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* '''Zig Zagged''': Jailbird Jane draws tally marks on the prison wall, but has her pencil confiscated. She resorts to using a sharp object to scratch tally marks into the wall, but that too ends with her instrument being confiscated. She then resorts to [[CouldntFindAPen cutting herself and drawing tally marks with her own blood]].
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Jailbird Jane draws tally marks on the prison wall, but has her pencil confiscated. She resorts to using a sharp object to scratch tally marks into the wall, but that too ends with her instrument being confiscated. She then resorts to [[CouldntFindAPen cutting herself and drawing tally marks with her own blood]].blood]], but dies of blood loss before she finishes serving out her sentence.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Jailbird Jane draws tally marks on the prison wall, but has her pencil confiscated. She resorts to using a sharp object to scratch tally marks into the wall, but that too ends with her instrument being confiscated. She then resorts to [[CouldntFindAPen cutting herself and drawing tally marks with her own blood]].
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* '''Enforced''': "There's no better way to show that the prisoner has been in jail for quite a long time when they're incarcerated the first time the audience sees them."
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'''Basic Trope''': An imprisoned character keeps track of the time spent imprisoned by drawing or scratching lines on the wall of their room.
* '''Straight''': Jailbird Jane keeps track of the number of days spent imprisoned by drawing lines on the wall of her cell.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Jane is sentenced to forty years, and tallies every single day of that. When she's freed, everything in her cell is covered in tally marks.
** Jane tallies every single hour she spends in prison.
* '''Downplayed''': Jane is sentenced to three years, and only puts a single tally mark on the wall for each year.
* '''Justified''': The prison is too cheap to give its prisoners access to a calendar. In addition...
** Jane has anterograde amnesia. If she doesn't keep tally of how many days she has served, she'll lose track of time.
** Jane, longing for freedom, finds solace in watching the number of tally marks grow.
* '''Inverted''': The prison wall starts off with one tally mark for each day of Jane's sentence. She gets to erase one every day.
* '''Subverted''': Jane wants to write tally marks on the wall of her cell, but gives up on the idea when she can't find a pencil.
* '''Double Subverted''': She discovers that she can use a tack to scratch lines on the wall instead.
* '''Parodied''':
** Jane's LuxuryPrisonSuite has an electronic calendar that clearly shows all relevant stats (the current day, the day she was imprisoned, the length of her sentence, the day she will be freed, the number of days she has served...). She still insists on writing tally marks on the wall.
** Jane tries to tally her number of days in prison. Unfortunately, she's a [[TheDitz ditz]] who often forgets whether she's already made a mark for the current day, and then adds another one just to be safe. Once she's served her 30-day sentence, there are hundreds of tally marks on the wall.
** Jane tries to tally every ''second'' she spends in prison.
** Jane [[IBrokeANail breaks a nail and gets upset]] while trying to scratch the prison wall with it.
* '''Zig Zagged''':
* '''Averted''':
** Jane has a calendar in her cell.
** Every day, a prison officer tells Jane what day it is, how many days she has served and how many days she has left to serve.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''': The janitor complains that he always having to wash away tally marks left by the prisoners, and asks why the heck they don't just buy calendars.
* '''Invoked''': "You don't get a calendar, so you'll have to keep track of time on your own."
* '''Exploited''': A police officer who wants to ScareEmStraight shows off the hundreds of tally marks on the walls of Jane's cell.
* '''Defied''': The prison officers forbid Jane from drawing on the prison wall.
* '''Discussed''': "Why bother making the prison walls look nice? I bet some idiot will probably put tally marks all over them anyway."
* '''Conversed''': "Unlike what you see on TV, we have calendars in jail."
* '''Implied''': The janitor is seen washing some marks off of the prison wall.
* '''Played for Laughs''': TheChewToy Jane has served her sentence, and will now be freed! ...well, she would be if she didn't just get 30 more days for "vandalizing the prison".
* '''Played for Drama''':
** Jane is counting down the days to her execution.
** Jane gets 150 days in jail, and is informed that this is an unusually short sentence. She passes many empty jail cells on her way to hers, and notices that most of them have somewhere between 100 and 250 tally marks on their walls. This makes her realize that most of the previous prisoners didn't come close to making it out alive...
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* '''Straight''': Jailbird Jane keeps track of the number of days spent imprisoned by drawing lines on the wall of her cell.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Jane is sentenced to forty years, and tallies every single day of that. When she's freed, everything in her cell is covered in tally marks.
** Jane tallies every single hour she spends in prison.
* '''Downplayed''': Jane is sentenced to three years, and only puts a single tally mark on the wall for each year.
* '''Justified''': The prison is too cheap to give its prisoners access to a calendar. In addition...
** Jane has anterograde amnesia. If she doesn't keep tally of how many days she has served, she'll lose track of time.
** Jane, longing for freedom, finds solace in watching the number of tally marks grow.
* '''Inverted''': The prison wall starts off with one tally mark for each day of Jane's sentence. She gets to erase one every day.
* '''Subverted''': Jane wants to write tally marks on the wall of her cell, but gives up on the idea when she can't find a pencil.
* '''Double Subverted''': She discovers that she can use a tack to scratch lines on the wall instead.
* '''Parodied''':
** Jane's LuxuryPrisonSuite has an electronic calendar that clearly shows all relevant stats (the current day, the day she was imprisoned, the length of her sentence, the day she will be freed, the number of days she has served...). She still insists on writing tally marks on the wall.
** Jane tries to tally her number of days in prison. Unfortunately, she's a [[TheDitz ditz]] who often forgets whether she's already made a mark for the current day, and then adds another one just to be safe. Once she's served her 30-day sentence, there are hundreds of tally marks on the wall.
** Jane tries to tally every ''second'' she spends in prison.
** Jane [[IBrokeANail breaks a nail and gets upset]] while trying to scratch the prison wall with it.
* '''Zig Zagged''':
* '''Averted''':
** Jane has a calendar in her cell.
** Every day, a prison officer tells Jane what day it is, how many days she has served and how many days she has left to serve.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''': The janitor complains that he always having to wash away tally marks left by the prisoners, and asks why the heck they don't just buy calendars.
* '''Invoked''': "You don't get a calendar, so you'll have to keep track of time on your own."
* '''Exploited''': A police officer who wants to ScareEmStraight shows off the hundreds of tally marks on the walls of Jane's cell.
* '''Defied''': The prison officers forbid Jane from drawing on the prison wall.
* '''Discussed''': "Why bother making the prison walls look nice? I bet some idiot will probably put tally marks all over them anyway."
* '''Conversed''': "Unlike what you see on TV, we have calendars in jail."
* '''Implied''': The janitor is seen washing some marks off of the prison wall.
* '''Played for Laughs''': TheChewToy Jane has served her sentence, and will now be freed! ...well, she would be if she didn't just get 30 more days for "vandalizing the prison".
* '''Played for Drama''':
** Jane is counting down the days to her execution.
** Jane gets 150 days in jail, and is informed that this is an unusually short sentence. She passes many empty jail cells on her way to hers, and notices that most of them have somewhere between 100 and 250 tally marks on their walls. This makes her realize that most of the previous prisoners didn't come close to making it out alive...
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Days stuck on TV Tropes: [[TallyMarksOnThePrisonWall ||||]].
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%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
