Basic Trope: A clown who is frightening and/or evil.
- Straight: Tropo the Clown has an intentionally scary-looking clown face, attacks people with a spiked clown hammer, and laughs maniacally, while Creepy Circus Music plays in the background.
- Exaggerated: Tropo the Clown is evil incarnate.
- Downplayed: Tropo the Clown is kind of a Jerkass.
- Justified:
- Tropo is the one member of an Always Chaotic Evil species who happens to be dressed like a clown.
- Tropo is a Juggalo.
- Inverted: Non-Ironic Clown
- Subverted: Tropo appears scary, but is actually kindhearted.
- Double Subverted: ...but he's actually a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who really is evil!
- Parodied: The moment a clown appears, everyone automatically assumes it's evil and beats the crap out of it.
- Zig-Zagged: Tropo is a cunning manipulator with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. Sometimes he's evil, but sometimes he does good things. You can never really tell whose side he's on.
- Averted: Tropo is just a generic clown character with no distinctive personality.
- Enforced:
- The creator has coulrophobia and wants to share how they feel about clowns.
- The creator knows his audience is largely coulrophobic, and doesn't believe they would accept a Non-Ironic Clown.
- Lampshaded: "Aw crap, a clown. This isn't going to end well."
- Invoked:
- Tropo dresses like a clown to trigger other people's coulrophobia.
- Tropo gets in clown getup as a means of Refuge in Audacity.
- Exploited:
- Some Opportunistic Bastards use Tropo - directly or otherwise - as a decoy, to distract law enforcement from their own dirty deeds.
- Various shops put out Monster Clown-themed merchandise to capitalize on the media frenzy surrounding Tropo.
- Defied: Tropo acts gentle and passive to show that he's not a bad guy, and nothing to be afraid of.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: After defeating the Monster of the Week, Bob wonders what monster he and the team will have to fight next. Cut to a dark, run-down circus tent. It's too dark to see inside, but we hear Creepy Circus Music and an Evil Laugh that gets louder and louder. Cut to credits.
- Deconstructed: An incident caused by Tropo the Clown makes national headlines and damages the greater clowning industry, affecting the lives of all the genuinely good clowns working within it.
- Reconstructed:
- Said good clowns publicly condemn Tropo's actions, then raise money towards causes that alleviate the harm he's caused.
- The good clowns actively fight against Tropo.
- Played for Laughs: Villainous Harlequin
- Played for Drama: Bob used to love clowns and the circus until Tropo attempted to do something horrible to him. Bob has lingering trauma from the incident that gives him terrible anxiety whenever the subject of clowns or circuses comes up.
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