One-Hit Kill/Playing With

Basic Trope: A weapon or move in a video game instantly kills another character in one shot

• Straight: The Player Character has a fire spell that spews instant death
• Exaggerated: The same fire spell can continue through its original target, hitting Mook after Mook
  • The fireball causes Cessation of Existence.
  • One-Hit-Point Wonder
• Justified: The fire spell actually conjures a ludicrisly large ball of fire that would indeed reduce any organic matter to ashes
• Inverted: The fire spell is used on a fire-type enemy...who is healed by it.
• Subverted: The fire spell causes instant death to minor Mooks, but not the Big Bad.
  • The fire spell always depletes the opponent's energy to just one point.
• Double Subverted: ...unless you hit him just right
  • After the HP to One fire spell, the opponent is hit by any next attack.
• Parodied: The PC summons up a ludicrously small fireball (e.g. strikes a match) which nonetheless reduces the Mooks to ashes in spectacular fashion.
• Deconstructed: Using a fire spell of this magnitude costs the Player Character dearly in either stamina or mana and they must rest for quite a while before using it again
  • The fire spell is so broken that the game isn't fun.
• Reconstructed: ...but with training, they can almost negate the drawbacks entirely
  • The fun of the game is in being a broken Badass who mows down mooks like a harvester through a wheatfield.
• Zig Zagged: The fireball kills some Mooks in one cast and not others.
• Averted: None of the spells in the game are One-Hit Kill.
• Enforced: The spell in question is a key piece of the plot.
• Lampshaded: "Taste instant death!"
• Invoked: A Player Character must train their fire spell for hours before making its effectiveness reach the level of One-Hit Kill.
• Defied: No matter how much the Player Character trains, the fire spell will never perform a One-Hit Kill.
• Discussed: "Dude, I just got the highest rank on my fireball spell!"
• Conversed: "Wow, how did you just kill a 100-foot giant with a basketball-sized fireball?"

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