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'''Basic Trope''': Before a character's demise, a final memory/flashback sheds light on his past.
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'''Basic Trope''': Before a character's demise, a final memory/flashback sheds light on character dies, you get to know his past.backstory.
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'''Basic Trope''': Before a character's demise, a final memory/flashback sheds light on his past.
* '''Straight''': Right before Alice’s death, she flashes back to the pivotal moment in her life that brought her to where she is now.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice’s whole life, from birth to death, flashes before her eyes as she dies.
** Alice is going to die in five minutes. In that time, she relays to Bob her entire life story.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Alice, on her deathbed, reminisces on her life.
** Alice’s past is already known, and only a minor secret of hers is revealed before she dies.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice knows she doesn’t have long to live, and is casting back to earlier points in her life because she doesn’t want to think about her imminent demise.
** Alice has been suppressing a dark secret for the whole story. Now that she is dying, she finally feels free to admit it to herself.
** Alice is an android whose malfunctioning brain is causing her to relive past experiences before her death.
** An old enemy plans to murder Alice. Before Alice’s death, the killer reveals what Alice did in the past to earn her this fate.
* '''Inverted''': ???
* '''Subverted''': During a life-or-death situation, Alice flashes back to crucial events in her past, but ends up surviving the ordeal.
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob dies instead. Alice’s flashbacks, which included Bob, were actually fleshing out his origins before his demise. Alice was the red herring.
* '''Parodied''':
** Alice reveals what her college major was. She is then crushed by a falling anvil.
** Alice is suicidal, and genre-savvy Bob suggests reminiscing on her past to incur death.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': No last-minute reveals ever happen before a character’s death.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Straight''': Right before Alice’s death, she flashes back to the pivotal moment in her life that brought her to where she is now.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice’s whole life, from birth to death, flashes before her eyes as she dies.
** Alice is going to die in five minutes. In that time, she relays to Bob her entire life story.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Alice, on her deathbed, reminisces on her life.
** Alice’s past is already known, and only a minor secret of hers is revealed before she dies.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice knows she doesn’t have long to live, and is casting back to earlier points in her life because she doesn’t want to think about her imminent demise.
** Alice has been suppressing a dark secret for the whole story. Now that she is dying, she finally feels free to admit it to herself.
** Alice is an android whose malfunctioning brain is causing her to relive past experiences before her death.
** An old enemy plans to murder Alice. Before Alice’s death, the killer reveals what Alice did in the past to earn her this fate.
* '''Inverted''': ???
* '''Subverted''': During a life-or-death situation, Alice flashes back to crucial events in her past, but ends up surviving the ordeal.
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob dies instead. Alice’s flashbacks, which included Bob, were actually fleshing out his origins before his demise. Alice was the red herring.
* '''Parodied''':
** Alice reveals what her college major was. She is then crushed by a falling anvil.
** Alice is suicidal, and genre-savvy Bob suggests reminiscing on her past to incur death.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': No last-minute reveals ever happen before a character’s death.
* '''Enforced''': ???
