Instant Death Bullet/Playing With

Basic Trope: One bullet seems to kill someone in an instant.

• Straight: Bill shoots Mac in the leg and Mac instantly dies.
• Exaggerated: Bill takes down mob after mob, shooting them in comically non-lethal areas such as the finger and the toe, and they all die instantly
• Justified: It was a shot to a vital spot of the brain
  • Alternately, the bullet is a special bullet designed to instantly kill anyone it hits.
• Inverted: Bill shoots Mac's corpse and he springs back to life
  • Only a Flesh Wound
  • A gunshot wound, even a headshot that splatters someone's brains across the room, invariably means a slow, agonizing death.
• Subverted: The shot seems to kill Mac but he comes back a scene later...
• Double Subverted: to die from a second bullet later.
• Parodied: The gun shop Bill frequents is advertising the Super Bullet, which is guaranteed to drop your opponents even if it just grazes them.
• Deconstructed: There is such a thing as Instant Death Bullets, unfortunately, they are in the hands of the toughest mobs in the world.
  • A cop thinks he killed a thug when he shot him but when he had his back turned, the thug shoots him dead.
• Reconstructed: Soon, some cops get a hold of the bullets and make their own.
  • The thug stayed dead.
• Zig Zagged: Bill shoots Mac, who appears to die instantly. Then, as Bill turns to walk away, Mac opens his eyes, crawls forward, and shoots Bil...who dies instantly
• Averted: Mac gets shot and lives long enough to bleed out and deliver a Final Speech.
• Enforced: The producers of this film are big on gun control and want to reinforce how deadly guns can be
• Lampshaded: “This gun shoots death!”
• Invoked: Bill has some targeting practice to make everyone of his bullets cast death when they are shot.
• Defied: Bill has some targeting practice to avoid shooting Mac in a vital area.
• Discussed: "Well, I guess one shot is all it takes..."
• Conversed: "Wow, he died rather quickly, considering I shot him in the foot..."

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