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* DeadlyHazing: Hazing results in death.
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* BloodyHallucinationsOfGuilt: Guilt over another's death has a character seeing blood where there isn't any.
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* WeddingDeathJuxtaposition: The happiness of a wedding in close narrative proximity to the sadness of a death.
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* PokingDeadThingsWithAStick: Finding a dead body or creature and poking it with a stick.
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* KillSteal: Killing something just when somebody else was going to do the same.
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* DiedOnTheirBirthday: A character dies on their own birthday.
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* MurderousMask: A mask that kills the wearer.
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* TerminallyIllCriminal: A character commits a serious crime after learning they have a fatal disease.
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* ResurrectedMurderer: Somebody who caused deaths doesn't stay dead.
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* PrisonersLastMeal: The last meal a prisoner on DeathRow eats before their execution.
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* NotTheIllnessThatKilledThem: A terminally ill person dies from something else.
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* SinisterDeerSkull: A creepy looking deer skull is a great indicator of malevolence.
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* HelplessKicking: Someone kicking their legs as they're being EatenAlive killed or carried off to their doom.
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* FuneralCut: The scene cuts to a funeral or something tied to one in order to set the gravity or what's happened or to make a BlackComedy gag.

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* HappilyFailedSuicide: A failed attempt to commit suicide causes the character to rekindle their will to live.



* SuicideByPills: A character intentionally overdosing on medication in pill form to kill themself.

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* SuicideByPills: A character intentionally overdosing on medication in pill form to kill themself.themselves.


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* SuicideDare: Telling people to commit suicide.


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* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Talking a character out of killing themselves.
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* NecroCam: A FlashbackMontageRealization about how a character died.
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* HelplessWindowDeath: Someone dies behind a window while the protagonist can do nothing but watch.
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* FacepalmOfDoom: Grabbing someone by the face and blasting/crushing them at point-blank range.
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* BondOneLiner: A character taunts their victim after killing them.


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* PreMortemOneLiner: A character taunts their victim before killing them.
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+ GriefTropes: Tropes about mourning losses, usually of people who have died, but not necessarily.
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* ScammingTheBereaved: A type of [[TheCon con]] where the hustler sells something to a person in mourning, claiming their deceased loved one started the purchase for them but died before they could complete it.
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merged with Wire Dilemma


* WrongWire: '''KABOOM'''!
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* PainlessDeathForAPrice: Someone on death's doorstep is offered a MercyKill in exchange for something valuable.
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* FrightDeathtrap: Literally scaring the victim to death.
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* DeadlyPrank: A seemingly harmless prank goes fatally wrong.
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* HammerHilt: Killing someone with the hilt of a sword or similar bladed weapon.
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* HonorableWarriorsDeath: A warrior attempts to die in battle or by using some method considered worthy of a warrior in their culture.
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* GloriousDeath: A character has a favorite way to die.

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