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{{trope}}
'''Basic Trope''': A defender fails to counterattack sufficiently to stop an aggressor.
* '''Straight''': [[The Dragon|General Drake]] is hounding [[The Hero|Bob]]. Eventually Bob manages to knock Drake out, but Drake recovers and manages to catch Bob again.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob barely dazes Drake with his counterattack before he tries to run. Drake shakes it off and continues his pursuit.
* '''Justified''': Bob's counter would have taken out a human. Unfortunately, Drake is anything but.
** Bob is from a society that is highly litigious and [[Lawful Stupid|Lawful Stupidity]] has made him afraid to hurt Drake sufficiently out of fear that he will get sued for battery.
** Bob is not able to hurt Drake, but hitting him once will allow him to run away.
* '''Inverted''': [[Kick Them While They Are Down]], [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]], [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]
** Also [[Extreme Melee Revenge]], in which the pursuer ''is'' beaten to a pulp like the main page says.
* '''Subverted''': Bob starts running away after knocking Drake out, then turns back to [[Boom! Headshot!|ventilate his brainpan.]]
* '''Double Subverted''': Except Bob missed and had no time to take another shot, so Drake still lives.
* '''Deconstructed''': Drake catches Bob and kills him.
* '''Reconstructed''': It turns out that Drake only got a dummy that lead him right into Bob's trap.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Bob [[Off with His Head|decapitates Drake]]... [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|then cuts off the rest of his limbs, shoots his heart multiple times, blows up his body, smothers his remains, and throws the ashes into some acid]].
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Defied''': See Inverted.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "You can always count on slasher victims to be [[Genre Blind]] about the killer's durability."
* '''Played For Laughs''': Drake is crushed by an anvil, ([[Rule of Funny|along with a whole lot of random events that just occur]]) and still manages to recover nicely in time for the next scene.
* '''Played For Drama''': Just before he blanks out, Drake mutters how he failed to keep his promise to his sister/lover/friend, thinking he's going to die.
** Bob is relieved and thinks Drake is gone for good. He gets a nasty surprise when he shows up again, and means business.
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[[Category:Once Is Not Enough]]
[[Category:Playing With]]
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