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**'''Exaggerated''': Alice kills her house decorators after their work is finished.
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** Bob kills Alice once she is done providing money and resources, so he can take the machine for himself.
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** As good as Daniel is, he still has to admit that he had to do some work to get around [[BlackBox certain features of Bob's schematics that he could never figure out]] and make him imagine that [[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife if Bob was still around, what wonders they could have designed together]]…
** For a given value of "reconstructed"… Alice takes the builders of the two most useless projects and inflicts on them a FateWorseThanDeath (up to and including [[LongerThanLifeSentence being executed]] then zombified and [[MadeASlave forced to become muscle for the construction of one of the other projects]]). Now the other builders have the "option" of finishing their work efficiently and as a "reward" Alice will give them a quick and clean death with no further strings attached, or keep screwing around and… well, now you see what that gives ya.
** As good as Daniel is, he still has to admit that he had to do some work to get around [[BlackBox certain features of Bob's schematics that he could never figure out]] and make him imagine that [[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife if Bob was still around, what wonders they could have designed together]]…
** For a given value of "reconstructed"… Alice takes the builders of the two most useless projects and inflicts on them a FateWorseThanDeath (up to and including [[LongerThanLifeSentence being executed]] then zombified and [[MadeASlave forced to become muscle for the construction of one of the other projects]]). Now the other builders have the "option" of finishing their work efficiently and as a "reward" Alice will give them a quick and clean death with no further strings attached, or keep screwing around and… well, now you see what that gives ya.
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** Alice makes perfectly clear when she's hiring Bob that this kind of "reward" is not going to happen to Bob when he finishes the job, or that the job she's hiring him to do is the kind where this kind of "reward" is to be expected.
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* '''Played For Horror''': Bob's death is most definitely [[CruelAndUnusualDeath neither quick or painless]] (or [[{{Gorn}} clean]], for that matter), and he was forced to work for Alice because the alternative [[AnOfferYOuCantRefuse was just too horrible to even consider]].
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* '''Played For Horror''': Bob's death is most definitely [[CruelAndUnusualDeath neither quick or painless]] (or [[{{Gorn}} clean]], for that matter), and he was forced to work for Alice because the alternative [[AnOfferYOuCantRefuse was just too horrible to even consider]]. As well, the device Bob was forced to build is capable of committing such atrocities that Bob's death would have been inevitable, just at the hands of a court-appointed execution and/or an enraged VigilanteMilitia.
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* '''Played For Horror''': Bob's death is most definitely [[CruelAndUnusualDeath neither quick or painless]] (or [[{{Gorn}} clean]], for that matter), and he was forced to work for Alice because the alternative [[AnOfferYOuCantRefuse was just too horrible to even consider]].
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** Bob is suffering from the later stages of the very illness his machine is supposed to cure the earlier stages of. [[MercyKill Alice is simply putting him out of his misery]].
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** Bob's rival Charlie, knowing of Alice's reputation for killing her contractors, tricks Bob into offering her his services.
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** Alice gains a reputation for killing off architects and inventors after they complete their work. Pretty soon, everyone left working for her realizes that they have every incentive to prolong their project as much as is humanly possible. Alice is saddled with dozens of major projects crawling along at a snail's pace and draining her treasury, with no way to make the designers hurry up and finish the work. What's she going to do, threaten to kill them?
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice kills her house decorators after their work is finished.
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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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** Alice kills her house decorators after their work is finished.
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** Alice tries to take Bob on full time given his proven value. [[ResignationsNotAccepted His refusal to work with her again]] reluctantly leads to her killing him and lamenting the waste.
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** Alice tries to take Bob on full time given his proven value. [[ResignationsNotAccepted His refusal to work with her again]] reluctantly leads to her reluctantly killing him and lamenting the waste.
** The artifact draws from a common source and gets weaker the more are made. Losing the ability to reproduce it ensure that Alice always has it at peak power.
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** The [[WeirdTradeUnion Builder's Union]] that the murdered underling belonged to confronted the client and punished them accordingly, and no architect has been killed ever since.
** Alice is defeated by Charlie who rewards his successful inventor Daniel, generously and keeps them to innovate continually. Even though Bob was more talented than Daniel eventually Daniel surpasses his works.
** Alice is defeated by Charlie who rewards his successful inventor Daniel, generously and keeps them to innovate continually. Even though Bob was more talented than Daniel eventually Daniel surpasses his works.
