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It's a tense scene in the middle of the story: Alice has been kidnapped and tied up by Carl, who has a gun pointed at her. Bob is on the telephone with Carl, begging him to spare her. Carl laughs maniacally about how he has won and will now... make... Bob... PAY! A shot rings out. Bob screams. A moment later, Alice is heard on the phone, sobbing and still alive. While Bob cries in relief, Carl begins listing his highly outrageous demands. Examples of Fake Kill Scare include:

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  • It's a tense scene in the middle of the story: Alice has been kidnapped and tied up by Carl, who has a gun pointed at her. Bob is on the telephone with Carl, begging him to spare her. Carl laughs maniacally about how he has won and will now... make... Bob... PAY! A shot rings out. Bob screams. A moment later, Alice is heard on the phone, sobbing and still alive. While Bob cries in relief, Carl begins listing his highly outrageous demands. Examples of Fake Kill Scare include:
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  • It's a tense scene in the middle of the story: Alice has been kidnapped and tied up by Carl, who has a gun pointed at her. Bob is on the telephone with Carl, begging him to spare her. Carl laughs maniacally about how he has won and will now... make... Bob... PAY! A shot rings out. Bob screams. A moment later, Alice is heard on the phone, sobbing and still alive. While Bob cries in relief, Carl begins listing his highly outrageous demands. This is a subtrope of Faking the Dead, where a character's death is faked in order to frighten someone; it is typically used by villains to torment heroes or innocents. This trope conveniently accomplishes several results: it adds tension to the narrative, it establishes the villain's place on the Sliding Scale of Villain Threat, and it gives the hero another impetus to start his Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Sometimes overlaps with Disney Death. Compare and contrast with Staged Shooting and Bait and Switch Gunshot. See also The Blofeld Ploy, in which the villain murders someone else at the last second, and Our Hero Is Dead. Examples of Fake Kill Scare include:
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