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Basic Trope: A hero mourns over a villain's death.
- Straight: Larry's enemy, Heinous Heather, dies, which leads to tears from Larry.
- Exaggerated: Heinous Heather does many unforgivable, terrifying things to our heroes. Yet Larry still crys like a baby when Evil Bob dies.
- Justified: Heinous Heather was an Anti-Villain with a fleshed out motivation for her actions.
- Inverted: Antagonist in Mourning
- Subverted: Despite Heinous Heather's tragic death, Steve still can't bring himself to shed tears after all the horrible things he's done.
- Double Subverted: Something tragic is revealed about her past and Steve breaks down after all.
- Parodied: See Played for Laughs.
- Deconstructed: Heinous Heather orchestrated his own death with the intention of garnering sympathy from Larry and manipulating him into considering her intentions as justified.
- Reconstructed:
- Zig Zagged: Heinous Heather dies, and Larry remains unemotional about it. However, he is later found crying in the privacy of his room. However, it turns out that he was merely mourning for his fallen comrades, and not Heinous Heather. However, when her tragic past is revealed, Larry does genuinely break down.
- Averted: Heinous Heather dies doing something cruel; nobody mourns her.
- Enforced: "Let's make Heinous Heather's death sad, shall we?"
- Lampshaded: "Sheesh, you'd think the bad guys couldn't ever bring us to tears...guess we're wrong".
- Invoked: "True, I might've been a horrible person, but you'll feel sorry for me once I'm dead."
- Defied: "The bitch destroyed my life! No matter what Freudian Excuse she might have, I'm not going to mourn her!"
- Discussed:
- Conversed:
- Played for Laughs: Heinous Heather is about to die, but can't until he thinks of something sufficiently tragic or sad to say.
- Played for Drama: Heinous Heather dies tragically, causing Larry and, possibly, the audience to mourn.