Idea Bulb/Playing With

Basic Trope: When someone gets an idea, a light bulb appears over character's head.

• Straight: Albert got an idea to solve a problem he has. A bright light bulb appears over his head.
• Exaggerated: Albert got multiple ideas for a problem. Multiple light bulbs appear over his head.
• Downplayed: Albert comes up with a small idea and a single Christmas light appears above his head.
• Justified: One of Albert's superpowers is summoning lightbulbs by thought.
• Inverted: Albert can't think of any ideas. A darkened lamp appears over his head.
  • Anytime Albert walks under a light bulb, it gives him an idea.
• Subverted: Albert got an idea how to solve a problem. A light bulb appears over his head. However, Albert then thinks it's a bad idea so the light bulb fizzles out.
• Double Subverted: He replaces the bulb and goes ahead with it anyway.
• Parodied: Bob, who lives in the middle ages, gets an idea, and a candle appears over his head (although this is also used for characters who are, ahem, "not very bright").
  • Alternately: Albert needs an idea. He holds a lightbulb over his head, clicks the switch, and promptly finds one.
• Deconstructed: The hero comes up with an idea to sneak past the guards. The light gives away his position.
• Reconstructed: The guards try to attack him, but luckily, the Hero looses his idea and is able to sneak away in the dark, while the guards are in a tangled mess.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Albert gets an idea but no light bulbs appear.
• Enforced: It's a cartoon with no dialogue, so they need an easy way to show when a character is thinking.
• Lampshaded: "That's a big bulb! You must have gotten up with a great idea"
  • Another character sees the bulb and hangs a literal lampshade on it.
• Invoked: Albert is in a dark room and needs illumination. He tries to think of a random idea to cause a light bulb to appear over his head to illuminate the room.
• Exploited: Albert is in a dark. Suddenly, he gets an idea which causes a light bulb appear over his head. Albert uses the light from a bulb to read a book.
  • People start coming up with ideas for purpose so they don't need to buy light bulbs anymore to reduce electric bills.
• Defied: Albert doesn't want a room to be illuminated so he tries to prevent any ideas popping up in his head.
• Discussed: "Your idea is so great that if you were a cartoon character, a light bulb over your head would illuminate the whole city."
• Conversed: ???

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