Basic Trope: An injury to the stomach is shown as a very unpleasant and slow way to die.
- Straight: Bob is shot in the stomach, and takes a whole of two agonizing days to die.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is faced with multiple gunshot wounds to his stomach and spends a week in horrible pain before finally succumbing to his injuries.
- Bob, a seemingly immortal being who can come Back from the Dead, gets his stomach torn open so violently that it kills him multiple times over, and the last time he dies, he doesn't revive.
- Downplayed:
- Bob suffers a nasty wound to the abdomen - while he manages to live through it, it's still a very excruciating experience for him.
- Bob ultimately dies of causes besides the wound to his stomach, but the injury certainly didn't make his death any more pleasant.
- Bob dies in only a few minutes or hours, but the trope still plays out anyway.
- Justified: Truth in Television - being injured in the stomach is often considered to be a horrible way to die due to the damage it causes to internal organs, and from slowly bleeding out.
- Inverted: Bob is brought Back from the Dead by an injury to his abdomen.
- Bob is shot in the gut by an Instant Death Bullet and immediately keels over.
- Subverted:
- Bob is shot, and it seems like he's going to die for a moment, but he's brought to the hospital and treated.
- Bob is shot, but instead of making him curl up in agony for a bit, it ROYALLY pisses him off, and he's become a Cornered Rattlesnake.
- Double Subverted:
- ...However, they find that he's too injured to be treated, and he ends up dying.
- A well aimed hit / shot to the stomach later, and Bob seizes up, paralyzed in pain.
- Parodied: Bob is poked in the stomach, and he goes through an overly-dramatic sequence of movements coupled with exaggerated coughing and gagging before finally collapsing to the floor.
- Bob has a hole through his abdomen so cartoonishly large he's practically bisected, but still has time to give Alice's his last words, hand over the maguffin and call his wife to tell her to pick up the dry cleaning, then he dies.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody is killed by a wound to the stomach.
- Enforced: Rule of Drama
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz intentionally shoots Bob in the stomach so that the death will be long and painful.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Evulz shoots Bob in the head, a more "worthy" way to die.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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