Friend or Foe?/Playing With

Basic Trope: Characters in a conflict can't tell who's on their side.

• Straight: Characters shoot at, or avoid, their own friends.
• Exaggerated: Characters shoot everything that moves even though they know they have friends about.
• Justified: As in Real Life, the Fog of War can make it very hard to tell.
• Inverted: The Medic with the Healing Shiv wants to shoot only his friends, but finds it hard to tell which ones.
• Subverted: Uniforms make it clear.
• Double Subverted: Until Dressing as the Enemy occurs.
• Parodied: Characters are baffled in a paintball fight -- where the balls shoot Instant Allegiance Artifact.
• Deconstructed: The characters have been rendered so paranoid by war that they can't tell who is who anymore.
• Reconstructed: That's because of how hard it is to detect.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Friendly Fireproof
• Enforced: "We don't want to glamorize war, so let's depict battles as gritty, confusing scenes where the hero can't even recognize his best friends."
• Lampshaded: A character asks "Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him"
• Invoked: One character is The Mole, who takes advantage of the confusion of battle to murder a target.
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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