1 | '''Basic Trope''': Your loved one turns into a monster and you have to kill them. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice and Bob are fighting a group of vampires when Bob gets bitten and begins to show signs of turning. Alice reluctantly stakes him. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice has had to stake every person she's ever even slightly cared about, because vampires, werewolves, zombies, and other monsters keep turning them. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice and Bob are fighting a group of vampires when Bob gets bitten and begins to show signs of turning. Alice uses a [[VampiresHateGarlic ring of garlic]] and other wards to keep him contained. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Alice knows Bob wouldn't want to live as a vicious monster with no morality. |
7 | ** When Bob turns, he becomes a threat, whether to herself or others. Alice dare not risk having that threat around. |
8 | ** Bob has explicitly requested he be put down should he start to turn into a monster. [[MercyKill Alice is reluctant, but she does fulfill his request]]. |
9 | * '''Inverted''': Alice and Bob are fighting a group of vampires when Bob gets bitten and shows signs of turning. The vamped-out Bob then turns on Alice and kills her. |
10 | * '''Subverted''': |
11 | ** Alice and Bob are fighting vampires when Bob gets bitten and starts to show signs of turning. Alice is about to stake him when she hears about a possible cure and simply traps him with garlic instead. |
12 | ** Alice suddenly decides can't bear to live without Bob no matter the cost... so she allows herself to be turned as well. |
13 | * '''Double Subverted''': ...But the cure doesn't work. Alice reluctantly stakes the fully transformed Bob. |
14 | * '''Parodied''': Bob dyes his hair red to see if he likes it. A horrified Alice treats him like he's transformed into [[EvilRedhead some terrible monster]] and tries to "put him out of his misery." |
15 | * '''Zig Zagged''': ??? |
16 | * '''Averted''': No one in the story transforms into a monster. |
17 | * '''Enforced''': The author wants a dramatic TearJerker scene. |
18 | * '''Lampshaded''': ??? |
19 | * '''Invoked''': Dracone the vampire kidnaps and bites Bob and then leaves him for Alice to find. |
20 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
21 | * '''Defied''': |
22 | ** Bob uses copious amounts of HeroicWillpower to become a ProhumanTranshuman to fight off the monstrous tendencies and remain a good guy so that Alice won't have to do that. |
23 | ** Bob [[HeroicSuicide kills himself to not have to force Alice to do it (and become even more traumatized)]]. |
24 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
25 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
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27 | ''[sniff]'' You ready? You'd better redlink StakingTheLovedOne now. |
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29 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
30 | %% |
31 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
32 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
33 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
34 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
35 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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