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** Or someone does, but doesn't die or lose very much blood.

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** Or someone does, Someone wears a white shirt, but doesn't die or lose very much blood.
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** Or: A magic-user in the series has cursed our heroes' white shirts, making them more vulnerable to attack while wearing them.

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** Or: A magic-user in the series has cursed our heroes' white shirts, making them more vulnerable to attack while wearing them.



** Or: Bob wears a black shirt into combat and suffers an unusually bloody death.
** Or: Bob wears a white shirt into combat and is harder to pick out because of the snow and is the only person who lives.

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** Or: Bob wears a black shirt into combat and suffers an unusually bloody death.
** Or: Bob wears a white shirt into combat and is harder to pick out because of the snow and is snow, ending up as the only person who lives.



* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob wears a white shirt to one battle and gets injured badly. At the next one, however, he escapes unscathed.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob wears a white shirt to one battle and gets injured badly. At the next one, however, he escapes unscathed.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character dies while wearing a white shirt or similar garment, often in an unusually bloody death.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character dies while wearing a white shirt or shirt, similar garment, garment or outfit, often in an unusually bloody death.way.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character dies while wearing a white shirt, often in an unusually bloody death.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character dies while wearing a white shirt, shirt or similar garment, often in an unusually bloody death.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character wearing a white shirt dies an often unusually bloody death.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character dies while wearing a white shirt dies an shirt, often in an unusually bloody death.
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* '''Justified/Downplayed''': White shirts, having no paint layer on them, are slightly easier to penetrate than colored shirts.
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* '''Downplayed''': Bob enters combat, and while he isn't killed, he sustains injury that leave some faint stains on his shirt.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob enters combat, and while he isn't killed, he sustains injury that leave some faint blood stains on his shirt.
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* '''Parodied''': Bob is a GaryStu. In order to kill him, he's given [[Webcomic/EnsignSueMustDie a white shirt to wear into battle]].

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* '''Parodied''': Bob is a GaryStu.Marty Stu. In order to kill him, he's given [[Webcomic/EnsignSueMustDie a white shirt to wear into battle]].



* '''Exploited''': Alice manages to get Bobs bloody shirt off of him and uses it to frame someone else for a murder she committed.

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* '''Exploited''': Alice manages to get Bobs Bob's bloody shirt off of him and uses it to frame someone else for a murder she committed.



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

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* '''Exploited''': ???Alice manages to get Bobs bloody shirt off of him and uses it to frame someone else for a murder she committed.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Bob enters combat, and while he isn't killed, he sustains injury that leave some faint stains on his shirt.

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* '''Reconstructed''': A heavily-injured person in red clothing is found shortly afterward, and Bob agrees to let them receive treatment first. He dies in the interim, his injuries having been underestimated as a result of the mistaken belief that they looked far worse than they were.



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* '''Parodied''': Bob is a GaryStu. In order to kill him, he's given [[EnsignSueMustDie a white shirt to wear into battle]].

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* '''Parodied''': Bob is a GaryStu. In order to kill him, he's given [[EnsignSueMustDie [[Webcomic/EnsignSueMustDie a white shirt to wear into battle]].

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



* '''Double Subverted''': ...Until he gets a BoomHeadshot.

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* '''Double Subverted''': ...Until he gets a BoomHeadshot.



* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's injuries also sever nerves and he's unable to feel the pain. An onlooker sees the blood and he's rushed to the emergency room. Had he worn red, he might not have made a full recovery.
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* '''Exploited''': ???



* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's injuries also sever nerves and he's unable to feel the pain. An onlooker sees the blood and he's rushed to the emergency room. Had he worn red, he might not have made a full recovery.



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* '''Subverted''': Bob goes into battle dressed in white, and it seems like he's about to die painfully, but he manages to escape and survive.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...Only to die at the last-second at the end of the fight.

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* '''Subverted''': Bob goes into battle dressed in white, and it seems like he's about to die painfully, but he manages to escape and survive.
white. His shirt gets covered in blooms of blood -- ''other people's'' blood.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...Only to die at the last-second at the end of the fight.Until he gets a BoomHeadshot.

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* '''Justified''': The bright white of Bob's shirt made him an easy target to pick out, and so he suffered a more direct, bloody hit than the others in the battle.

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The bright white of Bob's shirt made him an easy target to pick out, and so he suffered a more direct, bloody hit than the others in the battle.



* '''Inverted''': Bob, dressed in his white shirt, is the only one who leaves the battle without any blood on him.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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Bob, dressed in his white shirt, is the only one who leaves the battle without any blood on him.



* '''Averted''': Nobody wears a white shirt to the fight.

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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Nobody wears a white shirt to the fight.
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* '''Straight''': Bob wears a white shirt into combat, and is stabbed to death, stains dramatically covering the shirt.

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* '''Straight''': Bob wears a white shirt into combat, combat and is stabbed to death, with stains dramatically covering the shirt.



** Or: Bob wears a black shirt into combat, and suffers an unusually bloody death.

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** Or: Bob wears a black shirt into combat, combat and suffers an unusually bloody death.



* '''Double Subverted''': ...Only to die last-second at the end of the fight.

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* '''Double Subverted''': ...Only to die at the last-second at the end of the fight.



* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's injuries also sever nerves, and he's unable to feel the pain. An onlooker sees the blood and he's rushed to the emergency room. Had he worn red, he might not have made a full recovery.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's injuries also sever nerves, nerves and he's unable to feel the pain. An onlooker sees the blood and he's rushed to the emergency room. Had he worn red, he might not have made a full recovery.



* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob wears a white shirt to one battle and gets injured badly. At the next one, however, he escapes with unscathed.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob wears a white shirt to one battle and gets injured badly. At the next one, however, he escapes with unscathed.



** Or, someone does, but doesn't die or lose very much blood.

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** Or, Or someone does, but doesn't die or lose very much blood.



* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Conversed''': ???"Oh, you know that guy is going to die. No one wears a white shirt into battle and have it remain white at the end."
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* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???Bob is a GaryStu. In order to kill him, he's given [[EnsignSueMustDie a white shirt to wear into battle]].



* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Bob wears a white shirt to one battle and gets injured badly. At the next one, however, he escapes with unscathed.
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* '''Deconstructed''': ???

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* '''Deconstructed''': ???Bob's injuries also sever nerves, and he's unable to feel the pain. An onlooker sees the blood and he's rushed to the emergency room. Had he worn red, he might not have made a full recovery.
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** Or: Bob wears a white shirt into combat and is harder to pick out because of the snow and is the only person who lives.
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** Or, someone does, but doesn't die or lose very much blood.

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