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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
10th Dec, 2020 03:40:40 AM
A specific form of Deadly Graduation.
FurAndStone
Since: Jan, 2015
The typical scene in which a character is passing a series of tests of trials to prove their worth, in which the last one is to stab or shoot the animal pet they have been taking care of all this time. Many times the pistol is empty, and that was done only to prove their willfulness, and others is played straight, ending the life of the animal. Examples I can think of are KingsmanTheSecretService and an episode of AmericanDad.
Is there a named trope for that?