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Basic Trope: A character's powerful sneeze has disastrous effects.

  • Straight: Alice's sneeze causes her house to crumble.
  • Exaggerated: Alice sneezes so powerfully that her planet explodes.
  • Downplayed: Alice's sneeze causes her homework to flutter out the window.
  • Justified: Alice's superpower is explosive sneezes.
  • Inverted: The force of Alice's sneeze fixes her back problems.
  • Subverted: Though everyone ducks and covers when Alice looks about to sneeze, she successfully thwarts it with an Anti-Sneeze Finger.
  • Double Subverted: ...only to sneeze moments later and cause an avalanche.
  • Parodied: Every sneeze in the world, no matter how small, causes powerful damage to surroundings.
  • Zig Zagged: Alice has a sneezing fit. Some sneezes cause explosions, while others are perfectly harmless.
  • Averted:
    • Alice doesn't sneeze.
    • Alice's sneezes cause no extra effects.
  • Enforced: The budget can't afford explosives, so Alice's sneeze is used to rip open the bank vault.
  • Lampshaded: "Your sneeze caused all the windows to break? Remind me never to be around you during allergy season."
  • Invoked: Alice waves ground pepper in front of her nose to prove the disastrousness of her sneezes to her disbelieving friends.
  • Exploited: Sensing Alice is about to sneeze mid-battle, Bob aims her in the direction of an enemy.
  • Defied: Alice plugs her nose, afraid that she will cause disaster if her powerful sneezes are triggered.
  • Discussed: "Sure, sneezes don't actually cause explosions, but I can't help the urge to secure all delicate objects when someone gets the sniffles."
  • Conversed: "So he has allergies this episode? I guarantee you he's going to sneeze and cause a disaster."
  • Implied: Alice sheepishly rubs her nose while standing in a pile of green leaves, surrounded by bare trees.
  • Deconstructed: Nobody wants to be around Alice all that much because the damage her sneezes wreak makes people fear for their safety.
  • Reconstructed: Alice's sneezes are destructive, but her friends have devised methods of preventing the sneezes so that they can safely be around her.
  • Played For Laughs: Every time Alice sneezes, her outfit is transformed into something ridiculous.
  • Played For Drama: Alice's sneeze causes a wall to collapse on her friend Bob, knocking him unconscious.
  • Played For Horror: Disastrous sneezes are the first sign that someone has been afflicted by an irreversible pestilence curse.

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