Basic Trope: The title of a work refers to something minor in the work.
- Straight: Trope Street is about the day Alice and Bob went to the botanical garden on Trope Street. The eponymous road appears only briefly in the story.
- Exaggerated: The botanical garden isn't even on Trope Street. Its only reference in the work is when Alice tells Bob "turn left onto Trope Street" while driving to the botanical garden.
- Downplayed: The work is called Poplar Tree, which is a recurring motif in the work... Though, not an actual tree.
- Justified: Trope Street is very important to the setting, if not the current plot.
- Inverted: The title talks about important things and events to the point of being Exactly What It Says on the Tin or even a spoiler.
- Subverted: The story starts in the Botanical Garden, but then moves to Trope Street itself.
- Double Subverted: ...Before returning to the Botanical Garden, and spending most of the time there.
- Parodied: The show is called Nessan Ultima, the car that Alice and Bob take to the botanical garden, which isn't seen again after the 5 minute mark.
- Zig Zagged: Alice and Bob are going the botanical garden on Trope Street, when Bob being Fourth-Wall Observer notes that Trope Street is the title of the episode he refuses to leave the location. Alice then goes on to the garden without him, making Bob realize he is Wrong Genre Savvy not the star of the episode. The plot continues Alice in the gardens, with occasional cutaways to Bob on Trope Street, not affecting the story in any way. In the end Bob shows up revealing that his observations on Trope Street were able to solve Alice's problems in the gardens. Alice then retorts that in his observations Bob crossed Index Avenue, where Trope Street has a different name from then on.
- Averted: Trope Street is the main setting of the episode.
- Enforced:
- The execs think that a place name will sell well, so the author is forced to name the story after a random place that's not actually important.
- Trope Street is the most thematically correct title that wasn't already taken by a previous episode.note
- Trope Street was only meant to be placeholder, but it stuck.
- Lampshaded: Bob's opening narration goes, "This is the story of Trope Street. Except nothing really happened on Trope Street. I don't actually know why it's the story of Trope Street."
- Invoked: Bob is a fourth wall observer and aware the story is called Trope Street and deliberately avoids the location.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob is a fourth wall observer and aware the story is called Trope Street and refuses to leave the location.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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