Walking Wasteland/Playing With
Basic Trope: In a radius around the character, people and things tend to wither and die.
- Straight: All humans, animals, and plants fall immediately ill if they get within twenty meters of Bob and die in a minute if they stay in the area.
- Exaggerated: Everything crumbles to dust in a few seconds as long as it is on the same continent as Bob.
- Downplayed: Bob's potted plants keep dying, no matter what.
- Justified:
- Bob has been cursed by a god.
- Bob dabbled in Black Magic with little idea of what he was doing.
- Inverted: Bob's mere presence within twenty meters is enough to heal all wounds and diseases and even resurrect the dead.
- Subverted: It looked like Bob, a new character, had a death aura, but actually the villain had flooded the area with invisible nerve gas.
- Double Subverted: The villain's nerve gas canister dated to World War II. The gas inside had degraded to ineffectiveness long ago. The deaths really were because of Bob's presence.
- Parodied: Bob's presence turns people into musicians who play death metal in corpse paint.
- Zig Zagged: Bob's power is instantly deadly, but then a villain appears who resists it, but that was because of an amulet that gets removed, after which a priestess with divine protection withstands Bob's aura, but she offends her god and loses the protection, but there are others in the god's good graces...
- Averted: Bob does not have a death aura.
- Enforced: "I heard young people nowadays like dark and gothy things. A character with a death aura would fit the bill."
- Lampshaded: "How does he do that? I thought this universe was strictly science fiction."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: "Let's lure Bob there so that he destroys that annoying guy's prize-winning roses."
- Defied: "Get someone else take part in your life force manipulation experiment, because I won't do it."
- Discussed: "Of course Bob doesn't have a death aura, despite what the rumors say. That kind of thing happens only in particularly unrealistic fiction."
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Bob commits suicide because of his perpetual loneliness.
- Reconstructed: Bob feels oppressed by his perpetual loneliness, so he becomes a Death Seeker and fights supervillains without fear.