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Basic Trope: Someone laments not wanting to die at a young age.

  • Straight: Bob is in danger, and laments that he's to young to die.
  • Exaggerated: Bob was just created not too long ago (somehow fully versed in English) and is already in danger.
  • Downplayed: Bob gets a very minor injury like a paper cut and yet laments about it still.
  • Justified: ???
  • Inverted: Bob laments that he has lived a long, fulfilling life, and is ready to die.
  • Subverted: ???
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied: Vlad, an 1000-year old vampire, whines about how he's too young to die, despite taking the lives of many young people.
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted:
    • Bob doesn't say anything when I’m danger.
    • Bob isn't in danger
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "Well, guess this is the part where we scream about how we're too young to die right now."
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: Evulz uses this as a opportunity to seduce him to the dark side in exchange for letting him live.
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Played for Drama: Bob is given the choice to kill another person to spare his own life, with being too young to die being a reason why he should go through with it.
  • Played for Horror: Bob is being hunted by a Stock Slasher, yelling that he's too young to die as the slasher comes closer.

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