Basic Trope: A thing that is usually safe is harmful in a video game.
- Straight: Bob is in a forest, but if he touches the deer or birds he gets hurt.
- Exaggerated: If Bob even so much as lightly touches anything such as rocks, tree stumps, and even the floor, he explodes in a shower of gore. Even the stationary NPC are too lethal to touch.
- Downplayed: Bob is in a forest. Lingering too close to deer or birds will get them attacking him, but if he moves away then they will not bother him.
- Justified:
- The animals will only fight back if Bob hurts them first.
- The villain made every object a Happy Fun Ball.
- Bob lives in either Australia or Siberia.
- Bob is on a planet ruled by a hostile Genius Loci.
- Bob lives in a Death World.
- Bob's Immunosuppressive Disorder is that bad.
- Bob is a weak and small animal, such as a bug or rabbit, that many animals would consider prey.
- Bob, rightly or not, is The Most Wanted person alive.
- Inverted:
- Bob gets shot at by a minion but doesn't lose any life.
- Bob's trying to die; in response, everything and everyone is trying to keep him alive.
- Bob is trying to kill everything.
- Subverted: A bird charges towards Bob, but inflicts no damage.
- Double Subverted: ..but it does knockback, which pushes Bob into a trap.
- Parodied:
- A chair suddenly comes to life and tries to eat Bob.
- Bob is placed as the number one on a wanted list. Everything tries to kill him because of that.
- Zig Zagged: During his first visit to the forest, the deer and birds are harmful to Bob, but on his second visit they do no damage.
- Averted: All the enemies are things that make sense as enemies.
- Enforced: The developers couldn't think of any enemies that fit in with the theme of the level, so they just made random things into enemies.
- Lampshaded: "These are things that shouldn't be killing me, why are they killing me?"
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz genetically engineered the deer and birds to be coated in poison.
- Exploited: Bob, who has years of experience with the Forest of Death, lures pursuers into it to meet the deer and birds.
- Defied:
- Bob brings a big rifle (or a machine gun) and starts shooting everyone and everything from the distance, just in case.
- When even that doesn't work, Bob requests the Air Force to carpet bomb the area to finally make it.
- Discussed: "Don't touch anything, or you'll regret."
- Conversed: "Ever noticed how in video games, everyone and everything tries to kill you?
- Deconstructed: Bob becomes afraid to leave his house because he will get attacked if he goes outside.
- Reconstructed: Bob learns various self-defense techniques in order to protect himself from the enemies.
- Played For Laughs: Bob goes through a Failure Montage full of Amusing Injuries from unexpected sources.
- Played For Drama: Being constantly attacked results in Bob resolving that, since the world's out to get him anyway, he should respond in kind.
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