Basic Trope: After an object is launched and disappears, a twinkle can be seen.
- Straight: After Alice fires a cannonball and it disappears, it gives off a twinkle.
- Exaggerated: The cannonball gives off a twinkle that fills the entire sky.
- Downplayed: Not much can be seen after the cannonball disappears, but it appears to give off a brief, dim light.
- Justified: The star was the result of the cannonball exploding just after leaving view.
- Inverted: The cannonball is being launched towards Earth and gives off a twinkle immediately before it becomes visible.
- Subverted: The cannonball appears to twinkle, but the light is actually from an aircraft.
- Double Subverted: Which was also launched into the air.
- Parodied: Alice is fired out of a cannon and becomes an entire constellation.
- Averted: The cannonball simply disappears without any twinkle.
- Enforced: The executives decide that they need to make the fact that the cannonball has left Earth obvious.
- Lampshaded: "Why do things always twinkle when they disappear? It doesn't make sense."
- Invoked: Alice uses a cannonball that gives off light a short while after it is fired, once it is no longer visible to the naked eye.
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz uses this to track all of Alice's cannonball shots.
- Deconstructed: Using these cannonballs proves less effective, as the enemy can easily see them as they are falling.
- Bob is launched away in this manner. Unsurprisingly, this destroys him to the point that there aren't even ashes left.
- Reconstructed: They are aimed at a stationary target, such as Emperor Evulz's castle. It doesn't matter whether he knows that where the cannonball will land; his castle will be hit regardless.
- Played For Laughs: Some tribes who use the stars to navigate mistake the cannonball for a star, and start following it.
- Played For Drama: Alice is fired out of a cannon. The twinkle is because she is burning in the atmosphere.
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