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* '''Lampshaded''': [[Series/BetweenTheLions Can't... Hold... On... Much... LONGER!!!]]

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* '''Lampshaded''': [[Series/BetweenTheLions "[[Series/BetweenTheLions Can't... Hold... On... Much... LONGER!!!]]LONGER!!!]]"
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* '''Double Subverted''': Realizing a public demise would be better (and the 3:15 train doesn't arrive until 4:00), Billy takes her back and leaves her hanging.

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* '''Double Subverted''': Realizing a public demise would be better (and better, and the 3:15 train doesn't arrive until 4:00), 4:00, Billy takes her back and leaves her hanging.
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* '''Subverted''': Bob decides not to leave Helen on a flagpole and prepares to leave her ChainedToARailway.
* '''Double Subverted''': Realizing a public demise would be better (and the 3:15 train doesn't arrive until 4:00), Bob takes her back and leaves her hanging.

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* '''Subverted''': Bob Billy decides not to leave Helen on a flagpole and prepares to leave her ChainedToARailway.
* '''Double Subverted''': Realizing a public demise would be better (and the 3:15 train doesn't arrive until 4:00), Bob Billy takes her back and leaves her hanging.



* '''Zig-Zagged''': Helen clings to a kilometre-high cliff, loses her balance, and falls ... a few metres at a time, somehow grabbing a prominence every so often.

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* '''Zig-Zagged''': Helen clings to a kilometre-high cliff, loses her balance, and falls ...falls... a few metres at a time, somehow grabbing a prominence every so often.



* '''Invoked''': After Billy pushes Helen over the cliff, Bob calls to her "Try to catch something!"

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* '''Invoked''': After Billy pushes Helen over the cliff, Bob Billy calls to her "Try to catch something!"
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* '''Straight''': Billy, TheBully, hangs Helen in a flagpole as [[DisproportionateRetribution revenge for spilling chocolate on him.]]

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* '''Straight''': Billy, TheBully, hangs Helen in on a flagpole as [[DisproportionateRetribution revenge for spilling chocolate on him.]]

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* '''Straight''': Billy, TheBully, hangs Helen in a flagpole as revenge for spilling chocolate on him.

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* '''Straight''': Billy, TheBully, hangs Helen in a flagpole as [[DisproportionateRetribution revenge for spilling chocolate on him.]]



* '''Downplayed''': Helen is hanging from a smallish cliff, not tall enough to kill her if she falls.

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* '''Downplayed''': Helen is hanging from a smallish cliff, not tall enough to kill injure (but not kill) her if she falls.



* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
'''Zig-Zagged''': Helen clings to a kilometre-high cliff, loses her balance, and falls ... a few metres at a time, somehow grabbing a prominence every so often.
* '''Averted''': ???
No character is taken to high altitudes and made to hang on to anything to keep from falling.
* '''Enforced''': ???It generates easy suspense.



* '''Invoked''': After Billy pushes Helen over the cliff, Bob shouts out to her "Try to catch something!"

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* '''Invoked''': After Billy pushes Helen over the cliff, Bob shouts out calls to her "Try to catch something!"



* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Defied''': ???'''Defied''':
** [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Billy shoots Helen to injure, scare, or kill her.]]
** Helen learns that Billy plans to do this to her and promptly says "ScrewThisImOuttaHere"



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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

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%%* '''Plotted A a Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For for Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For for Drama''': ???
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Helen is hanging from a smallish cliff, not tall enough to kill her if she falls.
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* '''Lampshaded''': [[BetweenTheLions Can't... Hold... On... Much... LONGER!!!]]

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* '''Lampshaded''': [[BetweenTheLions [[Series/BetweenTheLions Can't... Hold... On... Much... LONGER!!!]]
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* '''Justified''': The area they live is known for falling accidents, making her death easy to [[MadeItLookedLikeAnAccident look like an accident.]]

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* '''Justified''': The area they live is known for falling accidents, making her death easy to [[MadeItLookedLikeAnAccident [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident look like an accident.]]
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* '''Justified''': The area they live is known for falling accidents, making her death easy to [[MadeItLookLikeAnAccident look like an accident.]]

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* '''Justified''': The area they live is known for falling accidents, making her death easy to [[MadeItLookLikeAnAccident [[MadeItLookedLikeAnAccident look like an accident.]]
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* '''Justified''': The area they live is known for falling accidents, making her death easy to look like an accident.

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* '''Justified''': The area they live is known for falling accidents, making her death easy to [[MadeItLookLikeAnAccident look like an accident.]]



* '''Lampshaded''': ???

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* '''Lampshaded''': ???[[BetweenTheLions Can't... Hold... On... Much... LONGER!!!]]

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* '''Reconstructed''': ???






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* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???
The area they live is known for falling accidents, making her death easy to look like an accident.
* '''Inverted''': ???Billy decides to have Helen BuriedAlive.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Helen, clinging by a mere pinky finger, hands over the edge of the Grand Canyon.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Helen, clinging by a mere pinky finger, hands hangs over the edge of the Grand Canyon.



* '''Invoked''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???After Billy pushes Helen over the cliff, Bob shouts out to her "Try to catch something!"
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* '''Exaggerated''': ???

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* '''Exaggerated''': ???Helen, clinging by a mere pinky finger, hands over the edge of the Grand Canyon.



* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Subverted''': ???
Bob decides not to leave Helen on a flagpole and prepares to leave her ChainedToARailway.
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
Realizing a public demise would be better (and the 3:15 train doesn't arrive until 4:00), Bob takes her back and leaves her hanging.
* '''Parodied''': ???Helen clings to dear life over a drop of 10 centimetres.
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* '''Straight''': Billy, TheBully, hangs Elaine in a flagpole as revenge for spilling chocolate on him.

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* '''Straight''': Billy, TheBully, hangs Elaine Helen in a flagpole as revenge for spilling chocolate on him.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character is hung to a cliff. The urban version is on a flagpole.
* '''Straight''': Billy, TheBully, hangs Elaine in a flagpole as revenge for spilling chocolate on him.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character is hung to hanging off a cliff. The urban version is on cliff's edge or otherwise over a flagpole.
long drop.
* '''Straight''': Billy, TheBully, hangs Elaine in a flagpole as revenge for spilling chocolate on him.him.
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* '''Justified''': ???
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* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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