History PlayingWith / CastFromLifespan

** Tropebuster involves (somehow) radiation, toxins, and/or heavy substance abuse, which messes up Bob's health really badly.

* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob]]'s DangerousForbiddenTechnique, "[[FantasticNuke Tropebuster]]", cost him a few months off his lifespan.

** Each use of "Tropebuster" cost him about one year, and he's visibly older after he use it.

** Tropebuster involves (somehow) radiation, toxins and/or heavy substance abuse, which messes up Bob's health really bad.

** But it's only because Bob had become a lich, he actually died from using Tropebuster long time ago.

* '''Parodied''': After Bob use Tropebuster, his friends throw a birthday party for him since he have grown older by about one year.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob learns the Tropebuster, which is CastFromHitPoints. He (and the audience) thinks that means permanent life force, but it actually [[KiManipulation uses Ki]], which regenerates. Then Bob needs more power for the Tropebuster and has used/is using all his Ki already, so he uses his true lifeforce to fuel it further.

* '''Enforced''': "TheHero needs an ultimate attack that can reliably win any battle, but one that he can't simply use everytime."
* '''Lampshaded''': "I see your aura grow paler everytime you use that attack."
* '''Invoked''': Emperor Evulz curses the Tropebuster somehow, or destroys its previous power source, so that it drains Bob's lifeforce.

** Bob find a way--fair or foul--to replenish his life force after he uses Tropebuster.

* '''Implied''': Bob is shown to be drained a bit every time he uses it. In the epilogue he is shown to have aged quicker, and is the first one to appear in the funeral montages of the heroes dying of old age despite being the youngest of the group.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob uses Tropebuster and turns into a weak old man, visually aging as the power flows out of him. He delivers a humorous one-liner afterwards, and displays stereotypical old man behaviour. He [[ResetButton finds a way to counter the accelerated aging by the end of the episode]].

* '''Reconstructed''': Bob can only begin learning Tropebuster after strengthening his soul.

** Every living being has (mostly unreplenishable) LifeForce, Tropebuster is a technique that converts this life force into a deadly attack.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob learns the Tropebuster, which is CastFromHitPoints. He (and the audience) thinks that means permanent life force, but it actually [[KiAttacks uses Ki]], which regenerates. Then Bob needs more power for the Tropebuster and has used/is using all his Ki already, so he uses his true lifeforce to fuel it further.

* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob]]'s DangerousForbiddenTechnique, "[[KamehameHadoken Tropebuster]]", cost him a few months off his lifespan.

'''Basic Trope''': PowerAtAPrice -- [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin using it cost you your lifespan]], sometimes accompanied with RapidAging.

* '''Exploited''': Emperor Evulz baits Bob into using the Tropebuster repeatedly, while he dodges and taunts - or worse, blocks.

** Bob find a way --fair or foul-- to replenish his life force after he uses Tropebuster.
** Bob refuses to use Tropebuster and finds a way to defeat the villan with a different attack or a different method to power the Tropebuster.
* '''Discussed''': "Bob, why would you use an attack that will eventually kill you-- ''literally''?" "The years shaved off my life is nothing compared to having to live under [[EvilOverlord Evulz]]' oppression."

* '''Implied''': Bob is shown to be drained a bit every time he uses it. In the epilogue he is shown to have aged quicker, and is the first one to appear in the funeral montages of the heroes dying of old ag,e despite being the youngest of the group.
* '''Deconstructed''': Mastering the Tropebuster skews Bob's world-view. Bob knows that every time he uses it he's closer to death-- why should he care about other people's lives?

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* '''Implied''': Bob is shown to be drained a bit every time he uses it. In epilogs he is shown to have aged quicker and is the first one in to appear in the funeral montages of the heroes dying of old age despite being the youngest of the group.

* '''Exaggerated''': Each use of "Tropebuster" cost him about one year, and he's visibly older after he use it.
** '''Up To Eleven''': Using Tropebuster will kill him right after it's executed, as it cost him his ''entire'' lifespan.

* '''Deconstructed''': Mastering the Tropebuster skews Bob's world-view. Bob knows that every time he uses it he's closer to death-- why should he care about other people's lives?
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob can only begin learning Tropebuster after strengthening his soul.

* '''Conversed''': "Bob might love his new firepower now, but let's see how he feels in a few years when he's wasted decades of his life [[BeamSpam overusing]] that technique."

Returning to CastFromLifespan will cost you a few seconds of your life.
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* '''Enforced''': "TheHero needs an ultimate attack that can reliably win any battle, but he one that he can't simply use everytime."

** Every living being has (mostly unreplenishable) LifeForce, Tropebuster is a technique that convert that life force into deadly attack.

** '''Un-Exaggerated''': CastFromHitPoints.

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** '''Exaggerated''' UpToEleven: Using Tropebuster will kill him right after it's executed, as it cost him his ''entire'' lifespan.

* '''Justified''': Every living being has (mostly unreplenishable) LifeForce, Tropebuster is a technique that convert that life force into deadly attack.

* '''Inverted''': Using Tropebuster increases Bob's lifespan.

* '''Double Subverted''': But it's only because Bob had become a lich, he actually died from using Tropebuster long time ago.

* '''Defied''': Bob find a way --fair or foul-- to replenish his life force after he uses Tropebuster.

* '''Defied''': Bob find a way --fair or foul-- to replenish his life force after he use Tropebuster.
** Bob refuses to use the Tropebuster fuelled by his lifeforce and finds a way to defeat the villan with a different attack or a different method to power the Tropebuster.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob learns the Tropebuster, which is CastFromHitPoints. He thinks that means permanent life force, but it actually uses Ki, which regenerates in his universe. Then he needs more power for the Tropebuster and has used/is using all his Ki already, so he uses his true lifeforce to fuel it further.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

** Tropebuster is an attack that destroy the enemy's lifespan.
* '''Subverted''': We see DistantFinale where Bob is alive and kicking at the venerable age of 108.

* '''Deconstructed''': Mastering the Tropebuster skews Bob's world-view. Bob knows that everytime he use it he's closer to his own death-- why should he care about other people's lives?
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob only begin learning Tropebuster after he strengthened his soul.

* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Conversed''': ???