Playing With / Nice Kitty...

Basic Trope: Making Baby Talk to a menacing animal while trying to back away.

• Straight: Alice is trapped on a savannah and a lion is chasing her. She backs away, saying "Nice kitty".
• Exaggerated:
  • It's a whole pride of lions!
    Alice: "Nice kitties...good cats...I'll be leaving...please don't eat me."
  • If you only heard her dialogue, you wouldn't think she was trying to get away at all!
    Alice: (backing away but speaking fully affectionately) "Who's a nice kitty cat? You are! Yes, you are! Look at your handsome eyes!"
• Downplayed: Alice says this to an overly nasty stray kitty.
• Justified:
  • Alice is trying to butter up the lion.
  • Alice actually thinks the lion is cute despite being afraid of him.
• Inverted:
  • Alice scolds the lion when backing away.
    Alice: "Bad cat!"
  • Alice makes baby talk while running towards the lion.
  • When a little kitten runs up to Alice, she slowly walks up to it, acting nervous all the way, all the while insulting it and calling it a lion.
  • A talking lion calls Alice the hunter "Nice human" to convince her not to shoot.
• Subverted: Alice starts off making baby talk but then changes her mind.
• Double Subverted: She starts up the baby talk again.
• Parodied: Alice goes through this when dealing with an angry house cat.
• Averted:
  • There are no menacing animals.
  • There are menacing animals, but nobody makes baby talk to them.
• Zigzagged: Alice's dialogue when being chased by the lion is a mixture of baby talk, exclamations, insults and neutral words.
• Enforced: The execs think the tense lion chase needs a bit of comic relief.
• Lampshaded: "I know lots of people have called you a nice kitty before so you're probably bored of it..."
• Invoked: Bob says to Alice, "Maybe if you call him a nice kitty, he won't attack you!".
• Exploited:
• Defied: Alice refuses to say anything to the lion.
• Discussed: "Why am I calling him a nice kitty? He's trying to kill me!"
• Conversed: "Why do these characters make baby talk to animals they're trying to get away from?!"
• Implied: Alice survives an offscreen lion attack and says "He wasn't a nice kitty."
• Deconstructed:
• Reconstructed:
• Played for Laughs: The lion turns out to be a Talking Animal who's actually quite friendly and says, "Well, I try to be a nice kitty."
• Played for Drama: The lion ends up seriously injuring Alice.

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