Basic Trope: Someone pretends that they hate something, but they're secretly a fan.
- Straight: Alice pretends she hates Show Within a Show, but she actually loves it.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice regularly preaches about how much she hates the show and she thinks all of the people involved in the show or are fans of the show should die horrible deaths, but it's actually her favorite show of all time.
- Everyone who "hates" something in the work actually loves it.
- Downplayed:
- Alice really likes the show, but when asked what she thinks about it, she says "Eh, it's okay."
- Alice doesn't necessarily love the show, but thinks it's passable. She still pretends she hates it anyway.
- Justified:
- Show Within a Show is made for older or younger viewers than Alice is, and she doesn't want anyone to know she's a fan of a work that's not for her age group.
- Similarly, the show is constantly lambasted as being horrible, so Alice is just trying to blend in.
- Inverted: Alice pretends she loves the show, but can't stand it.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody pretends to hate something they're actually a fan of.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
This page was so badly written. (Actually, no - I think it's really good.)
