Basic Trope: A character calls out the mob and the mob feels guilty and leaves.
- Straight: Torches and Pitchforks crowd is chasing Friendly Neighborhood Vampire Bob. Alice stands in their way and shames them into letting Bob go.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice's speech works so well that the crowd all volunteers to become vampires themselves.
- Alice interrupting the Nurenburg Rally convinced the entirety of The Nazi Party (Hitler included) to adopt pacifism, democracy, and racial equality as their platforms.
- Downplayed: Alice shames a few people who are chasing Bob.
- Justified: Alice has a Compelling Voice, enabling her to calm the mob down without much difficulty.
- Inverted:
- Shamed by a Mob - Bob the vampire is shamed by the mob into leaving their town.
- Rabble Rouser - Alice talks the people in her town into ganging up on Bob and chasing him away.
- Subverted: It seems Alice manages to calm the mob... but then somebody screams and they start chasing Bob again.
- Double Subverted:
- ...but Alice's speech convinced One-Man Army Charlie, who stops the crowd himself.
- ...but it turns out they were running to help him.
- Parodied: Alice shames the mob who tries to get to the last bar of chocolate in the entire shop.
- Zig Zagged: Alice and the mob go back and forth shaming each other.
- Averted:
- People in his town accept Bob and who he is.
- Rather then directly confront the mob Alice hides Bob in her house and leads them in the wrong direction.
- Enforced: Producers want to show that Alice is a strong character despite being no fighter, so they have her save Bob by talking.
- Lampshaded: "Wow, Alice, you sure are convincing."
- Invoked:
- Bob stages the mob chase so that Alice can do something and feel important.
- Alice is the one who staged the mob scene to earn his trust.
- Exploited: Later, vampire hunter David uses this situation to prove that Alice is collaborating with vampires and thus is a bad guy.
- Defied:
- Alice is shot before she has chance to speak.
- Alice deduces that these fuckers won't liston to reason, knuckles up, and starts beating them down.
- Discussed: "Why couldn't somebody stop them?"
- Conversed: "And then Alice came in front of the crown and shamed them into leaving and dear my, what a cool shot it was."
- Implied: We see Bob running away from the mob, and then we cut to mob going home and Bob thanking Alice for her help.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice tries to shame the mob, but peer pressure makes her Shamed by a Mob and she joins the chase.
- The mob is too blinded with rage to take Alice's words to heart. Instead, they take it as a personal attack and start chasing her.
- The mob might not even notice Alice in the noise and chaos. She ends up trampled by the mob.
- Reconstructed: The mob expects Alice to support them, hence they approach her with open ears.
- Played For Horror: Turns out Bob is not a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire. After Alice helps out Bob she becomes the latest blood-drained corpse.
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