Basic Trope: A character has ascended to a height far above where any normal person would go.
- Straight: Alice is flung into the air and goes into Earth's orbit. she can see the planet Earth as a globe. She can see the clouds and an artificial satellite is flying along beside her.
- Exaggerated: Alice is flung into space, so that the Earth is just a tiny speck along with the sun and all the other planets. She can almost touch Pluto.
- Downplayed: Alice is thrown 100 feet into the air; high, but not unrealistically so.
- Justified: Alice is in a space craft.
- Inverted: Alice is so deep below the Earth's surface, she is in the core.
- Subverted:
- Alice looks below her to see Earth from a distance. She can see all the continents from where she is. But it turns out, it's just the carpeting.
- … it's only a model in a space themed ride.
- the readings of 1000000 and 780000 Feet MSL on the captain and copilot's altimeters respectively is evidence that there is a problem with the Pitot-Static system.
- Double Subverted:
- She then walks towards the window and looks out to see the actual planet Earth as a speck in the distance.
- … So they thought, the radio-altimeter confirmed.
- Parodied: Alice is launched so high and so fast that she breaks light speed and ends up making a wormhole, which opens up on the other side of Earth.
- Zig Zagged: The moment she hits the apex, she's suddenly launched downward to the core of the Earth.
- Averted: Alice is never more than a foot off the ground.
- Enforced: "We need a scene where Alice can see the earth from space as she dies."
- Lampshaded: "I can see my house from here... And Africa!"
- Invoked: Alice blasts herself into space from a cannon just for the view.
- Exploited: Being in this ridiculously high altitude allows Alice to obtain an object or land on a place that were previously impossible for her to reach.
- Defied: Alice anchors herself to the ground.
- Discussed: "The view of the Earth was lovely from outer space, but I'm never doing that again."
- Conversed: "How do the characters survive being thrown so high? Any real person would die if they were that high in the air."
- Deconstructed:
- Alice is flung into space, where she dies of suffocation.
- Or she falls back into the atmosphere and is incinerated in reentry.
- Whatever force that sent her into space pulverizes her body and kills her before she can think about how high she's been sent.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice is flung into space. Fortunately for her, she's wearing a space-adapted Power Armor that keeps her safe through the whole unwanted trip.
- Fortunately for Alice, her body is nigh-indestructible, so she can take all that abuse all without any "nasty consequences" to her health.note
- Played For Laughs: Alice is blasted into space during the series' first episode, and she doesn't come crashing down until the season finale. Bonus points if she shows up covered in decals from all the planets that she passed-by during her intergalactic cruise.
- Played For Drama: Alice has a crippling fear of heights. Being flung high into the air causes her to fall into a state of despair and helplessness, thinking she'll never be able to return safely to solid ground again because it's impossible for a human being to survive through such a situation.
Once you get down from there, maybe you'd like to visit Absurd Altitude
