Matryoshka Object/Playing With

Basic Trope: A container happens to hold a smaller version of the larger container.
 * Straight: Alice finds an object which she opens to find much smaller objects.
 * Exaggerated: Alice keeps opening the objects and uses more sophisticated technology to open the smaller objects until she starts working at sub-atomic levels.
 * Downplayed: The object has onion-like layers.
 * Justified: ???
 * Inverted: The containers become bigger as Alice removes different layers.
 * Subverted: Larger containers are placed in smaller containers
 * Double Subverted: Eventually, each container stops growing and becomes small again.
 * Parodied: ???
 * Zig Zagged: The containers withing the larger container keep changing.
 * Averted: A hollow Russian nesting doll can't even open.
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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