His and Hers/Playing With

• Basic Trope: Objects are labeled "His" and "Hers" in a couple's house.
• Played Straight: Bob's towel is labeled "His" and Alice's towel is labeled "Hers"
• Exaggerated: Alice and Bob have their own en suite bathrooms
  • Up To Eleven: ... and everything in them is labelled 'his' or 'hers'
• Downplayed: Alice's towel is labeled "Alice" and Bob's towel is labeled "Bob"
  • See "Double Subverted"
• Justified: Alice and Bob are Sleeping Single
  • Alice and Bob are touchy about their possessions
• Inverted: Alice and Bob share everything.
• Subverted: Alice and Bob have their own bath towels, but they are not labeled.
• Double Subverted: At least, they aren't monogrammed. Alice's towel is pink, and Bob's is blue.
• Deconstructed: Bob breaks up with Alice and gets all the towels in the settlement. He immediately gives them to his new girlfriend, Claire, showing how depersonalized a simple pronoun is.
• Reconstructed:
• Parodied: Alice and Bob have an extra (little) towel labeled "Its" for their goldfish
  • Everything in Alice and Bob's house is like this, from towels, to telephones, to front doors.
  • Aaron and Bob have towels labelled 'his' and 'his'. Nobody can figure out whose is whose except them.
• Lampshaded:
• Averted: Alice and Bob don't label their possessions.
• Enforced:
• Invoked: Alice and Bob receive towels labeled "His" and "Hers" as wedding gifts.
• Defied: Alice and Bob agree to share everything.
• Discussed:
• Conversed:
• Played For Laughs: See "Parodied"
• Played For Drama: Alice and Bob's marriage starts to fall apart because someone grabbed the wrong towel early in the morning while not quite awake yet.

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