Line #16 PlayingWith/MauveShirt

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1	'''Basic Trope''': A character expected to become CannonFodder is given enough significance that they're somewhat safer.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob, one of the [[RedShirt security staff]] in ''Space Trek'', gets enough lines that, while not nearly as important as other characters, he's usually a lot safer than most of comparable rank.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Bob becomes elevated to main character status and given PlotArmor.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Bob gets a few lines and is left alive after a horrible attack so the audience can see the impact it had on him, but he fades into the background after that.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** [[ChekhovsGunman Bob's existence is vital to the plot]] (whether of a single episode, an arc, a season, or even the series as a whole.)
7	** Bob has become an EnsembleDarkhorse.
8	** Bob and the ([[TheVoice voice only]]) deck-12 security commander who reports to the chief of security on the going-ons of that deck have, through [[AscendedFanon fans recognizing them as having the exact same voice]], become the same guy
9	* '''Inverted''':
10	** Bob starts out as a major character, but by the end [[DroppedABridgeOnHim he's faded from the limelight so he can get killed off.]]
11	** WhatMeasureIsAMook
12	* '''Subverted''': Bob is [[DevelopingDoomedCharacters given screen time and even a few lines, but killed off anyway]].
13	* '''Double Subverted''': But [[ADeathInTheLimelight his passing]] is mourned intensely by other characters and fans alike.
14	* '''Parodied''': Just before the battle, Bob changes the color of his shirt. While others are killed off, he's OK.
15	* '''Zig Zagged''': Some RedShirt types are killed off, others are treated better.
16	* '''Averted''':
17	** Bob is an ordinary RedShirt.
18	** Bob is a main character and already has PlotArmor.
19	* '''Enforced''':
20	** PanderingToTheBase if Bob is an EnsembleDarkhorse.
21	** Wanting to re-humanize the RedShirtArmy.
22	* '''Lampshaded''': "Bob's the only survivor. Again."
23	* '''Invoked''': Bob works his way up through the ranks.
24	* '''Exploited''': The main characters send Bob on more missions because of his partial PlotArmor.
25	* '''Defied''': AnyoneCanDie
26	* '''Discussed''': "Wow, ordinarily, he'd be toast!"
27	* '''Conversed''': "He must be important."
28	* '''Deconstructed''': A general becomes paralyzed with fear and regret because he makes emotional connections with his RedShirts and they inevitably die. As a result, he loses several battles key to winning the war.
29	* '''Reconstructed''': The general comes back and turns the war around, using his fear of losing his RedShirts as an impetus to improve his battle strategy to keep as many of them alive as possible.
30	* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob is TheScrappy.
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32	Back to MauveShirt, it got enough clicks to stay around.
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34	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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36	%%* '''Implied''': ???
37	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

Context PlayingWith / MauveShirt