Dinky Drivers/Playing With

Basic Trope: A group of small characters have to work together to operate a vehicle.

• Straight: The Tropers, a species of two-inch-tall beings, try to drive a car so they can get across town quickly. They divide the work equally, Bob handling the pedals, Alice handling the steering, Charlie shifting the gears, and David watching for traffic.
• Exaggerated: The Tropers need to operate a planet-sized Space Station to get across the galaxy. Each troper handles a separate component, stacking on top of each other to reach some of the hard to reach buttons.
• Downplayed: Two kids work together to operate a car, one on the floor pushing the pedals, and one on top doing the rest.
• Justified: Cars were not designed for tiny people, so they must work together to handle all of the components.
• Inverted: The gargantuan Tropers need five cars apiece to get anywhere.
• Subverted: The Tropers need to get across town quickly, so they sneak aboard a subway car going in the proper direction.
• Double Subverted: When the subway operator suddenly collapses, the Tropers take over the controls.
• Parodied: ???
• Deconstructed: Due to their lack of driving knowledge and practice, the Tropers end up driving their hijacked car into a crowd of people.
• Reconstructed: To prevent injuring people when they need to drive a car, the Tropers teach themselves how to drive and spend hours on coordinated driving exercises.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted:
  • The Tropers are normal-sized characters and can operate vehicles normally.
  • The tiny Tropers drive appropriately tiny vehicles.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: "Okay, guys, we need to get across town fast! Who's got the ropes and semaphores?"
• Invoked: ???
• Defied: The Tropers take a cab.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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