We Hardly Knew Ye/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character is introduced, and dies after a short period of time before any meaningful character development.
 * Straight: Private Liam is introduced when he encounters Sergeant Steel, and is promptly gunned down two minutes later.
 * Exaggerated:Pvt. Liam first appears while calling out to Sgt. Steel in a hallway. Right as he does that, an Elite Mook drops from the ceiling and impales him gorily.
 * Justified: The author wants to show how violent and unpredictable war or life in general is, and the random nature of death.
 * Inverted: Pvt. Liam kills a character who we've known for a long time.
 * Subverted: Liam introduces himself and is attacked by an Elite Mook. He then turns around and shoots it to death, before resuming the conversation...
 * Double Subverted:...And then the Elite Mook springs back up and kills him.
 * Parodied: Everyone who introduces themselves to Sgt. Steel dies horribly seconds later.
 * Deconstructed: ???
 * Reconstructed: ???
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: Liam never died. Liam is an Invincible Hero and therefore can't die.
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: ???
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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