Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence: Difference between revisions

Compare [[Solve the Soup Cans]], [[Border Patrol]]. Contrast [[Cutting the Knot]], [[Absurdly Ineffective Barricade]]. See also [[Broken Bridge]], [[Dronejam]]. Not to be confused with the [[Naruto the Abridged Series|one-foot-tall brick wall]].

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* Most [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]] will make use of this, applied to NPCs. Just [[Shoplift and Die|threw a rock at a merchant]] and are now fleeing the entire, bizarrely powerful legion of town guards? Simply cross the magical loading-screen border between the ''Town of Generica'' and the ''Generican Prarie'' immediately bordering it on the right, and not only will you lose every last pursuer; they'll cease to exist in your reality.

* ''[[Star Trek Online]]'' has one prominent example. On the Starfleet Academy map you are not able to access the waterfront which is only seperated by literal waist-height fence. Under normal circumstances your character would even be able to jump over it. However, when the area was first released there was a bug that transported you on the other side of the fence and let you explore the area beyond it - including the Golden Gate Bridge and the normally inaccessible shuttlebay atop one of the Academy's buildings.

 

 

* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zJv0gssH2s this example], a little dog is seemingly not able to escape a cage made out of empty Pepsi cans.

** Similarly, horses and other large animals are sometimes kept in non-electric, unbarbed fence enclosures; they could knock down a fence section without even trying...so, naturally, they only ever break fences by mistake, because ''trying'' to knock a fence down doesn't occur to them.

 

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* In the film version of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'', when Ford closes a knee high gate on the Vogons, they wail they have to go the other way. This is due to the fact the Vogons are ''extremely'' [[Lawful Stupid]].

** Note that he locks the gate by ''reaching over to their side and locking it.''

 

 

* ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'' [[Lampshades]] this, as pointed out by Comic Book Guy as a Video Game Cliche.

* Lampshaded in the [[Everything's Deader with Zombies|Vietnam With Zombies]] ''[[Half Life]]'' mod Heart of Evil: our hero [[Running Gag|"sadly lacks the intelligence to operate" any vehicle he comes across,]] and Barney needs to be escorted to the vehicle to operate it. At one point, our hero tries to unlock a door, but it refuses to budge. Our hero "lacks the strength to open the door." Barney pounds it once with his fist, and it swings open.

 

 

* [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0266.html Parodied] in ''[[Adventurers!]]''.

** Another one from the same comic features [http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0047.html a chair].

* ''[[The Way of the Metagamer]]'' parodies this [http://wayofthemetagamer.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/33451 here], although it's technically a justified example.

 

 

* According to ''[[Kickassia]]'', Molassia is surrounded by impenetrable chest-high fence. Even Angry Joe's patented method of [[More Dakka|shooting it a whole bunch with his MP5s]] can't defeat the fence.

* Referenced in [[The Best Page in The Universe|Maddox's]] [http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=signs review of] ''[[Signs]]'':

{{quote|''"I have hind legs powerful enough to jump up 10 feet onto roof tops, the technology to conquer the non-trivial challenge of intergalactic space travel, but I'll be DAMNED if I can kick down this wooden door."''}}

 

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