History PlayingWith / PocketProtector

* '''Downplayed''': Bob is shot and the bullet tears all the way through the Bible in his pocket and into his body. However, at the hospital it is revealed that the pages absorbed enough force to prevent the bullet from reaching his heart.
** Bob is saved from a low velocity ricochet/piece of shrapnel by a steel covered bible.

* '''Exploited''': Bob takes advantage of the brief moment of confusion after being shot to take down the shooter.

** Bob carries a Bible in his pant pocket, and someone tries to shoot his head. Somehow, the bullet manages to [[BulletsDoNotWorkThatWay bend towards the Bible]], hitting it instead of Bob.

** The Bible stops ''one'' of the bullets, but Bob is shot multiple times. The Bible doesn't stop them all.

** Bob is shot in the only place where he isn't protected.

** The shot would have been nonlethal... If it hadn't hit the vial of poison Bob was carrying.

** Bob the Chaplain has a trench coat full of bibles.

* '''Conversed''': "The odds of the bullet hitting that character exactly where his Bible happened to be must be astronomical, if not completely absurd."

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** The object is thick enough to reasonably slow the bullet down before it hits Bob's body.

* '''Doubly Subverted''':

** Bob the Chaplin has a trench-coat full of bibles.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The bullet hits the Bible, bounces off, ricochets off the wall, goes through the bible, bounces off a rib and goes back into the bible, lodging there.
* '''Averted''':

* '''Enforced''': "It would make for a really tense scene at the end if it looks like the hero's been shot, but he's actually fine. Maybe he has something which could stop the bullet?"

** The shooter shoots Bob in the head.

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** The object is magical or blessed or otherwise endowed with great than object-like abilities.

* '''Exploited''': Bob the Chaplin has a trench-coat full of bibles.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Straight''': Bob is shot, but a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Bible in his pocket stops the bullet]].

* '''Justified''': The object is thick enough to reasonably slow the bullet down before it hits Bob's body.

* '''Inverted''': Bob is shot in the only place where he isn't protected.
** Alternatively: Someone throws a Bible at Bob. Luckily, he was carrying ammo in his pocket.
** Or: The shot would have been nonlethal... If it hadn't hit the vial of poison Bob was carrying.
* '''Subverted''': The Bible doesn't stop the bullet.
** Alternatively: The bullet misses the Bible.
* '''Doubly Subverted''': Something else underneath the ''Bible'' manages to stop the bullet instead.
** Alternatively: The Bible slows the bullet enough that it doesn't kill the hero.
* '''Parodied''': The Bible stops ''one'' of the bullets, but Bob is shot multiple times. The Bible doesn't stop them all.

* '''Deconstructed''': It's only a matter of extreme good fortune that the Bible managed to stop the bullet, and even so Bob is still seriously wounded, with bruising and possibly even broken bones around the area where the bullet made impact.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob is mildly injured, but that's still better than being dead.

* '''Averted''': There's no Bible; Bob simply gets shot.

* '''Invoked''': Bob goads the shooter into taking aim at a location where he has intentionally placed a Bible to stop the bullet.

* '''Defied''': The shooter shoots Bob in the head.
** The shooter has loaded the gun with armour-piercing rounds, or bullets of sufficient strength that a Bible stands little chance of stopping them.

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