Basic Trope: Radiation killing people much faster than in real life.
- Straight: Alice gets exposed to radiation, and dies within minutes.
- Exaggerated: Alice is over 30 feet away from the source, and wearing a HAZMAT suit, and is still killed within minutes.
- Alice dies within seconds.
- Downplayed: Alice dies within about three days; technically possible in real life, but extremely rare.
- Alice gets hit with a dose of radiation, and immediately develops radiation sickness, but does not die.
- Alice was exposed to a nuclear reactor in full meltdown, and drops dead a few hours later.
- Justified: Alice was hit with a large dose of radiation, so naturally it would start acting fast.
- Inverted: Alice gets hit with a ridiculous dose of radiation, but shrugs it off.
- Subverted: Alice looks like she's going to die, but doesn't.
- Double Subverted: The next day, however...
- Parodied: Alice goes out into the Sun; she dies within the second.
- Zig-Zagged: The radiation sometimes kills people fast, sometimes not.
- Averted: There is no radiaton.
- Enforced: Hollywood Science
- Lampshaded: "That girl died way too fast."
- Discussed: "Fortunately for us, This Is Reality and we won't die within minutes."
- Conversed: "In Hollywood, radiation always kills people faster than normal."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Implied: We see people enter a building contaminated with radiation, but never see them leave.
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