Line #2 PlayingWith/DiggingToChina


1	'''Basic Trope''': Character digs too deep, and ends up in China.
2	* '''Straight''':
3	** Bob digs his way to freedom, and ends up in China.
4	** Alice, wanting a vacation to Hong Kong but knowing that air travel is expensive, digs her way there.
5	* '''Exaggerated''':
6	** Bob drills his way, without anyone noticing, through China.
7	** Alice, after being told that the flight to Hong Kong is expensive, grabs a drill right in front of the travel agency and drills her way to Hong Kong.
8	* '''Downplayed''':
9	** He dug his way to the sewers.
10	** He dug to Taiwan.
11	** She took a WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque and ended up in Chinatown, San Francisco.
12	* '''Justified''':
13	** He dug too deep.
14	** For Alice, it's cost- and time-effective.
15	** The earth in this series has a very soft crust.
16	** Bob didn't dig straight down.
17	* '''Inverted''':
18	** Bob digs his way from China to Europe.
19	** Bob digs an incredibly convoluted tunnel and ends up back at the surface, at the same place he started digging.
20	** Alice digs her way from Hong Kong to San Francisco.
21	* '''Subverted''':
22	** Bob ends up in FriendlyLocalChinaTown...
23	** Alice ends up seeing a poster of Hong Kong...
24	* '''Double Subverted''':
25	** ...in Yokohama!
26	** ...in Hong Kong!
27	* '''Parodied''':
28	** Bob, while escaping prison drills his way to freedom, while digging around in a non-linear manner, repeatingly [[WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque going the wrong way]], going through AHellOfATime, incidentally finding lost treasures, [[Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth chased away by dinosaurs]], and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment digging in a non-linear manner]], finally ending up in a Chinese [[BookEnds prison!]]
29	** Alice, surprised at the five-digit dollar trip to Hong Kong, grabs a drill, turns a wrong turn to Albuquerque, ends up in San Francisco, and buys a ticket... to an ultra-speed elevator to Hong Kong, free of charge!
30	** Charlie, carrying a drill and ready to dig to China, sees a bunch of dirt and soil getting displaced by his feet. Then, a confused Chinese man pops out of it, looks up at Charlie, apologizes in Chinese, and disappears back into the hole.
31	** Bob digs a hole to "[[ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine Kukistan]]". Alice points out that it's not even a real country.
32	* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
33	* '''Averted''':
34	** Bob didn't dig his way to freedom.
35	** Alice ends up buying the plane ticket anyway.
36	* '''Enforced''': RuleOfFunny
37	* '''Lampshaded''':
38	** "I need a break from all this prison food. Maybe chopsticks and noodles will suffice."
39	** "I wonder if there's a faster way to travel just to visit Disneyland and eat all the dim sum?"
40	* '''Invoked''': ???
41	* '''Exploited''': ???
42	* '''Defied''':
43	** Bob/Alice chose not to dig to China in fears that he/she may be arrested there, or may be roasted inside the core like a Peking duck.
44	* '''Discussed''': ???
45	* '''Conversed''': ???
46	* '''Deconstructed''':
47	** Alice dies when he/she enters the asthenosphere.
48	** Bob gets shot out of his tunnel by a geyser after hitting the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
49	* '''Played For Drama''':
50	** When Bob, a prisoner, tries to escape the prison by digging all the way to China, but instead, he found himself ending up in [[UsefulNotes/NorthKoreansWithNodongs North Korea]].
51	* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob worries he dug too deep because he wound up in China. Alice points out immediately that they /started/ in China and only went under the fence.
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57	%%* '''Implied''': ???
58	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
59	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

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