Basic Trope: A bodyguard murders the person they were assigned to protect.
- Straight: President Robertson is assassinated by his personal bodyguard Alice.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice defects to Russia and joins their President's security team before assassinating him as well. She repeats this process with Germany, China, South Korea, North Korea and so on.
- Alice also murders President Robertson's wife and children.
- President Robertson's entire security team betrays him.
- Every executive-level politician is assassinated by their bodyguard at the same time.
- Downplayed:
- Alice conspires with revolutionaries and gives up President Robertson's location.
- Alice cowardly abandons President Robertson when he is attacked.
- Alice accidentally shoots President Robertson dead while mishandling her gun.
- Alice paralyses President Robertson.
- Alice conspires with President Robertson's opponent and hands them dirt about him.
- The First Lady cheats on President Robertson with Alice.
- Alice resigns from her position and runs for President against Robertson in the next election.
- Justified:
- President Robertson is a Jerkass who mistreats and sexually harasses Alice.
- Alice was bribed to kill Robertson by Vice President Edwards.
- President Robertson had lost his mind and was about to order a nuclear strike on Beijing, forcing Alice to kill him to prevent WW3.
- President Robertson was about to order Alice's family killed and Alice had to kill him to protect them.
- President Robertson ordered Alice's family killed in the past. She infiltrated his security team, waiting one day to take revenge on him.
- President Robertson had skimped on paying Alice's salary. To get money for her father's cancer surgery, Alice attempts to rob a safe, but is caught by Robertson and kills him to shut him up.
- Inverted: President Robertson murders his bodyguard Alice.
- Subverted: President Robertson is assassinated by his bodyguard Alice... except we see him alive minutes afterward, because it's actually a plan to fake his death to catch the real assassins.
- As far as everyone knows, Alice the bodyguard assassinates President Robertson, but The Reveal is that Claire, who isn't his bodyguard, did the deed and framed Alice.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Alice is a cackling Obviously Evil maniac who spends most of her time ranting about how much she hates President Robertson, who nevertheless trusts her with his life.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Alice does not betray President Robertson.
- President Robertson does not have a bodyguard.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked:
- Emperor Evulz seeks out Alice to bring her in on his assassination plan because he knows she's President Robertson's bodyguard.
- Alice works hard to build trust and earn a position as President Robertson's bodyguard because she wants to assassinate him.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: President Robertson has Alice spied on and has her fired, arrested and/or executed when he learns of her scheming.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Implied: Alice is known to be conspiring against President Robertson. She disappears after President Robertson's assassination.
- Played For Drama: Alice and President Robertson were old friends and Alice feels horrible about betraying him. After killing him, she cradles him in her arms and sobs.
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