Cerebus Retcon/Playing With

Basic Trope: A previously comical act is retconned to being something completely serious.

• Straight: Bob trips up on an banana and is really hurt that Alice would just leave it lying around on the floor.
• Exaggerated: Bob trips up on a banana, falls on to a spiked ball also on the floor, causing him to jump up and hit his head on the fan. He then dies.
• Justified: Some supposedly wacky stunts really are dangerous.
• Inverted: Bob finds out he has cancer. He later finds it to be hilarious.
• Subverted: Bob starts to feel sad, but just forgets about it...
• Double Subverted: ...then remembers it lately and is deeply hurt about it.
• Parodied: Bob complains about tripping on a banana, crying and wailing, but no one cares and he just sighs and forgets about it.
• Deconstructed: ???
• Reconstructed: ???
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted:
  • Bob avoids the banana.
  • Alternatively, Bob doesn't complain and he may as well never have tripped on the banana.
• Enforced: "All right, gang, we need to make this show more serious. What gags have we done that are actually quite deadly?"
• Lampshaded: "Who'd a thought bananas would be so dangerous."
• Invoked: The Evil Overlord deliberately plants bananas all over the floor so that everyone will think he's harmless before realizing that tripping over a banana is exceptionally deadly.
• Defied: "I'm about to slip on that banana, then I'll be really hurt! I'll just step over it then."
• Discussed: "I don't care what Cerebus would do. Me slipping on a banana is not deadly."
• Conversed: "In shows where everything starts getting serious, people always feel sad about things that happen to them comedically."

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