Hoist Hero Over Head/Playing With

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    Basic Trope: Someone (usually a Villain) lifts someone else (usually a stunned or unconscious hero over his head.

    • Straight: Major Mayhem grabs Zack and lifts him over his head in a threatening display of strength.
    • Exaggerated: Major Mayhem lifts Zack with one hand.
    • Justified: Major Mayhem most likely has Super Strength, or maybe Zack is just a lightweight Kid Hero.
    • Inverted: Zack lifts Major Mayhem above his head.
    • Subverted: Mayhem has Zack cornered and wounded in front of a ledge on a high building. Despite this being an ideal time to show off his strength and finish off Zack, he doesn't..
    • Double Subverted:..Until Zack throws a punch, which Mayhem catches and pulls him in to an overhead lift.
    • Parodied: At first, we see Zack desperately struggling in someone's grasp who has lifted him over their head. Then the camera zooms out to show that his pissed-off girlfriend is the one doing the lifting.
    • Deconstructed: Zack is easily able to strike at Mayhem while he's being lifted.
    • Reconstructed: Which is why Mayhem makes a point of knocking him out before picking him up.
    • Zig Zagged: ???
    • Averted: ???
    • Enforced: ???
    • Lampshaded: ???
    • Invoked: ???
    • Defied: ???
    • Discussed: ???
    • Conversed: ???

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