Constructive Body Disposal
When Disposing of a Body, you need a place where the body is unlikely to come to light again. One method is to find a site where a building or road is being constructed and bury the body in the foundations. Some murderers find a hiding place for their body where it will soon be covered up as construction progresses; others prefer to get hands-on and pour cement over the body personally.
Failure-Induced Transformation
There are many penalties for failure in fiction, but by far the strangest is transformation. Here, the loser in a battle, duel, or contest is transmogrified into a new and usually detrimental shape — often automatically.
The reasons for the transformation are many and varied: maybe it's part of some kind of supernatural contest, with losing resulting in automatically being punished by transformation; maybe there's a magical contract that
1 | 2 |
---|---|
Sandbox: CMPendingVotesAndWriteups Revision [6045] | 12 seconds ago |
Sandbox: CompleteMonsterDrafts Revision [36391] | 33 seconds ago |
Summary: Literature Revision [1551] | 34 seconds ago |
Characters: Survivor46 Revision [152] | 35 seconds ago |
FacialHorror: LiveActionFilms Revision [36] | 41 seconds ago |
1 | 2 |
---|---|
Wiki Talk Changelog - what just changed on TV Tropes?! | 34 seconds ago |
Webcomics The Order of the Stick | 41 seconds ago |
Projects: Long Term/Perpetual Trope Description Improvement Drive | 47 seconds ago |
Projects: Long Term/Perpetual Complete Monster Proposal Thread | 51 seconds ago |
Forum Games YIAY | 1 minute ago |
1 | 2 |
---|---|
Somewhere, A Dress Historian is Crying Created 8 minutes ago | 32 seconds ago |
(Launching May 13) Toxic Family Influence Created 2 weeks ago | 28 minutes ago |
Progressive Country Music Created 6 days ago | 31 minutes ago |
Eye Covering Surprise Created 2 weeks ago | 34 minutes ago |
Unquenchable Fire Created 2 weeks ago | 41 minutes ago |
Example of:
There Is No Kill Like OverkillExample of:
Good-Times MontageExample of:
Idiot SavantExample of:
Hates Being TouchedExample of:
Fake Video Camera ViewTropes Community Podcasts