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* '''Downplayed''': Carol serves Alice and Bob poisoned coffee. It's mentioned later on that they died within a short space of time from each other, but it's never specified exactly how long this space of time was. Both drank most of their coffee, and Bob is just a little bit taller and heavier than Alice.

* '''Justified''': Instead of cyanide, Carol used some fictional poison, with some impressive-sounding {{Technobabble}} to justify how it can kill multiple people at the same time, regardless of their size, body mass or how much of the poison they consumed.

** Underdosing makes it more likely a drug can be shrugged off but its effects saturate. Meaning a "standard dose" is just one which uses overkill ammounts.

'''Basic Trope''': A single drug affects different people in exactly the same way, despite differences in size, body mass, constitution ''etc.''

* '''Enforced''': The creators had intended to portray the effects of the drug realistically, but the [[ExecutiveMeddling meddling executives]] thought it'd be more [[RuleOfDrama dramatic]] to have Alice and Bob both die within a few seconds of each other.

* '''Implied''': Carol serves Alice and Bob poisoned coffee. Their deaths aren't shown, but their dead bodies are found next to the chairs they sat on. This suggests that they collapsed and died within seconds of each other - after all, if one collapsed first, the other would rush to help.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice and Bob drink their poisoned coffee with seemingly no ill effects - at least not until Carol starts describing the symptoms of the poisoning, and [[SequentialSymptomSyndrome they simultaneously experience them in exactly the sequence Carol is describing]].

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice ingested an infinitesimally small dose of cyanide, while Bob was injected with several hundred times the lethal dose. Alice is an elephant and Bob is a mouse. Nevertheless, they both die within half a second of each other.

* '''Parodied''': Carol makes a big pot of coffee for a hundred guests and adds a little drop of poison in it. All guests die, even the ones who just sniffed their coffee.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Carol serves poisoned coffee to Alice, Bob and Drew. Alice drank her cup whole, while Bob and Drew did no more than few sips. Alice and Bob dies, while Drew just falls ill.

* '''Enforced''': The creators had intended to portray the effects of the drug realistically, but the executives think it'd be more dramatic to have Alice and Bob both die within a few seconds of each other.
* '''Lampshaded''': "How come they died so quickly? Bob's twice the size of Alice, and he barely touched his coffee!"
* '''Invoked''': "We will poison those idiots. Here, have these two pills, they will work no matter what the dose is!"
* '''Exploited''': Carol decides to add a very small amount of poison in Alice and Bob's coffee. Not only she succeeds in killing them, she has enough poison left to kill Drew, Eric and Fred...

* '''Conversed''': "What were the screenwriter thinking, does not he know how poison works?"

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* '''Deconstructed''': Carol adds a little amount of poison in Alice and Bob's coffee. Bob, who sipped it a little, feels just a little sick, but not sick enough to not tie Carol up and to not call the police.
* '''Reconstructed''': Christine, knowing the Carol's failure, adds a big enough portion of poison in Alice and Bob's coffee to surely kill them.

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