Zipperiffic/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character's outfit has a large quantity of zippers.

• Straight: Bob's outfit has several oddly-placed zippers.
• Exaggerated:
  • Bob's outfit has plenty of zippers in impractical places.
  • Bob's outfit is literally made of zippers, and nothing else.
• Justified: Bob's occupation means he needs to have a lot of objects on him at all times, and he stores them in many small zippered pockets.
• Inverted: Bob's outfit has no zippers on items of clothing where they would normally appear.
• Subverted: It looks like Bob's outfit has a lot of zippers, but they're really just patterns that look like zippers from afar.
• Double Subverted: ...Well, some of them are, but the actual outfit still has an impressive amount of absurdly-placed zippers.
• Parodied: Bob's outfit is made entirely of zippers. It accidentally unzips in an awkward place at some point, and Hilarity Ensues.
• Deconstructed: One of Bob's many zippers snags on something as he flees from a monster of some sort, and he is caught because of it.
• Reconstructed:
  • Bob's zippers are all pinned down so that they won't snag on anything at a bad time.
  • Bob detaches one of his zippers and uses it to "unzip" the monster. Bob's zippers are Crazy Awesome.
  • Bob's zippers are all fully functional and allow him to detach parts of his outfit that are damaged, caught on something, or otherwise obstructing his movement. It also makes for a nice entrance to a big fight.
• Zig Zagged: Nobody's sure if they're really zippers or just patterns. Canon evidence seems to sway wildly from one to the other at times.
• Averted: Bob's outfit has a perfectly normal number of zippers in ordinary places.
• Enforced: The creators decide Bob's outfit looks plain, and so they throw on a few zippers in the hopes that it'll make the costume better looking.
• Lampshaded: "Hmm, I seem to have zippers on my... scarf?"
• Invoked: Bob likes how outfits with lots of zippers look, and makes sure to wear them whenever he can.
• Defied: Bob dislikes zippers in general and decides to avoid wearing most clothing that uses them.
• Discussed: "All right, time to get some new clothes!" "Are you going to be like a badass video game character, and cover them up with random zippers?" "...Probably not."
• Conversed: "Oh wow, look at this new character. Hey Alice, I bet you can't count all the zippers on his coat!"

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