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Basic Trope: A Music Video where the band or musicians starring in it get killed or are getting killed off.

  • Straight: Alice, Bob, Charlie and Dave of rock band The Tropers, star in a music video where they all get eaten by a giant woman.
  • Exaggerated: ???
  • Downplayed: ???
  • Justified: The video is for the last single on the band's farewell album, so they wanted something that showed "the end" of the band.
    • The video is the last in a series of concepts videos that tell a single narrative where the band is being hunted by this woman. This final video is meant to show her finally catching the band.
  • Inverted: The Tropers kill the giant woman that's trying to kill them in their video.
  • Subverted: The band members get eaten by the woman over the course of the video, but at the end, they're shown in her stomach, no worse for wear and still rocking out.
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted: ???
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Implied: We see each member of The Tropers get cornered by the giant woman, who licks her lips, then when it cuts back to the rest of the band, that member's gone for the rest of the video. This repeats until they're all missing and the giant woman spits out a shoe so we know what happened to them.
  • Deconstructed: ???
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  • Played for Laughs: ???
  • Played for Drama: ???
  • Played for Horror: ??

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