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Basic Trope: A character changes a diaper.

  • Straight: Alice changes a baby's diaper.
  • Exaggerated: Alice changes the diapers of a whole lot of babies.
  • Downplayed: Alice helps Bob change a diaper.
  • Justified: Alice was babysitting the baby and he needed a diaper change.
  • Inverted: Someone puts a diaper on Alice.
  • Subverted: Alice does a Diaper Check, but the baby was clean.
  • Double Subverted: She sniffed, the baby was not messy, but he was wet and needed to be changed, so Alice changes him.
  • Parodied: The baby can talk and asks to be changed.
  • Zigzagged: Alice is too grossed out to change a diaper, Bob doesn't know how, Carol is too busy, but Dave changes the baby.
  • Averted: No diapers are changed, there are no babies, or Nobody Poops.
  • Enforced: To throw in some Toilet Humor and introduce a baby.
  • Lampshaded: "Do we really have to change his diaper?"
  • Invoked: Alice hands a messy baby to Bob.
  • Exploited: The baby benefits as it is getting cleaned.
  • Defied: Alice refuses to change diapers.
  • Discussed: "How do I change diapers without gagging? I'm going to be babysitting for a baby and I want to be prepared."
  • Conversed: "There's a baby on the show. What's to bet his diaper will need changing?"
  • Implied: Alice takes a baby into another room to be changed.
  • Played for Laughs: Vulgar Humor.

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