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Sometimes, Genre Savvy characters talk about tropes. There are at least three kinds of such discussions: * They invoke the trope directly, either by action ("I'll make my sword more powerful by making it brighter!") or by anticipation ("His sword is glowing, I suppose that means it's very powerful"). * They're just discussing tropes in general, apropos of nothing. This is also called Conversational Troping. * And then there's the discussions that go something like, "If this were an action movie, talking about your family like that would mean you'd be dead in a few minutes." or "Unlike what you may read in detective stories, the Butler is a somewhat unlikely suspect in any murder investigation of this sort, for reasons X, Y and Z."

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  • Sometimes, Genre Savvy characters talk about tropes. There are at least three kinds of such discussions: * They invoke the trope directly, either by action ("I'll make my sword more powerful by making it brighter!") or by anticipation ("His sword is glowing, I suppose that means it's very powerful"). * They're just discussing tropes in general, apropos of nothing. This is also called Conversational Troping. * And then there's the discussions that go something like, "If this were an action movie, talking about your family like that would mean you'd be dead in a few minutes." or "Unlike what you may read in detective stories, the Butler is a somewhat unlikely suspect in any murder investigation of this sort, for reasons X, Y and Z."
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  • Sometimes, Genre Savvy characters talk about tropes. There are at least three kinds of such discussions: * They invoke the trope directly, either by action ("I'll make my sword more powerful by making it brighter!") or by anticipation ("His sword is glowing, I suppose that means it's very powerful"). * They're just discussing tropes in general, apropos of nothing. This is also called Conversational Troping. * And then there's the discussions that go something like, "If this were an action movie, talking about your family like that would mean you'd be dead in a few minutes." or "Unlike what you may read in detective stories, the Butler is a somewhat unlikely suspect in any murder investigation of this sort, for reasons X, Y and Z." This trope covers that third category, where a trope is brought up by the characters, and is directly relevant to the situation at hand, but is not taken necessarily as Truth in Television. This kind of conversation is used to set up either a justification (Invoked Tropes normally just sort of assume the trope is Truth in Television), a fully noted aversion, some variety of deconstruction or a way of hanging a lampshade. In some cases, it leads to Death by Genre Savviness. This trope is extremely common when Our Vampires Are Different is invoked in a contemporary setting. Most authors just can't resist having their characters point out how 'real' vampires differ from all those laughably inaccurate Hollywood representations. Distinct from Conversational Troping in that a Discussed Trope will have some relevance to the situation at hand, and distinct from an Invoked Trope in that an Invoked Trope is always either played straight or expected by at least one character to be played straight. See also This Is Reality, which this trope generally invokes. Examples of Discussed Trope include:
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