Basic Trope: A character dives into an empty swimming pool.
- Straight: Bob gets on the diving board and dives into the pool, only to find out that it's empty.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is fully aware that there's no water in the pool but for some reason jumps in anyway.
- Bob jumping into empty swimming pools is a Running Gag.
- Bob jumps into the empty swimming pool from a ridiculously high distance.
- Downplayed:
- Bob doesn't exactly dive into the pool, but does jump in expecting it to have water in it.
- There is some water in the pool, but not enough to dive effectively.
- Justified:
- Bob expected the pool to have water in it.
- Bob is The Ditz and doesn't realize there's no water in the pool.
- Bob cannot see water for whatever reason, so an empty swimming pool and a pool filled with water look the same to him.
- Inverted: Bob brings his skateboard into a pool filled with water, expecting it to be empty so that he can ride around in the pool. It isn't.
- Subverted:
- Bob is warned not to dive into the pool because there's no water in it. He does it anyway... and the pool actually does have water.
- Bob realizes in time that the pool has no water in it, and doesn't dive in.
- Double Subverted:
- But not enough.
- He changes his mind and dives in the pool later, though.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Bob doesn't dive into any swimming pool, empty or not.
- The pool is filled with water.
- Enforced: Rule of Funny
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alice tricks Bob into jumping into the empty swimming pool.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Bob fills the pool with water.
- Bob decides not to jump in the pool once he sees there's no water inside.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why couldn't Bob see there's no water in the pool?"
- Played for Laughs: Amusing Injuries
- Played for Drama:
- Bob is severely injured or killed as the result of the fall.
- Bob gets trapped in the pool and has to figure out how to escape.
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