< Out-of-Character is Serious Business
Out-of-Character is Serious Business/Playing With
Basic Trope: When a character acts out of character, it is Serious Business.
- Straight: When Angelo makes one too many rude remarks, the calm and stoic Bob loses his temper and yells at him, shocking Angelo and everyone else watching.
- Exaggerated: Bob goes Ax Crazy and tears Angelo's head off.
- Downplayed: Bob simply looks annoyed and parries Angelo's remark with the same rudeness.
- Justified: Angelo's remark had just hit one of Bob's Berserk Buttons.
- Inverted: Bob hadn't been himself all day and one of Angelo's comments snapped Bob back to his old self.
- Subverted: Bob looks like he's about to snap, but then he calms down and pointedly ignores Angelo.
- Double Subverted: But then Angelo makes yet another remark that causes Bob to turn around and punch him in the jaw.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob does not go OOC and calmly tells Angelo to shut up.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob uses some kind of mantra or breathing tricks to keep from having these kind of moments.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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