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* '''Straight''': After escaping from the ElaborateUndergroundBase, Bob is mortally wounded by pursuers while Alice escapes with the stolen {{MacGuffin}}. Charlie follows after her and when asked about Bob, sadly shakes his head: "HeDidntMakeIt..."
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* '''Straight''': After escaping from the ElaborateUndergroundBase, Bob is mortally wounded by pursuers while Alice escapes with the stolen {{MacGuffin}}. Charlie follows after her and when asked about Bob, sadly shakes his head: head and utters, "HeDidntMakeIt..."
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** Bob promised Alice "That he's gonna make it." Saying that he didn't make it was one of the worst things Charlie could have said.
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** Bob promised Alice "That that he's gonna "gonna make it." Saying it", meaning that he didn't make it was one of will survive the worst things escape.
** Alice, Bob, Charlie, and the pregnant Doris are escaping the underground prison. Doris is injured, then when Charliecould tells Alice and Bob that Doris's injuries have said.been treated, Alice asks, "What about the baby?". Charlie responds, "He made it", indicating that the baby was able to be born.
** Charlie describes Bob's death in a very graphic and/or academic way.
** Alice, Bob, Charlie, and the pregnant Doris are escaping the underground prison. Doris is injured, then when Charlie
** Charlie describes Bob's death in a very graphic and/or academic way.
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** Every character death is treated like this.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Charlie tells Alice that Bob didn't make it. She berates him for using euphemisms before bursting into tears. Then Bob contacts them telling he's alive. However, they don't make it to him before he succumbs to his wounds. Alice then proceeds to use the exact wording to explain Bob's absence to his parents. But his mother doesn't get the euphemism (or pretends not to) until her husband breaks it down:
* '''Averted''': "[[HesDeadJim He's Dead, Doris.]]"
* '''Zig Zagged''': Charlie tells Alice that Bob didn't make it. She berates him for using euphemisms before bursting into tears. Then Bob contacts them telling he's alive. However, they don't make it to him before he succumbs to his wounds. Alice then proceeds to use the exact wording to explain Bob's absence to his parents. But his mother doesn't get the euphemism (or pretends not to) until her husband breaks it down:
* '''Averted''': "[[HesDeadJim He's Dead, Doris.]]"
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** Every character death is treated like this.
has the line "[He/she] didn't make it", to the point where the other characters find it annoying.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Charlie tells Alice that Bob didn't make it. She berates him for using euphemisms before bursting into tears. Then Bob contacts them telling he's alive. However, they don't make it to him before he succumbs to his wounds. Alice then proceeds to use the exact wording to explain Bob's absence to his parents. But his mother doesn't get the euphemism (or pretends not to) until her husband [[EuphemismBuster breaks itdown:
down]].
* '''Averted''':"[[HesDeadJim He's Dead, Doris.]]"Charlie outright says that Bob is dead, or EverybodyLives.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Charlie tells Alice that Bob didn't make it. She berates him for using euphemisms before bursting into tears. Then Bob contacts them telling he's alive. However, they don't make it to him before he succumbs to his wounds. Alice then proceeds to use the exact wording to explain Bob's absence to his parents. But his mother doesn't get the euphemism (or pretends not to) until her husband [[EuphemismBuster breaks it
* '''Averted''':
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* '''Lampshaded''': "I couldn't very well say 'Your boyfriend croaked' to her, could I?"
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* '''Lampshaded''': "I couldn't very well say say, 'Your boyfriend croaked' to her, could I?"
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* '''Discussed''': "When he said Bob didn't make it, I didn't understood at first. But then it hit me..."
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* '''Discussed''': "When he said Bob didn't make it, I didn't understood understand at first. But then it hit me..."
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* '''Downplayed''': "He's gone. There's nothing we can do for him now."
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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
** "He's gone. There's nothing we can do for him now.""
** When Alice asks Charlie if Bob made it out, Charlie shakes his head with a sad face.
** "He's gone. There's nothing we can do for him now.
** When Alice asks Charlie if Bob made it out, Charlie shakes his head with a sad face.
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Bare is an adjective. Bear is a verb (and a noun). You want the verb.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Charlie said it that way because he couldn't bare to say he died any more than he felt she could bare to hear it.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Charlie said it that way because he couldn't bare bear to say he died any more than he felt she could bare bear to hear it.
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* '''Justified''': Alice was Bob's lover and Charlie wants to dampen the shock of the news upon her.
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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
** Alice was Bob's lover and Charlie wants to dampen the shock of the news uponher.her.
** Charlie is in shock and can't bring himself to say the word "died."
** Alice was Bob's lover and Charlie wants to dampen the shock of the news upon
** Charlie is in shock and can't bring himself to say the word "died."
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* '''Exploited''': ???
