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* '''Enforced''': Violence against women laws prevent Alice from being killed by anything other than a painless unnamed disease.

* '''Straight''': Andrew and Jen are ambushed by a serial killer who appears in front of Jen, makes a 180, and slices Andrews throat. He had no intention of [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty “Taking” Jen away]], and went for him despite increasing his risk of getting caught by doing so.
* '''Exaggerated''': A dozen men are laying on the ground sick and dying from a flesh eating virus, while every doctor is in another room examining Jen's sprained ankle.
* '''Downplayed''': Andrew falls and loses his arm. He is treated with the appropriate concern but Jen receives the same when she sprains an ankle.

** The killer was friends with Jen but did not know Andrew.
** Jen is the protagonist.

* '''Inverted''': A bear breaks into Jordan and Anna's home, but the bear targets Anna despite her being armed with a chainsaw and being very slim, while Jordan is a hulking 6'3 man who’s currently asleep.
* '''Subverted''': The killer, naturally, shoots both witnesses and then dumps their bodies in a lake. Jen having her skull shot open while Andrew getting shot in the neck.
* '''Double Subverted''': They’re both discovered and Andrew dies from his injuries. While Jen is somehow alive with a third of her brains blown out. This is never addressed.
* '''Parodied''': “BREAKING NEWS! Boat sinks killing 463 passengers, including 5 women!”

* '''Averted''': The serial killer targets both witnesses because either of them can get him caught. If Andrew dies Jen's survival is perfectly reasonable and justified by the story and plot. If Jen dies, the trope is already averted.
* '''Enforced''': Violence against women laws prevent Jen from being killed by anything other than a painless unnamed disease.
* '''Lampshaded''': “
* '''Invoked''':
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''':

* '''Conversed''': “It’s not like I want to see a 17 year old girl get gutted by serial-killer, but I don’t understand why he’d go out of his way to target Andrew unless the author just didn’t want Jen to get hurt.”
* '''Played for Drama''': Noel begins to go insane because the deaths in her 3rd world village are going unnoticed by the larger population.
%%** The group begins to assume
* '''Played for Horror''': EvilInc performs hellish genetic experiments on (Lower classed) men because they believe they’ll have more time to get results before the FBI notices abductions targeting men.

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* '''Reconstructed''': This is why the military and similar forces like the police and navy have a huge male-to-female ratio in soldiers. Even a single male could produce way more than enough sperm to impregnate every female in the world during his whole life, and if any given nation's military fighters was primarily, (or god forbid, ''entirely'') made of females, then a large-scale or long-lasting war could horribly cripple said nation with a huge drop of birth rates that would take decades, if not, centuries for its population to recover, if at all.

* '''Reconstructed''': This is why the military and similar forces like the police and navy have a huge male-to-female ratio in soldiers. Even a single male could produce enough sperm to impregnate every female in his whole life, and if any given nation's military fighters was primarily made of females, then a large-scale or long-lasting war could horribly cripple said nation with a huge drop of birth rates that would take decades, if not, centuries for its population to recover, if at all.

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

%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Played for Drama''':
** Noel begins to go insane because the deaths in her 3rd world village are going unnoticed by the larger population.

* '''Downplayed''': Andrew falls and loses his arm. He is treated with the appropriate concern but Jen receives the same when she sprains an ankle

** Jen is the protagonist

* '''Inverted''': A Polar Bear breaks into Jordan and Anna's home, but the bear targets Anna despite her being armed with a chainsaw and being very slim, while Jordan is a hulking 6'3 man who’s currently asleep.

** The group begins to assume

** The serial killer WouldntHitAGirl

** ...

* '''Conversed''': “It’s not like I want to see a 17 year old girl get gut open by a Dwayne Johnson-looking barbarian, but I don’t understand why he’d go out of his way to target Andrew unless the author just didn’t want Jen to get hurt.”

* '''Played for Horror''': EvilIncorporated performs hellish genetic experiments on (Lower classed) men because they believe they’ll have more time to get results before the FBI notices abductions targeting men.

** Noel begins to go insane because the deaths in her 3rd world village are going unnoticed by the larger population are going unnoticed.

* '''Double Subverted''': they’re both discovered and Andrew dies from his injuries. While Jen is somehow alive with a third of her brains blown out. This is never addressed.

* '''Straight''': Andrew and Jen are ambushed by a serial killer who appears in front of Jen, makes a 180, and slices Andrews throat. He had no intention of “Taking” Jen away, and went for him despite increasing his risk of getting caught by doing so.