Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20160706075025

Yes. It is possible to have a Downer Ending without being Crapsack. Romeo and Juliet has downer ending but the world is in no way crapsack.

An Averted Trope is mentioned because for a portion of the story it looks like the trope was in play. It is acknowledgment of a Fake Out.

Ex:

In City of Heroes, the Rikti are a bizarre set of creatures green humanoids, with cyber-tech gear, psychics among them, numerous probes and robots. The came out of a crashed flying saucer, speak in disjointed tone, carry lasers and want to destroy earthlings. They are in every-way alien villains....except they are not. They are humans from a parallel world, the flying saucer, just a war station, the cyber-tech and gear, their reality just focused more on technology than ours, the skin tone, elongated heads and psychic powers, are all from being voluntarily mutated to survive in a world ravaged by pollution from all the high end tech. They are not aliens, they are humans, but for all intensive purposes, they are aliens in concept. Also revealing that to the player and or troper would be sort of a dick move, so those aversions are usually put behind white-out spoilers. the tropes are acknowledged out of theme even if they aren't ultimately true.

Subverted means the trope did happen, but not in the way you would expect. Averted is the one where the trope did not happen but at first it seems it did/will.

Ex:

Batman is Joker's Living Emotional Crutch, he would fall apart without him, not because he likes or even loves him though, it is because he hates him but not regular hate, Joker NEEDS to hate Batman, he needs him as a focal point for his hate.

Joker: Without Batman, crime has no punchline.

The trope is in play, Batman is a Living emotional crutch, but not through love, which is the way the trope most often refers to.