Basic: A genuine, but still racist compliment without any intentional sarcasm, bluffing, or condescension.
- Straight: Alice compliments Bob on his accomplishments as a troper, and is one of the only fifteen members of that race that she actually shows respect to. The rest are meaningless to Alice.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice tells Bob that he is the only troper that she even has any positive feelings.
- Ivh'edr'itrax tells Bob that he is the only human that Ivh'edr'itrax can relate to.
- Downplayed: While Alice compliments on Bob, she still shows distrust toward him.
- Justified:
- Alice is a former Politically Incorrect Villain going through a Heel–Face Turn, and her discovery of the potential of people outside her race is just part of her Character Development.
- Alice is a Politically Incorrect Hero.
- Bob is a Cultural Rebel, and attempting to assert his individuality.
- Bob is the Token Heroic Orc in a race of Always Chaotic Evil monsters.
- Inverted: Alice tells Bob that he is a disgrace to his race, who she otherwise views as noble.
- Subverted: Alice was going to say that Bob is a great credit to his race, but decided to think twice about it.
- Double Subverted: ...Then she decided to tell Bob is the strongest member of the race.
- Parodied: Alice compliments on the race of pancakes for being superior in taste to waffles.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice sees some people of Bob's race — including Bob himself — as credits and debits.
- Averted:
- Alice sees all tropers as equally valuable.
- Alice sees all tropers as equally worthless, Bob included.
- Enforced: "We're going to show that racism doesn't need to rely purely on insults."
- Lampshaded: "You know, Alice. While I am not being called a worthless example of my race, that's not fair for the rest of my race."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice interrupts herself and decided to tell Bob that the rest of her members are equally valid, and their lives matter.
- Deconstructed: Bob realizes what Alice said and, he loses his respect for her, and the two grow distant.
- Reconstructed: Bob decides that since Alice was trying to compliment him, she can still be his friend, just as long as she tries to rid herself of anti-troper prejudice in the future.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice takes an interest in Bob's abilities after hearing or seeing his deeds.
Back to You Are a Credit to Your Race, and be proud of being a perfect example of your own otherwise pathetic species.
