History PlayingWith / Retirony

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

** The highly GenreSavvy police force surrounds Fred with dozens of bodyguards for the duration of his last day. And the DangerouslyGenreSavvy Jonathan uses the day, with large numbers of cops otherwise occupied, to rob six banks.

* '''Reconstructed''': Thus, when Fred mentions he's "ready to retire", everyone knows the unspoken implication.
* '''Implied''': Fred tells George he's going to work one last case before retirement. He walks out the door [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and never comes back]]. [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome The audience never finds out what happened to him.]]

'''Basic Trope''': A character is killed just before retirement.
* '''Straight''': George and Fred are police officers who are pals. During Fred's last case, a mafia boss named Jonathan kills Fred one day before Fred retires from police work.
* '''Exaggerated''': George and Fred have been cops for 40 years. During Fred's last case, a mafia boss named Jonathan kills Fred one second before Fred retires from police work, possibly during his retirement party.
* '''Downplayed''': Fred is a couple years away from being eligible to retire when Jonathan kills him.
* '''Justified''':

** Jonathan is an old enemy of Fred's who kills Fred in revenge, and chooses his last day as a police officer to make his revenge sweeter.
* '''Inverted''':
** George kills Jonathan before Jonathan retired from mafia work.
** Fred dies one day after he retired.
** [[RedShirt Fred dies during his first day of work]].
** Fred, who has been dead since the start of the series, comes back to life on the day another character joins the job.
** Jonathan kills Fred just before Jonathan retires.
* '''Subverted''': Jonathan shoots Fred, but Fred survives.
* '''Double Subverted''': Jonathan visits Fred in the hospital later that day and finishes the job.
* '''Parodied''':
** Fred would rather die than keep doing his job. He hates his job ''that'' much.
** Instead of retirement papers, Fred has to file his own funeral plans.
* '''Zig Zagged''':
** When Jonathan fires, he shoots George, who does not plan on retiring any time soon. Fred survives, but is so grief-stricken that he contemplates suicide. His other colleagues, however, talks him out of it. Fred finishes his last day of work in one piece.
** But George's death haunts Fred and causes him to come out of retirement. And then When Fred retires for real, he dies.

** Fred makes it through his last day on the job without any incident.
** Fred doesn't have a job to retire from.
** Fred does not retire.

* '''Lampshaded''': "You'd best take precautions, Fred: Lady Luck isn't too kind on those who are about to retire."
* '''Invoked''': Fred is the victim of a SerialKiller who hunts and kills his victims based on when they're about to retire.

** Knowing that this so common the retirement fund was underfunded and skimmed off the top.

* '''Discussed''': Why do cops always die the day before they retire?
* '''Conversed''': In cop shows, the guy who's about to retire usually dies.

* '''Implied''': Fred tells George he's going to work one last case before retirement. He walks out the door...and never comes back. No one ever finds out what happened to him.

* '''Played For Drama''': Fred is killed just before retirement, and George must go to Fred's wife and tell her that she and her husband won't be enjoying retirement together.

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* '''Exploited''': The highly GenreSavvy police force surrounds Fred with dozens of bodyguards for the duration of his last day. And the DangerouslyGenreSavvy Jonathan uses the day, with large numbers of cops otherwise occupied, to rob six banks.

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%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Parodied''': Fred would rather die than keep doing his job. He hates his job ''that'' much.

%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Parodied''':
** Fred spends the moments before he dies actively TemptingFate with regards to dying before retirement.
** Fred wears his special {{red shirt}} on his last day of work.

* '''Defied''': Out of paranoia, Fred refuses to come into work on his last day before retirement.

* '''Deconstructed''':
** Everyone is so afraid of being murdered that nobody wants to retire.
** Fred decides to stay home at his last day, arming himself to the teeth, locking the door and windows with extra locks, barricading his home and don't sleep until he survive the day.
** Fred gets himself fired instead.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Thus, when Fred mentions he's "ready to retire", everyone knows the unspoken implication.
** Fred would rather die than keep doing his job. He hates his job ''that'' much.

%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': George and Fred are police officers who are pals. During Fred's last case, a mafia boss named Jonathan kills Fred one second before Fred retires from police work, possibly during his retirement party.

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

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

* '''Justified''': Fred is TheMole that [[BecomingTheMask Became The Mask]].

* '''Inverted''': George kills Jonathan before Jonathan retired from mafia work.

* '''Parodied''': Fred spends the moments before he dies actively TemptingFate with regards to dying before retirement.
** Fred wears his special [[RedShirt red shirt]] on his last day of work.
* '''Deconstructed''': Everyone is so afraid of being murdered that nobody wants to retire.
** Fred decides to stay home at his last day, arming himself to the teeth, locking the door and windows with extra locks, barricading his home and don't sleep until he survive the day.
** Fred gets himself fired instead.
* '''Reconstructed''': Thus, when Fred mentions he's "ready to retire", everyone knows the unspoken implication.
** Fred would rather die than keep doing his job. He hates his job ''that'' much.
* '''Zig Zagged''': When Jonathan fires, he shoots George, who does not plan on retiring any time soon. Fred survives, but is so grief-stricken that he contemplates suicide. His other colleagues, however, talks him out of it. Fred finishes his last day of work in one piece.

* '''Averted''': Fred makes it through his last day on the job without any incident.

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* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Enforced''': "We're writing Fred out of the show, his character was going to just retire, but where's the drama in just letting Fred quietly move to Florida and take up shuffleboard?"

* '''Enforced''': We're writing Fred out of the show, his character was going to just retire, but where's the drama in just letting Fred quietly move to Florida and take up shuffleboard?

** Fred dos not retire

** But George's death haunts Fred and causes him to come out of retirement. And then Fred dies on his first mission out of retirement.

* '''Zig Zagged''': When Jonathan fires, he shoots George, who does not plan on retiring any time soon. Fred survives, but is so grief-stricken that he contemplates suicide. His boss, however, talks him out of it. Fred finishes his last day of work in one piece.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

** Fred, who has been dead since the start of the series, comes back to life on the day of someone else's retirement.

** Fred dies during his first day of work.