Basic Trope: A character sneezes when they breathe in pepper.
- Straight: Polly throws pepper at Peter and he sneezes.
- Exaggerated:
- Peter sneezes whenever he comes within a mile of a pepper shaker.
- Polly pours pepper on Peter and he gets seriously ill and has to be hospitalised.
- Downplayed:
- Peter sniffs a bit after pepper is thrown at him.
- Peter inhales a bit of pepper, but he coughs instead.
- Justified:
- Peter is allergic to pepper.
- Truth in Television
- Inverted: Inhaling pepper helps cure Peter's cold.
- Subverted: Peter has pepper thrown at him, and he sneezes. However, it turns out he was actually sneezing because he's allergic to a cat in the room.
- Double Subverted: He's sneezing because the cat had pepper in its fur.
- Parodied: Peter sneezes, and his house falls down.
- Zig-Zagged: Peter sneezes when he comes into contact with pepper, but Polly doesn't. But then it turns out that Peter just has a cold. But then it's revealed that what we thought was pepper was not, and when Polly inhales real pepper, she sneezes.
- Averted: There is pepper, and nobody sneezes.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "I hate pepper when it makes me sneeze."
- Invoked: Polly has Peter smell pepper, expecting him to sneeze.
- Exploited: When Polly and Peter fight, Polly fills the room with pepper to incapacitate Peter.
- Defied:
- Peter holds his breath in and holds his nose shut before he's exposed to pepper.
- Patrick removes all pepper from the premises before Peter comes.
- Discussed: "I don't want to breathe in too deeply around pepper."
- Conversed: Someone with medical knowledge critiques a scene that shows Peter's violent Pepper Sneezing.
- Implied: Peter is on edge around pepper.
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