- Basic: All good characters in a work live, while the evil characters die.
- Straight: In Tales of Troperia, although the heroes are in mortal danger multiple times, only Evulz dies.
- Justified:
- The heroes are all immortal, while the bad guys are mortal.
- The heroes have access to magic that can cure death, while Evulz does not.
- Inverted: Many heroes die, but Evulz makes it to the end.
- Subverted:
- Evulz faked his death, making this Nobody Can Die.
- Hero Alice died in the second book and was replaced by her evil clone.
- We learn that Evulz was the good guy after his death.
- Double Subverted:
- ...and then gets Killed Off for Real.
- ...in fact, she was lying about this, and it's actually Alice.
- ...He then comes back to life and kills the real villains.
- Parodied: The heroes all have "Hero Armor", which doesn't actually exist but which they insist is the reason they all survive everything.
- Deconstructed: The only reason the heroes survive everything is that they've never actually done anything dangerous. When they do, they all get killed instantly.
- Reconstructed: The villain is much weaker than the heroes, so it isn't dangerous at all for the heroes to defeat him and save the world.
- Zig Zagged: No good guys die. Then Alice dies in book two and is replaced by her evil clone. But Alice was lying the entire time- it's actually her. But then Alice turns evil and kills Bob, a hero. But Bob faked his death and came back once Alice was killed. But Alice hasn't been killed at all- she assumed the form of Carly, who she did kill. Then turns out Carly was one of the villain's spies.
- Averted:
- Enforced: The authors promised their readers a death in the next book, but the publishers won't publish it if one of the heroes dies because it's a kids' series and they consider that too dark.
- Implied: Death is a character, and it tells the POV character, Ella, that it's going to the battle between the heroes and the villain because it will be needed. All the heroes reunite with Ella, alive and well, at the end.
- Played for Laughs: The villains all die in amusing ways, and Bob posts it on YouTube.
- Played for Drama: Filip, a mook, is a POV character. His POVs deal with his fear of death and grief for Evulz.
- Played for Horror: The villains come back as zombies, more powerful and terrifying than before.
- Exaggerated: The heroes go through thousands of experiences that not only COULD have killed them, but SHOULD have (i.e, brain cancer, falling into a volcano, getting eaten by a bear) and survive. Evulz does absolutely nothing dangerous, but still dies.
- Downplayed: The heroes don't die, but they get gravely injured, and some are even disabled for life.
- Lampshaded: "Of course Bob and Carly survived. They're good guys, they can't die."
- Invoked: The Great Author in the Sky intentionally kills villains and protects heroes.
- Exploited: Bob, knowing he can't die, does all kinds of crazy stunts and risks his life.
- Defied: Filip goes out of his way to murder heroes.
- Discussed: "Death doesn't care if Bob is a hero. He'll still die if he falls into that volcano. This isn't a movie."
Go on back to Only Evil Can Die. You'll be fine, you're not evil.
