Playing With / Knockback

• Basic Trope: A character flies backwards upon being hurt.
• Straight: Bob gets shot by a mook, and flies backwards.
• Exaggerated: Punched Across the Room
• Downplayed: Bob gets shot by a mook. He flinches.
• Justified: Bob was hit very hard.
  • Bob is Made of Plasticine.
• Inverted: Bob gets shot by a mook. He flies forward.
• Subverted: Bob was faking falling backwards to make his opponent believe he is weak.
• Double Subverted: Because he actually is really weak.
• Parodied: Instead of getting knocked back, Bob stumbles everywhere for an extended period of time, to the point that it looks like he's doing a tap dance. He then kills the mook, who was distracted due to the fact that he was laughing his ass off at Bob's "tap dance".
  • Bob does this whenever he is hurt in any fashion. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Bob gets knocked back...off a cliff. The mook looks over the cliff, and sees Bob Flipping the Bird to him as he falls.
• Zig-Zagged: Sometimes Bob gets sent flying when he's hurt, other times he doesn't even flinch.
• Averted: Bob does not go flying when he is hurt.
• Enforced: The creators wanted to implement Fake Difficulty into the game.
• Lampshaded:
  Mook, to Bob: Dude, there's no need to be so over-dramatic. I shot you, that's all.
• Invoked: Bob does not wear armor.
• Exploited: Bob realizes that he always gets sent catapulting backwards when he's hit, and uses it as a method to avoid immediately getting hit again.
• Defied: Bob makes sure to wear sturdy armor so that he is not so easily fazed.
• Discussed:
• Conversed:
• Deconstructed: Bob was standing precariously close to a cliff at the time, and falls to his doom. Game Over.
• Reconstructed: Bob has extra lives.
  • Bob gets knocked over the cliff, to the other side.