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Basic Trope: A character who loves pranks.

  • Straight: Alice loves pranks, and pranks people at every opportunity.
  • Exaggerated: Alice is known primarily for pranks.
  • Downplayed: Alice is slightly cheekier than the rest of the group.
  • Justified: This is sometimes Truth in Television.
  • Inverted: Alice hates pranks.
  • Subverted: Alice gives up pranking.
  • Double Subverted: That was only to convince her Love Interest Bob, she then takes up pranking again.
  • Parodied: Alice plays pranks for a living.
  • Zigzagged: Sometimes Alice is a prankster, sometimes not.
  • Averted: There are no pranksters in the show.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "I bet it was Alice who pulled the prank."
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: The team use Alice as an entertainer for their friends and a setback for their enemies.
  • Defied: The characters refuse to prank.
  • Discussed: "Why does Alice play so many pranks?" "It's her schtick"
  • Conversed: "That prankster character is so funny."
  • Implied: Pranks keep happening and all evidence points to Alice.
  • Deconstructed: This hinders Alice's ability to make friends.
  • Reconstructed: Alice's friends have a sense of humour.
  • Played for Laughs: Everyone finds Alice's jokes, which are a Running Gag, funny.
  • Played for Drama: Alice pulls a Deadly Prank by mistake.

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