Line #26 PlayingWith/StuffedIntoALocker


1	'''Basic Trope''': [[TheBully School bullies]] shove their victims into spacious lockers.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob the bully shoves Tim the Nerd into his locker and shuts it.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Bob the bully shoves Tim and several other kids into one locker, even though it's a small gym locker.
5	** [[WesternAnimation/CloneHigh Bob shoves the entire freshman class into 10 lockers.]]
6	** Not satisfied with that, [[BarbaricBully Bob]] also shoves the school staff including the principal in the same locker.
7	* '''Downplayed''': Bob the bully shoves Tim into a closet.
8	* '''Justified''':
9	** There is an in-universe reason that a human body could fit into the school's lockers.
10	** The story is set in a time period when large lockers were more common.
11	** The school has few enough students that there is enough room for large lockers.
12	** The victim is abnormally small.
13	** "[[WebVideo/FalloutNukaBreak I was the smallest, so the other kids would stuff me in small spaces to make fun of me.]]"
14	* '''Inverted''':
15	** [[TheDogBitesBack Tim shoves Bob the bully into a locker]].
16	** Bob pulls Tim ''out'' of a small space he was hiding in, in order to bully him.
17	* '''Subverted''': Bob tries to stick Tim in a locker, then realizes that the victim won't fit.
18	* '''Double Subverted''': He takes the victim to his gym locker, which is larger, and shoves him in there.
19	* '''Parodied''':
20	** Bob shoves Tim into a locker that, by some bizarre coincidence, is Tim-shaped.
21	** [[NerdyBully Tim]] creates a locker made of HardLight [[TheDogBitesBack to shove Bob into it]].
22	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob tries to stuff Tim into a locker, but it is too small. He finds a larger gym locker, but that one won't open. Bob then finds a locker that will fit Tim ... but then Tim shoves Bob into the locker while he's distracted.
23	* '''Averted''': Bullies shove their victims into dumpsters, or closets with the door barricaded shut, but lockers are too small.
24	* '''Enforced''': Bully Bob [[EstablishingCharacterMoment has just been introduced, and needs to be shown doing something people in the audience associate with school bullies.]]
25	* '''Lampshaded''':
26	** After dealing with Tim, Bob remarks, "Heh, stuffin' kids in a locker -- can't beat the classics!"
27	** "[[EvilLaugh Muahaha!]] You can fit in a locker, whereas I cannot!"
28	* '''Invoked''':
29	** Tim [[TemptingFate tempts fate]] by pleading "Please don't shove me in my locker!"
30	** Tim needs to spy on someone. He provokes Bob, hoping that he will shove him into a nearby locker as a result.
31	** Bob and Tim are running from [[NothingIsScarier something ambiguous, but scary enough to send them running.]] Bob finds a locker, and Tim suggests that he can hide in there. Bob opens up the locker and stuffs Tim inside there, before hiding in somewhere else.
32	* '''Exploited''': Charlie creates a business in which he helps students who have been shoved into lockers ... for a price. Bob may or may not be in on it too.
33	* '''Defied''':
34	** Bob tries to shove Tim into his locker, but his locker is either too small, too stuffed with books and junk, jammed shut, or there simply aren't any lockers around.
35	** Tim knocks out Bob before he gets stuffed.
36	* '''Discussed''': "Wow, these lockers are surprisingly spacious."
37	* '''Conversed''': "Did you see what Bob did to poor Tim? My WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief is completely gone now!"
38	* '''Deconstructed''':
39	** Bob later gets suspended for his actions, and the school replaces the lockers with smaller models.
40	** Tim is just small enough to fit in the locker. He gets stuck in there and needs help to get out.
41	** The locker doesn't take long to run out of air, and Tim suffocates to death. Bob must live with the fact that he indirectly killed a classmate for the rest of his life.
42	* '''Reconstructed''':
43	** But as soon as Bob returns to school, he then puts his focus on even smaller kids who can fit inside the new lockers, thus making him more of a bully than ever before.
44	** [[LackOfEmpathy Bob couldn't care less.]]
45	* '''Implied''': When Tim doesn't show up to class, the teachers realize [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness something must be wrong]] and search for him on and off the school's property, but they don't find him. The astute viewer notices they never checked his locker.
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49	%%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
50	%%* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ???
51	%%* '''Played for Laughs''': ???

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