Basic Trope: An RPG or other character is created that has unusual traits or abilities for the setting.
- Straight: Alice creates Aerith for an RPG. Essentially, Aerith is an elf mage, but she is called something else, and displays unusual talents or abilities.
- Exaggerated: Aerith is a blatant Mary Sue or Black Hole Sue.
- Downplayed: Aerith has purple hair in a universe where no one else does, but is otherwise normal for the game universe.
- Justified:
- Aerith is a unusual class or but not too out of the norm.
- All the main characters (not just Aerith) are unusual for the setting and acknowledged as such; how they manage to relate to "normal" people and each other may be a plot point.
- All the characters are unusual, and the universe is sort of a Bizarro World.
- The work is a bit of Satire; Aerith is a Parody Sue.
- Inverted: All the other characters are unusual, and Aerith is just a "normal" elf mage.
- Subverted: Aerith is an ordinary elf-mage.
- Double Subverted: But she has an unusual ability for a mage, a cool pet, or unusual looks.
- Parodied: Aerith's special skillset clashes with her stats and she's ended up the worst character in the game.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Aerith is quite normal for the universe.
- Alice doesn't create any characters.
- Enforced:
- I Just Want to Be Special
- Alice wanted to create a villain character in a good-only campaign, so she's trying to "stir the pot," in hopes that the Game Master will either change the campaign for her, or that she'll be kicked out of the group.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice creates a character that's normal as befits the setting.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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