Basic Trope: Vacuum cleaners are portrayed as evil.
- Straight: Violet the vacuum has a mind of her own, and can, and will, suck up everything in her path.
- Exaggerated: Violet the vacuum sucks up an entire planet, and everything on it.
- Downplayed: Violet is extremely loud for a vacuum cleaner and has suction power so strong that she’s difficult to use.
- Justified:
- Violet is possessed.
- Violet is a Roomba, and faulty.
- Inverted:
- Violet’s owner uses her without fail and forces her to clean up things she is not intended to.
- Every machine is evil except for Violet.
- Subverted: Violet, a vacuum in a world of evil machines, turns out to be innocent.
- Double Subverted: But that was just a facade.
- Parodied: Violet makes loud noise around people with noise sensitivities.
- Zig-Zagged: Violet seems to be evil, but then turns out to be innocent, but that was just a facade, and she really was evil, but only to fit in with the other machines.
- Averted:
- There are no vacuums.
- No machines are sentient, evil or good.
- Violet is a nice vacuum.
- Enforced: Rule of Scary
- Lampshaded: “Violet, why did you suck up a planet?”
- Invoked: A demon possesses a vacuum cleaner.
- Exploited:
- Sadist Alice uses Violet to torment Bob.
- Emperor Evulz steals Violet and repurposes her as a hero containment unit.
- Defied: Violet's Morality Dial is permanently switched to good.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: “Why are vacuum cleaners always evil?”
- Implied: Alice dreads doing the vacuuming.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played For Laughs: Violet’s worst attack is to cause a loud noise that will make anyone who hears it poop their pants.
- Played For Horror: Violet has a built-in incinerator that destroys whatever she sucks up.
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