Line #29 PlayingWith/TelephonePolearm


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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