Basic Trope: A character is Locked Up and Left Behind in a hostile environment to die.
- Straight: Bob has been left out in the middle of the desert to die tied to stakes.
- Exaggerated: Professor Evil takes Bob to a tidally locked planet, strips Bob naked, and leaves Bob tied on the side permanently facing the sun.
- Downplayed: Bob is left tied to a tree in a temperate forest.
- Justified: Professor Evil is a Sadist who wants revenge on Bob for all of the scenes he has foiled.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: Professor Evil has his minions bring out just enough food and water to keep Bob alive, causing perpetual torture.
- Double Subverted: Professor Evil’s minions leave food and water beside the helplessly bound Bob, just out of his reach, to taunt him.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Bob is tied down in the desert, but escapes into a cool castle, where a giant magnifying glass aimed at the sun vaporizes him.
- Averted: Professor Evil takes his captive Bob out of the desert to a regular torture chamber.
- Enforced: Professor Evil stations guards around Bob to make sure he cannot escape his fate.
- Lampshaded: “Hope his men aren’t going to tie me up out in the middle of the desert like in an old movie.”
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Professor Evil uses Bob’s cruel and unusual death to detour minions from disobeying him.
- Defied: Bob escapes on the trip out to the Thirsty Desert.
- Discussed: This exchange:Bob I was left there tied for five days.
Alice: You couldn’t have survived that long. - Conversed: "Sooner or later, Bob's gonna be set free somehow. He's The Hero, of course!"
- Implied: Bob disappeared after he last went to battle Professor Evil, but he returns five days later with a great tan.
- Deconstructed: Bob’s muscles is aching and needs to use the bathroom by the time he is rescued.
- Reconstructed: Professor Evil knows the previous will happen.
- Played for Laughs: Alice and Bob bicker about the mess Bob has gotten them into. Carol eventually pipes up to remind them to focus on getting out of there.
- Played for Drama: Bob was rescued from being tied in the Thirsty Desert, but he was tied spread eagled so long he can hardly walk. The other characters have to help him.
- Played for Horror: The team finds multiple skeletons, picked dry by animals of various kinds and tied to wooden stakes in the Thirsty Desert.
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