'''Basic Trope''': A character leaves the story or is killed un-climatically.
* '''Straight''': Alice drives off road and sinks in a nearby river. Back to the action!
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice suffers ChuckCunninghamSyndrome. A few seasons later, as our heroes are walking though a cemetary, we see Alice's tombstone, but the heroes don't notice.
** Alice is the ''protagonist''.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''':
** Alice was just an RecurringExtra or a MauveShirt.
** Or the writer is trying to make a point about how sudden and random death can be, and how not everyone can have a big, climactic meaningful death scene.
** The lightness is a plot point, having people not notice Alice's death will later be part of the story.
** In a video game it was a player choice, and the light death was either "an accident" set up or the player's choices in the game lead up to it.
* '''Inverted''':
** DyingMomentOfAwesome
** Alice makes a HeroicSacrifice under a bridge, complete with NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat.
** Alternativly, Alice dies dramatically and then comes back from the dead to no fanfare.
* '''Subverted''': The superhero comes just in time to save Alice from drowning in the river.
* '''Double Subverted''': But then Bob drives off road and knocks Alice back in the water. Back to the action!
* '''Parodied''':
** Alice is constantly ignored, culminating in this trope.
** TheyKilledKenny.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice drowns in a river to no remorse of the other characters. She soon comes back as a ghost, and everyone suddenly feels apologetic for her death, and throws her a 'proper' funeral with her found body. She then promptly disappears from the series for no reason, and nobody ever mentions her ghost nor her funeral again.
* '''Averted''': Given a climactic death
* '''Enforced''':
** "Nobody likes funerals. Let's just not give Alice one, she wasn't the title character anyway".
** The actress who plays Alice is leaving the show for good, and they need a way to get rid of the character without taking up a lot of time.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Alice was found dead in the river". "How anticlimactic".
* '''Invoked''': "Let's go murder Alice".
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Alice drowns in a river, and nobody mentions her after the fact-- except ''Bob'', who is sincerely sorry for her death and practically abandons the group in mourning for a couple of weeks.
* '''Discussed''': "Hey, Dave, I haven't seen Alice in a while, have you?" "Eh, who cares,she wasn't very important anyway". "Yea, you're right. Wanna get some pizza?"
* '''Conversed''': "And jeez, do you remember that one time in this show where Alice died, and nobody gave a damn?"
* '''Deconstructed''': Many, many characters get bridges dropped on them in the series, leading the main characters to be paranoid of leaving their houses in fear of being killed suddenly.
* '''Reconstructed''': The main characters realize that life is worth the risk of a bridge falling on them, and leave their houses to continue their adventures. May or may not have bridges drop on the characters anyway, depending on the work.
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???