History PlayingWith / AesopCollateralDamage

** Alice won't learn anything if she dies ... but she might learn something if someone she cares about suffers instead.

* '''Invoked''': Betty shows up during a dispute, and Alice's belligerent customer decides to attack Betty.
* '''Exploited''': Alice and Betty's family fake the affair in order to get Alice back on the straight and narrow.

** The customer knows the dispute is between him and Alice, and leaves Betty alone.

** Alternatively, Betty is furious ''[[WhatTheHellHero at Alice]]'' for treating her misfortune as something that "had to happen" for Alice's benefit, and [[ReformedButRejected doesn't believe she's actually reformed.]] "Because [[ItsAllAboutMe everything has to be about you, right?]] Who made ''[[ProtagonistCenteredMorality you]]'' the main character?!"

** Alice's [[DeathBySex lifestyle]] [[DrugsAreBad gets her]] [[TheHeroDies killed]] so that her little sister (and the audience) can learn not to do what Alice did.

** Alice quitting drinking allows her to becomes a surgeon. This allows her to revive her comatose cousin who was injured in a truck crash. Learning her lesson allowed her to help someone harmed by someone else.

'''Basic Trope''': Another character (a parent, a sibling, a LoveInterest, a friend, what have you) suffers or dies so that TheProtagonist can learn the lesson he/she needs to learn.
* '''Straight''': 15-year-old [[DesignatedHero Alice]] falls victim to TheAggressiveDrugDealer, and smokes marijuana. She becomes addicted to it, but soon even that's not enough for her, and she starts using harder drugs like coke and heroin. Since these drugs are much more expensive, she ends up [[HookersAndBlow selling drugs (and her body)]] to pay for her habit. In the midst of a deal gone horribly wrong, her 12-year-old sister Betty [[ChildrenAreInnocent (who's a virgin and has never used drugs)]] comes looking for her and gets shot. This spurs Alice to reexamine her life, get clean, and stop dealing drugs and hooking.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice's [[EverybodysDeadDave entire social circle]] (apart from her customers) gets killed off.

** Alice won't learn anything if she dies... but she might learn something if someone she cares about suffers instead.
** The aesop is about being able to move on when a loved one dies, so the only way for Alice to learn that lesson would be to kill off someone close to her.

** Alice's [[DeathBySex lifestyle]] [[DrugsAreBad gets her killed]] so that her little sister (and the audience) can learn not to do what Alice did.

** Alice still decides to reexamine her life and HeelFaceTurn, so that will never happen again...or worse.
** Because she realized Betty was in danger and took the bullet for her.

** This is combined with LongLostUncleAesop and AesopAmnesia for DarkComedy. Alice express annoyance at all of relatives from nowhere that appear out of nowhere for the slightest misdeed. Sure "Uncle Just Stop Drinking Alice" and "Aunt Just Say No To Drugs" were shocking the first time but when it has gotten to "Friend of Friend's Ex's Estranged Roommate Don't Pick Your Nose" she has stopped taking them remotely seriously. The coroner is on a first name basis with her.
** Whenever Alice partakes in bad behavior, a random friend or family member of hers [[MadeOfExplodium explodes]] for no adequately explained reason.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Exploited''': Alice and Betty's family fake the whole thing in order to get Alice back on the straight and narrow.

* '''Deconstructed''': Technically Alice does learn a lesson. However it sends her down a dark path of revenge as she kills everyone who was slightly involved in Betty's death working backwards through a chain of dealers. It turns out that learning a lesson in extreme circumstances [[KnightTemplar can result in going too far]].

Back to AesopCollateralDamage...but watch where you step.

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* '''Justified''': Alice won't learn anything if she dies...but she might learn something if someone she cares about suffers instead.

* '''Inverted''': Alice's [[DeathBySex lifestyle]] [[DrugsAreBad gets her killed]] so that her little sister (and the audience) can learn not to do what Alice did.

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** Whenever Alice partakes in bad behavior, a random friend or family member of hers explodes for no adequately explained reason.

