Author Appeal/Playing With

Basic Trope: An author tends to insert various quirks in his work.

• Straight: Bob, the creator of Amazing Girl, Alice and Bob, and Legends of Tropealia, always inserts a scantily clad woman in the aforementioned works.
• Exaggerated: Everything created by Bob has a scantily clad woman in it somewhere.
• Downplayed: Bob's work occasionally features a woman with a revealing outfit, but not very often.
• Justified: Bob likes scantily clad women and believes others will too.
• Inverted: Bob outright refuses to put a scantily clad woman in any of his work, despite his own interest in that sort of thing.
• Subverted: Fans of Bob's work are surprised to find that Tales of Tropeville has no scantily clad women at all.
• Double Subverted: But one shows up in the series finale as a Mythology Gag.
• Parodied:
  • Bob includes a chicken in every scene of everything he makes.
  • Bob puts a banana in every work of his.
• Zig Zagged: Bob's work alternately do or do not include scantily clad women.
• Averted: Bob doesn't have any recognizable quirks in his portfolio.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: "Another nearly naked lady?! What's wrong with this guy?"
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: ??
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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