Banana Peel/Playing With

Basic Trope: Stepping on a banana peel will result in the character slipping.

• Straight: Bob slips on a banana peel.
• Exaggerated: Stepping on a banana peel sends Bob into a Slippery Skid that ends with a painful crash.
• Downplayed: Bob steps on a banana peel and slips a bit, but manages to regain his balance before falling.
• Justified: The banana peel is a prank item that has been treated to be extra slippery.
• Inverted: Banana peels aren't slippery at all.
• Subverted: Bob is about to step on a banana peel but notices it just in time and avoids slipping.
• Double Subverted: ...only to slip on something else.
• Parodied: Banana peels are outlawed because they're dangerous.
• Deconstructed: Bob slips on a banana peel. His hip is broken and he must spend a long time in a hospital.
• Reconstructed: Bob makes new friends at the hospital and becomes the poster guy of a banana peel awareness campaign.
• Zig Zagged: Banana peels vary in power - sometimes they aren't slippery at all, other times they function as makeshift landmines.
• Averted: Banana peels aren't slippery or aren't slipped on.
• Enforced: The show has to feature a Public Service Announcement on the dangers of banana peel slipping.
• Lampshaded: "A banana peel on the floor and someone slips on it? I didn't see that coming."
• Defied: "Stop! There's a banana peel right in front of you!"
• Exploited The hero drops a banana peel to slow down mooks in a chase.
• Conversed: "With all that slipping I'd assume those banana peels were made of soap."

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