History PlayingWith / YouAreAlreadyDead

'''Basic Trope''': A character's OneHitKill has a noticeable delay in effect.

* '''Downplayed''': Cho uses the Dart Frog Fist on a {{Mook}}. He utters half of a word before keeling over.

* '''Enforced''': The director of Viper Death Fury envisions Cho as quick and dangerous fighter who doesn't pause a fight until her foes are incapacitated or dead. But the actor playing the {{Mook}} has significant pull in the production, and feels that his character deserves a set of witty FamousLastWords. The writers come up with the Viper Death Strike, move with a delayed but abruptly fatal reaction, and ThrowItIn.

* '''Exaggerated''': Cho uses the Taipan Tap, which causes the {{Mook}} to keel over in a minute or more.

** TheDragon headbutts Cho. Several seconds pass, and [[EpicFail ''he'' dies instead.]]

** Cho uses the Viper Death Strike on a {{Mook}}. She pulls out an alarm clock, cranks it to 5 seconds, and it tics. The alarm clock rings right as the {{Mook}} keels over.

* '''Reconstructed''': The Mook is panicked and does not score a fatal injury. Cho uses some form of meditation to avoid bleeding out until she can get medical attention, though it's a close call.

* '''Played For Drama''': Cho fights against enemies who specialise in the art of the DangerousForbiddenTechnique. When Cho guarantees their deaths, they have nothing left to lose by going all out.

** Shortly after TheDragon starts laughing, [[LudicrousGibs Cho explodes.]] TheDragon had made sure to use [[CrazyPrepared the same technique on Cho earlier in the fight.]]

** Cho uses the Viper Death Strike on a {{Mook}} and escapes the BigBad's Fortress. TheMedic proceeds to perform a full physical examination, and with a sober expression, informs the Mook that he technically dead. The {{Mook}} manages a FlatWhat before keeling over.

** Cho uses the Viper Death Strike on a {{Mook}}. She counts the number of seconds left before he is supposed to die, then pauses, confused. The {{Mook}} laughs.

** The Mook coughs up blood while laughing. Cho notes that the technique was still effective, but the Mook lasted a little longer than usual due to a defensive technique, some kind of bio-augmentation or other means.

* '''Defied''': Cho uses the Viper Death Strike on the BigBad. Joe TheGunslinger pulls out his gun and shoots him with an InstantDeathBullet. Cho comments that it was going to kill him in a few seconds, but Joe wasn't so sure.

Back to YouAreAlreadyDead.

** Cho uses the Viper Death Strike on a {{Mook}}. The {{Mook}} survies the battle and carries on with his life. When he finally dies of old age, people act as if the Death Strike was the cause.

* '''Defied''': Cho uses the Viper Death Strike on TheBigBad. Joe TheGunslinger pulls out his gun and shoots him with an InstantDeathBullet. Cho comments that it was going to kill him in a few seconds, but Joe wasn't so sure.

* '''Double Subverted''': ... and then the {{Mook}} keels over, dead.

* '''Deconstructed''': Cho uses the Viper Death Strike on a Mook, but the {{Mook}} has his finger on the trigger of a machine gun. He guns her down in the last few seconds he has before he keeling over.

* '''Inverted''': TheDragon headbutts Cho. Several seconds pass, and [[EpicFail ''he'' dies instead.]]
** Cho attacks with the Dragon's Phantom Hand, a technique that kills ''before'' it makes contact.

** Cho uses the Viper Death Strike on a {{Mook}}, and...
*** ... he taunts her for surviving her attack, just before falling over, dead.
*** ... he stares dumbfounded for a few moments before falling over, dead.