Instant Death Bullet/Playing With

Basic Trope: One bullet seems to kill someone in an instant.
 * Straight: Bill shoots Mac in the leg and Mac instantly dies.
 * Exaggerated: Bill takes down mob after mob, shooting them in comically non-lethal areas such as the finger and the toe, and they all die instantly.
 * The moment a bullet hits something, it is instantly deleted from reality.
 * Justified: It was a shot to a vital spot of the brain or the heart.
 * Alternately, the bullet is a special bullet designed to instantly kill anyone it hits.
 * Inverted: Bill shoots Mac's corpse and he springs back to life.
 * Only a Flesh Wound
 * A gunshot wound, even a headshot that splatters someone's brains across the room, invariably means a slow, agonizing death.
 * Subverted: The shot seems to kill Mac but he comes back a scene later...
 * Double Subverted: To die from a second bullet later.
 * Parodied: The gun shop Bill frequents is advertising the Super Bullet, which is guaranteed to drop your opponents even if it just grazes them.
 * Anyone who touches a bullet instantly dies. Instead of being shot from guns, bullets are thrown from catapults in large numbers.
 * Deconstructed: There is such a thing as Instant Death Bullets, unfortunately, they are in the hands of the toughest mobs in the world.
 * A cop thinks he killed a thug when he shot him but when he had his back turned, the thug shoots him dead.
 * Reconstructed: Soon, some cops get a hold of the bullets and make their own.
 * The thug stayed dead.
 * Zig Zagged: Bill shoots Mac, who appears to die instantly. Then, as Bill turns to walk away, Mac opens his eyes, crawls forward, and shoots Bill...who dies instantly.
 * Averted: Mac gets shot and lives long enough to bleed out and deliver a Final Speech.
 * Enforced: The producers of this film are big on gun control and want to reinforce how deadly guns can be
 * Lampshaded: “This gun shoots death!”
 * Invoked: Bill has some targeting practice to make everyone of his bullets cast death when they are shot.
 * Defied: Bill has some targeting practice to avoid shooting Mac in a vital area.
 * Discussed: "Well, I guess one shot is all it takes..."
 * "Wow, he died rather quickly, considering I shot him in the foot..."
 * Conversed: "I really like Tropers on Tropes, but that scene when Alice falls over after being shot feels a bit off to me..."

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