Taking the Bullet/Playing With

Basic Trope: Shielding someone else with your own body. Usually fatal.
 * Straight: Charlie shoots Alice but her friend Bob jumps between them and is shot instead.
 * Exaggerated: Bob stops a laser beam with his body after making a ten-meter leap. In slow motion. Accompanied by the biggest Big No ever.
 * Justified: Charlie shoots Alice in the back and Bob is the only one who sees him aim. Also, Bob is wearing a bulletproof vest.
 * And/or Alice is a MacGuffin, or Bob is her bodyguard, so he has to protect her.
 * Inverted: Bob shoots Charlie first.
 * Alternatively: Charlie attempts to body slam Alice and is shot (shielding someone from a body with your own bullet).
 * Also, the rather unlikely scenario where one character tries to shove another into the path of a bullet. A reverse Taking the Bullet, if you will.
 * Subverted: Bob is too slow to intercept the bullet.
 * Or a fourth character Danielle interrupts Charlie while Bob takes a dive, making the bullet completely miss.
 * Bob pushes Alice out the way and neither of them get hit.
 * Double Subverted: ...but Charlie is distracted enough to only wound Alice.
 * Parodied: Alice is the only one in the packed room to not see Charlie. Everyone in the room jumps in front of the gun, creating a massive struggling huddle between them.
 * Charlie shoots Alice five times, with Bob only jumping in front of the sixth bullet.
 * Charlie is about to shoot Alice with a paintball gun, which Bob catches and acts as though he's actually going to die. Everybody just looks at him, confused.
 * Deconstructed: Bob takes the bullet, goes down, then Charlie calmly shoots again, killing Alice, as well.
 * Alternatively, the bullet goes through both of them.
 * Reconstructed: Impressed and inspired by Bob's Heroic Sacrifice, the Innocent Bystanders throw themselves at Charlie, quickly overwhelming him. Both wounded are rushed to the hospital and resuscitated.
 * Alternatively, Bob takes the bullet for Alice and survives due to heavy armor being worn.
 * Zig Zagged: Various characters attempt Taking the Bullet throughout the show. Some succeed and die, some survive, others don't succeed at all. There's no system in that.
 * Averted: Charlie shoots Alice, then Bob shoots him.
 * Enforced: Redemption Equals Death, period.
 * Lampshaded: (with Blood From the Mouth) "Taking the bullet for someone... always works."
 * Invoked: "I'm wearing a bulletproof vest and can jump quite far, you know. Now, put your gun down."
 * Alternatively: Alice predicts an assassination attempt and hires bodyguards who are trained to intercept any bullets headed his way.
 * Defied: Charlie's gun shoots armor-piercing ammo, so it can go right through any unexpected obstacles.
 * Discussed: "He's about to be shot, so why do I feel the urge to jump in front of him?"
 * Conversed: Damn, he's about to shoot me, and in every movie I've seen, the closest friend takes the bullet instead! "Mara, step back! Charlie, get over here!"

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