Assassin Outclassin'/Playing With

Basic Trope: An assassination attempt is thwarted.
 * Straight: Alice tries to assassinate Bob, but Bob defeats her.
 * Exaggerated: While barely breaking a sweat, Bob manages to overthrow the attempt in such a way that Alice accidentally kills herself instead.
 * Justified: Alice is an unexperienced assassin, and Bob is secretly proficient in martial arts.
 * Averted: Although such a situation might have been foreshadowed, no assassination attempts - successful or not - occur at all.
 * Inverted: Bob finds out about the attempt, and we see all the measures he puts together to cause it to fail. Alice effortlessly overcomes these obstacles and kills him.
 * Subverted:
 * Alice didn't actually want to assassinate Bob.
 * Exactly What I Aimed At; Alice wasn't trying to shoot Bob, but the Falling Chandelier of Doom.
 * Double Subverted: Bob goes to help Alice up after she explains her change of heart, and she tries to stab him.
 * Parodied: Alice spends the whole movie making more and more elaborate attempts on Bob's life, and due to ridiculous good luck, Contrived Coincidences and sheer obliviousness Bob doesn't even notice a single one of them.
 * Zig Zagged: Bob defeats Alice, Alice tries it again and defeats him, and her intention turns out to have been nonlethal. She actually assassinates him a bit later - however, Bob is Not Quite Dead.
 * Enforced: An assassination attempt was necessary plot-wise, and the odds are against Bob, but since in this work Nobody Can Die, Alice has to be defeated by him anyway.
 * Invoked: Alice's contract on Bob is a Uriah Gambit -- her boss wants her dead.
 * Exploited: Alice realises just in time that Bob is winning, and decides "You can kill me, but I'm Taking You With Me."
 * Defied: Bob notices Alice, but she tells him: "This isn't just one of these easily-repelled assassination attempts. Die."
 * Discussed: "Wait, your target is Bob!? ...IfYouDieICallYourStuff!"
 * Conversed: "Who sends a nameless Mook to kill a main character? It's like they haven't even heard of the Sorting Algorithm of Mortality..."
 * Played For Laughs: Assassins attacking Bob, and being effortlessly overpowered/HoistByHisOwnPetard/suffering Critical Failures, is a Running Gag; they're collectively the Wile E. Coyote to his Road Runner.

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