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At first I had my doubts. Those were innocent electrons, you know, and I had to kill them just to edit these tropes. I cried...at first. But you know what? ItGetsEasier. See? Just click on ItGetsEasier.

** Dice does struggle with self-hatred as a result of growing comfortable with killing, but even though he has some really bad days, he's generally able to remind himself of all of the people whose lives he saved. The people he killed were all murderers and rapists, and if he didn't kill them, more people would have died.

* '''Reconstructed''': Dice is a professional soldier or policeman, and is able to separate his job from his personal life. Killing in the defense of others becomes almost second nature to him, but he doesn't goes JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope and become a cold-hearted killer. He's a devoted husband and father, a positive figure in his community, and an all around decent person who will end you if you threaten the safety of those he has sworn to protect. He does struggle with stress, but his family and friends are there to help him through it.

* '''Deconstructed''': The killing gets easier, as does justifying it, but Dice's personal life becomes more and more unstable as he continues to take lives. He becomes increasingly anti-social and emotionally distant, unable to form any long-lasting relationships because he's trained himself to remain detached in order to make the killing easier to reconcile. (And also out of fear that a loved one may turn away upon learning about what they do for a living.)

* '''Inverted''': ItNeverGetsAnyEasier; in fact, Dice is so sickened by his first murder that it gets ''harder'' for him to justify his actions and keep doing his job.
** Alternately Dice is so turned off, he quits (if he is allowed to, that is).

* '''Enforced''': Dice accepts what he has to do, because the alternative (his own death; the threatened death of loved ones either by the enemy or his own people) is worse.

%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': The killing gets easier, as does justifying it, but Dice's personal life becomes more and more unstable as he continues to take lives. He becomes increasingly anti-social and emotionally distant, unable to form any long-lasting relationships because he's trained himself to remain detached in order to make the killing easier to reconcile.

* '''Exaggerated''': Dice is made an assassin against his will, and grapples with the notion of taking somebody's life just because he's been ordered to. Once he's made his first kill, however, those initial doubts seem to vanish instantly.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': The killing gets easier, as does justifying it, but Dice's personal life becomes more and more unstable as he continues to take lives. He becomes increasingly anti-social and emotionally distant, unable to form any long-lasting relationships because he's trained himself to remain detached in order to make the killing easier to reconcile.
* '''Reconstructed''': Dice is a professional soldier or policeman, and is able to separate his job from his personal life. Killing in the defense of others becomes almost second nature to him, but he doesn't goes JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope and become a cold-hearted killer. He's a devoted husband and father, a positive figure in his community, and an all around decent person who will end you if you threaten the safety of those he has sworn to protect. He does struggle with stress, but his family and friends are there to help him through it.

* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

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* '''Reconstructed''': Dice is a professional soldier or policeman, and is able to separate his job from his personal life. Killing in the defense of others becomes almost second nature to him, but he doesn't JumpOffTheSlipperySlope and become a cold-hearted killer. He's a devoted husband and father, a positive figure in his community, and an all around decent person who will end you if you threaten the safety of those he has sworn to protect. He does struggle with stress, but his family and friends are there to help him through it.

* '''Zig Zagged''': After making his first kill, Dice seems to become more comfortable with killing for a living... however, this is just [[StepfordSmiler an act]], as he struggles to hide his insecurities and vulnerabilities. Eventually, it appears that he's [[BecomingTheMask Become The Mask]] and honestly adjusted to it... but then [[ItGotWorse a mission goes pear-shaped]] and he's revealed as a BrokenAce.

* '''Double Subverted''': [[FourIsDeath His fourth victim]], however, is such a CompleteMonster that he's able to refocus, reassuring himself that ''all'' of his targets were {{Asshole Victim}}s. This makes his future assignments much, ''much'' easier to complete.

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Justified''':Everytime you kill someone a part of you dies too

* '''Justified''': It's a war, and it's kill or be killed. If Dice lets his conscience bug him, he'll screw up and die.

* '''Averted''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Even after his first murder, Dice continues to struggle with the nature of his work, even after the second, the third...

* '''Defied''': ???