Basic Trope: A lock requires two or more people to unlock.
- Straight: A lock requires two people to push one button each together in order to open.
- Exaggerated: The lock requires 100 different people to press one button each, and the buttons are spread across the planet.
- Downplayed:
- The buttons aren't very far apart, so a single person with appropriately long arms can easily push both at once.
- A lock is so hard to move it usually takes two people to move them but one very strong and large person could open them both at once.
- Justified: The lock needs an additional physical layer of security, so you can't launch missiles willy-nilly.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: A lock which requires multiple people winds up misapplied in the worst ways for Black Comedy. Start with chastity belts and go from there.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: ???
- Enforced: "We need something to show how Alice and Bob can/straggle to work together. How about a lock which opens only if they both work together?"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob jury-rigs the locks so that he only needs to turn one at a time.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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