Basic Trope: The opposite of a fanfic; a fic that kills off every character in the franchise.
- Straight: In the Bob and The Gang fic Bob's Final Days, every character in the franchise dies.
- Exaggerated:
- The characters all die in a very short story.
- It's a crossover, and characters from other franchises brutally murder the Bob and The Gang characters.
- Downplayed:
- It's a Revenge Fic which kills a few characters, but most of them stay alive.
- The writer insults the characters in various ways, but doesn't kill anyone.
- The writer doesn't hate the work, but is irked by certain elements of it, so they write a Fix Fic to make it more their liking.
- The writer does indeed hate the work, but expresses this by deconstructing the tropes seen across the series, rather than outright making his characters suffer.
- Justified:
- Everyone has a Convenient Terminal Illness.
- Alice kills everyone by either Accidental Murder or Murder by Mistake, and then dies by accidentally walking off a cliff.
- Inverted:
- The fanfic is a Fix Fic in which all deceased characters are still alive.
- The writer repeatedly glorifies all of the Bob and The Gang characters, even the unpopular ones.
- Subverted: The writer has nothing against Bob and The Gang; rather, the fic was intended as a tragedy.
- Double Subverted: The writer was lying to avoid offending a friend who likes Bob, Alice, and The Gang.
- Parodied:
- Alice presses a "Death Button", which instantly and inexplicably kills everyone including herself.
- Bob takes a calculator and divides 9 by 0. This somehow destroys the universe.
- Zig Zagged: The writer has a Fix Fic, a Hate Fic, a Cast Full of Gay fic, several crossovers, and a normal fanfic.
- Averted: The fanfic is not a Hate Fic.
- Enforced: The writer hates Bob and The Gang.
- Lampshaded: "Warning: This is a Hate Fic, not a fanfic!"
- Invoked: An Original Character who's an expert at brainwashing kidnaps Charlie and temporarily turns him evil. This results in Charlie killing all the other characters and then hanging himself due to guilt. Whether the original character is Hoist by His Own Petard or gets away with it is left ambiguous.
- Exploited: Original Character David has the town to himself now that everyone else is dead.
- Defied: The characters are very careful to avoid dangerous situations.
- Discussed: One of the characters in the story asks why God has forsaken them, or something else that indirectly calls out the author for the carnage.
- Conversed: "Sorry, pal. I don't befriend Hate Fic writers. In fact, my friends don't kill off any character who is alive in their own canon."
- Implied: The fic is a crossover which is centered around the characters of a different franchise, and doesn't mention the fate of the Bob and The Gang characters, thus implying that Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending.
- Played For Laughs: Everyone dies in comical ways.
- Played For Drama: The world ends.
- Played For Horror: The deaths are slow, drawn out, and far inbetween, with long sections showcasing the surviving characters' steadily increasing paranoia and grief.
- Deconstructed: The fic goes so far in its horrific treatment of the characters that even other people who hate Bob and The Gang are disgusted with the author.
- Reconstructed:
- The author recognizes that they went too far, and uses the criticism to improve their writing. Next time they write a story where Everybody Dies (whether a fanfic or something loosely based on another story they dislike), they try to make it less of a gorefest and give it more emotional grativas; the result may still be a gutwrenching Tear Jerker for those who liked the original series, but at least it has some artistic merit.
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