Line #18 PlayingWith/SheetOfGlass


1	'''Basic Trope''': A sheet of glass is broken in a high speed car chase.
2	* '''Straight''':
3	** Bob and Alice are carrying a pane of glass across Trope City. Halfway to their destination, a high-speed car chase passes through and shatters the glass.
4	** Claire is involved in a high speed car race across Trope City. The camera jumps ahead to show that two glass-workers are carrying a huge pane of glass across the street where the leading car just turned. A moment later, the car speeds through the glass, sending shards everywhere.
5	* '''Exaggerated''':
6	** Every time Bob and Alice try to carry a pane of glass across the city, it shatters.
7	** There is a whole glass replacing contest going on, and the car runs into half a dozen sheets of glass.
8	* '''Downplayed''':
9	** The glass breaks into five large pieces.
10	** The glass is only slightly chipped by the car chase.
11	* '''Justified''':
12	** Bob and Alice didn't see that car chase coming.
13	** Someone really needed a big window fixed, and there was no other way to get that sheet there.
14	** Claire hit the glass to avoid hitting Bob and Alice.
15	* '''Inverted''':
16	** The glass endures while the [[TheAllegedCar car]] breaks.
17	** The car bounces back upon hitting the glass.
18	** The glass speeds though the car, breaking the latter.
19	** Claire rides on a pane of glass into a car that Alice & Bob are carrying, shattering the glass.
20	** Alice and Bob are running while carrying a sheet of glass, and break the glass when they run into a parked car.
21	** The car hits a pile of glass shards, morphing them into a pane of glass.
22	* '''Subverted''':
23	** Bob and Alice very quickly dodge the oncoming car, protecting the pane of glass.
24	** Claire speeds through, but strangely enough there is no glass; Bob and Alice are mimes performing their "carrying a sheet of glass" routine.
25	** All the cars manage to dodge the glass.
26	** As the car chase proceeds, the camera keeps making dramatic cuts back and forth from the chase to the sheet of glass - however, as the window fixing and the car chase are happening in completely different areas of the city, the chase never disrupts the repairs.
27	** The car chase politely stops to allow Alice and Bob to finish crossing the street, then resumes.
28	** Alice and Bob react as though the oncoming car is going to smash through their sheet of glass... but the car swerves and hits ''Alice'' instead, while the second car hits Bob. And the glass stays in one piece.
29	* '''Double Subverted''':
30	** ...That's when a second car comes through and breaks it.
31	** Bob and Alice react suitably, improvising a "glass sheet shattered" ending to their act.
32	** Something else shatters the glass.
33	** The car goes out of its way to drive all the way back around and smash through the glass purposefully.
34	** The car misses a sheet of glass but drives into a second sheet of glass in front of the first one.
35	* '''Parodied''':
36	** There is an organization completely devoted to carrying sheets of glass across to the other side of that road, the sheets breaking is a common occurrence.
37	** Alice and Bob, experienced window repairmen, are carrying a sheet of glass when they hear car chase sounds in the distance, and panic.
38	** The car misses the glass sheet, and turns around to try again, and keeps doing so until it finally hits it.
39	** The car leaves a [[ImpactSilhouette car-shaped hole]] in the glass.
40	** The car crashes perfectly into a pane of glass shaped exactly like it.
41	** The car crashes into a pane of [[MadeOfIndestructium Indestructium]]-infused glass, and the car ends up totaled while the glass is perfectly fine.
42	*** The car shatters around the driver. [[InertiaIsACruelMistress Because of inertia]], the driver ends up flying and splattering into the unbreakable glass.
43	*** Their pursuer repeats the same stunt, but is perfectly fine because [[FantasyHelmetEnforcement they wore their safety belt]].
44	** The car crashes into a pane of transparent rubber, and is bounced back the direction it came from.
45	** The car misses the glass, much to Alice and Bob's relief. Then they proceed to throw it into the trash, breaking it.
46	* '''Zig-Zagged''':
47	** Bob and Alice have to dodge a truly ridiculous number of cars.
48	** Claire drives toward the glass in a series of wide turns, making the fate of the glass unclear.
49	* '''Averted''':
50	** There is no car chase while Bob and Alice are carrying the glass.
51	** There is no pane of glass during the car chase.
52	* '''Enforced''': "We've got everything in this car chase planned out...but it lacks a certain something. Wait, I've got it... how about we have a pane of glass being carried through the city."
53	* '''Lampshaded''':
54	** "There's got to be an easier way to do this."
55	** "Sure! I just had to get chased through a giant window crossing the street!"
56	* '''Invoked''':
57	** Bob and Alice want to test how fragile their glass is, so they carry it into a busy road.
58	** Claire drives off a safe course to crash through a pane of glass just for fun, even though this will clearly get her caught by the chasers.
59	* '''Defied''':
60	** Bob and Alice realize how dangerous it is to move glass through a busy city, so they decide to take a safer route.
61	** Claire changes course as soon as she sees Bob and Alice with the glass.
62	* '''Exploited''':
63	** Bob and Alice allow a car to crash through the glass so they can get fired from their awful jobs.
64	** Claire deliberately crashes into the sheet, using the millions of shards of flying glass to [[EyeScream blind her pursuers]], who are in a convertible.
65	* '''Discussed''':
66	** "Aww man! We just had that glass cleaned!"
67	** "Hopefully, we won't have a car drive through this window."
68	** "Pay attention to the road, a car could suddenly pop-up at full speed before we get this pane of glass to the other side."
69	* '''Conversed''': "No car chase scene is complete without the brutal massacre of pedestrian glass sheets!"
70	* '''Implied''': Bob and Alice are carrying the pane of glass, with the next shot being a car chase. The next shot is a shot of them being fired.
71	* '''Deconstructed''':
72	** Driving through the glass causes severe damage to Claire's car and forces her to abandon it.
73	** If the chasers lost sight of Claire, they will eventually find Bob and Alice angrily looking at their shattered glass, who gladly point out where Claire went.
74	* '''Reconstructed''': The glass shards pierce the tires of the chasers' car, which gives Claire a better advantage to escape.
75	* '''Played For Laughs''':
76	** Alice asks Bob, "We still get paid, right?"
77	** Two cars speed through. The first leaves an ImpactSilhouette, and the second shatters the glass.
78	* '''Played For Drama''':
79	** The shattered glass injures and/or kills several pedestrians.
80	** The chasing cars regain their lost trail from the commotion of the shattered glass.
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82	Careful with that SheetOfGlass... Oh, now look what you did.
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84	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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Context PlayingWith / SheetOfGlass