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** The [[WeirdTradeUnion Builder's Union]] that the murdered underling belonged to confronted the client and punished [[NothingIsScarier them accordingly, accordingly]], and no architect has been killed ever since.
since. Or even stiffed on a payment.
** Alice is defeated by Charlie who rewards his successful inventor Daniel, generously and keepsthem him to innovate continually. Even though Bob was more talented than Daniel eventually Daniel surpasses his works.
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** Alice preserves Bob as an immortal in case she needs his services again. [[AndIMustScream It may not be in a very pleasant way.]]
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** Alice tries to take Bob on full time given his proven value. [[ResignationsNotAccepted His refusal to work with her again]] reluctantly leads to her killing him and lamenting the waste.
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** Alice is defeated by Charlie who rewards his successful inventor Daniel, generously and keeps them to innovate continually. Even though Bob was more talented than Daniel eventually Daniel surpasses his works.
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* '''Enforced''': "We want Alice to appear ungrateful and dictating. Also, we should kill Bob off."
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* '''Enforced''': "We want Alice to appear ungrateful and dictating. Also, we should kill Bob off.off Bob."
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** Bob wants to die after his life’s work is complete, so he goes working for Alice, queen known for her impressive collection of dead architects.
** Alice's enemies turn Bob against her by pointing out what happened to her last Chief Engineer.
** Alice's enemies turn Bob against her by pointing out what happened to her last Chief Engineer.
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** Bob wants to die after his life’s work is complete, so he goes working for Alice, a queen known for her impressive collection of dead architects.
** Alice's enemies turn Bob against her by pointing out what happened to her lastChief Engineer.chief engineer.
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** Because more and more kings murder their architects and inventors, less and less people choose these professions.
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** Because more and more kings murder their architects and inventors, less fewer and less fewer people choose these professions.
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** The [[WeirdTradeUnion Builder's Union]] that the murdered underling belonged to confronted the client and punished them accordingly, and no architect was killed ever since.
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** Bob rigs a SelfDestructMechanism to his war machine [[DeadManSwitch that will go off if he's killed]], [[TakingYouWithMe taking Alice and her kingdom with it]], and makes sure Alice knows it before he hands her the machine's keys.
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** Bob rigs a SelfDestructMechanism to his war machine [[DeadManSwitch [[DeadMansSwitch that will go off if he's killed]], [[TakingYouWithMe taking Alice and her kingdom with it]], and makes sure Alice knows it before he hands her the machine's keys.
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** Bob rigs a SelfDestructMechanism to his war machine [[TakingYouWithMe that will go off if he's killed, taking Alice and her kingdom with it]], and makes sure Alice knows it before he hands her the machine's keys.
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** Bob rigs a SelfDestructMechanism to his war machine [[TakingYouWithMe [[DeadManSwitch that will go off if he's killed, killed]], [[TakingYouWithMe taking Alice and her kingdom with it]], and makes sure Alice knows it before he hands her the machine's keys.
** Charlie and his forces destroy Alice's war machine, and with Bob dead, there's nobody who can build another one.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': "Great work on the machine, Bob! However, you are useless anymore. See ya!" *Stab*
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* '''Played For Laughs''': "Great work on the machine, Bob! However, you are useless anymore.By the way, YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness. See ya!" *Stab*
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** Bob was an independent contractor with no loyalties. Alice got rid off him, lest he blab about Alice's secrets to future employers.
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** Bob was an independent contractor with no loyalties. Alice got rid off of him, lest he blab about Alice's secrets to future employers. employers.
** Alice is insane and feels immense pleasure in the fact that, with Bob dead, anything he created for her is truly one-of-a-kind.
** Alice is insane and feels immense pleasure in the fact that, with Bob dead, anything he created for her is truly one-of-a-kind.
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* '''Inverted''': Bob kills Alice after he builds the machine.
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* '''Inverted''': Bob kills Alice after once she is done providing money and resources, so he builds can take the machine.machine for himself.
** Bob avoids work for people like Alice, worrying about what will happen when the job is done.
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** With the designer dead, there's nobody who knows how to properly ''maintain'' the creations, which rapidly fall into disrepair.
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** With the designer dead, there's nobody who knows how to properly ''maintain'' maintain the creations, which rapidly fall into disrepair.
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* '''Justified''': Alice knows her enemies bought Bob’s loyalty.
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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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** Bob was an independent contractor with no loyalties. Alice got rid off him, lest he blab about Alice's secrets to future employers.
** Alice knows her enemies bought Bob’s
** Bob was an independent contractor with no loyalties. Alice got rid off him, lest he blab about Alice's secrets to future employers.
