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* '''Enforced:''' ?

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* '''Enforced:''' ?As the author DiedDuringProduction, this [[CutShort Unfinished Work]] never got to the the last parts of the story and the framing device was merely a casualty of this.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Not only does the story cut back to Bob at the end, but [[MindScrew the story ends with Bob dying.]]

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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Not only does the story not cut back to Bob at the end, but [[MindScrew the story ends with Bob dying.]]]]
** The story does this with several layers of nested stories.
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* '''Double Subverted:''' Bob interrupting the "ending" was part of either the same flashback or a new one.

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* '''Double Subverted:''' Bob interrupting the "ending" was part of either the same flashback or [[HereWeGoAgain a new one.one]].
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* '''DoubleSubverted:''' Bob interrupting the "ending" was part of either the same flashback or a new one.

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* '''DoubleSubverted:''' '''Double Subverted:''' Bob interrupting the "ending" was part of either the same flashback or a new one.
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'''Basic Trope:''' The story within another story is missing the latter half of its outer frame.
* '''Straight:''' ''Bob's Tale'' is [[FramingDevice presented as]] a flashback the titular Bob is having, however the story does not return to Bob at the end.
* '''Exaggerated''': Not only does the story cut back to Bob at the end, but [[MindScrew the story ends with Bob dying.]]
* '''Downplayed''': ?
* '''Justified:''' The flashback framing device [[{{Padding}} was only put in as filler.]]
* '''Inverted:''' NarratorAllAlong
* '''Subverted:''' At first it seems that the story is about to end, only for the present-day Bob to [[BreakingTheFourthWall interrupt the big "THE END" text]] and finish up the framing device.
* '''DoubleSubverted:''' Bob interrupting the "ending" was part of either the same flashback or a new one.
* '''Parodied''': ?
* '''Zig-Zagged:''' ?
* '''Averted:'''
** The story returns to present-day Bob as expected.
** There is no framing device to begin with.
* '''Enforced:''' ?
* '''Lampshaded:''' "You were expecting a last-minute plot wrap-up, weren't you?"
* '''Invoked:''' ?
* '''Exploited:''' ?
* '''Defied:''' See Subverted above.
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