History PlayingWith / PsychoShowerMurderParody

** Alice urinates and/or soils herself in fear, causing Bob to gag and giving her the chance to run away.

** Bob leads a group of [[DirtyKid Dirty Kids]] to the bathroom and rips open the shower curtain so they can take photos of her naked.

** Bob rips open the shower curtain, and Alice screams ... only for Bob to apologize kindly and say he didn't realize she was in there.

** As Bob is about to stab Alice, a revived Alfred Hitchcock arrives, stabs Bob for copyright infringement, flirts with Alice and leaves.
** As Bob is about to stab Alice, a StrawFeminist bursts in to call the trope out for showing naked women and exploiting violence towards women. Bob either apologises and leaves or stabs the feminist, allowing Alice to escape.

* '''Implied''': Alice's body is later found covered in blood by her roommate, Zoe, when she comes home.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob rips open the shower curtain, slaps Alice in the face, and leaves.

** Bob finds the shower of his room and running rips open the shower curtain, prompting Alice to pull him in and stab him.

* '''Reconstructed''': Alice instantly invokes PerverRevengeMode.

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

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

* '''Inverted''': When Alice walks into the bathroom, Bob jumps ''out of'' the shower and stabs her to death.
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob rips open the shower curtain with the intent of killing Alice... only for Alice to pull out a gun and kill him first. The ''Psycho'' Strings are cut short as soon as she fires the first bullet.
** Bob rips open the shower curtain, and Alice screams... only for Bob to kindly apologize and say he didn't realize she was in there.
* '''Double Subverted''': After Alice shoots Bob, his accomplice, Charlie, bursts into the room, the ''Psycho'' strings pick right back up again, and he stabs her before she can react.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ...But it turns out Alice was showering with Dave! He jumps out from inside the shower, picks the gun back up, shoots Charlie, and the strings are cut short again... until Elizabeth bursts into the room, the strings pick up ''again,'' and she is shot by Dave, cutting the strings short once more... until Fred comes charging in!
* '''Parodied''':
** Bob bursts into the bathroom with a knife, but realizes Alice hasn't gotten in the shower yet. Alice then scolds him for coming into a bathroom without knocking, and Bob politely apologizes, but doesn't leave. He then patiently waits for her to undress, get in the shower, and start the water, and ''then'' he rips open the curtain to kill her.
** Bob is a HollywoodJehovahsWitness, who rips open the shower curtain and asks Alice if she has a moment to talk about their lord and savior. Alice still reacts as if she was getting murdered.
* '''Averted''':
** There is no shower scene or murder at all.
** Alice is murdered somewhere else.
** Alice is shown in a shower scene, in a setting where nobody's trying to kill her.

* '''Lampshaded''': Right before Bob stabs Alice, she gets visibly annoyed and says "Couldn't you pick a more ''original'' place to kill me?"
* '''Invoked''': Before she realizes he's a murderer, Bob convinces Alice that she should take a shower, so she would be more vulnerable.
* '''Exploited''': Bob specifically waits until Alice gets into the shower to kill her, as he figures she would be at her most vulnerable.
* '''Defied''':
** Alice refuses to even step foot in the shower, as she fears that's where she is most vulnerable.
** Bob feels as though the scene from ''Psycho'' has been parodied so many times, that he backs out of the murder at the last second, and decides to kill her somewhere else.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice's murder has several goofy StockSoundEffects that play every time she gets stabbed.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice’s death brings grief to her close friends and family.
* '''Played for Horror''': Bob’s killing of Alice is the moment he crosses the MoralEventHorizon, leaving him seeking to cause more bloodshed.
* '''Implied''': Alice's body is later found covered in blood by her roommate, Zoe, when she comes home.

* '''Played For Drama''': The trope played straight is often played for drama as it is.
* '''Played for Horror''': The trope played straight is often played for horror as it is.

* '''Invoked''': Before she realizes he's a murderer, Bob convinces Alice that she should take a shower, so he would she would be more vulnerable.

* '''Double Subverted''': After Alice shoots Bob, his accomplice, Charlie bursts into the room, the ''Psycho'' strings pick right back up again, and he stabs her before she can react.

** Bob bursts into the bathroom with a knife, but realizes Alice hasn't gotten in the shower yet. Alice then scold him for coming into a bathroom without knocking, and Bob politely apologizes, but doesn't leave. He then patiently waits for her to undress, get in the shower, and start the water, and ''then'' he rips open the curtain to kill her.