Children in Tow/Playing With

Basic Trope: A parent creature followed by babies.

• Played Straight: A mother duck crosses the road with 5 ducklings trailing behind her.
• Exaggerated: The duck has 50 ducklings trailing behind her.
• Inverted: The ducklings walk ahead of the mother duck.
• Justified: The ducklings imprint on their mother, so she can protect them and better teach them how to be, well, ducks.
• Subverted: The duck appears and crosses the street by herself.
• Double Subverted: But then several ducklings cross the street when she calls to them.
• Deconstructed:
• Reconstructed:
• Parodied:
  • The ducklings are used in a Disney Acid Sequence
  • A long line of ducklings causes a traffic jam.
• Lampshaded:
• Averted:
  • The duck has no babies.
  • The duck crossing the street is...a drake.
• Enforced: Shown Their Work
• Invoked: The ducklings hatch and imprint on their mother.
• Defied: The mother duck never leaves the nest.
• Discussed:
• Conversed:
• Played For Laughs: See "Parodied"
• Played For Drama: Someone runs over the ducks because they're too impatient and uncaring.

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