** Whenever Alice partakes in bad behavior, a random friend or family member of hers explodes.

** This is combined with LongLostUncleAesop and AesopAmnesia for DarkComedy. Alice express annoyance at all of relatives from nowhere that appear out of nowhere for the slightest misdeed. Sure "Uncle Just Stop Drinking Alice" and "Aunt Just Say No To Drugs" were shocking the first time but when it has gotten to "Friend of Friend's Exe's Estranged Roommate Don't Pick Your Nose" she has stopped taking them remotely seriously. The coroner is on a first name basis with her.

** Whenever Alice partakes in bad behavior, a random family members of hers explodes.

* '''Parodied''': This is combined with LongLostUncleAesop and AesopAmnesia for DarkComedy. Alice express annoyance at all of relatives from nowhere that appear out of nowhere for the slightest misdeed. Sure "Uncle Just Stop Drinking Alice" and "Aunt Just Say No To Drugs" were shocking the first time but when it has gotten to "Friend of Friend's Exe's Estranged Roommate Don't Pick Your Nose" she has stopped taking them remotely seriously. The coroner is on a first name basis with her.

* '''Downplayed''': Betty survives the gunshot wound, but winds up in a coma she might never come out of.

** Betty is raped or otherwise hurt, but not killed.
** Alice is the one who gets shot .

** Betty winds up in a coma she might never come out of...and even if she does, she's suffered some brain damage and will never be the same again.

* '''Parodied''': This is combined with LongLostUncleAesop and AesopAmnesia for DarkComedy. Alice express annoyance at all of relatives from nowhere that appear out of nowhere for the slightest misdeed. Sure "Uncle Just Stop Drinking Alice" and "Just Say No To Drugs" were shocking the first time but when it has gotten to "Friend of Friend's Exe's Estranged Roommate Don't Pick Your Nose" she has stopped taking them remotely seriously. The corner is on a first name basis with her.

'''Basic Trope''': Another character (a parent, a sibling, a LoveInterest, a friend, what have you) dies so that TheProtagonist can learn the lesson he/she needs to learn.

* '''Parodied''': ???

%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???

* '''Parodied''': SpaceWhaleAesop

* '''Straight''': 15-year-old Alice falls victim to TheAggressiveDrugDealer, and smokes marijuana. She becomes addicted to it, but soon even that's not enough for her, and she starts using harder drugs like coke and heroin. Since these drugs are much more expensive, she ends up [[HookersAndBlow selling drugs (and her body)]] to pay for her habit. In the midst of a deal gone horribly wrong, her 12-year-old sister Betty [[ChildrenAreInnocent (who's a virgin and has never used drugs)]] comes looking for her and gets shot. This spurs Alice to reexamine her life, get clean, and stop dealing drugs and hooking.

* '''Basic Trope''': Another character (a parent, a sibling, a LoveInterest, a friend, what have you) dies so that TheProtagonist can learn the lesson he/she needs to learn.

* '''Subverted''': Betty is raped or otherwise hurt, but not killed.
** Alice is the one who gets shot
** Alice decides she can't go on and is DrivenToSuicide
** Betty's death ends up being a DisneyDeath

* '''Double Subverted''': Alice still decides to reexamine her life and HeelFaceTurn, so that will never happen again...or worse.

** RedemptionEqualsDeath

*** Or, Betty actually did get shot, since Uncle Aesop didn't realize that [[OhCrap those weren't blanks after all.]]

* '''Averted''': Alice doesn't get into trouble.

* '''Defied''': The customer knows the dispute is between him and Alice, and leaves Betty alone.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice's entire social circle (apart from her customers) gets killed off.

* '''Conversed''': "Was it really necessary to kill off sweet, innocent Betty?"

* '''Straight''': 15-year-old Alice falls victim to TheAggressiveDrugDealer, and smokes marijuana. She becomes addicted to it, but soon even that's not enough for her, and she starts using harder drugs like coke and heroin. Since these drugs are much more expensive, she ends up [[HookersAndBlow selling drugs (and her body)]] to pay for her habit. In the midst of a deal gone horribly wrong, her 12-year-old sister [[ChildrenAreInnocent (who's a virgin and has never used drugs)]] comes looking for her and gets shot. This spurs Alice to reexamine her life, get clean, and stop dealing drugs and hooking.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice's entire social circle (apart from her customers) gets killed off.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice's sister gets [[RapeAsDrama raped]], but not killed. Still, it does cause Alice to HeelFaceTurn.
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