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* '''Played Straight''': The [[MacGuffin]] is crushed by two cars, a truck, and a motorcycle. |
* '''Played Straight''': The [[MacGuffin]] is crushed by two cars, a truck, and a motorcycle. |
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* '''Exaggerated''': After the motorcycle comes a random parade, a bunch of elephants, army tanks, a large rolling rock, [[Serial Escalation|a cruise liner, a stray moon, a T-rex]]...and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|a little old lady with a cane.]] |
* '''Exaggerated''': After the motorcycle comes a random parade, a bunch of elephants, army tanks, a large rolling rock, [[Serial Escalation|a cruise liner, a stray moon, a T-rex]]...and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|a little old lady with a cane.]] |
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* '''Inverted''': The [[MacGuffin]] lands on top of a parade, [[Dropped a Bridge |
* '''Inverted''': The [[MacGuffin]] lands on top of a parade, [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|squashing everyone to death]]. |
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* '''Justified''': The [[MacGuffin]] landed in the middle of the street during a very bad time, such as a holiday parade or the arrival of the circus. |
* '''Justified''': The [[MacGuffin]] landed in the middle of the street during a very bad time, such as a holiday parade or the arrival of the circus. |
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* '''Subverted''': The [[MacGuffin]] goes through all that, but appears salvageable. |
* '''Subverted''': The [[MacGuffin]] goes through all that, but appears salvageable. |
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Latest revision as of 13:08, 9 April 2014
- Basic Trope: An item of some sort is crushed beyond any and all repair during an Overly Long Gag
- Played Straight: The MacGuffin is crushed by two cars, a truck, and a motorcycle.
- Exaggerated: After the motorcycle comes a random parade, a bunch of elephants, army tanks, a large rolling rock, a cruise liner, a stray moon, a T-rex...and a little old lady with a cane.
- Inverted: The MacGuffin lands on top of a parade, squashing everyone to death.
- Justified: The MacGuffin landed in the middle of the street during a very bad time, such as a holiday parade or the arrival of the circus.
- Subverted: The MacGuffin goes through all that, but appears salvageable.
- Double Subverted: Only to get stomped on and then kicked down an open manhole by some Jerkass.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Parodied: The MacGuffin is crushed by a bunch of little pre-school children on big wheels and tricycles.
- Lampshaded:
- Averted: Nothing runs over the MacGuffin
- Enforced: "Let's put in an Overly Long Gag!"
- Invoked: The MacGuffin lands in the street during a parade
- Defied: A random person in the marching band sees the MacGuffin, picks it up, and returns it to Alice before anything bad can happen to it.
- Exploited: Captain Lulz knocks the MacGuffin out of her hand so the parade will destroy it.
- Discussed: "A cruise liner? A stray moon? A dinosaur? Really?"
- Conversed: "Man, that MacGuffin is beyond toast!"
- Played For Laughs: Almost always is.
- Played For Drama:
- The MacGuffin is destroyed...now what?
- The MacGuffin in question is some kind of Living MacGuffin
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