Basic Trope: Projectile trajectories break the laws of gravity.
- Straight: Alice fires an arrow at Bob, who is 200 meters away. The arrow travels in a perfectly straight line.
- Exaggerated: Alice fires an arrow straight up. It just keeps traveling through the sky and eventually space without ever slowing down or changing trajectory.
- Downplayed: Alice's arrows travel in a much less pronounced arc than they should.
- Justified: Alice lives in a world with much weaker gravity than Earth, so the distance at which the arcing trajectory of projectiles would start being noticeable is far longer.
- Inverted: Alice pulls out a laser pointer and directs it at a board a few steps away. The light travels in a pronounced arc rather than a straight line as it realistically would.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Projectile trajectories are as realistic or unrealistic as the plot needs them to be at any given time.
- Averted:
- Projectiles in the work always travel in realistic trajectories.
- No projectiles are ever launched in the work.
- Enforced: The game's engine is not advanced enough to simulate realistic physics, so the developers programmed projectiles either to always travel in the same arc regardless of circumstances, or not to travel in an arc at all.
- Lampshaded: "Why isn't it losing altitude?"
- Invoked: A mage casts a spell that negates gravity, causing projectiles to travel in perfectly straight lines.
- Exploited: A mage casts a zero gravity spell knowing the enemy archers are used to adjusting their aim to account for arcing trajectories. This throws off their aim because the arrows are now flying in straight lines.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "And remember, just point your weapon directly at your target no matter how far they are. Your shots will travel straight all the way to your target. Got it?"
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Alice's arrow travels in a perfectly straight line... but the Earth is round, so this means the arrow eventually leaves the planet and keeps traveling through space.
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