History PlayingWith / OnlyICanKillHim

* '''Zig Zagged''': The prophecy states that only [[TheHero Alice]] can kill [[BigBad Lord Truculent]]. However, Alice hasn't been seen near TheKingdom for decades, and the situation gets desperate as Lord Truculent quickly approaches.. [[TheBigGuy Bob]], who hasn't heard of the prophecy, attacks Lord Truculent, and kills him. Before he has time to celebrate this, the real Lord Truculent reveals that the dead one was a decoy, and kills Bob. [[BlackMagicianGirl Aerith]] studies the prophecy and decides that the specific statement of killing can be exploited as a loophole; As Lord Truculent reaches the city gate, she casts a paralyzing spell on him. He falls to the ground and lies still for a few seconds. Then he starts [[EvilLaugh laughing]], stands up and explains that the untranslated version of the prophecy uses a word that means "defeat" rather than "kill". He picks up Aerith by the neck and prepares to kill her, when [[DeusExMachina Alice suddenly appears out of nowhere and starts fighting him]]. The battle is intense, and Alice inflicts several very serious wounds on Lord Truculent. However, to everyone's fear and surprise, she is [[KilledOffForReal very definitely killed dead]] by a mace blow to the head. Panicking, Aerith starts firing every offensive spell she can think of at Lord Truculent, hoping to buy the civilians some time to flee. Lord Truculent first seems unaffected by the spells, but then stops, wobbles a little and falls over dead... From one of the wounds Alice inflicted before dying.

* '''Exploited''': The entire armies all line up, get ready...and then Alice calls a time out, asking to just get it over in a one on one duel. The big army fight is just a waste of resources.

* '''Deconstructed''': [[TheHero Alice]], knowing that the prophecy states that no one else can kill [[BigBad Lord Truculent]], reasons that if she dies fighting him she is responsible for [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what would happen afterward]]. Therefore, she keeps postponing the eventual battle, and spends all her awake time training. Her childhood friend and only support [[TheLancer Bob]] flees from the war-torn land and goes missing. Every day, civilians are killed by the thousands, as Alice never feels confident enough in her skills to seek out and fight Lord Truculent.

* '''Exaggerated''': [[TheBigGuy Bob]], [[TheLancer Aerith]] and the ridiculously overpowered anti-dark-lord army gets instantly wiped out of existence by [[BigBad Lord Truculent]]. He is then killed by [[TheHero Alice the leukemian orphan child]].

** The ridiculously overpowered anti-dark-lord army kills [[BigBad Lord Truculent]].

** Alice is the only person Lord Truculent can kill.
** Alice is the only person who can't kill Lord Truculent.

* '''Deconstructed''': [[TheHero Alice]], knowing that the prophecy states that no one else can kill [[BigBad Lord Truculent]], reasons that if she dies fighting him she is responsible for [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what would happen afterward]]. Therefore, she keeps postponing the eventual battle, and spends all her awake time training. Her childhood friend and only support [[TheLancer Bob]] flees from the war-torn land and goes missing. Every day, civilians are killed by [[DyingLikeAnimals the thousands]], as Alice never feels confident enough in her skills to seek out and fight Lord Truculent.

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

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''':
** [[TheHero Alice]], knowing that the prophecy states that no one else can kill [[BigBad Lord Truculent]], reasons that if she dies fighting him she is responsible for [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what would happen afterward]]. Therefore, she keeps postponing the eventual battle, and spends all her awake time training. Her childhood friend and only support [[TheLancer Bob]] flees from the war-torn land and goes missing. Every day, civilians are killed by [[DyingLikeAnimals the thousands]], as Alice never feels confident enough in her skills to seek out and fight Lord Truculent.
** Lord Truculent was [[VillainousCrush in love with Alice]]. Being in love with his enemy and having little understanding of what love is resulted in him having [[LoveMakesYouCrazy a messed up "understanding" of love]] and sees other people killing her as [[MistakenForCheating cheating]] [[YanDere (even if they were never]] [[IfICantHaveYou together in the first place).]]

** Lord Truculent was [[VillainousCrush in love with Alice]]. Being in love with his enemy and having little understanding of what love is resulted in him having [[LoveMakesYouCrazy a messed up "understanding" of love]] and sees other people killing her as [[MistakenForCheating cheating]] [[YanDere (even if they were never]][[IfICantHaveYou together in the first place).]]

** Lord Truculent was [[VillainousCrush in love with Alice]]. Being in love with his enemy and having little understanding of what love is resulted in him having [[LoveMakesYouCrazy a messed up "understanding" of love]] and sees other people killing her as [[YanDere cheating]] [[IfICantHaveYou (even if they were never together in the first place).]]

** Lord Truculent was [[VillainousCrush in love with Alice]]. Being in love with his enemy and having little understanding of what love is resulted in him having [[LoveMakesYouCrazy a messed up "understanding" of love]] and sees other people killing her as [[YanDere cheating]] (even if they were never together in the first place).

** Lord Truculent was in love with Alice. Being in love with his enemy and having little understanding of what love is resulted in him having a messed up "understanding" of love and sees other people killing her as cheating (even if they were never together in the first place).

** Lord Truculent was in love with Alice. Being in love with his enemy and having little understanding of what love is resulted in him having messed up "understanding" of love and sees other people killing her as cheating (even if they were never together in the first place).

** Lord Truculent was in love with Alice. Being in love with his enemy and having little understanding of what love is resulted in him having messed up notions about what it truly means to be in love and sees other people killing her as cheating (even if they were never together in the first place).

