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Maximum Capacity Overload

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16 feature instances
6 referencing feature instances

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Maximum Capacity Overload	label	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload	page	MaximumCapacityOverload
Maximum Capacity Overload	comment	Someone gets inside an elevator, expecting to be the only person there. Then suddenly, dozens of people cram themselves into the tiny car, which may or may not exceed the "maximum capacity" sign displayed on the elevator. You know where this is going by now. It doesn't even have to be suddenly crammed for this trope to apply. It could even involve the elevator slowly filling up with passengers until it reaches its breaking point, one really heavy passenger that exceeds the capacity, or one extra passenger getting in a totally packed car. Either way, it's no good. This is not Truth in Television, since elevators are designed with redundant safety measures and this listed capacity is less than their breaking point. In fiction, the outcome is disastrous Elevator Failure at worst. At best, it is merely an Uncomfortable Elevator Moment of a different sort.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_14f9297e	comment	In The Far Side, we see a man on an elevator with several elephants, and he watches in horror as one more tries to get in. The max. capacity is shown as several thousand pounds.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_18acb3a5	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_18acb3a5	comment	Near the end of an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will is on an elevator when dozens more people get on. He looks at the maximum capacity sign just as his Uncle Phil gets on, and then begins to scream.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_2aa62269	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_2aa62269	comment	In The Flintstones: On The Rocks, the elevator the Flintstones and the Rubbles get on is unable to take them up, even when the elevator technician gets on the pile of rocks, forcing Fred to take the stairs.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_3f4e6a1a	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_3f4e6a1a	comment	On Gimme a Break!, Nell and several members of her overweight support group do this. The founder of the group was in his top-floor apartment contemplating suicide and the others wanted to stop him. The weight causes the elevator to get stuck, the people inside argue for a while, then try going down in the elevator, which works. Nell gets off at the lobby but the elevator then closes and goes back up, now no longer over capacity, forcing Nell to have to take the stairs.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_46518682	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_46518682	comment	Sesame Street: An elevator stops at ten floors, picking up ten passengers. The tenth, a mouse, causes the elevator to overload and explode.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_480107c4	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_480107c4	comment	This was deliberately done in one Spy vs. Spy comic, with White tricking Black into carrying several 1000-pound weights on an elevator (he thinks they are White's secret plans).
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_691be369	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: In "Blood", subliminal brainwashing is being used to turn ordinary people into murderers. One subject is in a crowded elevator and is sent messages that he's running out of air and can't breathe. He kills everyone in the elevator with his bare hands.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_84d455d4	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_84d455d4	comment	Used dramatically in The Big O as a reminder that Dorothy is a ~300lb android, not a petite 90lb girl.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_9a67b688	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_9a67b688	comment	In one episode of Case Closed, the elevator gets stuck when a group of characters gets in. Later, Conan gets an "Eureka!" Moment when he remembers that he is now a kid, and thus too light for the elevator to go over capacity. There is a dead body on the roof of the elevator.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_a660fd96	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_a660fd96	comment	Alluded to in Avengers: Endgame when the Hulk is refused access to the tower elevator after the battle of New York. "HULK HATE STAIRS!"
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_a796bde8	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_a796bde8	comment	Played for suspense in Metal Gear Solid, when Snake gets into an empty elevator and gets a weight warning. Otacon contacts you, saying that he meant to get one of the stealth camo prototypes he was working on for you, but they were all missing. Cue Elevator Action Sequence.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_c9777ec1	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_c9777ec1	comment	The Night Gallery short "Room For One Less" has a towering Thing boarding an already crowded elevator, whereupon one of the human occupants casually points out the Maximum Capacity sign. The Thing solves the problem by zapping the guy into non-existence.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_dd4235a8	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_dd4235a8	comment	Hancock's Half Hour: In "The Lift", Hancock is the ninth passenger in a lift designed to carry eight. When the lift sticks between floors and stays there all night, his attempts to cheer everybody up are not appreciated.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_e67a7d6c	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_e67a7d6c	comment	In the library arc of Negima! Magister Negi Magi, the girls and Negi are running from what they think is a killer golem and find an elevator, only to find that their combined weight is above the capacity limit. This being a fanservice-heavy series, the girls start stripping to reduce weight.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_f5dc7ca	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_f5dc7ca	comment	In Fantastic Four (2005), one of the indignities Ben Grimm experiences after his transformation is having to take the stairs because he's too heavy for the elevator.
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Maximum Capacity Overload / int_ff7b68ba	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Maximum Capacity Overload / int_ff7b68ba	comment	An episode of Night Court had the elevator fail with only four people on board: Dan, Roz, ... and two sumo wrestlers.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Maximum Capacity Overload	processingCategory2	Elevator Tropes
Spy vs. Spy (Comic Strip) / int_e4582d4f	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
The Far Side (Comic Strip) / int_e4582d4f	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Hancock's Half Hour (Radio) / int_e4582d4f	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Gimme a Break! / int_e4582d4f	type	Maximum Capacity Overload
Night Gallery / int_e4582d4f	type	Maximum Capacity Overload

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