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Opinion Flip-Flop
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Bob decides the way to curry favor with Alice is to agree with her, even when it means getting entangled in absurd contradiction. Sometimes Alice decides to feed Bob rope; sometimes she's just oblivious. This is common with fictional depictions of royalty - particularly when the character doing the fawning is deviously scheming their way into power. It also shows up a lot when Bob is attracted to Alice. Sometimes a character like this gets handed down an Anvilicious Be Yourself message. A typical dialog runs like this: Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A Yes-Man is an assistant (in a business or political capacity) whose job is to make a lot of Opinion Flipflops. Favouritism Flip Flop is a subtrope where Bob openly says he hates something until Alice says she likes it. Verbal Backspace is a related trope where subsequent dialogue forces someone to change opinion on the fly, which can overlap (eg."It's hideous!", "I made it myself.", "Hideously beautiful!"). |
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Billy starts complaining about how boring laundry is; Penny talks about how much she likes it; he claims he was kidding. He proceeds in similar vein during the rest of the conversation, even going to so far as to buy her frozen yogurt but pretend it was an accident to avoid revealing that he's been stalking her. | |
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The Salvation War's first book, Armageddon?, gives us this bit of dialogue between George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, after one of the demonic generals surrenders and requests asylum: | |
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There was an episode of Blossom in which Joey's girlfriend idolized him so much that she agreed with everything he said, and had no will of her own other than to please him. | |
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In the Tom and Jerry short Life with Tom, Tom discovers that Jerry had written a book about their escapades, which makes him a laughingstock. Tom is incensed...until he finds out that Jerry arranged for him to receive half the book's royalties, at which he begins enjoying the book. | |
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Gaheris, in T.H. White's The Queen Of Air And Darkness, is described as agreeing with whatever his older brothers Gawaine and Agravaine think. Since they disagree a lot, this is difficult for him. | |
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In The Simpsons, Milhouse is like this all the time, especially when trying to flirt. In episode "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" In another episode, he tells Lisa that going back to school sucks; then Lisa replies that she liked school, only for Milhouse to say that he likes school too. While it can arguably be considered more a combination Negative Continuity and her repeated portrayal of being the Only Sane Man but Lisa has repeated flip flopped on her views. Despite showing religious beliefs in the past to the point of being Holier Than Thou yet in “Lisa the Skeptic” is extremely emphatic that religion and science cannot coexist. She will call the other kids out for trying to grow up to fast then admonish them for acting like kids when there are so many problems in the world. She’s even gone so far as to pretend to be a college student. |
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Hamlet: Polonius does this all the time, especially while attempting to humor the prince, who is pretending to be insane, with the following being a standard example. Hamlet shamelessly encourages/Trolls him. Done again later with the minor character Osric. |
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Inverted and played straight at once on Arrested Development. Maeby is trying to go against whatever her mother wants, while George Michael is in love with Maeby and agrees with whatever she says. At first Maeby wants to save the tree that Lindsey is trying to get cut down, but then Lindsey decides to save the tree... | |
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Cid Highwind in Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged is a man with broken dreams who offers every kind of encouragement he can for others so they won't wallow in self-pity like he did. Then this happens when Cloud describes his earliest interactions with Sephiroth: | |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue has a game called 'Critic's Forum (or against 'em)', which asks the contestants to do this. They give a review to a play/film/tv programme and must flip opinions whenever the buzzer is sounded. | |
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Wizards of Waverly Place: In "Beware Wolf", Justin becomes a werewolf and tries to convince himself that he enjoys it to please his wolf girlfriend Isabella. | |
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In the Spider-Man movie, Mary Jane comments on how gross the spiders are. Harry tries to agree with her, saying he hates them. She then says that she loves them, and he immediately agrees. | |
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xkcd describes this as "WikiFriends". | |
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In Dragon Ball Z Abridged Yajirobe, on realizing his first attack didn't kill Vegeta, tries to delay the ensuing beatdown with one of these. | |
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British statesman Lord Chesterfield wrote in Letters to His Son against people who are like this: "On the other hand, the cunning, crafty man thinks to gain all his ends by the 'suaviter in modo' only; HE BECOMES ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN; he seems to have no opinion of his own, and servilely adopts the present opinion of the present person; he insinuates himself only into the esteem of fools, but is soon detected, and surely despised by everybody else." (letter 133) | |
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Thor: Ragnarok: Played for Laughs. Thor tells Hulk that he likes him more than Banner. Shortly after, he tells Banner that he prefers him to Hulk. | |
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In Digimon: The Movie, as Willis is telling him how he created Kokomon and how he became Endigomon, Davis, beside himself with sorrow, chokes, "That's the saddest story I've ever heard!" Willis responds, "I'm the one with the problem, not you. Get over it," and Davis, immediately in high spirits without a trace of tears, says, "Okay!" | |
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There was an episode of Arthur where Buster started agreeing with both sides of an ongoing argument. When Francine called him out on it, he said "I'm good at having opinions... I'm just not good at keeping them." | |
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The Pirates of Penzance does this, to parody the way that a chorus will typically simply repeat the things said by the leads. | |
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The A-Team: In "In Plane Sight", as the team drives to Portersville, Face alleges they'll get stiffed and complains about Hannibal insisting on doing charity cases all the time. After spending some time with Mrs. Hicks, whose nephew is part of the case, he immediately changes his mind. It's even noted by Hannibal. In "Uncle Buckle-up", Face is unenthusiastic about Hannibal going after the part of Ruff the Bear, saying he'll look silly. When Murdock says that characters like Ruff can command $25,000 for a single appearance, Face changes his mind. |
