Basic Trope: A Saint Bernard comes to the rescue when somebody is dying of hypothermia, while carrying a barrel of brandy around its neck.
- Straight: Bob is stranded in a snowstorm, and a Saint Bernard arrives to his rescue and gives him some brandy.
- Exaggerated: An entire pack of Saint Bernards come rushing to Bob's rescue, towing an oil drum full of brandy.
- Downplayed:
- A stray puppy comes to Bob looking for attention, and the moral boost is enough to keep him going.
- The Saint Bernard carries a thimbleful of brandy.
- Bob is rescued by a rescue team who have a Saint Bernard with them, and is offered brandy later on when his life is no longer in danger.
- The dog who rescues Bob with brandy is a mutt, who's only part Saint Bernard.
- The dog brings cocoa instead of brandy, but it's otherwise played straight.
- Justified: Bob got lost near a Saint Bernard Rescue Training facility.
- Inverted: A Saint Bernard dog is stranded outside in a snowstorm, and Bob comes to its rescue with water and food.
- Subverted: Bob is stranded in a snowstorm, and a Saint Bernard is seen nearby, but never comes to his rescue.
- Double Subverted: Bob is stranded in a snowstorm, and after several hours sees something running towards him. It turns out to be a cat, and when Bob is about to lose it, it turns out the cat has been rescue trained and is carrying brandy.
- Parodied: A man in a dog suit driving around in a mobile home stops by Bob and invites him in for a drink.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Bob is stranded in a snowstorm, and no one ever comes. He dies alone.
- Alternatively, a proper rescue team comes to help him with proper first aid equipment.
- Enforced: The writer is a dog person, and wants to show off how heroic dogs can be by having Bob be saved by a Saint Bernard.
- Lampshaded: "I always wanted a fluffy dog to bring me alcohol while I lay near-death in a snowstorm!"
- Invoked: Before going exploring in the snowstorm, Bob rubs himself with bacon to attract dogs.
- Exploited: Bob loves Saint Bernards, so he gets lost in a snowstorm intentionally, expecting to encounter one.
- Defied: Bob gets lost in a snowstorm, but in a post-apocalyptic world where all dogs have been wiped off the face of the earth.
- Discussed: "Do you think we'll get rescued by a Saint Bernard? Because brandy sounds really good right now."
- Conversed: "That's so unrealistic, there aren't just dogs running around with ale in the arctic all the time."
- Implied: After seeing Bob pass out in a snowstorm, we cut to him hours later, inside, petting a Saint Bernard and sipping brandy.
- Deconstructed: A Saint Bernard dog comes to Bob's rescue carrying brandy, but the dog won't stop begging Bob for attention, the brandy is very difficult to get off the dog's body, and it ends up killing him anyway because it's actually more dangerous.
- Reconstructed: The dog has gone through years of rigorous training and knows exactly how to find Bob as efficiently as possible. The brandy is enhanced with vitamins, which gets Bob going in no time.
- Played for Laughs:
- Bob is an Animal Lover and a booze-hound, so he lies down in the snow and pretends to be dying in the hopes that a Saint Bernard will arrive with brandy. Alice, who's often the Straight Man to Bob's goofball, tries to convince him that it's a foolish idea.
- Bob refuses the brandy because he doesn't drink.
- Bob drinks the brandy and becomes comically drunk.
- The Saint Bernard drinks the brandy and so is drunk when it comes to rescue Bob.
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