Basic Trope: Ability to tunnel faster that is realistic.
- Straight: Bob is a miner. He can tunnel at a rate of about 1 meter per minute.
- Exaggerated: Bob can tunnel as fast as he can walk.
- Downplayed: Bob can tunnel about 1 meter per hour without high-tech machinery.
- Justified: NA, this trope is specifically for when there is no sufficient explanation.
- Inverted: Bob uses high-tech machinery, and still mines slower that real machines.
- Subverted:
- Bob seems to be tunnelling suspiciously fast, but it turns out that the five miles of tunnel he went through was already there.
- Bob is only digging a 5cm wide lead tunnel for the TBM to follow.
- Double Subverted: He dug that section out last night.
- Parodied: Bob can tunnel considerably faster that he can walk. This causes him to trip. A LOT.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted
- Bob tunnels at a realistic speed.
- Bob uses magic, superpowers or fictional technology to tunnel fast
- Enforced: The plot demands that he be able to travel at a reasonable speed underground through solid stone.
- Lampshaded: "Gee, Bob, you sure can dig fast!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Bob uses his tunnelling speed to sneak around.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Bob doesn't reinforce his tunnels, and he is killed in a cave-in.
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