Author Appeal/Playing With

Basic Trope: An author tends to insert various quirks in his work.
 * Straight: Bob, the creator of Amazing Girl, Alice and Bob, and Legends of Tropealia, always inserts a scantily clad woman in the aforementioned works.
 * Exaggerated: Everything created by Bob has a scantily clad woman in it somewhere.
 * Downplayed: Bob's work occasionally features a woman with a revealing outfit, but not very often.
 * Justified: Bob likes scantily clad women and believes others will too.
 * Inverted: Bob outright refuses to put a scantily clad woman in any of his work, despite his own interest in that sort of thing.
 * Subverted: Fans of Bob's work are surprised to find that Tales of Tropeville has no scantily clad women at all.
 * Double Subverted: But one shows up in the series finale as a Mythology Gag.
 * Parodied:
 * Bob includes a chicken in every scene of everything he makes.
 * Bob puts a banana in every work of his.
 * Zig Zagged: Bob's work alternately do or do not include scantily clad women.
 * Averted: Bob doesn't have any recognizable quirks in his portfolio.
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: "Another nearly naked lady?! What's wrong with this guy?"
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: ??
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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