No Yay/Playing With

Basic Trope: Two characters end up having disturbing romantic or sexual subtext.

• Straight: Alice ends up hunted by Sheriff Bob. Bob's tendency to grapple and try to hold her down and cuff her combined with his pursuit makes him seem like a pedophile.
• Exaggerated: Every line Sheriff Bob says to Alice could be used in a rape scene unchanged and not seem out of place.
• Justified: Bob actually is a pedophile.
• Inverted: Ho Yay between the show's resident Bishonen and Hunk.
  • Or any sexual subtext handled well or liked by the audience.
• Subverted: Bob delivers a creepily sexual evil monologue describing what he's about to do to the listener. The camera then zooms out to reveal his grown-up mistress who enjoyed the speech very much.
• Double Subverted: The mistress gets even more turned on when he adds "But that's nothing compared to what I'll do to Alice."
• Parodied: Bob becomes a joke compared to the other threats in the next season. Everyone else in the syndicate thinks he's a pedophile.
• Deconstructed: Bob really is a pedophile, and obvious enough about it to alert the watchdogs.
• Reconstructed: Bob is also powerful enough that the populace lives in fear as much as they're disgusted by him.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: There is no disturbing subtext in the work.
• Enforced: The author wanted to lend a sense of wrongness but considered making it actually what it resembled trite.
• Lampshaded: Charlie has a look of utter disgust on his face when he jump-kicks Bob in the head.
• Invoked: The writers want you to really find one or both characters disgusting, as Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: "You actually WROTE a Bob/Alice Fanfic? And made it consensual? Let me find the Brain Bleach"

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