Absurd Altitude/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character has ascended to a height far above where any normal person would go.

• Straight: Alice is flung into the air and goes into Earth's orbit. she can see the planet Earth as a globe. She can see the clouds and an artificial satellite is flying along beside her.
• Exaggerated: Alice is flung into space, so that the Earth is just a tiny speck along with the sun and all the other planets. She can almost touch Pluto.
• Justified: Alice is in a space craft.
• Inverted: Alice is so deep below the Earth's surface, she is in the core.
• Subverted: Alice looks below her to see Earth from a distance. She can see all the continents from where she is. But it turns out, it's just the carpeting.
• Double Subverted: She then walks towards the window and looks out to see the actual planet Earth as a speck in the distance.
• Parodied:
• Deconstructed:
  • Alice is flung into space, where she dies of suffocation.
  • Or she falls back into the atmosphere and is incinerated in reentry.
• Reconstructed: ???
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Alice is never more than a foot off the ground.
• Enforced: "We need a scene where Alice can see the earth from space as she dies."
• Lampshaded: "I can see my house from here. And Africa!"
• Invoked: Alice blasts herself into space from a cannon just for the view.
• Defied: Alice anchors herself to the ground.
• Discussed: "The view of the Earth was lovely from outer space, but I'm never doing that again."
• Conversed: "How do the characters survive being thrown so high? Any real person would die if they were that high in the air."

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