Gypsy Curse/Playing With

Basic Trope: A Curse which acts as Laser-Guided Karma, usually cast by a wise woman of some sort.
 * Straight: Bob gets a Gender Bender Curse for dissing women around Alice of the Arcana.
 * Exaggerated: Bob gets a Gender Bender curse for telling one sexist joke at a rowdy party with a lot of political incorrectness going around. Alice just happened to hear him specifically.
 * Downplayed:
 * Bob gets turned into a girl for a day.
 * The curse will break when Bob learns his lesson.
 * Justified:
 * Inverted:
 * Bob is overheard by Alice calling Charlie out on his sexist joke. Bob scores with a Magical Girlfriend that night, implicitly thanks to Alice's magic, and the Casanova Wannabe Charlie gets nothing.
 * Alice of the Arcana overhears Bob making sexist comments... so she turns herself into a man to see if being male really is that much better.
 * Subverted: Alice threatens Bob with a Gender Bender Curse, then casts a spell which... makes a flashy lightshow. Bob is unaffected.
 * Double Subverted: Bob wakes up a girl the next day.
 * Parodied:
 * Deconstructed: Bob calls What the Hell, Hero? on Alice, and challenges her on her own morality for the Disproportionate Retribution. Violence may also ensue.
 * Reconstructed: Alice reveals her Blue and Orange Morality, and fades away into the shadows before Bob can turn his wrath on her.
 * Zig Zagged: Bob insults women around Alice, who threatens him with a Gender Bender Curse and casts a spell on him. It does nothing. Bob wakes up female the next day. After Hilarity Ensues, he seems to learn his lesson, and the Curse reverses itself. Bob then gets a case of Aesop Amnesia, and makes another insulting sexist comment to Claire. *Poof* - he turns into a girl again.
 * Averted: Nobody gets cursed.
 * Enforced: The writers want to teach An Aesop.
 * Lampshaded: *poof* "Oh, don't tell me, she was a gypsy." Bob checks his chest. "DAMMIT!"
 * Invoked: Alice wants to test her new Laser-Guided Karma spell, so she uses it on the first person she sees doing something "wrong", no matter how minor.
 * Defied: Bob minds his manners around Alice of the Arcana, knowing her reputation.
 * Exploited: Bob tricks Charlie into saying something rude around Alice, so that she curses him.
 * Discussed:
 * Conversed:
 * Played for Laughs:
 * Played for Drama:

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