Line #28 PlayingWith/FellOffTheBackOfATruck


1	'''Basic Trope''': A quick explanation for illegally obtaining something.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice asks Bob where he got that BriefcaseFullOfMoney. Bob says he saw it fall off a truck.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Alice sees that Bob's swimming pool is loaded with money. Bob says a truck holding it crashed.
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Bob shows Alice an envelope of money that he says he found in the park.
6	** The goods did fall off the truck, but when the trucker came back for the missing goods, Bob lies and says he never saw them.
7	* '''Justified''': Bob really ''did'' see the briefcase fall off the back of a truck and no one saw him pick it up.
8	* '''Inverted''':
9	** Bob throws a BriefcaseFullOfMoney onto a truck.
10	** Bob tells Alice that his BriefcaseFullOfMoney got lost at airport security.
11	** Bob catches a BriefcaseFullOfMoney after it falls off the back of a truck, and claims he got it by selling heroin.
12	** Bob disposes of a suitcase full of drugs by throwing it onto the back of a random truck.
13	* '''Subverted''':
14	** Bob tells the truth to Alice -- he got the money dealing drugs.
15	** "It fell off the truck... when my buddy kicked it off".
16	* '''Double Subverted''': ...but ''this'' particular briefcase fell off the back of a truck.
17	* '''Parodied''':
18	** Alice tells Bob that he got a truck when ''it'' fell off the back of the truck.
19	** There is a specific IRS tax form for any "misplaced items" you sell/buy and their taxation. Technically it is not admitting to any crimes, [[IntimidatingRevenueService unless you forget to file and pay this tax, and then you will get it worse]] than UsefulNotes/AlCapone.
20	* '''Implied''': Bob is mentioned repeatedly to be very deep in the red, but when Alice goes to his house to deliver some food, she finds him playing games on a top-of-the-line Playstation.
21	* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob has multiple briefcases obtained in many ways. He tells the truth about some, lies about others but some of them even turn out to be empty.
22	* '''Averted''': Bob doesn't obtain the briefcase or there is no truck.
23	* '''Enforced''':
24	** As part of an EasyComeEasyGo storyline. Bob must somehow lose the briefcase as easily as he obtained it.
25	** Bob is a superhero who has access to certain gadgets that are too expensive even if he is supposed to not be part of the Fiction500, so the writers decide to add that he "just happened to find“ said expensive gadgets.
26	* '''Lampshaded''': "Yeah, Bob, who's really going to buy that excuse?"
27	* '''Invoked''': A truck driver holding briefcases of money decides to test out some speed bumps.
28	* '''Exploited''': Alice asks Bob for some hush money from the briefcase to keep quiet about his acquisition.
29	* '''Defied''': Bob turns down the briefcase, thinking no one would buy his excuse.
30	* '''Discussed''': Bob works for the mafia whose boss tells Bob to fabricate a lie about the briefcase.
31	* '''Conversed''': "There's no way Bob can rationally cover for that BriefcaseFullOfMoney. Watch him lie about it."
32	* '''Deconstructed''': Nobody buys Bob's lies of how he got the BriefcaseFullOfMoney, back of a truck or otherwise, and the police arrest him for his troubles.
33	* '''Reconstructed''': But security camera shows that Bob ''did'' get the BriefcaseFullOfMoney, which ''did'' fall from the back of a truck. This prompts the police to pardon him for his honesty.
34	* '''Played For Laughs''':
35	** Bob's nice hat [[NotHyperbole really did fell out of a truck]] and he's done every attempt to give it back to its original owner to no avail, but his explanation is taken by everybody else [[CassandraTruth as him using code words to conceal him committing a crime]], [[MistakenForBadass with explosively hilarious results]].
36	** The local criminal underground has an Uber-style delivery service for their illicit sales that involves a truck driving past the customer's house at top speed and tossing the purchased item to their curb (all sales final, by the way).
37	** It's very clear that Bob is saying BlatantLies and everybody just looks at him with a nonplussed stare and say a little "huh-huh" but otherwise let it slide, especially if [[MacGuffin it's an item they direly need at the moment]].
38	** The collateral damage of Bob's antics include a large number of expensive items falling into a truck and the driver sneakily driving off to fence them.
39	** The item that fell off the back of a truck is broken and useless. Which [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome obviously happens when something fragile falls off a truck]].
40	* '''Played For Drama''': Bob knows that his excuse is not believable, it's a code for "I acquired it illegally" without admitting anything, as well as an implied threat to anyone who wishes to inquire further.
41	* '''Played For Horror''':
42	** The illegal item Bob acquired (and then sold) is the cause of the plot's disaster, which leads to many people dying in horrible ways.
43	** [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge The owners of that "truck" are not happy that Bob stole from them.]] [[DisproportionateRetribution And they will make sure that Bob and everybody related to this "transaction" die screaming because of it.]]
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45	I found the back button when it FellOffTheBackOfATruck.
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47	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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49	%%* '''Implied''': ???
50	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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