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* TheButlerDidIt (a servant committed the murder in a mystery story)
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* TheButlerDidIt (a TheButlerDidIt: A servant committed the murder in a mystery story)
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** The driver flinches as the car zooms between the two workers, then realizes that they're just pantomiming and there is no glass. Or, the car drives into the pane of glass, but it's [[TheAllegedCar the car]] [[RussianReversal that shatters]] (instead of the glass).
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** The driver flinches as the car zooms between the two workers, then realizes that they're just pantomiming and there is no glass. Or, the car drives into the pane of glass, but it's [[TheAllegedCar the car]] [[RussianReversal car that shatters]] (instead of the glass).
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** The driver flinches as the car zooms between the two workers, then realizes that they're just pantomiming and there is no glass. Or, the car drives into the pane of glass, but it's [[TheAllegedCar the car]] [[RussianReversal that shatters shatters]] (instead of the glass).
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** A huge glowing bomb is assumed to be a superweapon, and is then revealed to not have any effective blast due to its inefficiency. Or, a character appears at first to be wielding a LaserBlade but it turns out to actually be a large glowstick.
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** A huge glowing bomb is assumed to be a superweapon, and is then revealed to not have any effective blast due to its inefficiency. Or, a character appears at first to be wielding a LaserBlade but it turns out to he's actually be just holding a large glowstick.
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** The heroes fight with giant glowsticks, the kind that you have to snap and shake.
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** The heroes fight with giant glowsticks, the kind that you have to snap and shake.shake, and act like they were proper weapons.
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** Two workers are carrying a pane of glass and then they run making it shatter over a parked [[TheAllegedCar car]].
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** Two workers are carrying a pane of glass while running and then they run making make it shatter over a parked [[TheAllegedCar car]].
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** The driver flinches as the car zooms between the two workers, then realizes that they're just pantomiming and there is no glass.
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** The driver flinches as the car zooms between the two workers, then realizes that they're just pantomiming and there is no glass. Or, the car drives into the pane of glass, but it's [[TheAllegedCar the car]] that shatters (instead of the glass).
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** The car drives into the pane of glass, but it's [[TheAllegedCar the car]] that shatters (instead of the glass).
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** The car drives into the Two workers are carrying a pane of glass, but it's glass and then they run making it shatter over a parked [[TheAllegedCar the car]] that shatters (instead of the glass).car]].
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** The car comes down the road in a series of wide turns, and it isn't clear if the car will hit the pane of glass (if it ever makes it there).
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** The A car comes down chase swerves off the road in and into the campus of a huge glass sheet factory. The first car dodges several sets of workers carrying panes of glass, then barely misses another while making a wisecrack about how close that was. As the pursuing car crashes through the first of the previously dodged sheets, the rest of the workers drop (and break) their sheets and run. The rest of the sequence is an escalating series of wide turns, over-the-top stunts as the two drivers careen around, over, and it isn't clear if the car will hit the pane through warehouses of glass (if it ever makes it there).being transported by workers and machinery, ending in the pursuing car being coated in molten glass, which is then flash-cooled and shattered.
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** "Why cars that are being chased apparently can avoid nearly everything but a pane of glass?"
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** "Why is it that cars that are being chased can apparently can avoid nearly everything but a pane of glass?"
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* '''{{Justified|Trope}}:''' The trope has a reason InUniverse to be present. [[note]]Administrivia/TropesAreTools. Almost all tropes are justified in some way. If you put a Administrivia/JustifyingEdit after every trope that you see you'll be on TV Tropes for the rest of your life and annoy people, too. Justifications are only worth noting if the trope in question is not normally Justified, or if it's a Justification other than the normal one.[[/note]]
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* '''{{Justified|Trope}}:''' The trope has a reason InUniverse to be present. [[note]]Administrivia/TropesAreTools. Almost all tropes are justified in some way. If you put a Administrivia/JustifyingEdit after every trope that you see you'll be on TV Tropes for the rest of your life and annoy people, too. Justifications are only worth noting if the trope in question is not normally Justified, or if it's a Justification other than the normal one.[[/note]]
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** [[MundaneMadeAwesome The hero or heroine activates the power in their sword]], but the glow is very faint.
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** [[MundaneMadeAwesome The hero or heroine activates the power in their sword]], but the glow is very faint.
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** The hero or heroine's glowing sword occasionally starts to flicker and go out, and they have to [[PercussiveMaintenance smack it a few times]] to get it working again.
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** The hero or heroine's hero's glowing sword occasionally starts to flicker and go out, and they have to [[PercussiveMaintenance smack it a few times]] to get it working again.
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* '''{{Gender Inverted|Trope}}:''' This is specific to AlwaysFemale and AlwaysMale tropes. A trope that is part of either category is used on the opposite gender anyway. This meta-trope doesn't apply to non-gendered tropes like TheButlerDidIt[[note]]Female butlers exist.[[/note]] and PowerGlows, but would to, say, a [[LittleOldLadyInvestigates Little Old Man Investigates]] mystery story.
