
The Roberta's Blood Trail OVA deviates from the original manga by applying this.Luckily, he was the only one who thought to wear a bullet-proof vest. There's also Lotton The Wizard, who gets shot out-of-hand while attempting to make a big entrance.While Blitz Stanford, an enormous neo-Nazi is extolling the virtues of his enormous Luger, Revy takes the time to reload before promptly shooting him.Then she gets shot In the Back by some guy and dies, because there's still a contract on her head by a mob boss who isn't into the whole mercy for the killers of her men thing, and a Badass is just as vulnerable as anyone else when caught off guard. Rock's kindness to Gretel appears to do her some good and she leaves the Black Lagoon (the vessel) amicably.So, it turns out that taking on a heavily-armed unit of former Russian Commandos armed only with an ax isn't that good of an idea.One depressing European ad against child abuse had a man beating a cartoon kid for a while before cutting to a real, unconscious kid on the floor and the legend "Real children don't bounce back".This troper recalls that commercial winning some kind of award. The mom and kids respond by doing what a real life mom and kids would do: freak out and run away, screaming. The sun logo comes to life to sing the drink's praises. In one Sprite commercial, a mom takes out some Sun Fizz to give to her children.It's probably the darkest soft drink ad ever filmed. He then challenged WCW's Sting to a match - and was promptly battered from pillar to post as his parents just stood by and laughed.
#TVTROPES RULE OF ROSE PROFESSIONAL#

Contrast This Is Reality, where a character believes that reality will ensue, but it doesn't. Compare Magic A Is Magic A it's very important that these instances are consistent with the setting. Not to be confused with Hilarity Ensues, although they can overlap, depending on usage.

Commonly found in the company of Wrong Genre Savvy. Defied Trope may lead to this, as may Deconstructed Trope.

See also Twist Ending, Mood Whiplash, Ascended Fridge Horror and Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. This can sometimes be seen on the hard end of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism, though it isn't necessarily so. Whichever, it's that moment when the audience goes " that makes logical sense but our tropes don't cover." Sane hasn't forgotten his orbit-to-surface nukes. Or the plucky La Résistance has beat the Empire despite being technologically inferior, only to realise too late that Admiral I.N. Or maybe the protagonist should have been better about cleaning up his/her loose ends, because Offscreen Inertia is actually not in effect and those Butt Monkey Mooks are angry.
#TVTROPES RULE OF ROSE FREE#
Perhaps the Love Interest is not Immune to Bullets, or perhaps talking is not, despite what you may have been led to believe, a free action. Maybe the villain is Dangerously Genre Savvy, or the Mooks can actually shoot straight. Maybe Your Vampires Aren't Quite So Different After All. and takes out a gun, shoots the Evil Overlord in the head, and walks away. The hero is facing the Evil Overlord in the final showdown. They've disarmed The Dragon using The Power of Friendship. So the hero has defeated the Evil Overlord's army.
