Well, this isn't about just any female character dying. This is for when a cast of characters features a sort of Tomboy And Girly Girl scenario, and the one who always always bites it is the Tomboy, be it that she's just a little rougher or a flat-out Butch Lesbian. A screenwriter can win, if they let The Chick die instead, and not just Disposable Woman or Stuffed Into The Fridge, but a female character making a Heroic Sacrifice.

But then again...

We could just Kill Em All.

Screenwriters can "win" by doing one of the following:

-have multiple badass women of lower-than average femininity, and kill one of them -make the badass woman the Final Girl, and no other women on the set (to avoid Real Women Never Wear Dresses)

This trope exists largely because female combatants are treated more as tokens than important characters.

This trope can be cut when it ceases to be true. It's not about gender roles or 'ax-grinding feminist critique.' the fact that this trope can be used to accurately predict plots means it has a place, regardless of any implications some might feel exist.

I mean c'mon, five seconds after [i]she[i] shows up in Avatar we knew her fate.

Of course reviewing the entries to make sure they belong here would not be amiss