Admiring the Abomination/Playing With

Admiring The Abomination

Basic Trope: A scientific character marveling at the destructive power of a dangerous creature.

• Straight: “This is incredible – an orange Abomineldritch! I have to study it!”
• Exaggerated:
  • The scientist ultimately keeps the Abomineldritch as his pet.
  • Alternately, he is obsessed with constructing a menagerie full of Abomineldritches
• Downplayed: The scientist is interested by the Abomineldritch's anatomy, but stops pursuing his research with it after realizing the danger he is in.
• Justified: said Abomineldritch happens to be the Last of Its Kind.
• Inverted:
  • The Abomineldritch is highly interested in the scientist.
  • The scientist is an Absolute Xenophobe.
• Subverted: “Amazing! An orange Abomineldritch!...and it’s headed right for us! RUN!!
• Double Subverted: “…But you have to admire how fast it is!”
• Deconstructed: The scientist had a nasty brush with an Abomineldritch in the past, and that encounter has left him with a nasty scar across his cheek and made him an Absolute Xenophobe as he now considers the Abomineldritch to be his most hated rival of all.
• Parodied: “…I wonder if I can catch one…Hey, I wonder what it tastes like?”
• Averted: Everyone involved quickly focuses on finding a way to destroy the Abomineldritch.
• Lampshaded: “ I SWEAR TO GOD, Doc, you just have to study every one of those things you find, dontcha?”
• Exploited: The Evil Overlord unleashes his orange Abomineldritch, knowing the heroic scientist will be too enthralled by it to notice as it tears him a new one.
• Discussed: “Incredible…an orange Abomineldritch!” “That’s nice, Doc, now do you know how to KILL IT?!”
• Conversed: “Dude, how much longer is that guy gonna stand there drooling at it?”

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