Basic Trope: A person destroys everything in the area, whether they like it or not.
- Straight: Bob can't walk around without killing plants, animals, and people.
- Exaggerated: Bob can't walk around without killing plants, animals, and people. He can't stay in buildings because his presence causes them to crumble, and he can't eat or drink because his presence spoils food and liquid.
- Downplayed: Bob can't walk around without making plants, animals, and people very ill.
- Justified: Bob is cursed.
- Inverted: Bob can't walk around without healing (or even resurrecting) plants, animals, and people.
- Subverted: Several plants die when Bob walks into a room, but it turns out they actually weren't watered and it was just a coincidence.
- Double Subverted: ...And then the gardener drops dead.
- Zigzagged: ???
- Parodied: Bob opens the door to his house, which manages to kill the entire city.
- Averted: No people in the setting have superpowers.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded:Bob: I have the "gift" of decay, and I can't even turn it off.
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz casts a spell on Bob so that he will kill everything within a certain radius.
- Exploited: Bob wanders around in Emperor Evulz' land, decimating his army.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob spends a significant amount of time around a healthy plant in a scene. The next time we see the plant, it has wilted or died.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob's powers could potentially kill those around him who he cares about. This leads to him becoming a shut-in and not aiding the conflict.
- Bob's powers kill him just as quickly as they'd kill anything else, and he's dead before he even realizes anything's changed. He's only discovered to be the source of the deadly phenomenon because his corpse is only gradually losing whatever property it was that made him so lethal.
- Reconstructed: Bob manages to find some Applied Phlebotinum that allows him to better control the effects, leaving those he loves unharmed.
Quick! Get away from them, they're a Walking Wasteland!
