< Matryoshka Object

Matryoshka Object/Playing With

Basic Trope: A container happens to hold a smaller version of the larger container.

  • Straight: Alice finds an object which she opens to find much smaller objects.
  • Exaggerated: Alice keeps opening the objects and uses more sophisticated technology to open the smaller objects until she starts working at sub-atomic levels.
  • Downplayed: The object has onion-like layers.
  • Justified: ???
  • Inverted: The containers become bigger as Alice removes different layers.
  • Subverted: Larger containers are placed in smaller containers
  • Double Subverted: Eventually, each container stops growing and becomes small again.
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig Zagged: The containers withing the larger container keep changing.
  • Averted: A hollow Russian nesting doll can't even open.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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