Basic Trope: Characters show a lack of respect for the "don't kill people" rule of negotiations.
- Straight: People are attacked during negotiations.
- Exaggerated: Negotiations fail spectacularly and result in an all-out war.
- Downplayed: One "Ass" in Ambassador tries to pick a fight, and harsh words are exchanged, but the meeting is otherwise peaceful.
- Justified:
- This universe's society looks down upon negotiation, making this trope extremely frequent.
- Shows of force play into negotiations as a way to put pressure on the negotiators' bosses.
- The law of the jungle
is consistent.
- Inverted:
- What starts out as a fight ends up into a peaceful negotiation.
- Two opposing armies decide to have a peaceful negotiation instead of a war.
- Subverted: The meeting is extremely tense, with hands on weapons, but nothing ever happens.
- Double Subverted: Just when it seems like a tense meeting is about to end without a hitch, a fight breaks out.
- Parodied: The negotiation goes fine until one of the negotiators inadvertently farts. Both sides immediately begin exchanging gunfire.
- Zig Zagged: The tense meeting almost completes without a fight, however, one breaks out at the last minute. Despite this, several people are able to keep their presence of mind long enough to coordinate a new meeting. The next meeting is quite tense...
- Averted:
- Diplomacy is peaceful.
- No diplomacy is shown or mentioned.
- Enforced: The writers advocate taking opponents head on and not showing any mercy, and disapprove of negotiation.
- Lampshaded: "I thought this was supposed to be a Peace Conference, not a battle!"
- Invoked: A leader intentionally sends a badass with a Hair-Trigger Temper, either to intimidate the other side, or in the hope that it all falls apart, the other side gets annihilated, and he can blame the negotiator.
- Exploited: A character uses the fight as an excuse to murder the diplomat who banged his wife, saying it was self-defense even though absolutely no one attacked him.
- Defied: A leader sends the best negotiation team he has, who have researched the other side and know exactly what they want and how to avoid offending them.
- Discussed: "It is important to arrange the meet in such a way as to assure the negotiators that they will not be subject to physical attack."
- Conversed: "Why do people in these shows expect villains to behave honorably during negotiations? It's not like they behave honorably at any other times."
- Deconstructed: As a result of always becoming attacked, no messengers or diplomats of any kind exist.
- Reconstructed: Due to regular backstabbing, all diplomats are brave souls with enough countermeasures to be fairly called "paranoid". In order to serve their country, they the face risk and danger.
So, it's settled. We'll all to take this link back to—NO! Do you realize what you've DONE!? You...you foooool...*thud*.
