Vertical Kidnapping/Playing With

Basic Trope: Monster or assassin clinging to the ceiling scoops up victim while still hanging there.
 * Straight: Carmine is walking through a dark hallway, searching for a monster... unaware that it's right above her. As she passes underneath, it reaches down and pulls her up.
 * Exaggerated: The monster kidnaps Carmine from the top of the skyscraper she's walking by.
 * Justified: The beast has Super Strength.
 * And really, how many of us make a habit of looking up?
 * Anyone who's read this trope.
 * Inverted: Carmine gets the literal drop on the creature, leaping down on top of it in an ambush.
 * Alternatively, Carmine is dragged off from below.
 * Subverted: Carmine doesn't notice that that the monster is right above her until it reaches down. However she reacts fast enough to shoot it.
 * Double Subverted: Unfortunately for her it's Immune to Bullets.
 * Parodied: The monster tries to snatch up Carmine, but she proves a little too heavy and it loses its grip instead, resulting in both going down in a tangle of limbs.
 * Deconstructed: The monster snatches Carmine by the head, but her body stays.
 * Reconstructed: Carmine shoots the monster before it can render her fully defenseless. She has a few bruises from the fall, but at least she knows never to wear a baseball cap to an infestation, no matter how much the light stings her eyes.
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: The monster never clings to the ceiling, or its intended victims always look up in time to evade it.
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: "How is that thing staying up there?"
 * Invoked: Survivors find a mysteriously intact room, they roll in an explosive decoy, the ceiling creature's meal blows up, killing many and dropping the rest for the survivors to bullet sweep. The first comment: "Just like fishing."
 * Defied: While searching for the monster, the ceiling is the first place Carmine looks.
 * Carmine is Properly Paranoid and wears a necklace and cowl with sharp spikes on it. She also keeps a handgun trained on the space directly above her, just in case.
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???
 * Played For Laughs: ???
 * Played For Drama: ???

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