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cleaned up some zero-context examples
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* BringIt
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* BringItBringIt: As Buster is being pursued by police, he decides to stop running and turns to fight. Buster throws down his jacket and raises his fists as if inviting a fight, but conveniently a train passes between him and the police allowing him to run away without fighting.
* CardboardPrison: Dead Shot Dan is easily able to escape incarceration. He just flips the light switch and runs away while the room is dark.
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* DoubleTake
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* FailedASpotCheck: See picture.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Buster approaches a crowd that has gathered to see a wanted poster, without seeing for himself who is depicted on the poster. See picture.
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Zero-context example.
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* ElevatorSnare: The elevator chase scenes.
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* PaperThinDisguise: Keaton adds a beard to the life-size mugshot of his, in an attempt to fool the Police Chief. But the latter looks throw the scheme.
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* PaperThinDisguise: Keaton adds a beard to the life-size mugshot of his, in an attempt to fool the Police Chief. But the latter looks throw through the scheme.
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''The Goat can be seen in its entirety at [[https://archive.org/details/TheGoat archive.org]].
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''The Goat Goat'' can be seen in its entirety at [[https://archive.org/details/TheGoat archive.org]].
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In 1921's ''The Goat'', Creator/BusterKeaton goes from Forgotten Man to Most Wanted when his photograph is mistakenly circulated as that of an escaped criminal.
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Buster goes from Forgotten Man to Most Wanted when his photograph is mistakenly circulated as that of an escaped criminal.
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then it is not this trope
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* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Actually the tracks are of the helpful kind as the inevitable train crossing allows Keaton to do a TrainEscape.
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* OutsideRide: Buster grabs onto a car to be dragged away from the cops. Later subverted when Buster clings to a spare tire on the backside of a car but then the car drives off without it.
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* MeatgrinderSurgery: Played for laughs. Buster freaks when he sees the saw, drill and hammer placed on his chest, believes this to be the surgeon's tools.
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* MeatgrinderSurgery: Played for laughs. Buster freaks when he sees the saw, drill and hammer placed on his chest, believes believing this to be the surgeon's tools.
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* TraintopBattle: Subverted -- Buster uncouples the train car occupied by the cops.
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* AmusingInjuries
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* AmusingInjuriesAmusingInjuries: The Police Chief gets BuriedAlive under a pile of coals. Of course he lives.
* AuthenticationByNewspaper: Wrongfully. People recognize Keaton as the murderer from the [[WantedPoster Wanted ad]] in the newspaper.
* AuthenticationByNewspaper: Wrongfully. People recognize Keaton as the murderer from the [[WantedPoster Wanted ad]] in the newspaper.
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* BuriedAlive
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* BuriedAliveBuriedAlive: The Police Chief, under a pile of coals.
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* ElevatorGag: Various.
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* DramaticCurtainToss: The artist revealing his clay horse statue, with Keaton on top.
* ElevatorGag:Various.When Buster makes the elevator shoot through the roof.
* ElevatorSnare: The elevator chase scenes.
* EscalatingChase: First it's one, then two, then three police men pursuing Keaton.
* ElevatorGag:
* ElevatorSnare: The elevator chase scenes.
* EscalatingChase: First it's one, then two, then three police men pursuing Keaton.
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* {{Fainting}}
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* {{Fainting}}
{{Fainting}}: The artist who watches his clay sculpture being destroyed by Keaton.
*FlashbackCut{{Flashback}}: Keaton flashing back to the scene where he gives the jerk pedestrian a good beating. The Wanted ad makes him believe he killed that man.
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* HelloAgainOfficer: A staple of silent comedy. First Keaton sends the three police men off in a truck but a few scenes later, the truck unloads the cops right in front of Keaton and the chase is on again.
* IrisOut: The movie starts with an Iris In and has at least two Iris Out in the middle section and at the end.
* IrisOut: The movie starts with an Iris In and has at least two Iris Out in the middle section and at the end.
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* LeftHanging: One would expect Buster to clear his name, most likely by capturing the real Dead Shot Dan. One could be wrong.
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* LeftHanging: One would expect Buster to [[ClearMyName clear his name, name]], most likely by capturing the real Dead Shot Dan. One could be wrong.
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* LookBehindYou
* MeatgrinderSurgery: Invoked
* MistakenIdentity
* MurderousMannequin: Buster keeps running afoul of display mannequins.
** Mistaking two tailor's dummies for men standing in a breadline costs him a free meal.
** He strikes a match on a cigar store Indian that turns out to be a living, and irate, person.
* MeatgrinderSurgery: Invoked
* MistakenIdentity
* MurderousMannequin: Buster keeps running afoul of display mannequins.
