grey.
- Lampshaded: "Bob, I know you only break out the grey suit when you're down, what's up?"
- Invoked: Bob wants to convince his therapist that he is very upset, so he wears grey clothes.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob is wearing grey a lot and generally looks less happy than he normally does.
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