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* '''Inverted''': The FiveManBand the viewers were following for the first season [[DecoyProtagonist are now]] [[SacrificialLion killed off]], but [[AscendedExtra all the minor ones survive and now they have to pick up the pieces the originial five left off in season 2]].

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* '''Inverted''': The FiveManBand the viewers were following for the first season [[DecoyProtagonist are now]] [[SacrificialLion killed off]], but [[AscendedExtra all the minor ones survive and now they have to pick up the pieces the originial original five left off in season 2]].
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* '''Inverted''': Five major characters die, but all the minor ones survive.

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* '''Inverted''': Five major characters die, The FiveManBand the viewers were following for the first season [[DecoyProtagonist are now]] [[SacrificialLion killed off]], but [[AscendedExtra all the minor ones survive.survive and now they have to pick up the pieces the originial five left off in season 2]].
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* '''Parodied''': The hero declares to his team that no all the heroes will survive this day, and many sacrifices will need to be made... as the camera pans away from the main cast to a whole bunch of heroes we've never met before, all looking distinctly worried.

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* '''Parodied''': The hero declares to his team that no not all the heroes will survive this day, and many sacrifices will need to be made... as the camera pans away from the main cast to a whole bunch of heroes we've never met before, all looking distinctly worried.
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* '''Justified''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???The heroes are just too important to the world to die, and the C list characters agree to sacrifice themselves to protect them.



* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Subverted''': ???
It looks like the C list characters are being used just to sell the threat, but their actions eventually end up saving the day and they are hailed as the true heroes.
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
Subverted''': ...but they're still all dead, and the world soon forgets them.
* '''Parodied''': ???The hero declares to his team that no all the heroes will survive this day, and many sacrifices will need to be made... as the camera pans away from the main cast to a whole bunch of heroes we've never met before, all looking distinctly worried.



* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???
The villain uses the deaths of the less well known heroes to portray the major heroes as overly privileged and willing to let their lessers die for their victories.
* '''Defied''': ???The minor characters realise that they are the most likely to die, and decide to work together to avoid this fate.
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* '''Enforced''': "This event needs casualties! No one's going to miss these losers, kill them off!"

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* '''Enforced''': "This event needs casualties! No one's going to miss these losers, so we can kill them off!"off! And we can always [[DeathIsCheap bring a few back]] in the event someone ''does'' complain about their deaths."
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'''Basic Trope''': Established but minor characters are used to get killed off for the sake of establishing casualties.
* '''Straight''': In the CrisisCrossover ''The Invasion'', there are approximately five casualties: Amazing Man, Dr. Awesome, Lady Badass, Alice Good, and Bob the Warrior. All of these characters are considered relatively minor and are only included in the story to provide casualties. Meanwhile, none of the A-listers die.
* '''Exaggerated''': There are ''one hundred'' casualties in ''The Invasion'', and all of them are C-listers.
* '''Downplayed''': While ''some'' of the casualties are C-listers, some [[AnyoneCanDie major characters also die in the mix]].
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': Five major characters die, but all the minor ones survive.
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** Characters die, both major and minor.
** Nobody dies.
* '''Enforced''': "This event needs casualties! No one's going to miss these losers, kill them off!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Wait, ''who'' are these people who died again?"
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* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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