Basic Trope: A character experiences another character's death.
- Straight: Alice uses a memory-searching artifact to experience Bob's last moments.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice uses a memory-searching artifact to experience the last moments of everyone in her Doomed Hometown.
- Alice relives Bob's entire life this way.
- Downplayed:
- Alice uses a memory-searching artifact to experience the moments that led up to Bob being severely injured and rendered comatose.
- Alice cannot use the memory-searching artifact to experience the moments first-hand - just which emotions Bob felt at the time.
- Justified:
- Alice needs answers, and the only person who knows what happened is the victim.
- Alice is Bob's Reincarnation.
- Inverted: Alice uses a memory-searching device to experience Bob's birth.
- Subverted: Alice attempts to use the memory-searching device, but it malfunctions when used on Bob.
- Double Subverted: ... Because the batteries are empty. Once Alice charges the device it works again.
- Parodied: Alice experiences Bob's last moments, before he slipped on that Banana Peel...
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice never gets a memory-searching device to use on Bob.
- Enforced: "We need a flashback scene out of Bob's POV to explain what happened, but need to explain why we're shifting over to him after death; since it's a sci-fi, let's introduce a thingamajig that can read his last thoughts!"
- Lampshaded:Alice: If I can experience Bob's memories of what killed him, it'll put us one step closer to a solution.
- Implied: Bob's murderer asks how the hell they figured out he did it, and Alice shows him a futuristic device while saying "Bob showed us himself".
- Invoked: The inventor, Charlie, created the memory-searching device with the goal of using it on murder victims to speed investigations along.
- Exploited: A particularly sadistic murderer puts his victim through severe pain to put Alice through the same.
- Defied: Alice has a memory-searching device at hand, but never uses it on the deceased as she feels it is akin to desecrating their corpse.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Using such a device on people takes a serious toll on Alice's mental health and worsens her own fear of death.
- Reconstructed: Everyone who uses a memory-scanning device is given a background check to see if they can it, as well as free psychiatrist meetings if needed. Eventually, Alice can minimize the toll on her psyche from using the device.
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