1 | '''Basic Trope''': When the boss has been defeated, you are treated to a cutscene of them being slain by TheHero. |
2 | * '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob]] and [[BlackMagicianGirl Alice]] battle a dragon. As the battle ends Bob finishes it off in a cutscene with a swing of his sword. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': As the dragon's health gets low, Alice snaps her fingers and reduces it to ashes with a spell she didn't use at the start of the fight for some reason. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Bob and Alice use normal attack animations in an in game engine cutscene. Furthermore if the dragon is defeated by poison the cutscene is skipped. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** The purpose of lowering the dragon's HP was to weaken it to the point where Bob could land the killing blow. |
7 | ** The killing blow could only be done at a certain point, such as a magical armor has been removed, and there would be no reason to have the gameplay use the one off spell in the actual battle. |
8 | ** The victors aren't the ones to directly slay the dragon, such as (possibly voluntary) mind control. |
9 | * '''Inverted''': |
10 | ** As the battle ends Bob and Alice are [[CutsceneIncompetence slain by the dragon]] despite having fought it quite well under the player's direction. |
11 | ** Alternatively: The entire battle is shown as a cutscene, until the very end where you make the killing blow yourself. |
12 | * '''Subverted''': |
13 | ** As Bob swings and Alice prepares her spell, the dragon gets up and eats them both in one gulp, he was holding back for the entire battle. |
14 | ** Alternatively, Bob swings his sword, but stops just before meeting flesh, and offers the dragon a chance to surrender. |
15 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
16 | ** [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth Then Bob and Alice destroy him from the inside.]] |
17 | ** The dragon refuses, and is promptly finished off. |
18 | * '''Parodied''': Bob and Alice's enemies keep being alive after battles in increasingly less likely circumstances. |
19 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Some bosses die in cutscenes, some in gameplay, and [[ThatOneBoss one really annoying one]] is a PressXToNotDie situation. |
20 | * '''Averted''': When bosses have their HP lowered to 0 in gameplay they are dead with no questions asked in the following cutscene. |
21 | * '''Enforced''': "We need to make these battles more epic." "Lets end them with Bob finishing the guy off." |
22 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Hey, Alice. Do you reckon it's weak enough to finish off yet?" |
23 | * '''Invoked''': Bob and Alice are fighting a race of ancient demons called the [[PunctuationShaker Kun'trived]]. They must be killed by a blow from Bob's mystical sword in exactly the right manner to make sure they remain dead. |
24 | * '''Exploited''': A photographer follows them around until the end of the fight so they can get a picture of the final blow being delivered. |
25 | * '''Defied''': "Once he's down we keep going. We have neither the time or a reason to make sure they're dead." |
26 | * '''Discussed''': "It would be unbefitting a knight of honor to leave a worthy opponent to ignominiously bleed in the dust." |
27 | * '''Conversed''': "Hey... Amazon Alice got the final hit on that monster, so why do we see Barbarian Bob run him through? He wasn't even in the party!" |
28 | * '''Deconstructed''': Bob is called out for always killing their opponent, rather than showing any mercy. |
29 | * '''Reconstructed''': Bob points out that he's making sure that their enemies [[MercyKill don't suffer]]. |
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33 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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35 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
36 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
37 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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