History PlayingWith / ChainedToARailway

* '''Played for Drama:''' Bob ties Alice to a railway and makes the murder look like a suicide, causing despair in Alice's family.

** The evil Bob chains Alice to the rails for criticizing [[TheHero the hero's]] suit, feeling it's an EvenEvilHasStandards moment.

** The villain ties the protagonist's priceless toy train to a street right before a marathon.

** The person operating the train sees Alice tied to the track and promptly brings the train to a grinding halt.

** ...but then the front end of the train breaks off and falls on top of Alice.
** [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Trains take awhile to stop.]] The person operating the train also has very poor eyesight. As a result, the train doesn't stop in time, and Alice is brutally run over anyway.

** On a train journey into town, the hero sees the track liberally strewn with helpless tied maidens.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The train gets put into reverse before reaching Alice. Then starts going forward again. Then backward again. Then forward again....

* '''Enforced''': "[[MediumAwareness We're in an Old West cartoon]]. It's tradition."
* '''Implied''': Only the engineer's cab is visible when the train passes through. A call from the conductor in the back mentions body parts trailing behind the train.

* '''Exploited''': Bob ties Alice to the tracks to distract the hero while he sets about on another evil scheme.

** Bob is a {{Yandere}} who keeps the heroine tied to a disused rail line near his home so that she cannot run away from him.

** As Alice points out (while appropiately [[DastardlyWhiplash dressed like Snidely Whiplash]] as she ties down Bob because yeah, she ''[[NerdInEvilsHelmet loves]]'' ''Dudley Do-Right''), sure, you think it's a very old-fashioned, [[BondVillainStupidity overly-theatric]], stupid and boring way to kill someone, but have you ''[[{{Gorn}} seen]]'' what happens when a 950-ton bundle of rolling steel the size of the Chrysler Building (which ''can't'' stop on a dime, by the way) rolls over a living being at 80 miles per hour? No? You're going to in about a minute. Play nice, now...
* '''Played For Laughs:''' "I'm going to TIE you to the RAILROAD TRACK!!" "What, again?"
* '''Played For Drama:''' Used straight to make a murder look like a suicide, with full emphasis on how painful and frightening it would be to die that way.
* '''Played For Horror:''' Bob is unable to get out of his bindings and can only spend the last two seconds of his life screaming as the billion-ton hunk of steel tries, quite futilely, to stop in time...

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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

** It's pointed out repeatedly that (InUniverse and out) it's a DeadHorseTrope and anybody who tries it [[DastardlyWhiplash probably has seen a few too many episodes of]] ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight''.

** As Alice points out (while appropiately [[DastardlyWhiplash dressed like Snidely Whiplash]] as she ties down Bob), sure, you think it's a very old-fashioned, [[BondVillainStupidity overly-theatric]], stupid and boring way to kill someone, but have you ''[[{{Gorn}} seen]]'' what happens when a 950-ton bundle of rolling steel the size of the Chrysler Building (which ''can't'' stop on a dime, by the way) rolls over a living being at 80 miles per hour? No? You're going to in about a minute. Play nice, now...

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is a {{Yandere}} who keeps the heroine tied to a disused rail line near his home so that she cannot run away from him.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice is the daughter of a railroad baron who fired Bob and left him homeless, so he is murdering her in this way to symbolically injure her father.

** [[RealityEnsues Trains take awhile to stop.]] The person operating the train also has very poor eyesight. As a result, the train doesn't stop in time, and Alice is brutally run over anyway.

** Announcements at the railway station say that the train will be delayed due to maidens tied to the track. Everyone acts as if this is a regular nuisance, like signalling failures.

** ...but the disused line is next to a busy highway, and while Bob is distracted, he is run over by a car.

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%%* '''Implied''': Only the engineer's cab is visible when the train passes through. A call from the conductor in the back mentions body parts trailing behind the train.

** The person operating the train sees Alice tied to the track and promptly brings the train to a grinding hault.
* '''Double Subverted''': .... but the disused line is next to a busy highway, and while Bob is distracted, he is run over by a car.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Bob chains Alice to the rails... but the train hasn't run on that line for at least a decade.

* '''Straight''': The [[DastardlyWhiplash moustache-twirling]] Bob chains [[TheIngenue innocent barmaid]] Alice to the rails when she rejects him and threatens to leave her there unless she agrees to marry him.
* '''Exaggerated''':

* '''Parodied''':

** Announcements at the railway station say that the train will be delayed due to maidens tied to the track. Everyone acts as if this is a regular nuisance, like signalling failures.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is a {{Yandere}} who keeps the heroine tied to a disused rail line near his home so that she cannot run away from him.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice is the daughter of a railroad baron who fired Bob and left him homeless, so he is murdering her in this way to symbolically injure her father.

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* '''Discussed''': "Well, you're just a regular [[CardCarryingVillain Snidely Whiplash]], ain't ya? Whatcha gonna do next, [[TemptingFate tie me to some tracks somewhere]]?"

* '''Exaggerated''': The evil Bob chains Alice to the rails for criticizing [[TheHero the hero's]] suit, feeling it's an EvenEvilHasStandards moment.

* '''Inverted''': The virtuous Alice chains the evil Bob to the rails.

* '''Parodied''': Bob chains Alice to a miniature railway and little electric trains bump harmlessly into her body.