History PlayingWith / HumanLadder

* '''Straight''': The team all stand on each others' shoulders (in order from top to bottom; [[LittleMissBadass Miki]], [[ActionGirl Alice]], [[TheLeader Bob]], [[TheBrute Dirk]]) so that they can reach the MacGuffin.

* '''Exaggerated''': The team all stand on each others' shoulders (in order from top to bottom; Dirk, Bob, Alice, Miki) so that they can look through a window and oversee [[EvilOverlord Emperor Evulz]] discussing his plan, [[EvilGloating which he takes his sweet time doing]]. Thankfully, they are very used to doing this, [[SuperStrength especially]] [[SuperStrongChild Miki]].

'''Basic Trope''': People standing on each other.

* '''Played for Laughs''': [[CheerfulChild Bob, his friends, and his 3-year-old sister Miki]] often make human ladders in his backyard just for fun. Miki is on the bottom everytime despite being the youngest and the only girl, because she likes it that way. they often collapse and get bruised up, but they always laugh it off and try again.

* '''Played for Laughs''': [CheerfulChild Bob, his friends, and his 3-year-old sister Miki]] often make human ladders in his backyard just for fun. Miki is on the bottom everytime despite being the youngest and the only girl, because she likes it that way. they often collapse and get bruised up, but they always laugh it off and try again.

* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob, his friends, and his 3-year-old sister Miki often make human ladders in his backyard just for fun. Miki is on the bottom everytime despite being the youngest and the only girl, because she likes it that way. they often collapse and get bruised up, but they always laugh it off and try again.

** Before they make the human ladder, they find an ''actual'' ladder hidden away that they can use.

* '''Defied''': Dirk: "No way that we do this. I know how this goes. Everything will seem fine, but then someone will sneeze and we will all come painfully crashing down!"

* '''Played for Drama''': The group is seemingly trapped. Emperor Evulz's mooks are about to catch up to them, and the only way out is over a ledge that is too high up. Miki gets the idea to create a human ladder, letting everyone stand on her shoulders so that they can escape [[HeroicSacrifice]] while she dies holding off the mooks. Dirk and Alice are heavily against this, but she reassures them that if any of them have to die, she would rather it be her because she is the youngest and least capable in combat. They all stand on each others' shoulders (in order from top to bottom; Dirk, Bob, Alice, Miki), letting Bob, Dirk, and Alice climb up and pull each other over the ledge, making their escape and leaving Miki to die as she asked for. She ends up holding them off and taking down a few mooks with her, but in the end, her demise is inevitable. [[DeathOfAChild The rest of the group can hear her screams right before she dies]], but still keep running despite their grief.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob, his friends, and his 3-year-old sister Miki often make human ladders just for fun. Miki is on the bottom everytime despite being the youngest and the only girl, because she likes it that way. they often collapse and get bruised up, but they always laugh it off and try again.

* '''Straight''': The team all stand on each others' shoulders (in order from top to bottom; Miki, Alice, Bob, Dirk) so that they can reach the MacGuffin.

* '''Exaggerated''': The team all stand on each others' shoulders (in order from top to bottom; Dirk, Bob, Alice, Miki) so that they can look through a window and oversee Emperor Evulz discussing his plan, which he takes his sweet time doing. Thankfully, they are very used to doing this, especially Miki.

* '''Parodied''': At the beach, they made 3 human ladders of exclusively hundreds of bodybuilders standing on each others' shoulders, with the exception of 3-year-old Miki, who was on the bottom supporting ''all'' 3 of those human ladders on her shoulders and head ''by herself'', for no reason other than to show off her super strength. They stayed like this for ''weeks'' before Miki got bored and just casually threw them all off of her.

* '''Exploited''': Emperor Evulz and all of his Mooks can fly, and there are a lot of high ledges in his dungeon. If no one in your group can fly, your best option is to make a human ladder to reach those ledges.

* '''Played for Drama''': The group is seemingly trapped. Emperor Evulz's mooks are about to catch up to them, and the only way out is over a ledge that is too high up. Miki gets the idea to create a human ladder, letting everyone stand on her shoulders so that they can escape while she dies holding off the mooks. Dirk and Alice are heavily against this, but she reassures them that if any of them have to die, she would rather it be her because she is the youngest and least capable in combat. They all stand on each others' shoulders (in order from top to bottom; Dirk, Bob, Alice, Miki), letting Bob, Dirk, and Alice climb up and pull each other over the ledge, making their escape and leaving Miki to die as she asked for. She ends up holding them off and taking down a few mooks with her, but in the end, her demise is inevitable. The rest of the group can hear her screams right before she dies, but still keep running despite their grief.

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