Basic Trope: Lightning strikes umbrellas.
- Straight: Alice is caught in a thunderstorm. She opens her umbrella and gets zapped.
- Exaggerated: Several lightning bolts hit Alice through her umbrella in rapid succession.
- Downplayed: The lightning bolts catch Alice's umbrella, but she's wearing rubber gloves, so she doesn't get a bad shock.
- Justified: Alice is loitering on top of a treeless hill and there's a lot of metal in her umbrella.
- Inverted:
- Alice's Parasol of Pain can shoot lightning.
- Alice's umbrella is made entirely of rubber or some other electricity-insulating material.
- Subverted: Alice is caught in a thunderstorm. She opens her umbrella and a lightning bolt misses her by inches.
- Double Subverted: The next lightning bolt doesn't miss.
- Parodied:
- Alice is using a newspaper as an Improvised Umbrella and the lightning hits her anyway.
- Alice is indoors with an umbrella over her head and the lightning hits her anyway.
- It's a clear, sunny day and Alice just happens to open her umbrella (likely to protect herself from the sun). Cue the lightning.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice runs frantically through the storm, dodging lightning bolts. Some hit her umbrella, some miss.
- Averted: Alice has her umbrella in the rain, but no lightning happens.
- Enforced: Executive Meddling wants to shoehorn in some slapstick.
- Lampshaded: "I got a shock through my umbrella."
- Invoked:
- Bob invents a Weather-Control Machine and uses it to direct lightning to strike umbrellas.
- Bob gives Alice an umbrella with lots of metal as part of a Trouble Magnet Gambit.
- From underneath her umbrella, Alice yells, "Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter"
- Exploited:
- Alice uses her umbrella as an Improvised Lightning Rod.
- Bob's Trouble Magnet Gambit works and he moves forward with his plans.
- Defied:
- Alice shuns umbrellas.
- Alice runs indoors when the first raindrops hit her.
- Alice invents a weather control machine and uses it to eliminate lightning, or at least direct it somewhere besides umbrellas.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: During a thunderstorm, Alice leaves her house with an umbrella. She comes back scorched and disgruntled, with her umbrella ruined.
- Played for Laughs: Alice gets Amusing Injuries from Harmless Electrocution.note
- Played for Drama: Surprisingly Realistic Outcome as Alice is hospitalized or killed.
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