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| 4 | '''On a scale of one to [[FourIsDeath four]], how dead is this guy?''' |
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| 6 | It's a sad state of affairs when [[KilledOffForReal a beloved character dies]]; some fans [[HesJustHiding won't even accept it as real]], a predicament made all the more confusing because characters ''[[JustForFun/HowToCheatDeath rarely stay dead]]''. Because of this, fans ''love'' [[WMG/SortingAlgorithmOfDeadness to speculate (morbidly) on the odds]] of a character coming BackFromTheDead. The result is a kind of "Sorting Algorithm Of Deadness", where the circumstances, cause, genre, and reaction caused by a death are tallied up to see just how ''dead'' a character really is and the chances of their return. |
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| 8 | To use the Algorithm, take each column's "Death Value", multiply it by the number of ticks in that column, add it all up and divide by the number of applicable rows. |
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| 11 | || ''Relative deadness factor'' || '''DeaderThanDead''' || '''[[PutOnABus Maybe Back Later]]''' || '''[[InferredSurvival Be Back Soon]]''' || '''[[ContractualImmortality Death? What's That?]]''' || |
| 12 | || '''Death Value''' || '''''[[FourIsDeath 4]]''''' || '''''3''''' || '''''2''''' || '''''1''''' || |
| 13 | || ''[[JustForFun/HowToKillACharacter Cause of death]]'' || [[DeathByIrony Irony]], [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Bridge Drop]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Overkill]], StuffedInTheFridge, RetGone || [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Redemption]], [[HeroicSacrifice Sacrifice]], BusCrash, MortalWoundReveal || NoOneCouldSurviveThat, just plain killed in battle || [[SuicidalGotcha Jumping]] || |
| 14 | || ''[[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt Audience Expectation]]'' || AllDeathsFinal, AnyoneCanDie || KilledOffForReal, TonightSomeoneDies || DisneyDeath || BackFromTheDead, DeathIsCheap, NobodyCanDie, StatusQuoIsGod || |
| 15 | || ''Body Found?'' || [[DeaderThanDead Dead]] and [[MeaningfulFuneral Buried]]\ |
| 16 | [[NotEnoughToBury Only Bits And Pieces]] || [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue At The Morgue]], death witnessed and confirmed onscreen || [[NeverFoundTheBody Never Found]], [[HumanPopsicle Frozen]], [[TakenForGranite Petrified]] || LeftForDead || |
| 17 | || ''Reaction'' || [[ReallyDeadMontage Montage]], BondOneLiner, MeaningfulFuneral || HesDeadJim || ItsPersonal || FauxDeath || |
| 18 | || ''Last Words'' || "OhCrap", KilledMidSentence, [[SedgwickSpeech "Carry on men"]], "HisNameIs", "ImColdSoCold" || FinalSpeech, ObiWanMoment || [[YouShallNotPass "I'll hold them off"]], [[TemptingFate "Piece of cake"]] || "MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning" || |
| 19 | || ''[[{{Characters}} Characterization]]'' || RedShirt, [[DeathByOriginStory Loved One]], MauveShirt || RecurringCharacter, CListFodder || RegularCharacter || [[ContractualImmortality Protagonist]], [[JokerImmunity Archvillain]], EnsembleDarkhorse, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain The Kenny]] || |
| 20 | || ''[[SeasonFluidity When did they die?]]'' || 10+ years ago, SeriesFinale || 5-10 years ago || Same year || [[StoryArc Same arc]] || |
| 21 | || ''[[BackFromTheDead "Died" and come back?]]'' || [[NotQuiteDead Not yet]] || Died once, but got better || [[FakingTheDead Twice]] || [[JokerImmunity I've]] [[StayingAlive lost]] [[DeathIsCheap count]] || |
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| 23 | To see calculations-of-permanence-of-death in action, see the Wild Mass Guess WMG/SortingAlgorithmOfDeadness, where this table has been copied for clarity's sake. Also remember that the author may choose to subvert this trope and bring back a character [[FirstLawOfResurrection no matter how 'dead' he should be]], sometimes [[CameBackWrong horrifically]] as an [[TheUndead Undead]] or ReforgedIntoAMinion. Of course, sometimes a low score on the algorithm is [[DeathIsDramatic no guarantee]] that the character hasn't been KilledOffForReal. |
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| 25 | See the SortingAlgorithmOfMortality to determine whether a character is likely to die in the first place. |
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