Basic Trope: An unrealistic tornado.
- Straight: Alice is standing around flying a kite, when suddenly WILD TORNADO APPEARS! She tries to outrun it but gets sucked up instead.
- Exaggerated: The entire town of Troperville is sucked up and deposited miles away, without so much as a splinter out of place.
- Downplayed: The tornado has a visible effect while it is still quite far away, but the most it does is blow a few leaves around and clothes off lines. Nothing is actually damaged unless it touches the funnel cloud.
- Justified: The tornado was not produced by a chaotic storm, but rather by a wizard, and it is controlled.
- Inverted: Poor Alice was too slow to get inside, and she wound up being bludgeoned to death by a bridge that had been torn out of place ... before the actual funnel cloud got anywhere near her.
- Subverted:
- Although the tornado is miles away, the increased gust tears Alice's kite off its string, and Alice struggles against the wind to get to the nearest storm cellar.
- Alice gets grievously injured in defiance of her expectations.
- Double Subverted:
- When Alice is unable to get into the storm cellar, she is picked up by the tornado and deposited safely on the roof.
- She walks it off moments later.
- Parodied:
- Tornado warning sirens go off, and nobody pays any attention to them. Not even those who are working or playing outdoors.
- Alice and Bob touch the funnel cloud itself with no adverse effects whatsoever.
- Zig-Zagged: The entire town of Troperville got sucked up and plopped down miles away, without so much as a splinter out of place. However, it turns out that the town was being protected by a magic bubble. But shouldn't a tornado pop a bubble easily?
- Averted: The story does not include a tornado ... or a black hole.
- Enforced: Hollywood Science
- Lampshaded: "HOLY SHIT! RUN! IT'S A TORNADO!"
- Invoked: Alice is naïve or Too Dumb to Live and stays outside while a tornado is approaching because she wants to find out what it's like firsthand.
- Exploited: Bob, who hates Alice, incorrectly tells her that tornadoes work this way so she'll stay out with tornadoes.
- Defied: Alice gets herself indoors as soon as she hears that conditions are right for tornadoes.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Laughs:
- Inside the tornado, Alice has a Disney Acid Sequence.
- In a nod to The Wizard of Oz, the creator rides a bike in front of Alice as he/she goes by.
- Played for Drama: Alice is hurt or killed.
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