Vertical Kidnapping/Playing With
Basic Trope: Monster or assassin clinging to the ceiling scoops up victim while still hanging there.
- Straight: Carmine is walking through a dark hallway, searching for a monster... unaware that it's right above her. As she passes underneath, it reaches down and pulls her up.
- Exaggerated: The monster kidnaps Carmine from the top of the skyscraper she's walking by.
- Justified: The beast has Super Strength.
- And really, how many of us make a habit of looking up?
- Inverted: Carmine gets the literal drop on the creature, leaping down on top of it in an ambush.
- Alternatively, Carmine is dragged off from below.
- Subverted: Carmine doesn't notice that that the monster is right above her until it reaches down. However she reacts fast enough to shoot it.
- Double Subverted: Unfortunately for her it's Immune to Bullets.
- Parodied: The monster tries to snatch up Carmine, but she proves a little too heavy and it loses its grip instead, resulting in both going down in a tangle of limbs.
- Deconstructed: The monster snatches Carmine by the head, but her body stays.
- Reconstructed: Carmine shoots the monster before it can render her fully defenseless. She has a few bruises from the fall, but at least she knows never to wear a baseball cap to an infestation, no matter how much the light stings her eyes.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: The monster never clings to the ceiling, or its intended victims always look up in time to evade it.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "How is that thing staying up there?"
- Invoked: Survivors find a mysteriously intact room, they roll in an explosive decoy, the ceiling creature's meal blows up, killing many and dropping the rest for the survivors to bullet sweep. The first comment: "Just like fishing."
- Defied: While searching for the monster, the ceiling is the first place Carmine looks.
- Carmine is Properly Paranoid and wears a necklace and cowl with sharp spikes on it. She also keeps a handgun trained on the space directly above her, just in case.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Laughs: ???
- Played For Drama: ???
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