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** Bob finds a thousand complications from (and because of) becoming an {{Unperson}}. False documents that suck, people who want to fleece you, the inevitable cop who [[JustOneLittleMistake thinks there is something that is not right and arrest you]], and so on.
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* '''Deconstructed''': [[GoneHorriblyRight Bob's 'death' is so convincing that he's]] BuriedAlive.
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* '''Deconstructed''': '''Deconstructed''':
** [[GoneHorriblyRight Bob's 'death' is so convincing that he's]]BuriedAlive.BuriedAlive.
** Bob (or 'Bernard') is MistakenForOwnMurderer.
** [[GoneHorriblyRight Bob's 'death' is so convincing that he's]]
** Bob (or 'Bernard') is MistakenForOwnMurderer.
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* '''Reconstructed''': [[BatmanGambit Bob anticipated this]], so he while in the morgue, he switched himself out with the corpse of a homeless doppelgänger brought in by his accomplice.
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* '''Reconstructed''': [[BatmanGambit [[XanatosGambit Bob anticipated this]], this possibility]], so he while in the morgue, he switched himself out with the corpse of a homeless doppelgänger brought in by his accomplice.
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* '''Reconstructed''': [[AllAccordingToPlan Bob anticipated this]], so he while in the morgue, he switched himself out with the corpse of a homeless doppelgänger brought in by his accomplice.
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* '''Reconstructed''': [[AllAccordingToPlan [[BatmanGambit Bob anticipated this]], so he while in the morgue, he switched himself out with the corpse of a homeless doppelgänger brought in by his accomplice.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob anticipated this, so he while in the morgue, he switched himself out with the corpse of a homeless doppelgänger brought in by his accomplice.
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* '''Reconstructed''': [[AllAccordingToPlan Bob anticipated this, this]], so he while in the morgue, he switched himself out with the corpse of a homeless doppelgänger brought in by his accomplice.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob anticipated this, so he while in the morgue, he switched himself out with the corpse of a homeless doppelgänger brought in by his accomplice.
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* '''Deconstructed''': [[GoneHorriblyRight Bob's 'death' is so convincing that he's]] BuriedAlive.
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** Bob leaves town recovering from a heart attack, letting everyone come to the wrong conclusion after he was last seen being carted off in an ambulance.
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** Bob leaves town after recovering from a heart attack, letting everyone come to the wrong conclusion after he was last seen being carted off in an ambulance.
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* '''Downplayed''': Bob lures his friends to a surprise party by pretending it is a funeral.
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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
** Bob lures his friends to a surprise party by pretending it is afuneral. funeral.
** Bob leaves town recovering from a heart attack, letting everyone come to the wrong conclusion after he was last seen being carted off in an ambulance.
** Bob lures his friends to a surprise party by pretending it is a
** Bob leaves town recovering from a heart attack, letting everyone come to the wrong conclusion after he was last seen being carted off in an ambulance.
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* '''Straight''': Bob jumps off a high bridge [[SoftWater into the river below]]. Everyone assumes [[NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat died on impact]], so he goes on living under a false identity.
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* '''Straight''': Bob jumps off a high bridge [[SoftWater into the river below]]. Everyone assumes he [[NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat died on impact]], so he goes on living under a false identity.
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* '''Justified''': Bob's enemies want him dead, and won't stop until the succeed. Bob must convince them they have accomplished such a task to get them to back off.
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* '''Justified''': Bob's enemies want him dead, and won't stop until the they succeed. Bob must convince them they have accomplished such a task to get them to back off.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character pretends to be dead
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'''Basic Trope''': A character pretends to be deaddead.
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* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
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* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???Bob seems to die, but then turns up alive. But he explains he actually ''did'' die, only to be resurrected in secret and continued to fake his death until this moment.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob has [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter many different identities]], and has disposed of them with various methods such as murder, suicide, accident, and medical complications.
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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob has [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter many different identities]], and has disposed of them with various methods such as murder, suicide, accident, and medicalcomplications.complications.
** Bob arranges to receive numerous un-survivable injuries before witnesses and be carted off to a morgue, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal being fully aware]] that [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue he will regain consciousness]] at a point where he can sneak out.
** Bob has [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter many different identities]], and has disposed of them with various methods such as murder, suicide, accident, and medical
** Bob arranges to receive numerous un-survivable injuries before witnesses and be carted off to a morgue, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal being fully aware]] that [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue he will regain consciousness]] at a point where he can sneak out.
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* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': "Killing off Bob made the fans mad, so the producers reveal he never was dead.
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* '''Averted''': ???
'''Averted''':
** Bob doesn't fake his own death.
** Bob really is dead.
* '''Enforced''':"Killing Killing off Bob made the fans mad, so the producers reveal he never was dead.
** Bob doesn't fake his own death.
** Bob really is dead.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character pretends to be dead
* '''Straight''': Bob jumps off a high bridge [[SoftWater into the river below]]. Everyone assumes [[NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat died on impact]], so he goes on living under a false identity.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob has [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter many different identities]], and has disposed of them with various methods such as murder, suicide, accident, and medical complications.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob lures his friends to a surprise party by pretending it is a funeral.
* '''Justified''': Bob's enemies want him dead, and won't stop until the succeed. Bob must convince them they have accomplished such a task to get them to back off.
* '''Inverted''': Charlie impersonates Bob, to convince people that he is still alive.
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob is assumed to be up to his tricks, but he turns up dead for real.
** Bob returns after his apparent death, but turns out to be an impostor.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** The corpse turns out to be a fake.
** Bob hired the imposter to convince his friend and family that he is dead for real.
* '''Parodied''': Bob [[FingerGun points his finger at his head and yells bang]]. Everyone reacts as if he killed himself for real.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': "Killing off Bob made the fans mad, so the producers reveal he never was dead.
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': Charlie kidnaps Bob and pretends to kill him, so that everyone will be looking for a corpse and won't suspect he was kidnapped.
* '''Exploited''': Charlie kills Bob and pretends it was an accident, knowing that Bob had arranged such an accident himself.
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "Is Bob really dead, we never saw his body".
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* '''Straight''': Bob jumps off a high bridge [[SoftWater into the river below]]. Everyone assumes [[NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat died on impact]], so he goes on living under a false identity.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob has [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter many different identities]], and has disposed of them with various methods such as murder, suicide, accident, and medical complications.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob lures his friends to a surprise party by pretending it is a funeral.
* '''Justified''': Bob's enemies want him dead, and won't stop until the succeed. Bob must convince them they have accomplished such a task to get them to back off.
* '''Inverted''': Charlie impersonates Bob, to convince people that he is still alive.
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob is assumed to be up to his tricks, but he turns up dead for real.
** Bob returns after his apparent death, but turns out to be an impostor.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** The corpse turns out to be a fake.
** Bob hired the imposter to convince his friend and family that he is dead for real.
* '''Parodied''': Bob [[FingerGun points his finger at his head and yells bang]]. Everyone reacts as if he killed himself for real.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': "Killing off Bob made the fans mad, so the producers reveal he never was dead.
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': Charlie kidnaps Bob and pretends to kill him, so that everyone will be looking for a corpse and won't suspect he was kidnapped.
* '''Exploited''': Charlie kills Bob and pretends it was an accident, knowing that Bob had arranged such an accident himself.
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "Is Bob really dead, we never saw his body".
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