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Author: Arivne

Feb 24th 2012 at 3:35:13 AM

{{Tropers/ikelos}}/OP: I have re-written the description in an attempt to improve it and placed it below.

"The big game is here. Bob and his underdog team are facing the mighty champions led by Alice. The game starts with Alice easily succeeding, but as the game goes on she starts to act weird: losing her breath, running slowly and even clutching her chest. Alice is playing with a disease. In most cases she knows how bad the situation is and is well aware of the fact that if she keeps playing she might suffer a GameBreakingInjury or something even worse. Nonetheless she does not leave the game. Maybe her team will lose without her, maybe she really wants to face Bob on the field or maybe there is someone special in the audience and she does not want to disappoint them. The point is that Alice will play to the very bitter end.

This trope is used to show that the character loves the sport so much that they are willing to die playing it. There is also a darker variant where a CompleteMonster coach will force the character to play while completely aware that he will snap eventually. Of course the death of the character is not necessary and he could even get better. Usually comes with DontYouDarePityMe, IllBoy and {{Determinator}}. It can be a DramaPreservingHandicap.