'''Basic Trope''': A happy situation or ending is ruined by a sudden plot development.
* '''Straight''': [[AliceAndBob Bob]] stops the BigBad and marries Alice, but [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Alice dies in a car accident after the wedding]].
* '''Exaggerated''': AliceAndBob are about to get married when a huge asteroid crashes into Earth directly above their wedding, [[EverybodyDiesEnding killing everyone in a 200-mile radius]].
* '''Downplayed''': Alice and Bob have WeddingSmashers, but fight them off. Instead of a happy ''or'' sad ending, they get a CliffHanger or "AndTheAdventureContinues".
* '''Justified''':
** The {{God}} of the world is a [[JerkassGod sadistic jerk]].
** The BigBad had [[ThanatosGambit planned Alice's death in case Bob stops the wedding]].
** Bob has bad luck, he just has the strength of will to overcome it most cases.
* '''Inverted''': DeusExMachina
* '''Subverted''': Alice dies in a car accident after the wedding, but goes to the hospital and makes a full recovery.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...but the hospital catches on fire, and she burns to death.
* '''Zig Zagged''':
** [[OverlyLongGag Alice escapes the burning hospital, and she walks out of it when she's run over by ''another'' car. She is escorted to another hospital, where her heartbeat flatlines. A doctor, however, is on hand and uses CPR to revive her. But then, a tsunami washes over the whole hospital and Alice starts drowning. It is then revealed that Alice can breathe underwater - but then wind knocks the building over. However...]]
** During the final showdown with the BigBad, the villain and the hero take turns pulling [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands lots of new powers]] [[AssPull out of nowhere]] and appearing to [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp each other]] until one of them eventually runs out of new powers.
* '''Parodied''': The series is an extremely dark BlackComedy, and whenever something good is about to happen, something ridiculously horrifying happens to the [[CosmicPlaything protagonist for no particular reason]].
* '''Averted''': The story ends without any unexpected plot twists.
* '''Enforced''':
** Alice's actress isn't coming back for the second season, so they have to get rid of her to make room for the new girl.
** The writer wanted to have AnAesop about how life is fragile and that you can die at any time.
** Bob [[TheScrappy wasn't too popular with the audience]], or may be something of a KarmaHoudini {{Jerkass}} so the writers decided to add a layer of EmotionalTorque by having something horrible happen [[JerkassWoobie in order to make him sympathetic]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "Hey, what were the odds that Alice was just going to die just after the wedding?"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''':
** On the way home from the wedding, Alice drives more carefully than usual, and avoids an accident by a few seconds.
** The Big Bad saves Alice from the asteroid, wanting to kill her himself.
* '''Discussed''': "Don't think you're safe just because you stopped the [[BigBad mafia boss]]. There are still a lot of drunk drivers on the road."
* '''Conversed''': "Alice dies in a car accident? What a stupid ending."
* '''Deconstructed'''
** People start to lose faith in life, The universe, and everything as more and more horrifying things happen to undeserving people.
** Bob [[DespairEventHorizon loses his faith]] and realizing the truth of the universe, [[DrivenToSuicide decides to jump off the highway bridge]].
* '''Reconstructed'''
** But they get better.
** Bob stops and realizes that life is too beautiful to waste it when life gives him curve balls... [[HopeSpot Then a truck runs him over when he walks back]].
* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob is a CosmicPlaything and TheChewToy, and may or may not be an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist.
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