History PlayingWith / LastChanceHitPoint

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice takes 9999 damage! Survives with 1 HP.

** Alice doesn't get a LastChanceHitPoint when hit by a very strong attacks, e.g., an attack that does half-and-again her full health.

** Or, Alice survives with 1 HP but [[StandardStatusEffects becomes Poisoned by the attack]], and the poison finishes her off.

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* '''Downplayed''': If Alice isn't above 50% health before taking the hit, her LastChanceHitPoint won't activate.

* '''Deconstructed''': Even though Alice's LastChanceHitPoint activated, she's still heavily injured, and dies when she gets to the her team's secret base.
* '''Reconstructed''': Diane, the healer, has unsurpassed healing skills, and she manages to revive Alice. The latter decides to be more careful next time.

* '''Exploited''': Now's a perfect time to unleash Alice's DesperationAttack.

* '''Played for Drama''': See Deconstructed.

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* '''Subverted''': Alice was instead hit by an HPToOne attack; a different attack might've killed her.

* '''Invoked''': Alice ''deliberately'' took the hit in order to enable her DesperationAttack.
** Or, Alice knows that if she has more than 1 HP she'll survive anything (even a OneHitKill) on her LastChanceHitPoint -- so she casts a RegeneratingHealth spell on herself to keep her HP away from the last point.
* '''Defied''': It's a multi-hit attack; Alice survived the first hit, but the next hit finishes her off.

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* '''Subverted''': It's a multi-hit attack; Alice survived the first hit, but the next hit finishes her off.
** Or, Alice survives with 1 HP but [[StandardStatusEffects becomes Poisoned by the attack]], and the poison finishes her off.

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* '''Exploited''': Now's a perfect time to unleash Alice's DesparationAttack.

* '''Invoked''': Alice deliberately took the hit in order to unleash her DesparationAttack.

* '''Exploited''': Alice wants to unleash a DesperationAttack, so she purposely takes the hit knowing she'll survive it with just one HP.
** Or: Because any attack must first reduce Alice to 1 HP before the enemy can score a killing blow, she casts a RegeneratingHealth spell on herself to prevent that from happening.

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* '''Invoked''': Alice wants to unleash a DesperationAttack, so she purposely takes the lethal hit knowing she'll survive it with just one HP.

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'''Basic Trope''': A person's hit points are reduced to 1, so one more hit will kill them.
* '''Straight''': Alice is down to her last hit point, having been damaged by a Mook.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is hurt so much that even so much as ''touching her'' is enough to kill her.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': OneHitPointWonder.
** Alice is really a Robot, and is down to her last few minutes of fuel. Punching her will knock the rest out, and deactivate her.
** Alice is a magical construct that was just hit by a disruption spell, so she's down to the skeleton of her being even if it doesn't show.
* '''Inverted''': The {{Mook}} Alice is fighting heals her back to full strength.
** Alice is at full HP.
* '''Subverted''': Alice finds a magic potion, and is healed right before the Mook would have killed her...
** Alice is at her last hit point, [[FinalFantasyTactics at which point an interruptible counterattack is triggered where she drinks a readied potion, restoring a not-inconsiderable portion of her HP]]...
* '''Double Subverted''': ...but the hit from the Mook was so powerful, it killed her anyway.
** ...but she already ran out of potion, so the counterattack isn't triggered. OhCrap.
* '''Parodied''': The mook Alice is fighting is only a ''tiny speck'', yet it still managed to reduce her hit points down to one.
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice dies from the accident, causing the government to issue special armor to all citizens, to purposely prevent this from happening again...
* '''Reconstructed''': ...but the Mooks adapt to this change, and invent a superweapon that makes this armor useless.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice gets hit, losing her last hit point, but then it's revealed that [[OrIsIt she didn't die]]. Instead. she suffered a heart attack that triggered [[AntiClimax the exact moment before the mook punched her]]. But ''then it's told'' that a mook cast a spell giving her the heart attack, taking away her last hit point, '''''but then''''', the mook says that he accidentaly cast the spell, and didn't mean to.
* '''Averted''': Alice is at full strength.
* '''Enforced''': "Making Alice come back from one hit point would make things [[AssPull a lot more exciting]]. Kids like excitement, don't they?"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh great. Only one hit point. Hopefully no one will kill me..."
* '''Invoked''': Alice purposely damages herself so that she can fight the mook with one hit point.
* '''Exploited''': Alice is a traveling performer, who purposely pays people to watch her [[AssPull fight mooks with only one hit point]].
* '''Defied''': Alice keeps a large stock of healing potions on hand, so that she could heal herself when her HP gets low.
* '''Discussed''': "If you knew when to heal yourself, you wouldn't have ended up like this!"
* '''Conversed''': "If I get down to one hit point, would you please cover for me?"
* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is trying to get away from the minion in hilarious ways, because she's down to a single hit point.
* '''Played For Drama''': Everyone comes to cheer Alice on as she fights the mook, making tension build up.

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