Basic Trope: A dart filled with a tranquilizer.
- Straight: Bob is a wildlife officer. He shoots a deer with a dart that tranquilizes it.
- Exaggerated: Bob is a wildlife officer who never kills an animal. He only shoots them with tranquilizer darts.
- Downplayed: Bob is a wildlife officer. He shoots a deer with a dart that makes it calm without putting it to sleep.
- Justified: Deer are an endangered species and it is illegal to kill one. So when Bob the wildlife officer is called to get rid of a deer, he shoots it with a tranquilizer dart and relocates it.
- Inverted: Bob is a wildlife officer. He shoots a sleeping deer with a dart filled with a wake-up drug.
- Subverted: Bob is a wildlife officer. He shoots a deer with a dart... an antibiotic dart.
- Double Subverted: One of the side effects of the antibiotic is drowsiness.
- Parodied: Bob wants to study Krypto the Superdog and shoots him with a kryptonite dart.
- Zigzagged: ???
- Averted: Bob is a wildlife officer. He is never shown using tranquilizer darts, or darts of any sort.
- Enforced: The writers of an animated show about wild animals thought it'd be funny to have animals acting like drunk people, but the animals in the story are only semi-anthropomorphic and therefore do not drink, so they have the animals shot with tranquilizer darts.
- Lampshaded: "Why is Bambi acting funny? And what's that thing in his butt?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: A talking deer wants to get high, so he asks Bob the wildlife officer to tranquilize him.
- Defied: Bob the wildlife officer refuses to use tranquilizer darts, and instead uses other methods such as net guns.
- Discussed: "Look, that deer got his antlers entangled in those branches! I wish I had a tranquilizer gun so I could free him."
- Conversed: "I love when cartoon animals are hit with tranquilizer darts. Comedy gold."
- Played for Laughs: In a work where animals are the main characters, the animals are shot with tranquilizer darts by a wildlife officer. They smile and start rambling on until they pass out.
- Played for Horror: A crazed puppet named Jackhammer shoots tranquilizer darts at people in order to bring them back to his diabolical death traps.
- The dosage in the darts is wrong, killing the animals that are supposed to be tranquilized.
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