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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42 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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44 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
45 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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