Forbidden Friendship/Playing With

Prejudice

Basic Trope: A character wants to be friends with another person, who is of a different class or race.

Straight: Rose is a lonely white rich girl, who wants to be friends with Jackie, a poor black girl, but can't because of her parents.
Exaggerated: Rose can't even take a gaze at Jackie without getting bashed because of their race and class differences.
Downplayed: Rose's parents allows her to hang around with Jackie, as long as they don't involve staying over.
Justified: The show's setting is around the Civil War, or the Civil Rights Movement.
Inverted: Rose and Jackie are encouraged to become friends because of their races.
Subverted: The families of Rose and Jackie Dislike each other but aren't racist
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Zig Zagged: ???
Averted: Rose and Jackie can be friends, race isn't an issue.
Enforced: The writers want to write about how racism is wrong.
Lampshaded: "Too back Rose and Jackie's parents are blinded by race. They seem like they could be good friends."
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Played For Laughs: ???
Played For Drama: Always is.

Basic Trope: Two families hate each other, but their a character wants to be friends with another character in the feuding family.

Straight: Rome and Julie want to be friends, but their families hate each other. They become friends anyway.
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Downplayed: ???
Justified: ???
Inverted: Rome and Julie hate each other and their families are all friends.
- Everybody hates each other. Or, everybody likes one another.
Subverted: ???
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Zig Zagged: ???
Averted: Rome and Julie become friends and the family doesn't mind, as long as the rest of them can still feud.
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Played For Laughs: ???
Played For Drama: Normally is.

Basic Trope: The family keeps the character apart because the character is considered dangerous.

Straight: Ann and Andy can't be friends because Andy is accused of murder.
Exaggerated: Ann and Andy can't be friends because Andy is Ax Crazy and tried to murder half of her family.
Downplayed: Ann and Andy can't be friend because Andy is accused of stealing. From a lemonade stand.
Justified: The murder hasn't been solved yet.
Inverted: ???
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Parodied: Andy's dangerousness is clumsiness
Zig Zagged: ???
Averted: Andy isn't dangerous at all.
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Plotted A Good Waste: ???
Played For Laughs: ???
Played For Drama: Usually is.

Basic Trope: A character does things deemed bad by society and they are forbidden to become friends.

Straight: Alice and Bob can't be friends because Bob deals drugs.
Exaggerated: Alice and Bob can't be friends because Bob deals drugs, hotwires cars, basically lives in jail, and steals from old ladies.
Downplayed: The drugs are happy crack.
Justified: Alice's parents don't want her picking up Bob's bad habits.
Inverted: Bob is forbidden to be friends with Alice because she is a goody-goody.
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Played For Laughs: ???
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