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* '''Exploited''': ???They're not out of danger yet, so Charlie is going to need Alice to cooperate with him. Knowledge of Bob's demise might put her into a HeroicBSOD, thus making it that much harder for Charlie to get them both out alive, so he phrases it as a euphemism to prevent her from thinking about it too much.
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The story begins with Charlie telling Alice that Bob didn't make it. The rest is a satirical GeorgeCarlin-like treatise of overuse of euphemisms in modern society.
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* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The story begins with Charlie telling Alice that Bob didn't make it. The rest is a satirical GeorgeCarlin-like Creator/GeorgeCarlin-like treatise of overuse of euphemisms in modern society.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???
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* '''Downplayed''': ???"He's gone. There's nothing we can do for him now."
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* '''Downplayed''': ???
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** Bob promised Alice "That he's gonna make it." Saying that he didn't make it was one of the worst things Charlie could have said.
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** Bob promised Alice "That he's gonna make it." Saying that he didn't make it was one of the worst things Charlie could have said.
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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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* '''Deconstructed''': After being told this, Alice angrily bursts out at Charlie to spare her the circumlocution before starting to cry.
* '''Reconstructed''': Charlie said it that way because he couldn't bare to say he died any more than he felt she could bare to hear it.
* '''Reconstructed''': Charlie said it that way because he couldn't bare to say he died any more than he felt she could bare to hear it.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': After being told this, Alice angrily bursts out at Charlie to spare her the circumlocution before starting to cry.
* '''Reconstructed''': Charlie said it that way because he couldn't bare to say he died any more than he felt she could bare to hear it.
* '''Reconstructed''': Charlie said it that way because he couldn't bare to say he died any more than he felt she could bare to hear it.
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Um, about that...y'see...the link, well...HeDidntMakeIt.
Didn't make what? The banana bread?
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Didn't make what? The banana bread?
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Didn't
-> "Didn't make what? The banana
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
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* '''Inverted''': Alice is killed before Charlie and Bob can catch up with her. "[[YouAreTooLate We didn't make it in time...]]"
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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
** Alice is killed before Charlie and Bob can catch up with her. "[[YouAreTooLate We didn't make it in time...]]"
** Alice is killed before Charlie and Bob can catch up with her. "[[YouAreTooLate We didn't make it in time...]]"
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* '''Subverted''': Charlie believes he saw Bob die and tells Alice Bob didn't make it. A few heartbreaking moments later, Bob calls them to inform that he's NotQuiteDead yet.
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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
** Charlie believes he saw Bob die and tells Alice Bob didn't make it. A few heartbreaking moments later, Bob calls them to inform that he's NotQuiteDead yet.
** Charlie believes he saw Bob die and tells Alice Bob didn't make it. A few heartbreaking moments later, Bob calls them to inform that he's NotQuiteDead yet.
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** "I didn't make it. [[IGotBetter Twenty effing times in a row!]]"
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** "I didn't make it. [[IGotBetter [[UnexplainedRecovery Twenty effing times in a row!]]"
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'''Basic Trope''': Uttered to lessen the emotional impact of one character's death upon.
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'''Basic Trope''': Uttered to lessen the emotional impact of one character's death upon.death.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Every character death is treated like this.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Every character Characters avoid talking about Bob's death is treated like this.at all, until Alice demands to know what happened; Charlie replies "He didn't..."
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* '''Parodied''': "I didn't make it. [[IGotBetter Twenty effing times in a row!]]"
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* '''Parodied''': "I '''Parodied''':
**"I didn't make it. [[IGotBetter Twenty effing times in a row!]]"
**"I didn't make it. [[IGotBetter Twenty effing times in a row!]]"
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** Every character death is treated like this.
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* '''Straight''': After escaping from the ElaborateUndergroundBase, Bob is mortally wounded by pursuers while Alice escapes with the stolen {{MacGuffin}}. Charlie follows after her and when asked about Bob, sadly shakes his head: "[=~He Didn't Make It~=]..."
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* '''Straight''': After escaping from the ElaborateUndergroundBase, Bob is mortally wounded by pursuers while Alice escapes with the stolen {{MacGuffin}}. Charlie follows after her and when asked about Bob, sadly shakes his head: "[=~He Didn't Make It~=]..."HeDidntMakeIt..."
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* '''Averted''': "[[{{ptitle9rtxkf3o}} He's Dead, Doris.]]"
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* '''Averted''': "[[{{ptitle9rtxkf3o}} "[[HesDeadJim He's Dead, Doris.]]"
