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** Due to a [[NoodleIncident magical accident involving]] [[NoodleImplements a small squid and a book of elves in bikinis]], Bob has ink for blood and writes with it when dying.

** Bob writes a word in tomato sauce.

* '''Inverted''': Due to a [[NoodleIncident magical accident involving]] [[NoodleImplements a small squid and a book of elves in bikinis]], Bob has ink for blood and writes with it when dying.
* '''Subverted''': The blood turns out to be ink from Bob's red pen.

** Bob's message is written in an unpleasant bodily secretion, like snot!

* '''Lampshaded''': "Yes, I am writing this in blood."

* '''Defied''': Bob is badly wounded, but he takes the time to find a conventional pen and paper.

* '''Straight''': Alice finds Bob's dying words scrawled on the wall in blood.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob writes a word in tomato sauce.

* '''Played for Laughs''': Instead of [[BloodierAndGorier blood]] like the majority of the examples, the medium is something LighterAndSofter that seems rather silly.\\
** And it's also funnier if, like the "Parodied" example above, the failure to use a pen makes the character seem rather inefficient and unprofessional. Like a college student who hands in his graduate thesis, written in crayon. Or a newspaper columnist who hands a column in to her boss, written in eyeliner.

And it's also funnier if, like the "Parodied" example above, the failure to use a pen makes the character seem rather inefficient and unprofessional. Like a college student who hands in his graduate thesis, written in crayon. Or a newspaper columnist who hands a column in to her boss, written in eyeliner.

* '''Justified''': Bob had crucial information to share and no other method at hand of preserving it.

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* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Inverted''': Due to a magical accident [[NoodleIncident involving a small squid and a book of elves in bikinis]] Bob has ink for blood and writes with it when dying.

* '''Enforced''': "We need to up the shock value of Bob's death".
* '''Lampshaded''': "Yes, I am writing this in blood".

* '''Discussed''': "...and on the wall by his corpse, there was a message written in blood".
* '''Conversed''': "If more characters carried pens in their shirt pockets, this sort of thing wouldn't happen".

* '''Downplayed''': ???

** Bob's message is written in an unpleasant bodily secretion.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob died of blood loss before he could finish writing the message.
* '''Reconstructed''': But it still gets the point across.

* '''Enforced''': "We need to up the shock value of Bob's death."
* '''Lampshaded''': "Yes, I am writing this in blood."

* '''Discussed''': "...and on the wall by his corpse, there was a message written in blood."
* '''Conversed''': "If more characters carried pens in their shirt pockets, this sort of thing wouldn't happen."
* '''Played for Laughs''': Instead of [[BloodierAndGorier blood]] like the majority of the examples, the medium is something LighterAndSofter that seems rather silly. And it's also funnier if, like the "Parodied" example above, the failure to use a pen makes the character seem rather inefficient and unprofessional. Like a college student who hands in his graduate thesis, written in crayon. Or a newspaper columnist who hands a column in to her boss, written in eyeliner.

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* '''Parodied''': Bob's bloody message is something as inconsequential as his shopping list. And there was a pen right next to him.
**Bob's message is written in an unpleasant bodily secretion.

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