Disturbed Doves/Playing With

Basic Trope: When something significant occurs, a flock of birds, usually doves, takes flight nearby.
 * Straight: A dramatic scene occurs, and suddenly some birds fly by, taking to the skies.
 * Exaggerated: A huge swarm of doves takes off during a dramatic moment, blacking out the sky and continuing to the point where you wonder if it'll ever end.
 * Justified:
 * A character's shouting during a dramatic scene startles a group of nearby doves, who take flight.
 * Alternatively, a character has his his First Kiss, which in the heat of the moment activates his Puberty Superpower of summoning birds.
 * Inverted: During a dramatic scene, a bunch of doves land on the ground nearby.
 * Subverted: During a dramatic scene, there is a shot of a bunch of nearby doves... who stay on the ground the whole time.
 * Double Subverted: Something important happens, and we see a shot of a bunch of birds, but they don't take off. Then, we see some different birds, doves this time, fly past.
 * Parodied:
 * One of the doves drops its, er... feces on the head of one of the characters and completely ruins the moment.
 * Alternatively: the flock of doves completely obscures the scene until it has lost any dramatic interests.
 * Alternatively: a strange and somewhat random kind of bird is used (pigeons, flamingos, penguins, etc.)
 * Deconstructed: The tendency of doves to fly past has to do with their being augurs of fate; the characters eventually realize this, and tension is replaced by a gloomy fatalism
 * Reconstructed: There are lots of birds around in the setting, and the characters' relationship to nature is part of the story.
 * Zig Zagged: During a completely uneventful scene, a bunch of birds take off.
 * Averted: Something dramatic happens. No doves are seen.
 * Enforced: The producer insisted that the writers work in his friend's trained birds.
 * Lampshaded: "Why are there always doves nearby when things get emotional?"
 * Invoked: A character captures a few doves and releases them at a certain moment, usually a wedding.
 * Defied: A character makes sure to talk quietly in an emotional scene, as not to scare the poor doves over there, and make them fly off.
 * Discussed: "Where do these doves keep coming from whenever something important happens? Are they following us?"
 * Conversed: "You suppose if doves were extinct in that world nothing dramatic would ever happen?"

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