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* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???Everyone else's marker is represented as an arrow on the radar. Billy's marker is a literal point.
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* '''Lampshaded''': ???

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* '''Lampshaded''': ???"Billy, take point. You've been doing this for quite some time now, so you know what to do."
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* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???The need of a point man depends on the current situation; A quiet, possibly dangerous area? Point man. A chaotic battlefield with MoreDakka flying everywhere? No point man.
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* '''Averted''': ???

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* '''Averted''': ???There is no point man.



* '''Invoked''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???The General decides that they need Billy to take point, because he has high survivability and good fighting ability.



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* '''Discussed''': ???

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* '''Defied''': ???
The scouts already brought intel on the situation; Billy's not needed to take point.
* '''Discussed''': ???TheSquad discusses on who's going to take point this time.
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* '''Downplayed''': The role tends to rotate depending on who is best suited for the area.

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* '''Downplayed''': The role tends to rotate depending on who is best suited for the area. It's just that Billy's taken this role so much that people often expect him to lead first.



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* '''Subverted''': ???
Billy expects himself to be this; However, his whole team decides to take point at once.
* '''Double Subverted''': ???The mission ends in catastrophe due to moving in all at once even though they don't know the situation, and Billy is officially nominated as the point man.
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'''Basic Trope''': The team member who goes first in dangerous situations.
* '''Straight''': Billy Finnigan, TheBigGuy (despite being the shortest of the bunch), is always sent in for dangerous and foreign situations.
* '''Exaggerated''': Even within nuclear warfare, Billy is always sent for dangerous and foreign situations.
* '''Downplayed''': The role tends to rotate depending on who is best suited for the area.
* '''Justified''': Billy's a tough cookie who has high survivability (meaning he can hold off until reinforcements arrive) and good fighting ability (meaning he can neutralize any threats before reinforcements arrive), thanks to his trusty [[MoreDakka M-60 Machine Gun]].
* '''Inverted''': Billy is TheCavalry or other character archetypes that usually has him be part of reinforcements.
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Alright, troper, you're the DesignatedPointMan. Move in, and take point.
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