This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Etrangere: I've moved the examples which fitted You Kill It, You Bought It there instead.
Haven Okay, so it looks like this was originally designed as "One character gets killed off so a Legacy Character can replace him," a meta-plot example, but seems to have been expanded, sensibly enough, so that the Trope Namer is now an example. Should splitting happen?
alliterator: Current discussion for renaming/splitting/reworking this page (mainly because of confusion with You Kill It, You Bought It) is going on here
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Some Sort Of Troper: Renamed based on said discussion from Klingon Promotion to Dying to Be Replaced.
Morgan Wick: This page is riddled with non-examples. Cleaned up this Justifying Edit:
- The original (Charlton Comics) Blue Beetle was mortally wounded in the line of duty, and had to hastily pass the mantle (though not the Applied Phlebotinum behind his powers) off to Ted Kord. Ted Kord, in turn, was more recently murdered as a ham-fisted Shocking Swerve to clear the way for Jaime Reyes.
- The writers and editors actually claim Ted Kord had already been decided on as the victim to show Max Lord was a bad guy. They came up with Jaime while deciding whether or not to just retire the Beetle name for the time being.
I'm pretty sure Jason was NOT killed just so they could introduce Tim Drake (Please Elaborate if I'm wrong):
- Jason Todd. An interesting case in that the readers voted by a slim margin (5,343 votes to 5,271) that he be killed off.
This is The Obi-Wan in action unless a pre-existing character gets killed:
- This is more or less the origin of the Hal Jordan Green Lantern (and later expanded to show this was S.O.P. for the Lantern Corps).
Also, does it count if a character intentionally kills someone and takes their job himself, or does that only get listed under You Kill It, You Bought It? (Frankly, I think that's a separate trope, as You Kill It, You Bought It, from my memory, stresses the unintentional aspect. It's what I had in mind when I linked The Dark Elf Trilogy to Klingon Promotion a while back.) If the latter, the Sabbac and Spellbinder examples need to be bolted, and the entire Live-Action TV section might be a separate trope (either related to or actually being Eviler than Thou) in either case. </Morgan Wick>
