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| - Basic Trope: A character does incredibly unwise things and plays it off by stating that they're adhering to a code of honor.
* Straight: Alice has the chance to ambush and kill Emperor Evulz for good, but decides against it because she finds sneak attacks dishonorable.
* Exaggerated: Alice has a ridiculously specific code of honor, to the point where she's almost ineffective as a hero.
* Justified: Alice doesn't like being dishonorable - she'd rather get killed.
* Inverted: Alice is a Combat Pragmatist, willing to fight as dirty as possible to win.
* Alice knows that the honorable thing is not always the smart thing, and acts in a way consistent with that
* Subverted: Alice weighs the loss of honor from ambushing the Emperor versus the loss of life that Evulz has caused, and decides to ambush him.
* Double Subverted: However, she gives up on the plan halfway through because it just feels wrong.
* Parodied: Alice refuses to use American Customary Measurements, even when it would make her more easily understood, because she knows metric is simply better.
* Deconstructed: Emperor Evulz repeatedly invokes Alice's code of honor, to the point where she's not able to fight back and he successfully kills her.
* In a way, Honor Before Reason is a Deconstruction in itself.
* Reconstructed: Alice's code of honor is the source of her power.
* Zig Zagged: Alice tries her best to adhere to a code of honor, but it's a semi-flexible one.
* Averted: Alice has no stated code of honor.
* Enforced: "Emperor Evulz is popular, so we can't just have him be losing all the time! Wait, I've got it..."
* Lampshaded: "I'm not going to attack an enemy from behind. I just won't! It's not fair!"
* Invoked: Alice's predecessor was a Blood Knight of the highest caliber. To avoid being like him, she decides to create a code of honor.
* Defied: "I know it's dishonorable to sneak up on him and kill him. But I don't care. This is for the good of the world."
* Discussed: "Emperor Evulz! Turn around, I want you to see this one coming!"
* Conversed: Back to Honor Before Reason.
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