** Mistaking two tailor's dummies for men standing in a breadline costs him a free meal.
** He strikes a match on a cigar store Indian that turns out to be a living, and irate, person.
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* LookBehindYou
LookBehindYou: Buster fools the police men this way.
* MeatgrinderSurgery:Invoked
Played for laughs. Buster freaks when he sees the saw, drill and hammer placed on his chest, believes this to be the surgeon's tools.
*MistakenIdentity
MistakenIdentity: Keaton is [[MistakenForMurderer mistaken for the criminal Dead Shot Dan]] because of the wrongly attributed mug shot.
* MurderousMannequin: Played for laughs. Busterkeeps running afoul of display mannequins.
** Mistaking two tailor's dummies for men standing in a breadline costs him a free meal.
** Hestrikes a match on a cigar store Indian that turns out to be a living, and irate, person.
* MeatgrinderSurgery:
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* MurderousMannequin: Played for laughs. Buster
** Mistaking two tailor's dummies for men standing in a breadline costs him a free meal.
** He
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* OpenSaysMe
* RailroadTracksOfDoom
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* OpenSaysMe
OpenSaysMe: The Police Chief rams open the front door to his apartment after he locked himself in.
*RailroadTracksOfDoomPaperThinDisguise: Keaton adds a beard to the life-size mugshot of his, in an attempt to fool the Police Chief. But the latter looks throw the scheme.
* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Actually the tracks are of the helpful kind as the inevitable train crossing allows Keaton to do a TrainEscape.
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* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Actually the tracks are of the helpful kind as the inevitable train crossing allows Keaton to do a TrainEscape.
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* SternChase: Buster is pursued by police force through the entire film.
* SuperWindowJump
* TrainEscape
* SuperWindowJump
* TrainEscape
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* SternChase: Buster is pursued by police force men through the entire film.
*SuperWindowJump
SuperWindowJump: A feisty window jump saves Keaton from an unwanted surgery.
*TrainEscapeTrainEscape: Happens twice in different flavors.
** First a crossing train traps the three police men on the other side of the tracks, allowing Keaton to escape.
** Later, Buster uncouples the train car occupied by the cops.
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** First a crossing train traps the three police men on the other side of the tracks, allowing Keaton to escape.
** Later, Buster uncouples the train car occupied by the cops.
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* WantedPoster
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* WantedPosterWantedPoster: Keaton's mugshot appears on the Wanted poster for Dead Shot Dan.
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shoehorning
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* ImpendingDoomPOV
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* LoveAtFirstSight
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* MeetCute
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* NobodyHereButUsStatues
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* OutsideRide: Subverted
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* WhatADrag: This being Creator/BusterKeaton, he comes to no harm.
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* ChaseScene
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* SternChase: Buster is pursued by police force through the entire film.
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In 1921's "The Goat," Creator/BusterKeaton goes from Forgotten Man to Most Wanted when his photograph is mistakenly circulated as that of an escaped criminal.
"The Goat" can be seen in its entirety at [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2181165870342158113# Google Video.]]
"The Goat" can be seen in its entirety at [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2181165870342158113# Google Video.]]
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In 1921's "The Goat," ''The Goat'', Creator/BusterKeaton goes from Forgotten Man to Most Wanted when his photograph is mistakenly circulated as that of an escaped criminal.
"The Goat" ''The Goat can be seen in its entirety at [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2181165870342158113# Google Video.]][[https://archive.org/details/TheGoat archive.org]].
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In 1921's "The Goat," BusterKeaton goes from Forgotten Man to Most Wanted when his photograph is mistakenly circulated as that of an escaped criminal.
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In 1921's "The Goat," BusterKeaton Creator/BusterKeaton goes from Forgotten Man to Most Wanted when his photograph is mistakenly circulated as that of an escaped criminal.
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* WhatADrag: This being BusterKeaton, he comes to no harm.
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* WhatADrag: This being BusterKeaton, Creator/BusterKeaton, he comes to no harm.
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* LeftHanging: One would expect Buster to clear his name, most likely by capturing the real Dead Shot Dan. [[spoiler: One could be wrong]].
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* LeftHanging: One would expect Buster to clear his name, most likely by capturing the real Dead Shot Dan. [[spoiler: One could be wrong]].wrong.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/The_Goat_9220.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Epic Spot Check Fail.]]
