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* '''Straight''': Alice and Bob are fighting in a tournament. Alice kills Bob, then they start the next round.

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* '''Straight''': Alice and Bob AliceAndBob are fighting in a tournament. Alice kills Bob, then they start the next round.



** The people holding the tournament have the power to bring people back from the dead.

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** The people holding the tournament have the power to bring people back from the dead.BackFromTheDead.



* '''Zig Zagged''':
** Alice kills Bob by stabbing him in the chest and then fights him again the next round and beats him there again. She goes for OffWithHisHead in her next fight against Carl and doesn't fight him again. Finally she faces Steve [=McEvil=] and tries the same thing again. Steve [=McEvil=] is back next round to her surprise.
* '''Averted''':

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* '''Zig Zagged''':
'''Zig-Zagged''':
** Alice kills Bob by stabbing him in the chest and then fights him again the next round and beats him there again. She goes for OffWithHisHead in her next fight against Carl and doesn't fight him again. Finally she faces Steve [=McEvil=] and tries the same thing again. Steve [=McEvil=] is back next round to her surprise.
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** Alice and Bob are in a fight to the death; Alice beats Bob on points but hasn't killed him by the end of the last round, so she's made to execute him. But Bob has an UnexplainedRecovery and is set to fight Alice again later.
* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':



* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice and Bob both have HealingFactor. After Bob really gets on Alice's nerves, she challenges him to three duels.
* '''Played For Drama''':

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* '''Played For for Laughs''': Alice and Bob both have HealingFactor. After Bob really gets on Alice's nerves, she challenges him to three duels.
* '''Played For Drama''': for Drama''':



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

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%%* '''Plotted A a Good Waste''': ???
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Alice only renders Bob comatose, or [[OnlyMostlyDead clinically dead]] at the end of the round. With medical intervention he recovers just well enough to fight Round 2.
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** All the fighters have de facto ResurrectiveImmortality or an extreme HealingFactor that can regenerate them if they're OnlyMostlyDead, but doesn't make them invulnerable to decapitation, incineration, their bodies being completely destroyed etc. So they get up from the normal damage inflicted upon them during a fight (which would kill normal people) but the winner of the bout executes the loser with a FinishingMove they cannot recover from.
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** The contestants in this tournament have been cloned an indefinite number of times, or are remote-controlling robot duplicates of themselves.

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** The contestants in this tournament [[ExpendableClone have been cloned an indefinite number of times, times]], or are remote-controlling robot duplicates of themselves.
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** All the fighters have CompleteImmortality; no matter how badly wounded they are they will always survive.
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** The contestants in this tournament have been cloned an indefinite number of times, or are remote-controlling robot duplicates of themselves.

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* '''Justified''': The people holding the tournament have the power to bring people back from the dead.

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* '''Justified''': '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''':
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The people holding the tournament have the power to bring people back from the dead.



* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice kills Bob by stabbing him in the chest and then fights him again the next round and beats him there again. She goes for OffWithHisHead in her next fight against Carl and doesn't fight him again. Finally she faces Steve McEvil and tries the same thing again. Steve McEvil is back next round to her surprise.
* '''Averted''': The players are eliminated after death.
** Alternatively: They don't fight to the death.

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* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': Zagged''':
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Alice kills Bob by stabbing him in the chest and then fights him again the next round and beats him there again. She goes for OffWithHisHead in her next fight against Carl and doesn't fight him again. Finally she faces Steve McEvil [=McEvil=] and tries the same thing again. Steve McEvil [=McEvil=] is back next round to her surprise.
* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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The players are eliminated after death.
** Alternatively: They Or, they don't fight to the death.



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



* '''Played For Drama:''' After Bob is [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat nearly killed]], he tracks down his would-be killer and says [[PreMortemOneLiner "Best two out of three"]].
** Alternatively: TheHero and the BigBad face off. Both of them have an item that will heal them exactly once.
* '''Played For Laughs:''' Alice and Bob both have HealingFactor. After Bob really gets on Alice's nerves, she challenges him to three duels.

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* '''Played For Drama:''' Laughs''': Alice and Bob both have HealingFactor. After Bob really gets on Alice's nerves, she challenges him to three duels.
* '''Played For Drama''':
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After Bob is [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat nearly killed]], he tracks down his would-be killer and says [[PreMortemOneLiner "Best two out of three"]].
** Alternatively: TheHero and the BigBad face off. Both of them have an item that will heal them exactly once.
* '''Played For Laughs:''' Alice and Bob both have HealingFactor. After Bob really gets on Alice's nerves, she challenges him to three duels.
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%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
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** The match is won long before the opponent dies (i.e., he's down for ten seconds), and are given enough time to recover before starting the next round.

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