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* '''{{Gender Inverted|Trope}}:''' This is specific to AlwaysFemale and AlwaysMale tropes. A trope that is part of either category is used on the opposite gender anyway. This meta-trope doesn't apply to non-gendered tropes like TheButlerDidIt[[note]]Female butlers exist.[[/note]] exist[[/note]] and PowerGlows, but would to, say, a [[LittleOldLadyInvestigates Little Old Man Investigates]] mystery story.
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* '''{{Averted|Trope}}:''' The trope is simply absent from the work. It is not used, mentioned, or implied at all. As there are literally thousands of tropes, and ''many, many'' possible uses for most of those tropes, Aversions are generally not worth noting unless they are especially surprising, such as for a [[OmnipresentTropes nearly universally-used trope]] or a [[NecessaryWeasel trope that is very common in the genre]].
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* '''{{Averted|Trope}}:''' The trope is simply absent from the work. It is not used, mentioned, or implied at all. As there are literally thousands of tropes, and ''many, many'' possible uses for most of those tropes, Aversions are generally not worth noting unless they are especially surprising, such as for a [[OmnipresentTropes nearly universally-used trope]] or a [[NecessaryWeasel [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality trope that is very common in the genre]].
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** The car hits the pane of glass and drives through unharmed because the car company paid to have their car in the film and wouldn't allow its use unless it was show undamaged.
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** The car hits the pane of glass and drives through unharmed because the car company paid to have their car in the film and wouldn't allow its use unless it was show shown undamaged.
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That isn't aversion.
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** A butler appears but no crime occurs. Or there ''is'' a crime, but there is no butler. Or there is neither. Or the butler was never a murdered nor a suspect.
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** A butler appears but no crime occurs. Or there ''is'' a crime, but there is no butler. Or there is neither. Or the butler was never a murdered nor a suspect.
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** A butler appears but no crime occurs. Or there ''is'' a crime, but there is no butler. Or there is neither.
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** A butler appears but no crime occurs. Or there ''is'' a crime, but there is no butler. Or there is neither. Or the butler was never a murdered nor a suspect.
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[[caption-width-right:345:An easy visual reference. Thanks, [[Tropers/SonicLover SonicLover]]!]]
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** The car drives through the pane of glass backwards, or in any other weird way that a car should not be driving in.
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** The driver flinches as the car drives through zooms between the pane of glass backwards, or in any other weird way two workers, then realizes that a car should not be driving in.they're just pantomiming and there is no glass.
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** The car disappears from view and isn't seen again until after the sound of glass breaking.
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** The car disappears from view and isn't seen again until after the [[OffscreenCrash sound of glass breaking.breaking]].
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** A huge glowing bomb is assumed to be a superweapon, and is then revealed to not have any effective blast due to its inefficiency.
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** A huge glowing bomb is assumed to be a superweapon, and is then revealed to not have any effective blast due to its inefficiency. Or, a character appears at first to be wielding a LaserBlade but it turns out to actually be a large glowstick.
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"Trvia"
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Note: If it's Administrivia/NotATrope (YMMV, Trvia), it can't be played with, it either happens straight or not at all. The only exceptions are InUniverse examples of an InvokedTrope.
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Note: If it's Administrivia/NotATrope (YMMV, Trvia), Trivia), it can't be played with, it either happens straight or not at all. The only exceptions are InUniverse examples of an InvokedTrope.
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Note: If it's Administrivia/NotATrope (YMMV, Trvia), it can't be played with, it either happens straight or =not at all. The only exceptions are InUniverse examples of an InvokedTrope.
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Note: If it's Administrivia/NotATrope (YMMV, Trvia), it can't be played with, it either happens straight or =not not at all. The only exceptions are InUniverse examples of an InvokedTrope.
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Playing With Wiki mentions this, but not this page. After a discussion
, decided it needs to be made explicit because mis-play is still common.
, decided it needs to be made explicit because mis-play is still common.Added DiffLines:
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** The car crashes into a glass factory..
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** The car crashes into a glass factory..
factory and somehow contrives to smash every single pane of glass within it.
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[[caption-width-right:345:An easy visual reference. Thanks, Tropers/SonicLover!]]
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[[caption-width-right:345:An easy visual reference. Thanks, Tropers/SonicLover!]]
[[Tropers/SonicLover SonicLover]]!]]
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** The car drives through the pane of glass, but it's [[TheAllegedCar the car]] that shatters (instead of the glass).
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** The car drives through into the pane of glass, but it's [[TheAllegedCar the car]] that shatters (instead of the glass).
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Because it's actually a subversion?
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** A butler appears but no crime occurs. Or there ''is'' a crime, but there is no butler. Or there is neither. Or the crime is stopped before the butler can commit it (which would be worth noting, in contrast to the other examples).