In 1921's "The Goat," BusterKeaton goes from Forgotten Man to Most Wanted when his photograph is mistakenly circulated as that of an escaped criminal.
"The Goat" can be seen in its entirety at [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2181165870342158113# Google Video.]]
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!!"The Goat" provides examples of:
* AmusingInjuries
* BringIt
* BuriedAlive
* ChaseScene
* CosmicPlaything: Buster, seemingly.
* DoubleTake
* ElevatorGag: Various.
* FailedASpotCheck: See picture.
* {{Fainting}}
* FlashbackCut
* {{Frameup}}
** Dead Shot Dan substitutes a picture of Buster for his mugshot.
** A crook shoots at a cop and leaves the gun in Buster's hand.
* ImpendingDoomPOV
* KarmaHoudini: Dead Shot Dan, apparently.
* LeftHanging: One would expect Buster to clear his name, most likely by capturing the real Dead Shot Dan. [[spoiler: One could be wrong]].
* LiteralAssKicking: Played straight, and subverted when Buster jabs a dummy with a pin.
* LookBehindYou
* LoveAtFirstSight
* MeatgrinderSurgery: Invoked
* MeetCute
* MistakenIdentity
* MurderousMannequin: Buster keeps running afoul of display mannequins.
** Mistaking two tailor's dummies for men standing in a breadline costs him a free meal.
** He strikes a match on a cigar store Indian that turns out to be a living, and irate, person.
* NobodyHereButUsStatues
* TheOner: A train appears on the horizon, steams forward, and stops just far enough from the camera for a medium shot of Buster, who was seated on the locomotive's cowcatcher the entire time. Apparently done solely to demonstrate the cameraman's {{nerves of steel}}.
* OpenSaysMe
* OutsideRide: Subverted
* RailroadTracksOfDoom
* SarcasmMode: The opening intertitle, "On Millionaires' Row," is followed by an iris open on [[TheGreatDepression a breadline]].
* SmokingIsCool: Right after {{the oner}}, Buster puts a cigarette in his mouth and lights it against the side of the train engine.
* SuperWindowJump
* TrainEscape
* TraintopBattle: Subverted -- Buster uncouples the train car occupied by the cops.
* WantedPoster
* WhatADrag: This being BusterKeaton, he comes to no harm.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Epic Spot Check Fail.]]
In 1921's "The Goat," BusterKeaton goes from Forgotten Man to Most Wanted when his photograph is mistakenly circulated as that of an escaped criminal.
"The Goat" can be seen in its entirety at [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2181165870342158113# Google Video.]]
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!!"The Goat" provides examples of:
* AmusingInjuries
* BringIt
* BuriedAlive
* ChaseScene
* CosmicPlaything: Buster, seemingly.
* DoubleTake
* ElevatorGag: Various.
* FailedASpotCheck: See picture.
* {{Fainting}}
* FlashbackCut
* {{Frameup}}
** Dead Shot Dan substitutes a picture of Buster for his mugshot.
** A crook shoots at a cop and leaves the gun in Buster's hand.
* ImpendingDoomPOV
* KarmaHoudini: Dead Shot Dan, apparently.
* LeftHanging: One would expect Buster to clear his name, most likely by capturing the real Dead Shot Dan. [[spoiler: One could be wrong]].
* LiteralAssKicking: Played straight, and subverted when Buster jabs a dummy with a pin.
* LookBehindYou
* LoveAtFirstSight
* MeatgrinderSurgery: Invoked
* MeetCute
* MistakenIdentity
* MurderousMannequin: Buster keeps running afoul of display mannequins.
** Mistaking two tailor's dummies for men standing in a breadline costs him a free meal.
** He strikes a match on a cigar store Indian that turns out to be a living, and irate, person.
* NobodyHereButUsStatues
* TheOner: A train appears on the horizon, steams forward, and stops just far enough from the camera for a medium shot of Buster, who was seated on the locomotive's cowcatcher the entire time. Apparently done solely to demonstrate the cameraman's {{nerves of steel}}.
* OpenSaysMe
* OutsideRide: Subverted
* RailroadTracksOfDoom
* SarcasmMode: The opening intertitle, "On Millionaires' Row," is followed by an iris open on [[TheGreatDepression a breadline]].
* SmokingIsCool: Right after {{the oner}}, Buster puts a cigarette in his mouth and lights it against the side of the train engine.
* SuperWindowJump
* TrainEscape
* TraintopBattle: Subverted -- Buster uncouples the train car occupied by the cops.
* WantedPoster
* WhatADrag: This being BusterKeaton, he comes to no harm.
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