Taken for Granite/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character is turned into stone.

• Straight: Alice, a Black Magician Girl, casts a spell on Bob Coolson and he turns into stone.
• Exaggerated: Alice casts a spell and everyone on the planet except her turns into stone.
  • Alice turns a water elemental into a stone elemental with her spell.
• Justified: Alice dislikes Bob, who cannot bother her if he is a statue.
  • Alice is some kind of mythical monster whose gimmick is turning people to stone.
• Inverted: Alice turns herself to stone in order to protect herself from Bob.
  • David Atlas McMichaelangelo is actually a stone statue that can take on a human form.
  • Alice can turn stones into people.
• Subverted: Bob knew about Alice's magic, and has made himself immune to petrification.
  • Alice's spell fails to work because Bob is an elemental.
  • Bob is still able to move.
• Double Subverted: Bob's clothes are still affected, effectively imprisoning him.
• Parodied: Alice's spell only takes partial effect; Bob is unharmed but his mineral deficiencies have been corrected.
  • Birds poop on Bob.
• Deconstructed: Alice comes to realize that petrifying others is a terrible way to solve a verbal conflict and the guilt of Bob's permanent fate catches up with her.
• Reconstructed: Alice overcomes this temporary bout of indecisiveness. She becomes a world-renowned sculptor and her immaculate works are on display in world-class gardens and museums the world over.
• Zig Zagged: Alice changes Bob back to normal just long enough for him to answer a quick question, after which she thanks and re-petrifies him.
• Averted: Alice kills Bob with another method.
• Enforced: Alice and Bob are in a series that is, naturally, Merchandise-Driven. The toy manufacturers realize it's a lot easier to emboss Bob on a plastic rectangle than to mold him into something more three-dimensional.
• Lampshaded: Bob is frozen in place with a curiously stony-faced expression.
• Invoked: ???
• Defied: Alice passes over learning a petrification spell for one that kills people with other methods.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???
• Played For Laugh: Other than being a mage, Alice is a painter. When she has to make a painting for someone, she petrifies the subject to make him or her stand still for the best result. She's a world-class thanks to this technique.
  • (Of course she de-petrifies them later, otherwise she will be known as a world-class sculptor and a fugitive.)

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