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Basic Trope: A trope or plot point is defied, subverted, or deconstructed to give the action more realistic consequences.
- Straight: Jack, Bruno, David, Joe, Kate, and Mike defeat Empress Beth in an explosion, resulting in them all getting burned to death.
- Exaggerated: Jack, Bruno, Will, Joe, Kate and Mike explode into tiny bits, making an even more Family-Unfriendly Death.
- Downplayed: Jack, Bruno, Will, Joe, Kate and Mike just get minorly injured.
- Justified: It's reality.
- Because This Is Reality.
- It must be reality, because the story was Ripped from the Headlines or similar, and the real event happened just this way.
- The author is trying to deconstruct the story he/she is writing or make it more realistic.
- Inverted: Toon Physics
- After being played so realistically, events conspire to lampshade that "hey, it's fantasy, guys! We can use Applied Phlebotinum to pull a Deus Ex Machina, duh!"
- Subverted: The realistic consquences seem avoided and an impossible outcome seems to have happened.
- Double Subverted: Sadly, it was a delayed reaction. Realistic consequences are not always instant.
- Zig Zagged: A team of lawyers and investigators argue over whether responsibility for the destroyed lair rests with Jack, Bruno, Will, Joe, Kate, and Mike or Empress Beth.
- Averted: No realistic consequences are ever experienced at any point.
- Enforced: "Let's show the audience that these things are not always conviently ignored."
- Lampshaded: "What did you expect would happen if we were going to get rid of her with an explosion?"
- Invoked: Jack, Bruno, Will, Joe, Kate, and Mike told Beth that when she was a child, she assumes that she would survive the explosions they're going to end her with. While they were staying far away with a well-concealed explosive, they killed Beth.
- Defied: Beth is a Reality Warper and proceeds to defy reality, or rather, change it to suit her expectations.
- Discussed: "They should've been more careful about that explosion and thought of the consequences."
- Conversed: "Before we try this explosion, are we really sure we know what realistically speaking, will happen?"
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