Redirect Farming: Vasquez Always Dies

At the very least, this is going to need some redirects for anyone who can't figure out who the heck "Vasquez" is. (I was able to make the correct guess. Can you?)

I haven't checked for misuse yet, but outside referrals are pretty damn high.

edited 30th Jan '11 5:29:04 AM by SeanMurrayI

Action Girls Always Die?

Tougher Girl Dies?

EDIT: As I recall, this trope has been to the TRS before when there was significant debate over whether this was really a trope or not.

edited 30th Jan '11 6:09:11 AM by ccoa

^^This is in the right vein of things, but the exact trope is that when there is more than one Action Girl in a story, the tougher, more badass ones always die (In the case of the Trope Namer, it comes down to Vasquez and Ripley, and Ripley, of course, survives).

^I think the concept here can be troped. Any problems with the page would mostly have something to do with the name (especially one that includes a character name that likely fails the One Mario Limit—among other problems—and uses the word "always" when VERY few things on This Wiki should ever be described with that word).

edited 30th Jan '11 6:17:24 AM by SeanMurrayI

Red Shirt Action Girl?

She's more of a Sacrificial Lion than a Red Shirt, isn't she? Sacrifical Action Girl?

edited 30th Jan '11 6:40:02 AM by ccoa

I kinda like Sacrificial Action Girl.

Me Too!.

Fourthed on Sacrificial Action Girl.

Fifthed.

Done.

I'll go start the IP.

IP?

edit: Oh yeah, brain fart.

edited 30th Jan '11 1:32:35 PM by Meeble

Image Pickin'.

The image was actually what helped me (very quickly) understand the trope name earlier (although if you aren't familiar with Aliens at all, it probably wouldn't make any difference).

Without the image of the Trope Namer, I'd say that the existing problems with the current name have been greatly accentuated.

edited 30th Jan '11 2:07:46 PM by SeanMurrayI

Dislike the name, but I'll check the stats.

Vasquez Always Dies found in: 86 articles, excluding discussions.

This title has brought 2,767 people to the wiki from non-search engine links since 20th FEB '09.

Holy Fuck. That's some serious inbound right thar.

edited 30th Jan '11 2:26:17 PM by Deboss

That surprised me, too, the first time I looked at the number of inbounds.

Hm, I think we got linked on cracked or something for that page.

Yeah, with those kind of numbers (and it being linked on a high profile site), I would be very hesitant to support a rename unless there was some pretty bad misuse.

I just wish that that character hadn't been named "Vasquez." It makes the trope sound like a non-African American racial version of Black Dude Dies First, not female.

I always thought it should be Michelle Rodriguez Syndrome. She always seems to get that role.

This oh so much finding a movie she isnt the Bad Ass Action Girl that dies is near impossible.

edited 30th Jan '11 8:34:01 PM by Raso

She survives in SWAT, thanks to a Bulletproof Vest.

I would agree that without the picture the name seems off, but I still like it.

If this was a unisex trope, I'd go for - Kill The Competent - but as for this I'd do -Tough chick dies first-

Except that it's not just "the tough chick" it's "the toughest chick" and it's not "dies first", just "dies at some point". I'd support Toughest Chick Always Dies with the original name as a redirect.