< Stuffed Into a Locker

Stuffed Into a Locker/Playing With

Basic Trope': School bullies shove their victims into spacious lockers.

  • Straight: Bob the bully shoves Tim into his locker and shuts it.
  • Exaggerated: Bob the bully shoves Tim and several other kids into one locker, even though it's a small gym locker.
  • Downplayed: Bob the bully shoves Tim into a closet.
  • Justified: There is an in-universe reason that a human body could fit into the school's lockers.
    • The story is set in a time period when large lockers were more common.
    • The school has few enough students that there is enough room for large lockers.
    • The victim is abnormally small.
  • Inverted: Tim shoves Bob the bully into a locker.
  • Subverted: Bob tries to stick Tim in a locker, then realizes that the victim won't fit.
  • Double Subverted: He takes the victim to his gym locker, which is larger, and shoves him in there.
  • Deconstructed: Bob later gets suspended for his actions, and the school replaces the lockers with smaller models.
  • Parodied: Bob shoves Tim into a locker that, by some bizarre coincidence, is Tim-shaped.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Bullies shove their victims into dumpsters, or closets with the door barricaded shut, but lockers are too small.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: After dealing with Tim, Bob remarks, "Heh, stuffin' kids in a locker- can't beat the classics!"
  • Invoked: Tim tempts fate by pleading "please don't shove me in my locker!"
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Bob tries to shove Tim into his locker, but his locker is either too small, too stuffed with books and junk, jammed shut, or there simply aren't any lockers around.
  • Discussed: "Wow, these lockers are surprisingly spacious."
  • Conversed: ???
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