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(From archive) Not The Anonymous Troper That Was Above: Would anyone mind adding some examples that the English-speaking people who will predominantly be reading this can identify? It\'s odd reading the \
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(From archive) Not The Anonymous Troper That Was Above: Would anyone mind adding some examples that the English-speaking people who will predominantly be reading this can identify? It\\\'s odd reading the \\\"Three kinds of Heroic Sacrifice\\\" and seeing the \\\'Beginning\\\' and \\\'Middle\\\' examples consisting of names I simply don\\\'t recognise. Surely it isn\\\'t that hard finding some good American/British works of fiction with this trope coming before the end?
KendraKirai: Not really, because american shows are constructed very differently from anime. In anime, there\\\'s usually an overall series arc, with a beginning and a pre-planned end, and it\\\'s fully possible for anybody to die at any time. Not so with american shows, which have the actors under contract. Only when they need to be written out (which nearly always comes at the end of beginning of a season, if not between seasons, offscreen) can a main character die. When they need to be written out for whatever reason, they\\\'re also seldom killed, and when they are, they\\\'re usually done so in a rather pointless manner...no heroics, just bam! They\\\'re [[DroppedABridgeOnHim hit by a falling bridge]].
KendraKirai: Not really, because american shows are constructed very differently from anime. In anime, there\\\'s usually an overall series arc, with a beginning and a pre-planned end, and it\\\'s fully possible for anybody to die at any time. Not so with american shows, which have the actors under contract. Only when they need to be written out (which nearly always comes at the end of beginning of a season, if not between seasons, offscreen) can a main character die. When they need to be written out for whatever reason, they\\\'re also seldom killed, and when they are, they\\\'re usually done so in a rather pointless manner...no heroics, just bam! They\\\'re [[DroppedABridgeOnHim hit by a falling bridge]].
