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* '''Discussed''': ???

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* '''Discussed''': ???Bob talks to Ash during a training about running in diagonal when seeing an object and prevent incidents like being crushed by the object because of always running forward.
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** Ash runs to the side in a situation where the most logical thing to do is run forward.

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** Ash runs to the side or ''any other direction but forward'' in a situation where the most logical thing to do is run forward.forward. And as a result, he dies.

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* '''Implied''': At the very end of a DeathCourse lies the boulder trap. There is a massive [[LudicrousGibs trail of blood and mashed organs]] leading forward and only a few footprint paths on the left and right.
* '''Deconstructed''': Ash [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gets crushed to death]] by the boulder.
* '''Reconstructed''': Kyle sees a boulder covered in blood and runs in the opposite direction while also neglecting the sides.
* '''Played for Laughs''': While Ash is running from the boulder. There are 2 signs pointing left in right saying "Live" and the middle one reads "die". [[TooDumbToLive Ash accidentally crashes into the middle one right before the boulder joins him]].
* '''Played for Drama''': Ash dies to the boulder while the people who already moved to the other directions have to watch.
* '''Played for Horror''': Austin tells Ash to move to the side. However, Ash cannot hear him and dies seconds later.



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* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???Ash is part of a group. Some members jump to an escape route to the side while others continue straight.
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* '''Inverted''': Ash runs ''towards'' the boulder because he has SuperStrength.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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Ash runs ''towards'' the boulder because he has SuperStrength. SuperStrength.
** Ash runs to the side in a situation where the most logical thing to do is run forward.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Ash is running from a boulder in a tunnel slightly wider than the boulder. He never thinks to try pressing himself against a wall.
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** Ash is running from the falling wall of a building, trying to make it to [[ByWallThatIsHoley where a window would land on him instead of the rest of the wall]].

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* '''Subverted''': Ash runs forward for a bit, then evades the boulder by going sideways.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Ash runs forward for a bit, then evades the boulder by going sideways.sideways.
** Ash has SuperSpeed and can outrun the rolling boulder entirely.
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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???Emperor Evulz deliberately set the boulder rolling that way to get Ash to run to a spot where he can capture him alive.
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** Ash doesn't have much time to think, so his natural human instinct is to run in the opposite direction of what is threatening him.
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* '''Subverted''': Ash actually evades the boulder by going sideways.

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* '''Subverted''': Ash actually runs forward for a bit, then evades the boulder by going sideways.



* '''Averted''': Ash is outrunning a rolling boulder on the street. He jumps aside.
* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Averted''': Ash is outrunning sees a rolling boulder on the street. He jumps aside.
* '''Enforced''': ???'''Enforced''':???



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

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* '''Defied''': ???After Bob sees Ash run forwards, he says "No, you idiot, move sideways!", and Ash moves to the left.



* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Conversed''': ???"Why do people in those films that are being chased always move in the direction that the chaser is moving? Why not move to the side?"
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* '''Parodied''': Ash outruns a h

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* '''Parodied''': Ash desperately outruns a hsmall, slow-moving boulder down a wide street while ignoring plenty of obvious escape routes.
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** [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness In Ash's mind he's still in the tunnel]].
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* '''Inverted''': ???

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* '''Inverted''': ???Ash runs ''towards'' the boulder because he has SuperStrength.



* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???Ash outruns a h
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* '''Exaggerated''': ???

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* '''Exaggerated''': ???Ash sees rolling boulders coming at him at opposite directions. Not knowing what to do, he runs back and forth instead of stepping aside.



* '''Averted''': ???

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* '''Averted''': ???Ash is outrunning a rolling boulder on the street. He jumps aside.

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* '''Justified''': Turning would slow Ash down too much because of inertia; the boulder would catch up to him before he could get ''completely'' out of the way.

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* '''Justified''': Turning '''Justified''':
** The boulder is wide enough that turning
would slow Ash down too much because of inertia; the boulder it would catch up to him before he could get ''completely'' out of the way.way.
** There's nowhere to go sideways ''to''; on one side is a wall, and on the other side is a cliff.
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* '''Justified''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???Turning would slow Ash down too much because of inertia; the boulder would catch up to him before he could get ''completely'' out of the way.
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'''Basic Trope''': When confronted by a danger from one direction, no one ever thinks to evade it by moving to the side.
* '''Straight''': Ash is outrunning a rolling boulder on the street, but never thinks about evading left or right.
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* '''Subverted''': Ash actually evades the boulder by going sideways.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...Only for the boulder to follow suit, which at that point Ash gives up about evading sideways and continues to outrun it.
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