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Basic Trope: A news report or news reporter ends up in a dangerous situation.

  • Straight: Alice, while reporting on a typhoon in South-East Asia for Troper News, ends up getting blown away by the intense winds.
  • Exaggerated: Alice is reporting on an awakened Blob Monster, and ends up being absorbed by it live on television.
  • Downplayed: Alice is reporting near a highway, and almost gets hit by a speeding car.
  • Justified: The news crew didn't anticipate the typhoon would end up following their direction, and thus had no time to react.
  • Inverted: Alice ends up in a life-saving situation.
  • Subverted: ???
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied:
    • Through some Contrived Coincidences, Alice ends up in a dangerous situation any time she reports on anything, even whenever said thing is happening in another country, or is as mundane was last night's football game.
    • Alice ends up suffering Death by Irony.
  • Zig-Zagged: Alice ends up in a dangerous situation, but is able to escape, only for the typhoon to start coming back her way, making her barely able to run.
  • Averted: There is no typhoon or news report.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "This is Alice on Troper News and... Oh, Crap!"
  • Invoked: "this reporter attempts suicide" #BANG#
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Alice, knowing how dangerous it is, decides to report while using footage captured at the city the typhoon it.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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