Basic Trope: A character with Telekinesis or energy firing abilities uses clock-like motions
- Straight: Carrie lifts her arms to raise an object, and points at Christine to throw it at her
- Exaggerated: Carrie has to step back and lunge forward to throw an object
- Downplayed: Carrie may use a hand or just a finger, but still has to do the same basic motion.
- Careie the motions only to straighten her aim unlike most because she has Nystigmus and her shaky pupils would make her focus work poorly as a reference compared to bodily position.
- Justified: Carrie uses her hand motions as a focus, making it easier for her to use her powers, or she may need the focus to use them at all
- Inverted: Objects use clock-like motions to move people.
- Carrie a sufferer of Power Incontinence needs to keep her arms in an aligned clock like motion to minimize energy absorption. If she doesn't she will involuntarily start charging a blast.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Carrie used to work as a traffic cop until she discovered her powers in a very messy and expensive way.
- Zig-Zagged: Carrie trains to minimize focusing gestures, but still needs to use them when she's throwing an especially heavy or large object, or when a chaotic environment is distracting her
- Averted: Carrie stands perfectly still, giving Christine no hint
- Enforced: The producers insist that Carrie make motions so that it is easier for the audience to follow the action
- Lampshaded: Sue comments that Carrie's motions make it easier to track her actions.
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited:
- Christine goads Carrie into losing her cool so that she has to use motions, making attacks easier to dodge
- Carrie doesn't have to use her hand motions, but does it whenever there are witnesses so that others assume she does. When she is put into a position that she can't, she still has full use of her powers while Christine thinks she's powerless
- Defied: Carrie specifically trains so that she can remain still while throwing objects.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: Carrie makes fun of TV psychics who use exaggerated clock-like motions
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