* '''Deconstructed''': [[TheHero Alice]], knowing that the prophecy states that no one else can kill [[BigBad Lord Truculent]], reasons that if she dies fighting him she is responsible for [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what would happen afterward]]. Therefore, she keeps postponing the eventual battle, and spends all her awake time training. Her childhood friend and only support [[TheLancer Bob]] flees from the war-torn land and goes missing. Every day, civilians are killed by [[DyingLikeAnimals the thousands]], as Alice never feels confident enough in her skills to seek out and fight Lord Truculent.
** Lord Truculent was in love with Alice. Being in love with his enemy and having little understanding of what love is resulted in him having messed up notions about what it truely means to be in love and sees other people killing her as cheating.

* '''Deconstructed''': [[TheHero Alice]], knowing that the prophecy states that no one else can kill [[BigBad Lord Truculent]], reasons that if she dies fighting him she is responsible for [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what would happen afterward]]. Therefore, she keeps postponing the eventual battle, and spends all her awake time training. Her childhood friend and only support [[TheLancer Bob]] flees from the war-torn land and goes missing. Every day, civilians are killed by [[DyingLikeAnimals the thousands]], as Alice never feels confident enough in her skills to seek out and fight Lord Truculent.
* '''Reconstructed''': Eventually, [[BigBad Lord Truculent]] seeks her out instead. She has no choice but to fight back, and thanks to her months of intensive training, she successfully defeats him. [[{{mooks}} The malign troopers]], now free from Lord Truculent's [[MassHypnosis control spell]], help the remaining civilians rebuild the destroyed cities. [[TheHero Alice]], encouraged by her victory, embarks on an expedition together with the remnants of the anti-dark-lord army to locate [[TheLancer Bob]].

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* '''Discussed''': "Sir, i know that you assembled and trained the anti-dark-lord army just for a situation like this, but I assure you that sending [[TheHero Alice]] instead is a much better idea!"

* '''Parodied''': [[TheHero Alice]] and [[TheLancer Bob]] reach the throne room of the dark castle together. [[BigBad Lord Truculent]] politely asks them to state their names and prophesied roles. "Bob, [[HeroicSacrifice heroic sacrifice]]" says bob, and explodes. "Alice, [[TheChosenOne chosen one]]" says Alice. Lord Truculent nods and gives her a key-shaped sword. She stabs him through a keyhole-shaped hole in his armor, and he falls over dead.

* '''Averted''': The ridiculously overpowered anti-dark-lord army kills [[BigBad Lord Truculent]].

* '''Justified''': [[TheHero Alice]] has fought against [[BigBad Lord Truculent]] several times before, and adapted her tactics to exploit his weaknesses.
* '''Inverted''': [[TheDragon Prince Scurrilous]], thinking that [[BigBad Lord Truculent]] is dead, takes up his quest to defeat [[TheHero Alice]]. He manages to get past the anti-dark-lord army and [[TheLancer Bob]], and reach the {{Arcadia}}. Then Alice kills him with ease. At that moment Lord Truculent arrives, and slays Alice.

* '''Defied''': [[BigBad Lord Truculent]] arranges the defenses of the dark castle so that only [[TheLancer Bob]] [[EigenPlot can take the heroes through it]]. Then, he seeks out, fights and kills Bob when [[TheHero Alice]] isn't around.

* '''Reconstructed''': Eventually, [[BigBad Lord Truculent]] seeks her out instead. She has no choice but to fight back, and thanks to her months of intensive training, she successfully defeats him. [[{{mooks}} The malign troopers]], now free from Lord Truculent's [[MassHypnosis control spell]], help the remaining civilians reuild the destroyed cities. [[TheHero Alice]], encouraged by her victory, embarks on an expedition together with the remnants of the anti-dark-lord army to locate [[TheLancer Bob]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': The prophecy states that only [[TheHero Alice]] can kill [[BigBad Lord Truculent]]. However, Alice hasn't been seen near TheKingdom for decades, adn the situation gets desperate as Lord Truculent quickly approaches.. [[TheBigGuy Bob]], who hasn't heard of the prophecy, attacks Lord Truculent, and kills him. Before he has time to celebrate this, the real Lord Truculent reveals that the dead one was a decoy, and kills Bob. [[BlackMagicianGirl Aerith]] studies the prophecy and decides that the specific statement of killing can be exploited as a loophole; As Lord Truculent reaches the city gate, she casts a paralyzing spell on him. He falls to the ground and lies still for a few seconds. Then he starts [[EvilLaugh laughing]], stands up and explains that the untranslated version of the prophecy uses a word that means "defeat" rather than "kill". He picks up Aerith by the neck and prepares to kill her, when [[DeusExMachina Alice suddenly appears out of nowhere and starts fighting him]]. The battle is intense, and Alice inflicts several very serious wounds on Lord Truculent. However, to everyone's fear and surprise, she is [[KilledOffForReal very definitely killed dead]] by a mace blow to the head. Panicking, Aerith starts firing every offensive spell she can think of at Lord Truculent, hoping to buy the civilians some time to flee. Lord Truculent first seems unaffected by the spells, but then stops, wobbles a little and falls over dead... From one of the wounds Alice inflicted before dying.

* '''Enforced''': It's an epic work HighFantasy. If anyone but TheHero defeats the BigBad, the readers will feel cheated.

'''Basic Trope''': Only TheHero can kill the BigBad, anyone else who attempts is defeated.