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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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