![]() If the car drives through the pane of glass, it's played straight.It seems pretty obvious that the driver is going to smash the glass sheet into a million fragments. ![]() The camera cuts to some workers carrying a Sheet of Glass, then cuts back to the panicked driver headed towards the workers. But if the writer makes it look like a typical example of The Butler Did It, then reveals he didn't, that's a subversion.Ī full comparison could go something like this: A car chase is in progress at reckless speeds. If someone is murdered and there's a butler around, but he didn't do it, that's not automatically a subversion of The Butler Did It that's an aversion. To put this another way, a trope of the form "X are often Y" is not subverted by every X you can think of that isn't Y. The set-up is a trope the "something else" is the subversion. First, the expectation is set up that something we have seen plenty of times before is coming, then that set-up is paid off with something else entirely. It certainly isn't the only way.Ī subversion has two mandatory segments. This is one method of leveraging a trope to give a story texture. Phrased another way, the work is ultimately revealed not to be using the trope at all, but in the meantime was played up to look like it was. So when the writer decides to build on this expectation, only to reveal that the expected "trope" was a Red Herring while an entirely different situation results, you have a Subverted Trope. ![]() As such, sufficiently Trope Savvy audience members can predict a familiar trope coming based on the hints dropped by the writer. A work makes you think a trope is going to happen, but it doesn't.īut how could people know a trope is going to happen? Well, tropes live in the minds of the audience. Basically, this is playing bait and switch with a trope.
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