History PlayingWith / AnyOneCanDie

* '''Averted''': RedShirts die, but main characters have PlotArmor.

'''Basic Trope''': PlotArmor doesn't exist in a particular story, wherein even the main characters can't avoid death forever.

'''Basic Trope''': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, PlotArmor doesn't exist in a particular story, wherein even the main characters can't avoid death forever.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': "PlotArmor?! Ha ha ha ha! That won't save you in this story, pal! Why? Because [[TitleDrop anyone can die!]]"

** EverybodyLives.

* '''Inverted''': EverybodyLives; TonightSomeoneDies.

* '''Inverted''': EverybodyLives.

* '''Exaggerated''': KillEmAll

* '''Downplayed''': Anybody can die, except main characters die less often, and if they ''do'', they get a [[DeathIsDramatic dramatic death]].
* '''Justified''': Anybody can die in real life, so it makes sense for that to continue into the story.
* '''Inverted''': EverybodyLives.
* '''Subverted''': At the beginning, many characters were just introduced to die... but then it stops and everybody else lives in the end, aside from a few {{Red Shirt}}s.
* '''Double Subverted''': It looks like everybody's going to live, but some of them end up dying in the end anyway.
* '''Parodied''': The story is just about people standing at a bus stop, but some of them die anyway.
* '''Zig Zagged''': At first the main characters have PlotArmor, but then some major characters die... and then they get their PlotArmor back again, everybody surviving a war even though many {{RedShirt}}s kick the bucket. However, at the end, in the climatic battle with the BigBad, two ''more'' important characters die at his hands.
* '''Averted''': RedShirts die, but main characters have PlotArmor.
* '''Enforced''': "We need to make this feel real! Let's kill off some main characters!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "You know, usually heroes like us don't die. I guess this is a bad day, then."
* '''Invoked''': The BigBad goes out and actively kills the people he considers his greatest opposition.
* '''Exploited''': For some reason, the BigBad knows the main characters have no PlotArmor, so he waits for them to find him and then kill them.
* '''Defied''': A character is aware that anyone can die, and so he runs away from the place of the conflict in hopes he won't be killed instead of keeping in the background ''or'' fighting the big bad.
* '''Discussed''': "It's funny how in stories, the heroes ''never'' die, but in reality... well, I believe we all know that AnyoneCanDie."
* '''Conversed''': "Don't be so reckless. Just because you want to stop [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] doesn't mean you're immortal."
* '''Played For Laughs''': The characters start a betting pool revolving around who's gonna get killed off next.

* '''Conversed''': "Don't be so reckless. Just because you want to stop [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] doesn't mean your immortal."

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Subverted''': At the beginning, many characters were just introduced to die... but then it stops and everybody else lives in the end, aside from a few {{RedShirt}}s.

* '''Subverted''': At the beginning, many characters we're just introduced to die... but then it stops and everybody else lives in the end, aside from a few {{RedShirt}}s.

* '''Inverted''': [[EverybodyLives Everybody Lives]].

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* '''Averted''':
** RedShirts die, but main characters have PlotArmor.

** PlotArmor.
** EverybodyLives

* '''Inverted''': The main characters all have PlotArmor, but the RedShirts are dropping like flies.

* '''Exploited''': A character is aware that anyone can die, and so he runs away from the place of the conflict in hopes he won't be killed instead of keeping in the background ''or'' fighting the big bad.
* '''Defied''': See "Exploited".

'''Basic Trope''': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Anyone can die]].

* '''Exaggerated''': [[KillEmAllEveryone die!!]].

* '''Exaggerated''': [[KillEmAll Everyone]] ''[[DownerEnding does]]'' [[KillEmAll die]].

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Inverted''': The main characters all have PlotArmor, but the {{RedShirts}} are dropping like flies.

* '''Exaggerated''': Practically ''everybody'' dies.

* '''Averted''': PlotArmor.

Basic Trope: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Anyone can die]].

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