Tropescilloscope: Instant Death Bullet

One bullet makes you drop dead. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is a Crapshoot Ambiguous Disorder Unspoken Plan Guarantee Disney Death Those Two Bad Guys Ax-Crazy Adaptation Dye-Job Say My Name B-Movie The Power of Love The Smurfette Principle The Place Children Are Innocent Pragmatic Adaptation Immune to Bullets Determinator Logo Joke Soft Glass Deconstruction Dwindling Party Gilligan Cut Babies Ever After Disney Villain Death He Who Fights Monsters Fish out of Water Reality Is Unrealistic Parental Substitute Distracted by the Sexy Ungrateful Bastard Brainless Beauty Non-Indicative Name Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Nice Guy Comically Missing the Point Ambiguously Gay Actually Pretty Funny This Is Gonna Suck All There in the Script Kill 'em All An Aesop Disappeared Dad Berserk Button Villain Opening Scene Not Quite Dead Death by Sex Hooker with a Heart of Gold Closed Circle Together in Death Whole Plot Reference Only a Flesh Wound Deadpan Snarker Hidden Depths Deliberately Monochrome Canon Foreigner Destination Defenestration Action Survivor All for Nothing Action Girl Spanner in the Works As Himself Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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