Double
Glass
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- Nick Knight (pilot for later series Forever Knight) double subverts the old pane-of-glass trope: A runaway car, barreling down the hill.
Source: Double Subversion - If the car misses the pane of glass but a second car breaks it instead, it's a double subversion.
Source: Subverted Trope - If the pane of glass is broken before being hit by the car, which then drives through a different pane of glass carried by a second pair of workers, it's also double subverted.
Source: Subverted Trope
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Glass and Double. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/double/glass
Double & Glass. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/double/glass>.
Glass or Double. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/double/glass.
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