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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