Basic Trope: The scene interacts with its borders
- Straight: A character falls outside the frame.
- Exaggerated: Someone finds gold outside the frame, and starts a town there.
- Downplayed: The characters try and fail to break the frame.
- Inverted:
- The frame is broken from the outside.
- The frame is repaired.
- Subverted:
- One character throws another and claims they'll be thrown "to the next panel", only for the comic to pan and follow him.
- Bob seems to throw Charles into the next panel, but as Charles notes, he was actually thrown into the next door neighbors' home.
- Double Subverted: Until the character tries again and succeeds.
- Averted: The frame is never touched or interacted with.
- Parodied: The characters break frames repeatedly.
- Lampshaded: "I shouldn't be able to get here."
- Exploited:
- The characters break from one panel to another, and establish communication, or to break someone out of prison.
- Throwing someone out of the panel is a good way to get rid of them.
- Defied: The frame is Made of Indestructium
- Zig-Zagged: The characters interact with the panel borders, but they're also shown to be a room's walls in their universe.
- Conversed: "Don't you love it when they break the panels?"
- Discussed: "If all else fails, break the panel."
- Played for Laughs: Most straight examples
- Played for Horror:
- The things beyond the panel are deadly.
- The space outside the borders represents the Eldritch Location.
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