Vampire Invitation/Playing With

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    Basic: Vampires need an invitation from the inhabitants to enter a home.

    • Straight: Baroness Alice of Ravengoth needs to be invited by Bob before she can enter his home.
    • Exaggerated: Baroness Alice needs to be invited by everyone currently inside Bob's home before she can enter his house.
      • The Baroness also needs permission to get out.
    • Justified: The people of Ravengoth are religious, and every home has a holy symbol in it, which Baroness Alice is weak to. The holy symbol is rendered powerless only if people invite evil beings into their home.
      • Baroness Alice doesn't necessarily NEED to be invited in, but she does it to be polite. She may be a vampire, but she's still nobility, and refuses to resort to petty breaking and entering.
    • Inverted: Bob needs an invitation from Baroness Alice to enter her Chateau de Blunderstein.
    • Subverted: It's just an Urban Legend made up by Baroness Alice herself so people won't leave Ravengoth en-masse (thus starving her) and blame her victims for their own stupidity.
    • Doubly Subverted: But to enter the home of those truly faithful, Baroness Alice DOES need an invitation.
    • Untwisted: The American tourists visiting Ravengoth expect some kind of scientific explanation for Baroness Alice's quirk... but no, she REALLY can't enter a home unless invited, and that's that.
    • Parodied: People of Ravengoth build their homes right in front of every door and window of Chateau de Blunderstein, thus imprisoning Baroness Alice in her own home.
    • Deconstructed: The people of Ravengoth are extremely paranoid, and won't invite anyone inside their homes, even old friends.
    • Reconstructed: But that's the right way to live in Ravengoth, because this area is haunted by too many vampires.
    • Zig Zagged: Sometimes Baroness Alice needs an invitation, other times she simply barges into people's homes.
    • Averted: The movie Vampire Bikers of Haunted Highway take place in a trans-desert route, so there's no home to prove whether the vampires are subject to this trope or not.
    • Enforced: the movie Reign of the Rapacious Ruler of Ravengoth is sponsored by a construction company.
    • Played For Laughs: Whenever Baroness Alice appears on their doorsteps, the people of Ravengoth starts ridiculing her.
    • Played For Drama: Bob and company must stop a mail deliveryman from delivering an invitation letter to someone who is Baroness Alice in disguise, otherwise she will appear in Bob's wedding party.
    • Lampshaded: "How come she can't take a step past that door?!"
    • Invoked: Knowing that Baroness Alice is pursuing him, Bob makes sure that he only travels through safe neighborhoods with unlocked doors.
    • Exploited: When Baroness Alice suddenly appears in front of them, Bob and company immediately run to the nearest inhabited home.
    • Defied: But Baroness Alice has destroyed the only bridge that connects Blunderstein forest to the Ravengoth village over Blackfeather river.
    • Discussed: "This is not Bram Stoker's Dracula, we have to find a more sound defense than simply running into someone's home!"
    • Conversed: "Maybe if I simply put 'vampires are welcome here' in front of my window, my love life will be more interesting." said Diana, the protagonist of the romance-comedy show 666 Things I Hate About You.

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