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* '''Downplayed''': Bob falls onto a soft pillow instead of a slightly softer pillow.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob falls onto a soft pillow Alice instead of a slightly softer pillow.pillow, so he's still fine, but it's very uncomfortable for them both.



* '''Averted''': Bob lands on a bean bag chair, instead of the floor.
* '''Subverted''': Bob lands on a bean bag chair, instead of the floor and [[AsideGlance looks at the camera confused]] that he managed to land on the beanbag chair (extra points if there's a forced laugh track).

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** One of Bob's eyes is injured or out of commission at the time, causing him to misjudge his angle.
* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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Bob lands on a bean bag chair, instead of the floor.
chair.
** Bob lands aay from the
* '''Subverted''': Bob lands on After several minutes of cutting between Bob's falling body and the ground, a gust of wind blows the bean bag chair, instead of the floor and [[AsideGlance looks at the camera confused]] that he managed in time to land on the beanbag chair (extra points if there's a forced laugh track).catch him.



* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob falls on a bean bag chair, but still hits the ground and dies because bean bags don't have the capacity to withstand from a fall from great heights.

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* '''Lampshaded''': ???
"You know, it seems like the more I try to land on something, the less I actually hit it."
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob falls on a bean bag chair, but still hits the ground and dies because bean bags don't have the capacity to withstand from a fall from great heights.heights. <this is a deconstruction of the aversion not of the actual trope>



* '''Discussed''': "Don't be scared, I'll catch you" said the known to be sly Alice in a cheeky tone of voice. "Well, usually in an animated slapstick American cartoon, when the previously sly character says that in a cheeky tone, they don't catch you" replied Bob.

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* '''Discussed''': "Don't be scared, I'll catch you" said the known to be sly known-to-be-sly Alice in a cheeky tone of voice. "Well, usually in an animated slapstick American cartoon, when the previously sly character says that in a cheeky tone, they don't catch you" replied Bob.
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* '''Justified''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???Human ballistics is a tricky subject.
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* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob lands on the bean bag chair, and the beanbag chair [[ToonPhysics flings him back up]] like a trampoline onto the floor. Which sends him crashing through the floor, bringing him to a metaphysical realm of pillows, [[IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime but]] the metaphysical dimension keeper gets sued and needs to take all the bean bags with him. [[OverlyLongGag And then]] Bob becomes a pillow, [[YouTalkTooMuch but]] pillows can't sit on pillows so pillow-Bob is sad. He cries so much that all the pillow is sucked out him and he can sit on if pillow... [[DiggingYourselfDeeper IF]] he wanted a pillow, but he doesn't, so he goes on an epic quest to... [[TalkToTheFist *PUNCH*]]

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* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob lands on the bean bag chair, and the beanbag chair [[ToonPhysics flings him back up]] like a trampoline onto the floor. Which sends him crashing through the floor, bringing him to a metaphysical realm of pillows, [[IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime but]] the metaphysical dimension keeper gets sued and needs to take all the bean bags with him. [[OverlyLongGag And then]] Bob becomes a pillow, [[YouTalkTooMuch but]] pillows can't sit on pillows so pillow-Bob is sad. He cries so much that all the pillow is sucked out him and he can sit on if pillow...it... [[DiggingYourselfDeeper IF]] he wanted a pillow, but he doesn't, so he goes on an epic quest to... [[TalkToTheFist *PUNCH*]]
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* '''Downplayed''': Bob falls onto a soft pillow instead of a slightly softer pillow.



* '''Downplayed''': Bob falls onto a soft pillow instead of a slightly softer pillow.
* '''Justified''': ???
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'''Basic Trope''': Character tries to break their or someone else's fall on something soft, but misses it by that much.
* '''Straight''': Bob lands on his face on the floor, just missing the bean bag chair next to him.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is about to fall into heaven, but he's one Planck off and consequently is swallowed by a Kaiju with swords for insides and falls into a black hole and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath dies a slow horrible death]].
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': Bob falls onto a soft pillow instead of a slightly softer pillow.
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Averted''': Bob lands on a bean bag chair, instead of the floor.
* '''Subverted''': Bob lands on a bean bag chair, instead of the floor and [[AsideGlance looks at the camera confused]] that he managed to land on the beanbag chair (extra points if there's a forced laugh track).
* '''Double Subversion''': Bob lands on the bean bag chair, and the beanbag chair [[ToonPhysics flings him back up]] like a trampoline onto the floor.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob lands on the bean bag chair, and the beanbag chair [[ToonPhysics flings him back up]] like a trampoline onto the floor. Which sends him crashing through the floor, bringing him to a metaphysical realm of pillows, [[IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime but]] the metaphysical dimension keeper gets sued and needs to take all the bean bags with him. [[OverlyLongGag And then]] Bob becomes a pillow, [[YouTalkTooMuch but]] pillows can't sit on pillows so pillow-Bob is sad. He cries so much that all the pillow is sucked out him and he can sit on if pillow... [[DiggingYourselfDeeper IF]] he wanted a pillow, but he doesn't, so he goes on an epic quest to... [[TalkToTheFist *PUNCH*]]
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob falls on a bean bag chair, but still hits the ground and dies because bean bags don't have the capacity to withstand from a fall from great heights.
* '''Backfired''': Bob falls and bounces right back up.
* '''Discussed''': "Don't be scared, I'll catch you" said the known to be sly Alice in a cheeky tone of voice. "Well, usually in an animated slapstick American cartoon, when the previously sly character says that in a cheeky tone, they don't catch you" replied Bob.

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