Femme Fatale/Playing With

Basic Trope: A sexy, sultry, but morally ambiguous woman, common in detective novels.

• Straight: Bob is solving a case, and one of the suspects is Anna, who is a flirty, sultry beauty, and who may or may not be a Honey Trap, working for the Big Bad. No one knows for sure.
• Exaggerated: ALL of the suspects are this.
• Downplayed: Anna is a beautiful, but not sexy, woman. Where her loyalties lie is unknown.
• Justified: Anna is a Double Agent, or even The Mole. It's best that she keeps herself mysterious, but that doesn't mean she can't use her...erm...talents to get her way.
• Inverted: Alice is solving a case, and one of suspects is Tall, Dark and Handsome Benjamin.
• Subverted: It turns out that Anna is The Vamp-- literally! The beauty was a disguise. She's not as attractive as she seems...
• Double Subverted: ...she's even hotter.
• Parodied: Anna thinks she's this, but she's a Gonk.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Anna isn't particularly beautiful or morally ambiguous.
• Enforced: "All good detective novels have a mysterious, sexy woman, so let's add one."
• Lampshaded:

Claire: Bob, you have a new suspect to question.

(Anna walks in, and saxophone music begins to play)

Bob: Saxophone music is playing in my head. Must be a Femme Fatale.

• Invoked: Anna is working for the Big Bad. He hired her specifically because she's hot.
• Defied: ???
• Discussed:

Claire: Be careful. Remember Benita? She was just as gorgeous as Anna and--

Bob: Don't remind me.

• Conversed: "There's always a Femme Fatale character in these detective shows. ...Yep, here's one now."

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