Basic Trope: Silver is a Supernatural Repellent and can be used to kill them.
- Straight: In the setting, weapons made of silver are the only thing that can kill a werewolf, and a Weaksauce Weakness for vampires.
- Exaggerated: The tiniest amount of silver drives away all supernatural beings within a 10-mile radius.
- Downplayed: Werewolves can be killed by things besides just silver, but silver is one of the easiest ways to do more serious damage and it burns them when they touch it.
- Justified: Silver is enchanted with magic, and Holy Burns Evil.
- Inverted: Silver can be used to attract and heal supernatural beings.
- Subverted: Alex the Hunter of Monsters plans to kill a werewolf, and initially chooses a silver bullet. However, he goes with a regular weapon and it works just fine.
- Double Subverted: However, the werewolf recovers, so he uses a silver bullet and it works.
- Parodied: Alex kills a werewolf by reducing it to Ludicrous Gibs, burning the remains, eating them, crapping them out, and finally poking it with a stick. Despite all this, the werewolf somehow recovers because he didn't use silver to kill it.
- Zig-Zagged: Silver is used to kill some supernatural entities, but not others.
- Averted:
- There are no supernatural creatures.
- Regular weapons work just fine against supernatural entities.
- Enforced: To give the monsters some kind of weakness in spite of them being nearly invulnerable.
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- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why do they always use silver to kill a werewolf?"
- Implied: A werewolf is seen being uncomfortable around metal objects for unspecified reasons.
- Played for Laughs: Werewolves can't use silverware due to this rule, and one is seen humorously engaging in Jabba Table Manners as a result.
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