Basic Trope: A character falls for a very long time.
- Straight: Bob falls off of a cliff and keeps falling for a long time.
- Exaggerated:
- Three episodes later, Bob is still falling.
- Three seasons later, Bob is still falling.
- In the Grand Finale, Bob is - you guessed it - still falling.
- Downplayed: Bob falls for a few minutes more than normal.
- Justified:
- It is a very long way down.
- The pit has a depth of infinity.
- Bob is somehow falling very slowly.
- Inverted: Bob takes a second to fall tens of thousands of feet.
- Subverted: Bob seems to be having a long fall, but lands a minute later.
- Double Subverted: ...but he only landed on a twig, which breaks, causing Bob to continue falling.
- Parodied:
- Bob strikes a bored pose while he's waiting to hit the ground.
- Bob falls off a cliff at a park called "Long Falls."
- Zig Zagged: Bob keeps hitting and breaking twig after twig on his way down.
- Averted: Bob does not fall.
- Enforced: "It would be so funny if we had Bob fall for a long time!"
- Lampshaded: "I've been falling for a long time! HELP!"
- Invoked: Bob jumps off a cliff with a long way down.
- Exploited:
- Bob has a parachute or armor and uses the fall to test it.
- Bob realizes that he's been falling for way too long for it to be reality, which leads to his break out from his Epiphanic Prison.
- Defied: Bob goes away from the cliff after looking to see how far down it is.
- Discussed: "Will he ever stop falling?"
- Conversed: "Why do characters in these shows always have long falls?"
- Implied: Bob falls off the cliff, and his screams continue for a long time.
- Deconstructed: Bob gets out of breath from the fall, and the wind causes him to get cold.
- Reconstructed: Bob starts falling a bit faster due to the wind.
- Played For Laughs: This trope is normally done for comedy.
- Played For Drama: Bob gets serious injuries when he finally lands. Or goes splat.
Back to I Fell for Hours, but be careful where you step there, because you may fall, and it's a loooooooong way down!
