1 | '''Basic Trope''': Pillar-sized object used as a weapon |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice rips a street-light out of the ground to beat people with. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice’s weapon of choice is a massive pillar the size of the empire state building. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice tears up a small shrub to hit people with. |
5 | * '''Justified''': Alice is superstrong, and is already formally trained in the MartialArtsStaff, so it’s just a matter of scaling up. |
6 | * '''Inverted''': Alice uses a toothpick as her weapon of choice. Not even a BIG toothpick. |
7 | * '''Subverted''': Alice rips a telephone pole out of the ground… and then throws it into the sky. |
8 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
9 | ** At the end of the fight, the pillar is caught by Alice, who uses it as part of her finishing move. |
10 | ** Alternatives include: |
11 | *** The pillar lands directly on the opponent. Throwing it into the sky was all part of the plan. |
12 | *** An airborne opponent was directly above Alice, even by miles. They get taken out instantly. |
13 | * '''Parodied''': |
14 | ** Alice is asked to pick a weapon from a pillar. Nonplussed, Alice chooses the pillar. |
15 | ** A fight between Alice and Bob, where both of them have building-sized Telephone Polearms. Said weapons are so big they’re the only things visible on screen. |
16 | ** Alice's weapon [[VisualPun is a dismembered polish man's arm holding a Nokia 3310]]. |
17 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice rips out a large redwood tree to use as a weapon, but it turns out it’s just to intimate Bob. Bob, nonplussed, rips out an even bigger tree and launches it at Alice, who is forced to block. |
18 | * '''Averted''': Nothing oversized and pillar-like is weaponized. |
19 | * '''Enforced''': ??? |
20 | * '''Lampshaded''': “Alice, I don’t think that’s what Roosevelt meant by speaking softly and carrying a big stick. “ |
21 | * '''Invoked''': Alice has a massive staff made so that she would have a reach advantage on all she encounters. |
22 | * '''Exploited''': |
23 | ** Bob snipes Alice while she’s busy ripping the pole out the ground. |
24 | ** Alice uses the pole against an enemy that can drain energy by touch, preventing her from being affected. |
25 | * '''Defied''': “That’s WAY too heavy! I’m not picking that up!” |
26 | * '''Discussed''': |
27 | ** “Compensating for something with that?” |
28 | ** “Yes. The fact I can’t beat up an army with my crotch. If I could, I wouldn’t need this.” |
29 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
30 | * '''Implied''': We see the aftermath of Alice’s fight, where a giant is impaled through the skull via a telephone pole. |
31 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
32 | ** [[DestructiveSavior Alice causes a lot of property damage with how she’s constantly ripping pole-like objects out the ground, ]]to the point the town would be better off without her “heroism.” |
33 | ** The polearm is very slow and [[{{Pun}} telegraphed]]. [[MightyGlacier Alice can pulp anything she hits...IF it hits.]] |
34 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
35 | ** So she has a staff custom-made for her instead. |
36 | ** It may be slow, but it's reach and width is still enough to take out scores of lesser opponents when they have no room to move out the way: Bob is a higher class of warrior, which is why he escaped unscathed. |
37 | * '''Played For Laughs''': After beating the pulp out of her enemy, Alice uses the pole to take a phonecall. |
38 | * '''Played For Drama''': Baron Bloodthirst ripping a telephone pole out he ground signifies his status as an OutsideContextProblem, as no-one on the show was shown with that much physical strength before. |
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