Line #30 PlayingWith/InstantDeathBullet


1	'''Basic Trope''': One bullet seems to kill someone in an instant.
2	* '''Straight''': Bill shoots Mac in the torso and Mac collapses and dies almost immediately. Nobody even attempts first aid.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Bill takes down mob after mob - even if he only grazes them, they just seem to give up and die instantly.
5	** Those who die from bullets [[DeaderThanDead can no longer be resurrected]], including ways that can bring back the disintegrated.
6	* '''Downplayed''': Characters die quickly from gunshots, but linger a little before expiring.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** It was a shot to a vital spot such as the heart or brain.
9	** Alternately, the bullet is designed to fragment for massive, systemic damage, or they have been hit multiple times.
10	** Mac dies due to blood loss or perhaps severe shock.
11	** Mac doesn't die by the bullet, but rather from falling to his death.
12	** The bullet is designed to deliver HollywoodAcid [[CruelAndUnusualDeath into the target's bloodstream]].
13	* '''Inverted''':
14	** Bill shoots Mac's corpse and he [[HealingShiv springs back to life]]
15	** OnlyAFleshWound
16	** A gunshot wound, even a headshot that splatters someone's brains across the room, invariably means a slow, agonizing death.
17	** ImmuneToBullets (an ''exaggerated'' inversion, as no amount of bullets will do Bill in)
18	* '''Subverted''': The shot seems to kill Mac but he comes back a scene later...
19	* '''Double Subverted''':
20	** ... to die from a second bullet.
21	** … but that turns out to be his IdenticalStranger.
22	* '''Parodied''':
23	** The gun shop Bill frequents is advertising the ''Super Bullet'', which is guaranteed to drop your opponents even if it just grazes them.
24	** Just being shot at is enough to scare {{Mooks}} to death, even if the bullets come nowhere near them.
25	* '''Zig Zagged''': Bill shoots Mac, who appears to die instantly. Then, as Bill turns to walk away, Mac opens his eyes, crawls forward, and shoots Bill... who dies instantly.
26	* '''Averted''': Mac gets shot and lives long enough to bleed out and deliver a FinalSpeech.
27	* '''Enforced''': The producers of this film are big on gun control and want to reinforce how deadly guns can be.
28	* '''Lampshaded''': “This gun shoots death!”
29	* '''Invoked''': Bill practices shooting for the vitals for clean kills.
30	* '''Exploited''': ???
31	* '''Defied''': Bill practices to avoid shooting the vitals.
32	* '''Discussed''': "Well, I guess one shot is all it takes..."
33	* '''Conversed''': "Wow, he died rather quickly, considering I shot him in the foot..."
34	* '''Deconstructed''': Any world in which bullets are so lethal is a world in which professionals who often face gunfights are bitter and cynical, leading to a swathe of SociopathicHero tendencies. You could die at any moment without even knowing what killed you. Such situations provoke fatalistic attitudes.
35	* '''Reconstructed''': Characters find ways to rationalize the danger they are placed in and grow stronger as a result. They also start wearing full-body ballistic armor all the time.
36	* '''Implied''':
37	** The scene where Bill shoots Mac is censored with a ShadowDiscretionShot. We see Mac’s shadow fall over, but that’s the end of the scene; we don’t know if he immediately died or not.
38	** Bill tells Evan that Mac was killed quickly, but we don’t see the scene where Bill killed Mac.
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44	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
45	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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