Line #22 PlayingWith/SickbedSlaying

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1	'''Basic Trope''': A person who is sick in bed is murdered, presumably in hopes that it will be passed off as a natural death.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice disguises herself as a doctor, visits Bob at a hospital, and gives him a lethal injection.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Alice disguises herself as a doctor, goes to a hospital and moves from bed to bed giving every patient a lethal injection.
5	** Alice disguises herself as a doctor and outright bombs a hospital.
6	* '''Downplayed''': Alice disguises herself as a doctor, visits Bob at a hospital, and gives him a non-lethal injection that will send him into a coma.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** Alice wants Bob out of the way, and the cover of a natural death serves her purposes.
9	** Bob is normally a force to be reckoned with, so Alice reasons that her best chance of taking him out of the picture is when he is already weakened.
10	* '''Inverted''':
11	** Alice visits Bob in hospital, and he kills her.
12	** Alice disguises herself as a doctor and saves Bob's life, possibly because the real doctor is incompetent.
13	* '''Subverted''':
14	** Alice tries to poison Bob while he is on his sickbed, but he gets better.
15	** It looked to be this, but Bob died of surgical trauma while Alice was visiting in an attempt to show good sportsmanship to her rival.
16	* '''Double Subverted''': ...then has a relapse and dies.
17	* '''Parodied''': Charlie witnesses Alice killing Bob and the two have an argument similar to the "Dead Parrot" sketch from ''Monty Python'', with Alice repeatedly saying that Bob's not really dead.
18	* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
19	* '''Averted''': Alice does not kill Bob on his sickbed.
20	* '''Enforced''': The author wants to show that Alice has crossed the MoralEventHorizon.
21	* '''Lampshaded''':
22	--> '''Bob:''' (''sees the knife in Alice's hand'') You're not here to wish me well, are you.\
23	'''Alice:''' Nope.
24	* '''Invoked''': Alice hears that Bob is in the hospital, and sees it as the perfect chance to murder him.
25	* '''Exploited''': Charlie films the murder, and uses the film footage to blackmail Alice.
26	* '''Defied''':
27	** Bob kills Alice before she can kill him.
28	** Charlie sees Alice about to kill Bob and kills her first.
29	* '''Discussed''': "Bob's in the hospital. It should be easy to finish him off there."
30	* '''Conversed''': "How did Alice fool all those doctors? This story already made no sense!"
31	* '''Deconstructed''': The autopsy reveals that Bob was poisoned. Killing Bob in his condition was easy, but evading punishment will be significantly more difficult.
32	* '''Reconstructed''': Alice already has an escape plan in motion, so killing Bob is a matter of possibility rather than discretion.
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38	%%* '''Implied''': ???
39	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
40	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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