Flat Yes/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character answers a question with a simple yes, with little emotion, if any.
 * Straight: Alice asks Bob a question and he replies with a flat yes.
 * Exaggerated: Alice tells Bob all about her horrible day yesterday and asks a question at the end, and Bob replies with a yes.
 * Downplayed: Alice makes a boring offhand comment and Bob says yes.
 * Justified: Bob doesn't really care about what Alice has to say.
 * Inverted: Little No
 * Subverted: Alice asks Bob a question. When he was about to reply, he pondered about the question for a while.
 * Double Subverted: Then he replies with a flat yes.
 * Parodied: Alice asked Bob stupid question like "Are you a girl?", "Does 1+1=3?" etc. Bob replies all of them with a yes.
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: ???
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: Alice want to make Bob look stupid. Knowing he'll reply with a yes, she asks him a stupid question.
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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