Basic Trope: A fan work that attempts to emulate the style and rhythm of the original as closely as possible.
- Straight: A fanfic of The Adventures of Alice & Bob follows the standard formula of an episode.
- Exaggerated: A "fanfic" of The Adventures of Alice & Bob copies an episode exactly.
- Downplayed: A fanfic of The Adventures of Alice & Bob follows a formula similar to the show, but due to some reasons, clearly would never be canon.
- Justified: The fanfic writer wants their fanfic to feel like it could actually be an episode of said show.
- Inverted: A canon Alice & Bob episode veers off into a very nonstandard plot.
- Subverted: It first appears to be fairly standard fare, but then catches the reader off-guard with a twist that changes the story's direction.
- Double Subverted: However, the new plot's resolved similar to canon problems.
- Parodied: Alice and Bob are Animated Actors in the fanfic who struggle to get things just right constantly.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: The fic takes a purely original angle.
- Enforced: "If I don't write the story like this, it'll alienate the other fans."
- Lampshaded: "Hey, Alice, doesn't this seem familiar at all?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Alice and Bob know that things are turning out as usual, and use their old solutions... and avoid their old mistakes.
- Defied: "Alice, I'm bored. Let's do things differently this time."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- The reason the fans read the fanfic is they want something non-standard. As a result, they pan the fanfiction and the authors get a reputation as boring and unoriginal hacks.
- The fanfic is a little too close to the plot of an episode and it attracts the attention of the producers of The Adventures of Alice & Bob — in a bad way. They slap the fanfic authors with a copyright infringement lawsuit and it ends up costing the authors a lot of money.
- Reconstructed: The Adventures of Alice & Bob goes on a long, possibly even permanent, hiatus, without resolving crucial plot threads, so a fanfic that tries to emulate the show's style as closely as possible is welcomed by the fans as a chance to see those plot threads resolved somehow in the absence of canonical continuation.
Isn't this page so much like the original?
