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Wallbanger

Head On! Apply directly to the forehead!


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"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.

It should be thrown with great force."
—Dorothy Parker on either Benito Mussolini's The Cardinal's Mistress or Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
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Something went wrong.

The writer asked for too much Willing Suspension of Disbelief. A character is carrying an Idiot Ball, or has suddenly become Too Dumb to Live. The series pulled out Green Rocks once too often, shilled the Creator's Pet one too many times, used a few too many Hand Waves, or unleashed a Retcon that made everyone's eyes roll out of their head. The Fourth Wall has been unintentionally and brutally broken, throwing the viewer's mind into utter chaos. Sometimes it is a force too powerful to be contained, even by willing suspension of disbelief or the MST3K Mantra. However it happened, the audience has been dealt a Wall Banger.

The origin of the term is attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, who described a script as having made a "Hell of a bang, when I threw it against the wall."

Compare and contrast with Narm. Head Desk is the (objective) trope for when a character slams his head against a wall. Awesome Moments are the polar opposite of this.

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Due to the size of the original page getting too far out of hand, the entries have been separated into their own categories by medium.


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