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Basic Trope: An Unflinching Walk out of an inferno.

  • Straight: Bob walks out from a burning house, unflinchingly.
  • Exaggerated: Bob walks out from a nuclear conflagration without the slightest hint of concern nor injuries at all.
  • Downplayed: Bob runs out screaming from a burning house.
  • Justified:
    • Bob wears something fireproof.
    • Bob is fireproof.
    • Bob is an Indian fakir.
    • Bob is made of fire himself.
  • Inverted: Bob walks into a burning house. Cue Ominous Latin Chanting...
  • Subverted: Bob walks out from a burning house, unflinchingly. Then he drops dead from all the burn wounds.
  • Double Subverted: He gets up and walk to the nearest hospital, burn wounds and all. The burning house can be seen in the background.
  • Parodied: Bob catches on fire while walking out of a burning house. He either doesn't react or gets burned alive.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: In a story full of assorted instances of Kill It with Fire, no one is ever seen walking out of a conflagration alive, let alone doing so unflinchingly.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "Gonna need bigger fire..."
  • Invoked: Bob sets the fire himself so he can walk out and look like a badass.
  • Exploited: Bob soaks his clothes in water and forces himself to walk out of his flaming house calmly; he very much wants to run out screaming, but he knows there's people waiting to kill him outside, and his only chance is to terrify the living daylights out of them.
  • Defied: Bob's enemies barricade his house and then set the house afire while he's still inside.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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