Basic Trope: A character gets themselves in a sticky situation that they need rescuing from.
- Straight: Alice gets stuck in a hollow log.
- Exaggerated: Alice gets stuck in a hollow log, which is wedged between two boulders bound together, all of which is sinking in quicksand, all of which is locked in a giant safe.
- Downplayed: Alice gets her foot caught in a gopher hole, but with Bob’s help, is able to pull it free in a few moments.
- Justified: The log is too small for Alice to fit through.
- Inverted: The log gets stuck in Alice.
- Subverted: It only looks like Alice is stuck.
- Double Subverted: But then it turns out she really is stuck.
- Parodied:
- Alice’s friends argue about the best way to free her while Alice gets increasingly annoyed.
- Alice somehow gets stuck in a place that you wouldn't think would be possible to get stuck in in the first place, i.e. the sky.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice doesn’t get stuck at all.
- Enforced:
- Rule of Funny.
- The writers had Alice stuck in the sewer-hole as to justify why she couldn't escape from the oncoming lava on her own.
- Lampshaded:Alice: Help, I’m stuck!
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz tricks her into getting stuck for his own nefarious reasons.
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz finds Alice stuck, and after laughing in her face, goes off to commit crimes.
- Defied: Alice checks to see if the log is big enough for her to fit through.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: “You can tell when writers are running out of ideas when they decide to portray characters in the exact same place and unable to leave for a good chunk of time.”
- Played for Fanservice: Alice has Hartman Hips, and gets stuck because of them.
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