Playing with Fire/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character who can manipulate fire.

• Played Straight: Bob can breathe fire and shoot fireballs.
• Exaggerated: Bob can take on the very form of fire.
• Downplayed: Bob doesn't have the ability to create fire on his own, rather he's trained in the act of fire performing and knows the risks.
• Justified: Bob is a dragon.
• Inverted: Bob can stab foes with icicles or create tsunamis
• Subverted: Bob appears to be able to shoot fireballs, but it's actually a flamethrower.
• Double Subverted: But then he gains real fire control abilities.
• Deconstructed: Bob has no control over his abilities, and so has to obtain special fire-proof clothing and other items and cannot get close to other people, resulting in depression. Further, his powers result in fires wherever he goes, making him unpopular.
  • Alternatively, Bob uses his powers for fire-setting.
• Reconstructed: So Bob went to a school to learn how to control fire.
• Parodied: Bob uses his ability to control fire for trivial purposes.
• Averted: Bob has no magical powers.
• Lampshaded: "...let's not have barbeque again..."
• Enforced: "Fire is cool, and we want our hero to look cool, so let's give him the fire powers."
• Invoked:Bob went to a school to learn how use fire.
• Defied: Bob learns other abilities so he doesn't have to use fire.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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Be careful! Playing with Fire can be dangerous.