Basic Trope: A character uses a parachute that would realistically be too small for them.
- Straight: Charlie's parachute is only 4 feet in diameter.
- Exaggerated: Charlie's parachute is only about 18 inches in diameter, and yet it still manages to work properly.
- Downplayed: Charlie owns a parachute with a 9.5-foot diameter, slightly smaller than one in real life.
- Justified:
- Charlie hails from a species of really tiny people, his parachute being big enough to hold him.
- Charlie couldn't find any parachute his size at the store, and the 4-foot one was the closest available.
- Charlie wants to test out what size is reasonable for him.
- It's an Improvised Parachute made with what little material Charlie had at the time.
- Charlie is on a planet, dwarf planet, or other object with really weak gravity.
- Inverted: Charlie's parachute is a whopping 150 feet in diameter-way bigger than needed in real life.
- Subverted:
- It may look small, but Charlie's parachute is much bigger underneath the cloth.
- That's just the pilot chute. note
- Double Subverted: But that's just excess material that was never cut off.
- Parodied: ???
- Zigzagged: The size of the parachute varies depending on its appearance.
- Averted:
- Charlie uses a parachute of a reasonable size.
- Charlie doesn't use a parachute.
- Enforced: The creators want to make the parachute and the wearer visible to the audience in their full form.
- Lampshaded: "You sure this parachute is big enough?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The Big Bad takes advantage of this and tricks Charlie into skydiving, giving him a parachute too small for him so he won't stop the Evil Plan.
- Defied: Charlie does his research and decides to buy a parachute that's big enough for him.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Charlie opens up his 4-foot parachute, but it turns out to have no effect on his descent, and at the end he dies or gets seriously injured.
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: ???
- Played for Horror: ???
