Basic Trope: A character's eyelid spasms when emotionally unstable.
- Straight: After she is fired from her job, Alice's eye twitches whenever it is brought up.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice is Ax-Crazy, and this is her basic expression.
- Alice’s eyes go crazy and constantly twitch when the mere mention of a job comes up.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified: Alice has Tourette's Syndrome.
- Inverted: Alice's eye twitches when she's trying to avoid laughing (of the genuinely humorous kind).
- Subverted: Alice's eye twitches normally-no one's really noticed that until she was fired, and she keeps the twitch after she gets her job back.
- Double Subverted: The reason nobody noticed it was that it only gets that bad under stress.
- Parodied: Alice's eye twitches on every opportunity, except when she's unstable.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice's eye doesn't twitch.
- Enforced: The creators can't stand emotionally unstable people, they decide to mock them by adding this trope in the work.
- Lampshaded: "Um, Alice? Your eye is twitching. Are you sure you're taking this all right?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Alice's eyes twitch when she's stressed out, and Bob makes a nice bit of cash because he knows that a bad poker hand really stresses her out.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Um, is her eye like that normally?" "No, it isn't. Keep your distance, and try not to being up sensitive topics."
*Twitch, twitch* (Gasp)... finally done... *twitch*
