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** The pane is not made of glass, but of a different material such as crystal or plexiglas.

** Two workers are carrying a pane of glass while running and then they make it shatter over a parked [[TheAllegedCar car]].

** The butler did it, but is quite the {{sympathetic|Murderer}} and the reasons as to why he did the murder are shown and discussed in great detail.

* '''PlayedForLaughs:''' The humorous elements of a trope are played up. Differs from Parodied by being a straight use. Normally only applicable for serious tropes, but can show up for any trope.

** The butler did it, but is quite {{sympathetic|Murderer}}, and the reasons he did it are gone into in great detail.

** The car hits the pane of glass because the driver is recklessly escaping from a terrible danger and cannot slow down.

** The butler did it, but it took him [[{{Determinator}} three hundred and seventeen tries]] (of which we're [[ShowDontTell shown twelve]]), all of which his master escaped without realizing anything was happening (including the time when he walked up and shot his master, which the master [[ComicallyMissingThePoint passed off as]] "you could've hurt someone, mistaking that gun for a lighter").

** A butler appears but no crime occurs. Or there ''is'' a crime, but there is no butler. Or there is neither.
** The weapons do not glow. Or there are no weapons at all. Or a spell disables this feature which would otherwise enact as was explained earlier by a character.

** The driver flinches as the car zooms between the two workers, then realizes that they're just pantomiming and there is no glass. Or, the car drives into the pane of glass, but it's [[TheAllegedCar the car that shatters]] (instead of the glass).

** The car drives through the glass, and views are shown of damage sustained by the car either complicating the driveability of the vehicle and/or making the car more identifiable to the chasers, or the workers point out the direction of the car to the chasers as they drive by.

** A car chase swerves off the road and into the campus of a huge glass sheet factory. The first car dodges several sets of workers carrying panes of glass, then barely misses another while making a wisecrack about how close that was. As the pursuing car crashes through the first of the previously dodged sheets, the rest of the workers drop (and break) their sheets and run. The rest of the sequence is an escalating series of over-the-top stunts as the two drivers careen around, over, and through warehouses of glass being transported by workers and machinery, ending in the pursuing car being coated in molten glass, which is then flash-cooled and shattered.

** The car drives into the pane of glass, and not only the glass shatters, but also the car, as well as the workers.

!This trope is [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16862320830.78103200 under discussion]] in the Administrivia/TropeRepairShop.

* '''{{Enforced|Trope}}:''' The trope occurs solely because of outside expectations or obligations placed on the writer, such as ExecutiveMeddling or censorship.

** The pane is not made of glass, but of another material.

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* '''[[IndexBackfire Backfired]]:''' The trope occurs, but the result is detrimental.
** The butler is the murderer, but didn't know that the victim wanted to leave all his riches to him in his testament.
** Weapons glow when an enemy is nearby to alert the wielders for potential threats, but this causes the character to be discovered during a stealth action.
** The car hits the pane of glass, and the accident leads to the driver being sued by the factory for the damage or fined for dangerous driving.