Basic Trope: A character does something bad and/or socially unacceptable in such an extravagant manner that everybody is too dazzled to protest and goes along with it.
- Straight: Alice starts randomly breakdancing in an adult daycare center. The staff and patients are all baffled by her action but they assume that she was probably trying to lighten up the mood and end up joining her in the fun.
- Exaggerated: Alice lets off firecrackers, breakdances and hosts a full-on concert in an adult daycare center. Everyone there sits stunned and stupefied for a moment before they all give Alice a standing ovation for her odd performance and ask her to permanently perform for them every week.
- Downplayed:
- Alice does weird poses in the elevator of a public place. One person out of the other four people on the elevator with her casually cheers "nice pose!" at one of them and that's it.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar.
- Justified:
- Alice is a doctor and she's trying to encourage elderly people to dance along and have fun as a form of therapy.
- Alice is an Attention Whore and loves grabbing people's attention this way.
- Alice has just committed a crime, and she'll do anything to avoid getting arrested for it.
- Inverted: Alice steals two cents from Bob at a concert. Everybody starts booing and throwing food at Alice.
- Subverted: Alice is taken out of the daycare center by the proper authorities before she finishes.
- Double Subverted: People at the daycare center are still impressed enough to start to chant for her to be allowed back in.
- Parodied: Alice comes to a concert with nothing out of the ordinary. Everybody is somehow still too dazzled to protest.
- Zig Zagged:
- Alice sometimes does random audacious things, other times she decides against it.
- Alice's strange behaviors are either well received or badly received by people depending on their cultures and the situation.
- Averted: Alice doesn't do anything unordinary at the daycare center or the elevator.
- Enforced: "We need to add some comedy to this show but how? Let's just have Alice do something crazy and have everybody else be too stunned to react."
- Lampshaded: "What the... How come nobody's stopping this Alice chick?!"
- Invoked: Alice makes plans to do something out of the ordinary... but in an over-the-top manner.
- Exploited: Alice, knowing fully well that behaving in an over-the-top manner will capture everyone's attention at the center, does all sorts of weird unordinary behaviors as a distraction so her Evil Minions can carry out her very evil plans while everyone is only focused on her.
- Defied:
- "No, just no. I may be bizarre, I'm not going to do that."
- Alice is brought down by a simple statement: "Hey, that woman is not part of the act at all! SOMEONE STOP HER!!"
- Alice is brought down by another simple statement: "I'm sorry, ma'am, but I have strict orders to not allow anybody go past this point without proper ID". Probably enforced further with a choke-hold/taser/knee to the groin if/when Alice tries to insist.
- Discussed: "Nobody is stopping Alice from doing weird random audacious things because she's a Serial Killer in a Slasher Movie. Rule number 1 in horror movies: Don't challenge any scary or weird-behaving entity, because Horror Hates a Rulebreaker."
- Conversed: "Alice needs to understand that This Is Reality, not some cartoon where she can get away with doing anything strange.".
- Implied: "We Need a Distraction!" "Alice, would you do that thing with the screamo music again?"
- Deconstructed:
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome; Alice is caught by the authorities and is charged with disturbing the peace.
- Alternatively, Reality Fails to Ensue, and Alice is able to get away with a truly atrocious and highly criminal act because everyone thinks it is All Part of the Show.
- Alice really was hoping to get caught as part of the plan, or really didn't cared about getting caught and just wished to be extravagant for the hell of it, but the fact people are stunned by her audacity and nothing bad happens ends up placing her on the wrong end of a Springtime for Hitler scenario.
- Too much audacity, not enough refuge: Alice's attempt at drawing attention away from her crime by doing something loud and obnoxious is either ammunition for Justice by Other Legal Means or a Revealing Cover Up, and her attempts at being too outrageous in her lying to be believed runs into that one person who sees right through it.
- Alice's actions were fearless and gave her refuge, but rather than a sign of cleverness, they are instead a sign of her being an Idiot Houdini. We are talking a blunder so humongous that she was not suspected because the cops were questioning Who Would Be Stupid Enough? and she didn't look that stupid.
- Reconstructed:
- After being caught, Alice downplays her stunts to the point where they are bizarre, but certainly not enough to warrant arrest.
- Alice tries to roll with the blow and performs a Counter Zany scheme with even more audacity in the hopes it will fix the bad her previous audacious action has done. It works.
- Played For Laughs:
- The reason this is such an Unusually Uninteresting Sight? Alice does this at least once a week.
- Julie is a tremendous example of the "Stupid Crooks" trope and yet she has not been caught yet because nobody on the other side of the law, from the youngest officer to the oldest juror and judge in court, is able to believe someone would be that stupid or bold.
- Played For Drama: Alice does this whilst drunk and doesn't remember it the following day. In addition, someone uploaded it to the internet, causing her no small amount of embarrassment. The only saving grace she has is that what she did was so absurd that nobody actually associates her with it.
- Played For Horror: Alice is a brutal abuser and the only reason she hasn't seen the interior of a jail cell even with the lots of evidence of her doing inappropriate things in public and disturbing people is the sheer insanity of her torture treatments. Anybody can bitch-slap a kid, but making an organ that runs on the sound of children screaming in pain normally is supposed to be in the realm of comedy sketches
or satirical invention articles... and then the police takes a look at Alice's attic.
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