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Sounds like a straight inversion of Disposable Sex Worker, to be honest.
I was never here, and you never saw me.
I guess an example would be Clarence Boddickers "bitches - leave!" comment before he kneecaps Bob Morton and leaves a primed grenade on the table which he can't reach in time or get far enough away from before it explodes, killing him in Robocop
Actually, I don't think it is an inversion of Disposable Sex Workers (except, perhaps, by accident). At most, it's a not-tropeworthy aversion. I don't think it's any different from, say, going after a guy in a restaurant, but sparing the waiters. (Except, Darker and Sexier.) Or, if it's a mob restaurant, and the waiters are mooks, sparing the random diners by not simply blowing the whole place up. Some sort of precision trope...
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.
Never Hurt an Innocent or one of it's sub tropes?
I would call it an inversion of Disposable Sex Worker, considering that the "disposable" part is notable enough to become a trope. It would also depend on the situation, too. It would only be an inversion if the scenario was such that there's nothing stopping them from being killed as "witnesses" or "disposable sex workers", yet for some reason they are ignored or let go. I wouldn't, for example consider the old "I'm letting you live so you can deliver a message" thing to be an inversion as I believe that would fall under another trope.
There's the Disposable Sex Worker trope but is there the opposite trope? Like an innocent prostitute bystander?
When a guy surprises his target in bed with a couple prostitutes and let's them walk out. There's an unspoken agreement that the prostitutes have no loyalty to their customer so won't attack the guy when his guard is down and they get out alive because the guy only cares about his target or information from his target.
Sorry I can't think of a specific example right now but I know i've seen it in movie and tv shows set in the 80s and 90s?
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