Dropped a Bridge on Him/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character leaves the story or is killed un-climatically.
 * Straight: Alice drives off road and sinks in a nearby river. Back to the action!
 * Exaggerated:
 * Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
 * Alice is the protagonist.
 * Justified:
 * Alice was just an Recurring Extra or a Mauve Shirt.
 * Or the writer is trying to make a point about how sudden and random death can be, and how not everyone can have a big, climactic meaningful death scene.
 * The actress who plays Alice is leaving the show for good, and they need a way to get rid of the character without taking up a lot of time.
 * The lightness is a plot point, having people not notice Alice's death will later be part of the story.
 * Inverted:
 * Dying Moment of Awesome
 * Alternativly, Alice dies dramatically and then comes back from the dead to no fanfare.
 * Subverted: The superhero comes just in time to save Alice from drowning in the river.
 * Double Subverted: But then Bob drives off road and knocks Alice back in the water. Back to the action!
 * Parodied:
 * Alice is constantly ignored, culminating in this trope.
 * They Killed Kenny
 * Deconstructed: Many, many characters get bridges dropped on them in the series, leading the main characters to be paranoid of leaving their houses in fear of being killed suddenly.
 * Reconstructed: The main characters realize that life is worth the risk of a bridge falling on them, and leave their houses to continue their adventures. May or may not have bridges drop on the characters anyway, depending on the work.
 * Zig Zagged: Alice drowns in a river to no remorse of the other characters. She soon comes back as a ghost, and everyone suddenly feels apologetic for her death, and throws her a 'proper' funeral with her found body. She then promptly disappears from the series for no reason, and nobody ever mentions her ghost nor her funeral again.
 * Averted: Given a climactic death
 * Enforced: "Nobody likes funerals. Let's just not give Alice one, she wasn't the title character anyway."
 * Lampshaded: "Alice was found dead in the river." "How anticlimactic."
 * Invoked: "Let's go murder Alice."
 * Defied: Alice drowns in a river, and nobody mentions her after the fact-- except Bob, who is sincerely sorry for her death and practically abandons the group in mourning for a couple of weeks.
 * Discussed: "Hey, Dave, I haven't seen Alice in a while, have you?" "Eh, who cares,she wasn't very important anyway." "Yea, you're right. Wanna get some pizza?"
 * Conversed: "And jeez, do you remember that one time in this show where Alice died, and nobody gave a damn?"

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