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Gravity Is a Harsh Seamstress
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A character falling, usually between two skyscrapers in a city, hits a clothesline on the way down and ends up wearing something from the line. If the buildings are tall enough, they can hit several lines, acquiring one item from each, resulting in a hilariously mismatched costume by the time they land. Alternatively, they can get a full outfit off a single line. These can be combined, too, resulting in a gag where the character ends up with several impromptu changes of clothes before the sudden stop at the end. In theory, this is possible in real life, but you'd have to fall perfectly in line with the clothing, somehow pull the clothing off the line along with you without tearing it, and still have enough time to fit your arms through the holes of your shirt before you land. Contrast Clothesline Stealing (a character in need of clothing steals from a clothesline). Compare To The Bat Pole (when accessing the headquarters requires a secret entrance from which they exit fully in costume) and Human Snowball (tumbling down a snowy hill always results in characters trapped in a giant snowball). Might result in a Coincidental Accidental Disguise (when through a series of coincidences, a character's appearance gets altered to resemble something; they get mistaken for it) or Unplanned Crossdressing (when the character gets attire from the opposite gender by accident or out of ignorance). If the victim is a heteronormative guy, then that latter situation will definitely be a Makeover Torment for him. The Trope Namer is a pun on Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress. Not to be confused with the slapstick convention of pants falling down, aka Wardrobe Malfunction. |
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Aladdin: The Series: While a possible clever reference to the movie, this trope is subverted in a crossover episode with Hercules: The Animated Series. Hercules gets tricked into flying Pegasus into Agrabah's "Alley of a Thousand Sheets", where it looks like the clothesline is going to send him flying. In spite of Phil's complaints, he manages to muscle through and break the clothesline. | |
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Let's Go Luna!: In "If a Hamster Could Fly". When Jacques holds onto the hot air balloon rope, he crashes into a clothesline and gets Goofy Print Underwear on his head. | |
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Looney Tunes: "A Hare Grows in Manhattan": As Hector falls off a building, he hits several clotheslines on the way down, ending up dressed in baby clothes and then a nightgown. "The Hep Cat": Rosebud falls through some clotheslines and ends up dressed in a baby bonnet, booties, and a diaper. |
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Darkwing Duck: The title character has had trouble with this a few times, most notably when he was under a bad luck curse. | |
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Trigun: Vash has this happen to him. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: In a more intentional version, Calvin fantasizes about a machine that would ready him for bed. To get him into his pajamas, it drops him head-first into his shirt, then flips him so he falls legs-first into his pants, all in one fluid arrangement. He apparently doesn't think about that last part too hard... | |
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Ralph Breaks the Internet: Invoked by the Disney Princesses, who save the falling Ralph by slowing him down with frozen water and catching him into a dress, which is then parachuted away to safety. Toon Physics is in full force. | |
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"A Hare Grows in Manhattan": As Hector falls off a building, he hits several clotheslines on the way down, ending up dressed in baby clothes and then a nightgown. | |
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Earth X: Inverted. When Daredevil drops into the Realm of the Dead, he leaves his judge's cassock on a clothesline and lands in his old yellow-and-red costume. | |
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American Dragon: Jake Long: The opening has this happening to Jake in dragon form, resulting in him in women's sleepwear. | |
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Not Brand Echh: This is how Forbush-Man gets his costume. That's why it's a mismatched mix of untied combat boots, long johns pajamas, and tablecloth cape. | |
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The Adventures of Tintin (2011): During the motorcycle scene, Captain Haddock collides with a clothesline and spends the rest of the chase wearing a pink dress. The icing is that he gently lifts the skirt to keep running after Sakharine's falcon. | |
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Rocky and Bullwinkle: In one of the episode intros, Rocky and Bullwinkle are in the air. Rocky glides to the ground while Bullwinkle falls, ending up bouncing and trapped in a suit of men's long johns hanging from a clothesline. | |
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An American Tail: After being hurled out a window by a frightened woman, Fievel falls through a sock hanging on a clothesline that had a hole at the end, and then grabs onto a hanging head scarf, using it to parachute the rest of the way down. | |
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The Thief and the Cobbler: This happens to the Thief after launching himself with a javelin (and missing his target) he falls onto various clotheslines donning, among other things, some cartoonish undergarments and three pairs of shirts. | |
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Aladdin: Aladdin slides down a single clothesline to escape the city guards. He ends up wearing an anachronistic bra. | |
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Numb Chucks: In "Fan Boy", Dilweed gets flung through the air and crashes through a clothesline. He emerges with a towel tied around his neck like a superhero. | |
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"The Hep Cat": Rosebud falls through some clotheslines and ends up dressed in a baby bonnet, booties, and a diaper. | |
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Captain Klutz: Ringo Fonebone acquired his costume this way (along with amnesia). His mask is actually a very tasteless hat. | |
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The Rescuers Down Under: When Wilbur is coming in for a landing, Jake rigs up a bra as a dragline. Of course, Wilbur ends up wearing the bra. | |
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