Tin Man/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character laments his lack of emotions, despite showing emotion.

• Straight: Tim sadly complains about not having any emotions.
• Exaggerated: Tim openly cries about not having emotions.
• Justified: Tim is a robot, who feels emotions, but doesn't realize it.
• Inverted: Tim, The Stoic, is content to be emotionless.
• Subverted: Tim realizes he has emotions, but acts like he doesn't hoping for sympathy.
• Double Subverted: ...Or at least that's what his friends think.
• Parodied: Tim becomes a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds because of his lack of emotions and then sees himself crying in a shard of glass and becomes The Pollyanna
• Deconstructed: The reason Tim claims to have no emotions is because he has comitted horrible deeds in the past, and if he is emotionless he cannot feel crippling guilt over it.
  • Tim wants to be a Sociopath.
• Reconstructed: Tim gets therapy and learns to accept both his emotions and the fact he has them.
• Zig Zagged: Tim alternates between wanting emotions and not wanting them, despite having them.
• Averted: Tim realizes he has emotions.
• Enforced: "We can't have Tim have no emotions at all, or people will think he's a sociopath. How about he feels emotions, but doesn't recognize them as such?"
• Lampshaded: "How long do you think it'll be before Tim figures out he can feel?"
• Invoked: Tim decides to claim he has no emotions, as he is very socially awkward and wants a good excuse should he say something stupid or offensive by accident.
• Exploited: Sally does horrible things to Tim, while claiming that because he has no emotions, he shouldn't mind. Tim's denial breaks down, along with his mind.
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: "Someone needs to slap some sense into Tim, so he can figure out that he does have emotions."

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