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** A butler appears but no crime occurs. Or there ''is'' a crime, but there is no butler. Or there is neither. Or the crime is stopped before the butler can commit it (which would be worth noting, in contrast to the other examples).
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** "Pay attention of the road, you know, it's like in the movies, a car could suddenly pop-up and drive through this pane of glass before we get to the other side."
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** "Pay attention of to the road, you know, it's like in the movies, a car could suddenly pop-up and drive through at full speed before we get this pane of glass before we get to the other side."
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** The glass is made of a very resistant material and endures the crash, while the car bounces back.
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** The glass is made car hits the pane of a very resistant material glass, and endures the crash, while accident leads to the car bounces back.driver being sued by the factory for the damage or fined for dangerous driving.
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** The car hits the pane of glass, and the accident leads to the driver being sued.
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** The car hits the pane of glass, and the accident leads to glass because the driver being sued.is recklessly escaping from a terrible danger and cannot slow down.
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This is a quick-reference guide of ways to play a trope, illustrated for clarity with two simple examples:
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This is a quick-reference guide of ways to play a trope, illustrated for clarity with two three simple examples:
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* SheetOfGlass (something breaks a sheet of glass by passing through it)
** [[SheetOfGlass Two workers carry a sheet of glass when a car suddenly drives through]], shattering it.
** The driver explains that he was distracted and didn't see the glass until the last moment.
** The car drives through the pane of glass, but it's [[TheAllegedCar the car]] that shatters (instead of the glass).
* '''[[IndexBackfire Backfired]]:''' The trope occurs, but the result is detrimental.
** The butler is the murderer, but didn't know that the victim wanted to leave all his riches to him in his testament.
** Weapons glow when an enemy is nearby to alert the wielders for potential threats, but this causes the character to be discovered during a stealth action.
** The glass is made of a very resistant material and endures the crash, while the car bounces back.
* '''[[IndexBackfire Backfired]]:''' The trope occurs, but the result is detrimental.
** The butler is the murderer, but didn't know that the victim wanted to leave all his riches to him in his testament.
** Weapons glow when an enemy is nearby to alert the wielders for potential threats, but this causes the character to be discovered during a stealth action.
** The glass is made of a very resistant material and endures the crash, while the car bounces back.
** The car misses the pane of glass. Or, something else causes the glass to be broken before the car can even make it to where the glass pane broke. Or the car stops in time before hitting the glass and takes another route.
** The car misses the pane of glass but a second car breaks it instead. Or, the pane of glass is broken before being hit by the car, which then drives through a different pane of glass carried by a second pair of workers. Or, the car hits the glass and knocks it out of the workers' hands without damage to the glass or car... and the glass crumbles after it gets picked back up (which is also PlayedForLaughs).
** The car drives through the pane of glass backwards, or in any other weird way that a car should not be driving in.
** The car drives through the glass, and views are shown of damage sustained by the car either complicating the driveability of the vehicle and/or making the car more identifiable to the chasers, or the workers point out the direction of the car to the chasers as they drive by.
** The chasing cars get flat tires driving over the glass shards strewn across the street, or if the drivers stop to see to the workers' injuries from the broken glass.
** The car comes down the road in a series of wide turns, and it isn't clear if the car will hit the pane of glass (if it ever makes it there).
** There is no pane of glass despite road signs saying "glass factory", or no car chase despite hearing engines roaring from the distance while the workers transport the glass through the road.
** The car hits the pane of glass and drives through unharmed because the car company paid to have their car in the film and wouldn't allow its use unless it was show undamaged.
** The car disappears from view and isn't seen again until after the sound of glass breaking.
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** The car crashes into a glass factory..
** The car drives into the pane of glass, and not only the glass shatters, but also the car, as well as the workers.
** The car crushes a small pane of glass.
** The car drives into the pane of glass, and the result is that the glass merely has a [[ImpactSilhouette car-shaped hole in it]].
** The car hits the pane of glass, and the accident leads to the driver being sued.
** Somebody is hit by the glass shards or by the car who lost control, resulting in blood and gore.
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** The pane is not made of glass, but of another material.
** "Why cars that are being chased apparently can avoid nearly everything but a pane of glass?"
** The car is not doomed to hit the pane of glass, but one of the workers sees the car coming and stops in the street such that the car drives into the pane of glass.
** "Stop, brake! Watch out, we nearly hit this pane of glass, like in films."
** The car hits the pane of glass, and the chasing car(s) regain their lost trail from the scattered pieces of glass.
** "Pay attention of the road, you know, it's like in the movies, a car could suddenly pop-up and drive through this pane of glass before we get to the other side."
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** "It's silly how many films show car chases that lead to a pane of glass being carried across a street."
** A car controlled by an AI that always brakes at the right time is approaching the pane of glass, but for some reason the car doesn't brake.
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** The car breaks the pane of glass while using the reverse gear to leave the garage.
