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* '''Implied''': Charlie is untying Bob from a chair as Eva takes Alice away. He expresses relief that Alice didn't kill Bob immediately, and Bob answers that "storytime" had to come first.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice hints briefly to Bob why she's targeting him, but stops after he gets a blank look.

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Alice hints briefly to Bob why she's targeting him, but stops after he gets a blank look.look.
** Alice yells, "[[AndThisIsFor This is for Eva!]]" as she enacts her revenge.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character seeking revenge tells the victim why s/he is being targeted.
* '''Straight''': Alice tells Bob, the man who broke her sister Eva's heart, a story about a man who spurned a former girlfriend into suicide and the girl's sister, who decided to get revenge.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice tells everyone who has ever wronged her, from the BigBad to the bully who stole her cookie in first grade, what their crimes are before taking vengeance on them.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice hints briefly to Bob why she's targeting him, but stops after he gets a blank look.
* '''Justified''': Alice wants Bob to know that this isn't a random attack.
* '''Inverted''': Alice tells Bob, who broke her sister Eva's heart, a story about a man who spurned a former girlfriend into suicide and her sister, who somehow found it in herself to forgive him.
* '''Subverted''': Alice tells Bob a story about a man who spurned a former girlfriend into suicide and the girl's sister, who decided to get revenge...but when asked she says it's just a story.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...But then she says it reminds her of a story that happened to her.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Nobody in the story seeks revenge.
* '''Enforced''': The author wants to avoid puzzling the reader with why this stranger is targeting someone.
* '''Lampshaded''':
-->'''Bob''': So you're going to sit down and tell me what I did before you kill me.
* '''Invoked''': Bob coaxes Alice into telling him why she's targeting him so he'll have time to escape.
* '''Exploited''': Bob takes advantage of Alice telling him why she's targeting him to get out of his cuffs.
* '''Defied''':
-->'''Bob''': So this is the part where you tell me what I did, right?
-->'''Alice''': Wrong. ''[gunshot]''
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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I suppose you wonder why you're here. But then again, a busy troper like yourself wouldn't remember a crime against a common Playing With page, so I'll have to give you the [[RevengeRevealStory story here]]...
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

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