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* '''Defied''': Bob escapes before Alice can execute him.
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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
** Bob escapes before Alice can executehim.him.
** Bob rigs a SelfDestructMechanism to his war machine [[TakingYouWithMe that will go off if he's killed, taking Alice and her kingdom with it]], and makes sure Alice knows it before he hands her the machine's keys.
** Bob escapes before Alice can execute
** Bob rigs a SelfDestructMechanism to his war machine [[TakingYouWithMe that will go off if he's killed, taking Alice and her kingdom with it]], and makes sure Alice knows it before he hands her the machine's keys.
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* '''Played For Drama''': The work focuses on Bob, who is struggling with an unpleasant Morton'sFork: Refuse to work for Alice, and be executed, or work for Alice, and be executed once the work is done.
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* '''Played For Drama''': The work focuses on Bob, who is struggling with an unpleasant Morton'sFork: MortonsFork: Refuse to work for Alice, and be executed, or work for Alice, and be executed once the work is done.
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* '''Exploited''': Bob wants to die after his life’s work is complete, so he goes working for Alice, queen known for her impressive collection of dead architects.
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* '''Exploited''': '''Exploited''':
** Bob wants to die after his life’s work is complete, so he goes working for Alice, queen known for her impressive collection of deadarchitects. architects.
** Alice's enemies turn Bob against her by pointing out what happened to her last Chief Engineer.
** Bob wants to die after his life’s work is complete, so he goes working for Alice, queen known for her impressive collection of dead
** Alice's enemies turn Bob against her by pointing out what happened to her last Chief Engineer.
* '''Played For Drama''': The work focuses on Bob, who is struggling with an unpleasant Morton'sFork: Refuse to work for Alice, and be executed, or work for Alice, and be executed once the work is done.
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* '''Straight''': Alice asks Bob to build her the deadliest war machine on the world. When his task is finished she has Bob killed to keep secrets of the machine from her enemies.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice kills even her house decorators after their work is finished.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice doesn’t kill Bob, but blinds him so he can’t build even deadlier war machine for her enemies.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice kills even her house decorators after their work is finished.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice doesn’t kill Bob, but blinds him so he can’t build even deadlier war machine for her enemies.
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* '''Straight''': Alice asks Bob to build her the deadliest war machine on in the world. When his task is finished she has Bob killed to keep secrets of the machine from her enemies.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice killseven her house decorators after their work is finished.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice doesn’t kill Bob, but blinds him so that hecan’t won't be able to build even deadlier war machine machines for her enemies.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice kills
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* '''Inverted''': Bob was previously sentenced to death but redeemed himself by designing war machines for Alice.kills Alice after he builds the machine.
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* '''Double Subverted''': When Bob outlives his usefulness, Alice eliminates him.
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* '''Double Subverted''': When Bob outlives his usefulness, Alice eliminates him. runs out of ideas eventually and is slayed.
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** The [[WeirdTradeUnion Builder's Union]] that the murdered underling belonged to confront their client and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge so utterly destroy them and their organization]] that no other hire dares try this trope with their employee.
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** The [[WeirdTradeUnion Builder's Union]] that the murdered underling belonged to confront their confronted the client and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge so utterly destroy punished them accordingly, and their organization]] that no other hire dares try this trope with their employee.architect was killed ever since.
* '''Played For Laughs''': "Great work on the machine, Bob! However, you are useless anymore. See ya!" *Stab*
* '''Played For Laughs''': "Great work on the machine, Bob! However, you are useless anymore. See ya!" *Stab*
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* '''Deconstructed''': Because more and more kings murder their architects and inventors, less and less people choose these professions.
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* '''Deconstructed''': '''Deconstructed''':
** Because more and more kings murder their architects and inventors, less and less people choose theseprofessions.professions.
** With the designer dead, there's nobody who knows how to properly ''maintain'' the creations, which rapidly fall into disrepair.
** Because more and more kings murder their architects and inventors, less and less people choose these
** With the designer dead, there's nobody who knows how to properly ''maintain'' the creations, which rapidly fall into disrepair.
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* '''Enforced''': ???"We want Alice to appear ungrateful and dictating. Also, we should kill Bob off."
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'''Basic Trope''': Inventor/architect is killed when his work is complete.
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'''Basic Trope''': Inventor/architect Inventor[=/=]architect is killed when his work is complete.
