Basic Trope: Supersized stabbing, often all-the-way-through.
- Straight: Bob kills Ron by spearing him through the chest with a giant spike that comes out of the ground, which goes straight through his body so the tip shows through the other side.
- Exaggerated: The spike that Ron died on sprouts smaller spikes that go through his head, and those spikes sprout even smaller spikes that turn his body into a barely-recognizable prickly mess.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified:
- Ron is violently sexist and homophobic and Bob is a Poetic Serial Killer, so Ron is stabbed through where his heart would be "because he didn't even have a heart to begin with".
- Bob is trying to make the soldiers of the Evul Forcez terrified of him, so he skewers the New Meat right before their eyes while he stares menacingly into their dying eyes.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: Bob misses Ron by an inch and the gory splatter sounds were actually from a very startled Ron dropping his alphabet soup.
- Double Subverted: Just as Ron starts to move again, a second spike comes out of the first one and skewers him sideways.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: There is no stabbing.
- Enforced: The "Agents" in the book are all abstractly based on the author's struggles in life, one of which is frequent sharp chest pains.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Oscar freezes all of Bob's spikes before they can get to Ron.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Ron and Bob are seen together before the scene cuts to Alice. When it cuts back, Ron is seen dead on the floor with a huge hole through his body.
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