Efficient Displacement/Playing With

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    Basic Trope: Someone bursts through a wall, leaving behind a perfect silhouette of themselves.

    • Straight: Alice Aardvark runs through a wall and leaves a hole shaped like a perfect outline of herself, ears and all.
    • Exaggerated: ???
    • Downplayed: The hole shows two arms, two legs and a head, but no fine detail.
    • Justified: Alice can teleport to any destination she can see, displacing any matter occupying the space she materialises into. If she wants to go through a wall, she teleports into the wall and then out of the resulting hole, thus leaving a perfect three-dimensional imprint of her body behind.
    • Inverted: Alice slams into the wall, hard, and it stops her dead. Cracks spread across its surface, and the entire wall falls down... except for the perfectly Alice-shaped part she remains pressed up against. Which, a few seconds later, falls backwards on top of her.
    • Subverted: ???
    • Double Subverted: ???
    • Parodied: A forensics team manages to pull a usable fingerprint from the hole in the wall.
    • Deconstructed: ???
    • Reconstructed: ???
    • Zig Zagged: ???
    • Averted: Alice leaves an irregularly shaped hole in the wall.
    • Enforced: ???
    • Lampshaded: "How come her ears left an impression?"
    • Invoked: Alice has a hole cut into her wall the exact shape of her body and papered over, just in case she ever needs to make a quick exit (and leave a Sight Gag behind her).
    • Exploited: ???
    • Defied: ???
    • Discussed: ???
    • Conversed: ???
    • Played For Laughs: ???
    • Played For Drama: ???

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