Percussive Maintenance/Playing With

Basic Trope: You can easily fix things by hitting them.

• Straight: Bob's computer is on the fritz. He hits it, and it starts working.
• Exaggerated:
  • He also repairs his car, his bike, and his watch the same way.
  • Bob punches his computer so hard that it smashes against a wall located several feet away. After that, the machine starts working at 400% of its maximum efficiency!
• Downplayed: Bob's computer is on the fritz. He hits it, and while it doesn't fix it, it makes it to where Bob can retrieve his files.
• Justified: Bob is a technopath.
• Inverted: Bob's computer doesn't miraculously start up after he hits it, but his carpel tunnel goes away.
• Subverted: Bob hits his malfunctioning computer. It gets worse.
• Double Subverted: But a second hit fixes everything.
• Parodied:
  • Bob's doctor hits him, and his cold goes away.
  • Right before Bob hits his computer, the electronic device starts talking and begging him for mercy.

Please! Don't hit me again! I'll be good, I promise!

• • OR: Right before Bob hits his computer, the computer grows a pair of fists and punches him in the face.

How do you like that, bitch?!

• Zig Zagged: Every subsequent whack fixes a previous problem, but creates a new one that needs to be fixed.
• Averted: Hitting machines doesn't fix them.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: "And all it took was a good whack? Really?"
• Invoked: "You could try whacking it. That might get it started again."
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: "You really think whacking it is going to make it work?"
• Discussed: "Have you you ever tried whacking that thing to get get it working?"
• Conversed: "Hey, I tried whacking that thing the other day and it started working."

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