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* '''Implied''': Alice asks Bob to come to her throne room after his task is complete and comments that her crocodiles are getting hungry. Bob is never seen again.
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* '''Conversed''': “I can bet Bob will end in the crocodile pool after he finishes his task for Alice. Architects always get killed by their employers in movies.”
* '''Deconstructed''': Because more and more kings murder their architects, less and less people choose this profession.
* '''Reconstructed''': A new law is passed and architects are given complete immunity.
* '''Deconstructed''': Because more and more kings murder their architects, less and less people choose this profession.
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* '''Conversed''': “I can bet Bob will end in the crocodile pool after he finishes his task for Alice. Architects always get killed by their employers in movies.”
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* '''Implied''': Alice asks Bob to come to her throne room after his task is complete and comments that her crocodiles are getting hungry. Bob is never seen again.
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'''Basic Trope''': Inventor/architect is killed when his work is complete.
* '''Straight''': Alice asks Bob to build her the deadliest war machine on the world. When his task is finished she has Bob killed to keep secrets of the machine from her enemies.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice kills even her house decorators after their work is finished.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice doesn’t kill Bob, but blinds him so he can’t build even deadlier war machine for her enemies.
* '''Implied''': Alice asks Bob to come to her throne room after his task is complete and comments that her crocodiles are getting hungry. Bob is never seen again.
* '''Justified''': Alice knows her enemies bought Bob’s loyalty.
* '''Inverted''': Bob was previously sentenced to death but redeemed himself by designing war machines for Alice.
* '''Subverted''': Alice imprisons Bob and forces him to invent many other things for her.
* '''Double Subverted''': When Bob outlives his usefulness, Alice eliminates him.
* '''Parodied''': Architect is listed as one of the most dangerous professions on the world, along with demon hunter and firefighter.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice kills some of her architects, some are left alone and others are asked to remain in her service, forever.
* '''Averted''': No architects or inventors are killed after finishing their work.
* '''Lampshaded''': “I will have to kill Bob after his task is finished if I want to keep my secrets safe.”
* '''Invoked''': Bob specifically asks Alice to kill him after his work is done.
* '''Exploited''': Bob wants to die after his life’s work is complete, so he goes working for Alice, queen known for her impressive collection of dead architects.
* '''Defied''': Bob escapes before Alice can execute him.
* '''Discussed''': “You are not going to be one of these kings who murder architects after their work is complete, are you?”
* '''Conversed''': “I can bet Bob will end in the crocodile pool after he finishes his task for Alice. Architects always get killed by their employers in movies.”
* '''Deconstructed''': Because more and more kings murder their architects, less and less people choose this profession.
* '''Reconstructed''': A new law is passed and architects are given complete immunity.
* '''Straight''': Alice asks Bob to build her the deadliest war machine on the world. When his task is finished she has Bob killed to keep secrets of the machine from her enemies.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice kills even her house decorators after their work is finished.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice doesn’t kill Bob, but blinds him so he can’t build even deadlier war machine for her enemies.
* '''Implied''': Alice asks Bob to come to her throne room after his task is complete and comments that her crocodiles are getting hungry. Bob is never seen again.
* '''Justified''': Alice knows her enemies bought Bob’s loyalty.
* '''Inverted''': Bob was previously sentenced to death but redeemed himself by designing war machines for Alice.
* '''Subverted''': Alice imprisons Bob and forces him to invent many other things for her.
* '''Double Subverted''': When Bob outlives his usefulness, Alice eliminates him.
* '''Parodied''': Architect is listed as one of the most dangerous professions on the world, along with demon hunter and firefighter.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice kills some of her architects, some are left alone and others are asked to remain in her service, forever.
* '''Averted''': No architects or inventors are killed after finishing their work.
* '''Lampshaded''': “I will have to kill Bob after his task is finished if I want to keep my secrets safe.”
* '''Invoked''': Bob specifically asks Alice to kill him after his work is done.
* '''Exploited''': Bob wants to die after his life’s work is complete, so he goes working for Alice, queen known for her impressive collection of dead architects.
* '''Defied''': Bob escapes before Alice can execute him.
* '''Discussed''': “You are not going to be one of these kings who murder architects after their work is complete, are you?”
* '''Conversed''': “I can bet Bob will end in the crocodile pool after he finishes his task for Alice. Architects always get killed by their employers in movies.”
* '''Deconstructed''': Because more and more kings murder their architects, less and less people choose this profession.
* '''Reconstructed''': A new law is passed and architects are given complete immunity.
