Tanks for Nothing/Playing With

Basic Trope: Tanks are useless.

• Straight: Tanks are sent in to dispatch a giant monster. They do no noticeable damage and are destroyed afterwards by the giant monster.
• Exaggerated: Tanks are sent in to dispatch a common thief armed only with a pistol. The thief blows them all up effortlessly using his pistol before the tanks can fire a shot or run him over.
• Justified: The opposition is just that strong.
  • The tanks have poor performance due to hasty deployment, inherent flaws, mechanical failures, etc.
• Inverted: Tank Goodness.
• Subverted: Tanks are sent in to dispatch a giant monster, and their shots seem to cause the monster to bleed...
• Double Subverted: ...but it turns out that the monster is actually turning red and is physically unharmed, simply enraged by the tank shots. The monster then lets loose a gigantic fireball that completely melts the entire tank division.
• Parodied: ?
• Deconstructed: Due to how useless tanks are, military commanders either stop using them or try to improve their performance to actually become useful.
• Reconstructed: ?
• Zig Zagged: Tanks are sent in to dispatch a giant monster, and while they kill the monster, an even bigger monster appears and destroys those tanks without a hitch. More tanks are sent in, and they finally kill the bigger monster. But then they face another monster from outer space that destroys those tank reinforcements with ease.
• Averted: No tanks appear.
  • Tanks are useful as they should be.
• Enforced: "Tanks are vastly overrated, so let's show how useless they can be!"
• Lampshaded: "The tanks should have killed the monster, right?"
• Invoked: The monsters wear metal armor under their skins to absorb the tank shots.
• Defied: "Let's use the tanks with the most powerful cannons on that monster."
• Discussed: ?
• Conversed: ?

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Go back to Tanks for Nothing. Just don't use a tank, okay?