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!!! '''DeusAngstMachina vs. KarmicOverkill'''
* The character's suffering is disproportionate to...
** DeusAngstMachina: The audience's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief.
** KarmicOverkill: The stuff they did to 'earn' it.



** NukeEm: Used frequently, recklesly and exclusively to almost anything else.

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** NukeEm: Used frequently, recklesly recklessly and exclusively to almost anything else.
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!!!DemBones vs SkeletonCrew:

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!!!DemBones !!!'''DemBones vs SkeletonCrew:SkeletonCrew''':



** DemBones: Animated and trying to kill you.
** SkeletonCrew: Non-animated and the crew of a GhostShip.

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** DemBones: Animated animated and trying to kill you.
** SkeletonCrew: Non-animated non-animated and the bones of the crew of a GhostShip.
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!!!DemBones vs SkeletonCrew:
* Skeletons that are:
** DemBones: Animated and trying to kill you.
** SkeletonCrew: Non-animated and the crew of a GhostShip.
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!!! '''FakeHigh vs. MistakenForJunkie vs. PlayingDrunk''':
* A character isn't actually drunk or high, but...
** FakeHigh: ...they think they are.
** MistakenForJunkie: ...someone else thinks they are (or thinks they're a habitual drug user).
** PlayingDrunk: ...they're pretending to be.
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!!! '''ExcrementStatement vs. PuttingThePeeInPool vs. UrineTrouble'''
* Someone relieves themselves in the wrong place:
** ExcrementStatement: To make a point.
** PuttingThePeeInPool: And said wrong place is a pool.
** UrineTrouble: Because they're an animal, and specifically they urinate.

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!!! '''DiseaseByAnyOtherName vs. TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed'''
* A disease isn't specified because...
** DiseaseByAnyOtherName: ...the characters don't know what's wrong.
** TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: ...the writer doesn't want to say what's wrong.



* NeverSayDie: No one really dies.

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* NeverSayDie: No one really dies.
Someone does die, but the writer doesn't want to say it directly.
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* TroubleEntendre: Superficially-normal conversation that carries a thinly-veiled threat to the hearer.

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* TroubleEntendre: Superficially-normal conversation that carries a thinly-veiled threat to the hearer.threat.
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!!! DeadlyEuphemism vs. ImpliedDeathThreat vs. ShameIfSomethingHappened vs. TroubleEntendre'''

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!!! DeadlyEuphemism '''DeadlyEuphemism vs. ImpliedDeathThreat vs. ShameIfSomethingHappened vs. TroubleEntendre'''



* TroubleEntendre: Superficially-normal conversation that carries a thinly-veiled threat.

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* TroubleEntendre: Superficially-normal conversation that carries a thinly-veiled threat.threat to the hearer.

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** TalkingToTheDead: ... I talk to him, even if he's not there to listen.

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** TalkingToTheDead: ... I talk to him, even if he's not there to listen.
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!!! DeadlyEuphemism vs. ImpliedDeathThreat vs. ShameIfSomethingHappened vs. TroubleEntendre'''
* DeadlyEuphemism: Referring to someone's impending death, but swapping out the words that explicitly say so.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Comments about unfortunate future possibilities as a thinly-veiled threat.
* TroubleEntendre: Superficially-normal conversation that carries a thinly-veiled threat.
** ImpliedDeathThreat: ...Particularly, fatal ones.

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