Standing in the Hall: Difference between revisions

 

Becoming a [[Discredited Trope]], due to the times, and also due to some [[Values Dissonance]]. Not commonly used in Western schools because kids might take the opportunity to wander about the school instead of standing in one place (and some might even [[Unishment|consider it a reward, not a punishment]]).

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Ranma and Akane get sent out into the hall in the second episode of ''[[Ranma ½]]''. Kuno does too, and comes by to fight Ranma.

** Later on, Ranma, Akane, and Gosunkugi get sent out to the hall.

* ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'' features a running gag where a boy in Ana and Matsuri's class is constantly and unfairly assigned to stand in the hall at the slightest provocation, such as, well, being there. Miu tends to end up in the hall for, well, being Miu; and being Miu, unable to understand she did anything wrong.

* The first episode of ''[[Kaitou Saint Tail]]'' has Meimi and Asuka Jr. sent to the hall for fighting.

* Parodied in ''[[Puni Puni Poemi]]'', where the main character points out that no school in Japan has done this for a good ten years and [[No Fourth Wall|concludes that the writing staff must all be really really old]].

** Only ten years?

* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', Yoko does this to a couple of the students during her time as a teacher.

* Female example: in the first episode of ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'', Miaka is kicked out of her classroom for hitting the teacher with her table because he woke her up from a nightmare. The next scene, she's seen carrying her desk above her head.

** In the last volumes of the original manga ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', Negi (officially) becomes too busy with extra-school activities, so {{spoiler|his former enemy Fate}} starts to substitute him as a teacher. This substitute turns out to be a [[Stern Teacher]] (although a [[The Spock|calm and collected]] type), and in one moment he uses this trope on two students who were talking during the class.

* [[Mildly Military]] example: In ''[[Strike Witches]]'', Francesca has several instances where she's made to hold buckets of water as punishment. In some of the promotional shorts, Mio makes Yoshika hold buckets of water as punishment for forgetting Sanya, one of the main characters.

* In the first episode of ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'', Kenichi is made to stand in the hall for being late on his first day. Miu, the girl who escorted him, elects to stand in the hall along with him.

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Ed's father makes him hold a pail of water as punishment.

 

== Film ==

* Similar to the ''Simpsons'' example below, the movie ''[[Heaven Help Us]]'' has Catholic-school students who have to kneel on the floor with their arms out, balancing heavy books.

 

* ''[[Friends]]'' [[Rule of Funny|made the duck stand in the hall]]:

{{quote|'''Chandler:''' ''Now you sit there! and think about what you've done!''

 

== Video Games ==

* In the school stage of the video game ''[[Katamari Damacy|We Love Katamari]]'', a pair of students can be seen holding buckets of water in the hall.

* Lloyd in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', while not in the hall (he's in the back of the classroom in a one-room school), is holding buckets of water at the beginning of the game. In fact, the game starts with Lloyd getting an eraser thrown at his head becasue [[Good Morning, Crono|he fell asleep while doing this]]. Hilariously enough, he hadn't put the buckets down while he was asleep, either. They were still a good three inches off the ground while he was snoozing.

 

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'' does this at one point.

 

== Western Animation ==

* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has Bart being expelled from Springfield Elementary and ends up attending a Catholic private school. On his first day, a nun makes him stand in the hallway in "the crucifix position" and makes him hold dictionaries. (After he makes a snarky comment, she adds two more.)

 

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[[Category:Anime Tropes]]

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