Basic Trope: A person wears a necklace with a ring on it as a pendant.
- Straight: Bob has a large gold ring around a necklace he wears.
- Exaggerated: Bob has several gaudy large rings around multiple necklaces
- Downplayed: Bob wears a ring on his finger, but in one chapter, he slips it on a necklace.
- Justified:
- The ring is Alice's, and she gave it to Bob as The Lady's Favour. He's not going to wear someone else's property, and even if he did, that ring is way too small for his fingers.
- The ring is made of Loyal Phlebotinum and would change its size to slip off Bob's finger, so that's not an option.
- Bob is a welder. He can't wear jewelry on his fingers: It would get damaged too easily.
- The ring is an Artifact of Doom: Bob needs to keep it close so it's not lost, but he doesn't want to wear it.
- The ring will turn Bob invisible or give him some other superpower he can't control, so he keeps it near him but not on him.
- The ring is a (temporary) replacement for a broken link.
- Inverted:
- Bob wears a ring on his finger that has a necklace dangling from it.
- Bob has a bunch of necklaces tied together that are worn as a ring.
- Subverted: Bob is given a ring with a necklace on it. He very carefully removes the necklace and gives that back.
- Double Subverted: ...he then attaches the ring to his own necklace. After all, he already has one, so he doesn't need a different one.
- Parodied: Once Bob puts the ring around the necklace, the ring begins to talk and berate him for not wearing it properly.
- Averted:
- Once Bob sees the ring, he puts it on his finger and that's where it stays.
- Bob separates the ring from the necklace and wears both in their designed fashion.
- Enforced: The ring slips off Bob's fingers until he eventually puts it on a necklace.
- Lampshaded: "What's with the rings on the necklaces. You'd think they could get a ring that fits like it's supposed to."
- Exploited:
- Thieves that want the ring try to use the necklace as a garrote.
- The ring is both evil and magical: It's slips its power into the necklace and makes it constrict around Bob.
- Defied:
- Bob states that necklaces can get caught and damaged just as easily as rings, and he stows them both away in a backpack.
- Implied: Bob tries on the ring and finds it's too small for his fingers. He puzzles this while playing with his necklace: He then looks at the necklace and smiles.
- Played for Laughs: When Bob wears the ring around the necklace, both ring and necklace becomes sentient and engage in their own little Star-Crossed Lovers tale.
- Played for Drama:
- Bob is captured and subjected to Shirtless Captives. Noticing the bling he wears around his neck, his captors take it. The ring is a treasure of The Lost Lenore from his Doomed Hometown, and this mentally breaks Bob.
- Played for Horror: The ring is an Artifact of Doom so dangerous that even wearing it around his neck subjects Bob to sanity-draining whispers.
Good troper, that ring won't fit your finger. Perhaps you'd care to carry it as a Ring on a Necklace.
