A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside An Enigma/Playing With
Basic Trope: A Stock Phrase, rooted in the unknown, described in hyperbole.
- Played Straight: "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
- Subverted: "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an eggroll."
- Inverted: "A fact established in certainty pronounced in obviousness."
- Averted: "This riddle is quite a mysterious enigma."
- Exaggerated: "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma shrouded in secrecy buried in a brainteaser coded in a cryptogram."
- Parodied:
- "A conundrum guarded by The Men in Black hidden among a pack of chupacabras."
- "...Like some sort of conundrum turducken..."
- Justified: The phrase is uttered in a Biopic about Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill.
- Enforced: The producer of a mystery story is also a history buff or just really likes the phrase and wants the work's creators to use it.
- Discussed:
Alice: You're in over your head, Bob. This case is too big for you to solve. |
- Conversed:
Alice: Next, Adam West is going to say that The Riddler has left him and Robin "another one of his criminal conundrums... wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." |
- Lampshaded:
Alice: It's a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. |
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