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This was practically Andy Bernard's job during Season 3 of The Office (US). | |
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Sir Humphrey in Yes, Minister frequently does this as part of his latest attempt to flatter Hacker into doing his bidding: Not that Hacker is so above it all. In "A Diplomatic Incident" he's slanging off a former Prime Minister, only to start singing his praises on receiving news that the former PM just died of a heart attack. |
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On Hogan's Heroes, this was pretty much stock-in-trade for Colonel Klink, who was always trying to agree with his superiors. | |
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Pöysti occasionally inverts this trope in Pasila; if someone agrees with him, he might state the exact opposite of his previous argument. | |
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Fraggle Rock's Wembley, to the point where he'll do this to multiple characters at the same time, even if his statements contradict things he said moments before. It's such a major part of his character that in the Fraggle lexicon, 'wembling' is the term for doing this, which is where he got his name. |
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In the Bob's Burgers episode "Art Crawl", Bob doesn't want Gayle's painting of animal butts to be put on display in his restaurant, but he starts venomously supporting them after the local Art Council protests against them (mostly because he despises their president Edith). | |
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Done in Jimmy Neutron whenever Jimmy is around his crush, Betty Quinlin. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, Sansa spends the latter part of a chapter telling her sister how much she hates riding horses. When her betrothed shows up and says he likes to ride horses, she immediately says she loves to. | |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: When Flint describes the FLDSMDFR to Sam, whom he has a crush on. She starts listing possible foods it could make, ending with: It comes up again much later in the movie: while in the meateroid, Sam and Flint come across a pit lined with shards of peanut brittle. Sam comments that "If either one of us touches it, we'll go into anaphylactic shock." . |
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The Taming of the Shrew: As part of the "taming", Petruchio forces Kate to be like this with him. This can appear to be dark and disturbing... or hilarious. | |
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White Sheep (RWBY): When Ren mentions something fairly obvious to Salem, she rolls her eyes and starts chastising him for bothering to think. Then Ruby mentions that Lavender, Salem's daughter, likes Ren, and Salem changes tracks mid-sentence, praising him for his intelligence. | |
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The opening trap of Saw 3D has two male friends and the woman that had been dating the both of them. Only two of them can survive; the third gets cut in half with a buzzsaw. As the two guys fight to kill the other and save themselves and their girlfriend, she offers moral encouragement to whichever of the two is currently winning... something that keeps shifting over the course of the fight. Eventually, the two guys wise up to what she's doing and kill her instead. | |
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In Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell, Leo Hatred is consulted when Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been accused of backflipping on a policy. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Best Gift Ever," Rainbow Dash goes to Discord for advice on getting a present for Fluttershy. He tricks her into antagonizing a monster which almost destroys the castle, and Fluttershy has to calm it down. Discord says that was his gift to Fluttershy. Just as Rainbow Dash is starting to tear into him, Discord points out that Fluttershy is enjoying her new animal friend, and is still in the winner garb Discord gave her. Rainbow Dash then says the gift was from both of them. | |
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Doctor Who: In "New Earth", the Doctor does a mild version of this while trying to reason with Lady Cassandra. When he's attempting to talk her out of Rose's body (and thus to her inevitable death), he insists that there's no other way and her time is over. When she instead takes her servant Chip as a host (which the Doctor can't forbid as he's a willing volunteer), the Doctor quickly relents and offers to keep Cassandra alive on a skin graft if she leaves Chip's body. | |
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The wife of Orthopedix in Asterix and Caesar's Gift. (She wants him to be elected new chief of the village, and caters to everyone's whims like a politician would do it.) | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus employed this trope hilariously in episode six. Twentieth-Century Vole. It gets even funnier when the CEO begins playing games with the gathering of yes-men around the table, leading to exchanges like: | |
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In TRON: Legacy, Clu's right-hand-man Jarvis cowers before Sam Flynn as he walks into the command center to recover the stolen disc, declaring "Long live the Users!" When Clu arrives a bit later and finds the disc missing, Jarvis starts to say "Death to the Users!" but is decapitated mid-sentence. | |
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On Made in Canada, this tactic is frequently employed by the employees of Pyramid Productions when dealing with empty-headed CEO Alan Roy. They have nothing but praise for his ideas to his face, and in several episodes, a character dismissing an idea as worthless will have an immediate change of heart when told that the idea is Alan's. | |
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The Fast Show had a recurring sketch about three friends, two of whom disagreed about nearly everything, while the third tried to agree with both of them at the same time. This usually resulted in him agreeing with whoever spoke last, and then contradicting himself after the other friend replied. Eventually they'd get annoyed and start deliberately laying traps for him. | |
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Family Guy has several examples. There's this expert parody: There's also the episode introducing the Campbell family; in one scene, Meg and Jeff are together, apparently comparing facts about themselves by blurting them out at the same time. Meg, however, waits a split second and just says the exact same thing Jeff says, to which he responds "that's 19 things we have in common!" |
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A weird version shows in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, because the character contradicts himself without the other person ever saying a word to him. Sam's college roommate Leo is smitten by a blonde girl who showed up. He tries to invite her to eat by showing her a pizza with salami toppings, telling her how delicious it is. | |
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