Basic Trope: A dead driver's head falls onto the steering wheel and activates the horn.
- Straight: Alice gives Bob a Pretty Little Headshot while he's driving, causing him to slump forward and hit the horn with his head.
- Exaggerated: Alice manages to poison gas an entire traffic jam that was (up until now) quiet, causing a Big Honking Traffic Jam of corpses slumped over their steering wheels.
- Downplayed: Bob's fresh corpse continues slumping and his head falls off the horn, ending the noise.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: A wizard investigates the sound of continuous honking, since it was interrupting his sleep. He finds Bob's body on the car horn, and restores his life solely to get his head off the horn.
- Subverted: Bob's head looks like it's about to hit the horn, but a small shift sends him slumping off to the side instead.
- Double Subverted: The Delayed Safety Feature airbags shift Bob's body back into position to put pressure on the horn.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Charlie hires Alice to assassinate Bob and specifies that Bob must die in his car.
- Exploited: Charlie wants both Alice and Bob out of his way, he put Alice on the bad end of a Uriah Gambit, she's been set up to be easily caught by the police.
- Defied: Alice does not want the car horn going off and drawing attention to her even if that means she forfeits payment and thus she either turns down the job or she waits to assassinate Bob when he's outside his car.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice hides in Bob's garage with a Hollywood Silencer on her gun. Cue Distant Reaction Shot of the neighborhood with one car horn starting to blare steadily and Bob's neighbors poking their heads out of windows looking confused and irritated.
- Deconstructed: The police have Bob's exact time and place of death made obvious by the car horn and the bullet hole in the windshield, which makes their search for The Car Horn Killer - aka Alice - easier.
- Played for Laughs:
- Bob's neighbors go through an "I Can't Hear You" routine trying to shout over the honking horn about the honking horn and what's causing it.
- Daniel worries about Bob's blood staining The Precious, Precious Car. Edgar chastises Daniel for his Skewed Priorities using a slew of Flowery Insults.
- Played for Drama: Bob doesn't have a last will and testament, provoking his family full of greedy assholes to try to wrench The Precious, Precious Car away from the police holding it as evidence.
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