Hoist Hero Over Head/Playing With

Basic Trope: Someone (usually a Villain) lifts someone else (usually a stunned or unconscious hero over his head.
 * Straight: Major Mayhem grabs Zack and lifts him over his head in a threatening display of strength.
 * Exaggerated: Major Mayhem lifts Zack with one hand.
 * Justified: Major Mayhem most likely has Super Strength, or maybe Zack is just a lightweight Kid Hero.
 * Inverted: Zack lifts Major Mayhem above his head.
 * Subverted: Mayhem has Zack cornered and wounded in front of a ledge on a high building. Despite this being an ideal time to show off his strength and finish off Zack, he doesn't..
 * Double Subverted:..Until Zack throws a punch, which Mayhem catches and pulls him in to an overhead lift.
 * Parodied: At first, we see Zack desperately struggling in someone's grasp who has lifted him over their head. Then the camera zooms out to show that his pissed-off girlfriend is the one doing the lifting.
 * Deconstructed: Zack is easily able to strike at Mayhem while he's being lifted.
 * Reconstructed: Which is why Mayhem makes a point of knocking him out before picking him up.
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: ???
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: ???
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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