Line #5 PlayingWith/BarrierBustingBlow


1	'''Basic Trope''': One character grabs another through a wall and pulls them through.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob is being stalked by Alice, and hides in a shed. Suddenly, Alice tears her arms through it and pulls Bob to her.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** She does this though several feet of concrete and a bank-vault door.
5	** Every victim in the movie is pulled through something, to the monster.
6	* '''Downplayed''': Alice pulls Bob through a wall of plywood.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** The walls are made of paper, and thus problems like finding Bob behind the wall and busting through it in the first place is a non-issue.
9	** Among Alice's [[FlyingBrick generic super-powers]] are super strength and x-ray vision: This was just a natural combination of the two.
10	* '''Inverted''': [[ThereWasADoor Bob busts through a wall in order to escape Alice.]]
11	* '''Subverted''':
12	** Alice tries to bust through the shed to get at Bob, but cannot manage it, and mere thuds against it.
13	** Alice can burst through the wall, but Bob isn’t close enough for her to reach
14	* '''Double Subverted''': …Some minutes later, she instead busts [[AnkleDrag her hand through the FLOOR.]]
15	* '''Parodied''':
16	** Alice uses this method to get a drink from the fridge.
17	** Alice picks up a wall, puts it between Bob and herself, and busts through that instead. Bob is somehow still surprised by it.
18	** Bob bust his hands through the wall to get at Alice, and ends up [[ThanksForTheMammary grabbing Alice’s Assets instead.]] He then sheepishly apologizes and lets her go.
19	* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice tries to get the drop on Bob by shoving her hand through the wall to grab him, but fails to actually grab him. Bob reverses the situation by pulling a BarrierBustingBlow of his own, before both of them are grabbed by a third party.
20	* '''Averted''': No-one busts through the walls in-series, for whatever reason.
21	* '''Enforced''': It’s an EstablishingCharacterMoment: the author put it in to demonstrate that Alice is a) super strong, b) very perceptive, and c) NOT TO BE SCREWED WITH.
22	* '''Lampshaded''': “YouWillNotEvadeMe!”
23	* '''Invoked''': Alice does this in order to give Bob a fright for Halloween.
24	* '''Exploited''': Bob expects this to happen and had placed a dummy, filled with explosives in his place. Alice grabs this instead, and ends up exploding.
25	* '''Defied''': Alice considers this, then shakes her head and instead climbs atop the shed, in order to wait until Bob gains a false sense of security and walks out...
26	* '''Discussed''': "That murder doesn’t seem humanly possible." "Because it’s so brutal?" "Because the murderer had to plunge their arms through sheet metal."
27	* '''Conversed''': "Movie serial killers just seem to have something against perfectly good doors."
28	* '''Implied''': We see a body, a massive hole in the wall, and bloodstains where the two met…
29	* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is strong enough to break through the wall, but Bob… isn’t. [[FoldSpindleMutilation Her attempt at pulling a Bob-sized object through an arm-sized hole results in a spectacularly gory display.]]
30	* '''Played For Laughs''':
31	** “[[AndCallHimGeorge STOP RUNNING BOB! I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU A HUG!”]]
32	** Alice busts her hand through the wall, feels around for a bit until it gets to Bob, and then pulls him through.
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34	Back to BarrierBustingBlow. But, stay away from the walls there. Trust me.
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36	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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38	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???

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