Talking Down the Suicidal/Playing With
Basic Trope: Someone (the Talker) finds out that another person (the Suicidal) intends to commit suicide and decides to try and talk them out of it.
- Straight: Bob is standing on a ledge about to jump, when Alice sees him and goes over to talk him out of it.
- Exaggerated: Bob uses cliched phrases to talk Alice out of killing herself ("You have so much to live for", "It gets better", etc.)
- The Talker is a celebrity who is not a main or supporting character in the work (bonus points if the Suicidal in question is a fan of theirs)
- Justified: Alice has been concerned, and came to check on Bob, only to find him about to kill himself.
- Inverted: Suicide Dare
- Subverted: Bob ignores Alice and goes ahead on killing himself anyway.
- Double Subverted: Bob actually faked his suicide.
- Bob failed to kill himself. Bonus points if the reason he failed was because Alice intentionally sabotaged his suicide as a backup plan in case Bob went ahead anyway.
- Parodied: Alice is in no actual danger of dying (is only a short distance from the ground if about to jump, using children's medicine to overdose on, etc.), but Bob attempts to talk her out of it with as much panic as if she would die if she went through with what she is about to do.
- Bob is not actually suicidal and his actions make sense in context, but Alice sees him, thinks he's going to kill himself, and attempts to talk him out of it.
- Alice was actually trying to persuade Bob to go through with killing himself, but her words actually persuade Bob to not do it. Bonus points if Bob thanks her profusely for it.
- Deconstructed: ???
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- Zig Zagged: ???
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- Enforced: ???
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- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Laughs: Suicide as Comedy
- Played For Drama: Pretty much always is.
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