Well, he didn't kill himself merely because he was facing jail and his family might benefit from an insurance policy, if that was all it took to induce suicidality there would be a lot more suicides. He was suicidal for a lot of reasons, in no small part because of the existential angst mentioned in that paragraph.
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Didn't this page have a page image? And since when was it YMMV?
"Unite GUN/BAZOOKA/LAUNCHER/TANK!"
Does Star Trek VI really belong here? "Imagine what it did to Q'onos" - We don't have to imagine it. The explosion of Praxis was the first event of the entire movie, the second event was the revelation that the planetary atmosphere wouldn't sustain life for more than fifty years, and the entire rest of the movie is about one primary event: the surrender/cooperation of the Klingon People due to the "inferred" holocaust and the people interested in preventing it from happening.
in the entry text: regarding people with chronic medical needs: if the work talks about mass famine, plague and mayhem, then the people with chronic medical needs are probably included under "mayhem" or, indeed, "plague"- it's not that it's an Inferred Holocaust as much as Conservation of Detail- they don't need to cover every category of how people died- particularly because, in the absence of proper medical care, a LOT of things considered relatively minor become fatal. Also, with Set Right What Once Went Wrong, I'd say the Inferred Holocaust is more for alternative-timeline ones where the original timeline continues, since then, presumably the protagonist's loved ones are either dead, or have to suffer without them. For the ones where the protagonist is going back in their own timeline, it's more setting up a For Want of A Nail situation- if there was a single change- the time traveller coming back in time- this occurs.
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I hate to be pedantic, but this trope should be called an Implied Holocaust. Something that is implied is suggested or communicated without being explicitly stated. To infer, however, is an act of drawing a conclusion that is actively performed. This isn't just splitting hairs, because even though, yes, the viewer/reader can infer a holocaust from a story, that doesn't mean it necessarily happened — nothing could have happened, but for some reason we rightly or wrongly believe something did. Whereas in this trope it is clearly implied that we are intended to infer that something horrible did actually happen.
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Actually, the description of the trope not implies that we are necessarily intended to infer that something horrible did actually happen.
It's inferred because it's the viewers concluding something must have happened. "Implied" indicates that it was the intent of the writers, which is rarely the case.
Is the ending of Evangelion really a case of this? So far as we see, only humans were reduced, not plants or animals. In the very last scenes, trees are shown to still be there, and birds.
Eh, it's been a while since I watched the movie, but that had nothing to do with why he tried to attempt suicide. It was because he was going to jail and he had life insurance, so his family would get money.
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