As codified by pulp novelist Raymond Chandler, Chandler's Law is a concise but evocative piece of advice for writers who have somehow painted themselves into a corner, plotwise. The addition of a new opponent or complication, usually amidst a burst of violence, can free a protagonist from where he has become mired in the current plot. Although expressed in a form very specific to the genre in which Chandler was writing, the Law can be easily generalized to handle any type of story. Not to be confused with anything to do with Chandler Bing, nor Christian Weston Chandler.