What Does This Mean?
A trope that seems to be subverted but then returns to the conventional outcome, so the audience's expectation is first overturned and then restored. Example: a character who seems to have escaped the usual fate is killed after all.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""The villain seems to be spared, which subverts the trope, and then he is shot anyway, so it is double subverted.""
LORE & ORIGIN
The label is TV Tropes vocabulary and follows the pattern "played straight, then subverted, then double subverted". Wikipedia's TV Tropes article describes the site as a catalogue of narrative conventions maintained by volunteer contributors; no dated first use of the exact phrase is documented in the sources opened. It builds on subverted (a trope set up and then defied) and is the opposite move from played straight, where the trope runs as expected with no twist.
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