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Rolf Since: Jan, 2011
#1: May 11th 2011 at 11:43:23 PM

I allowed a few non-game examples in Dead Character Walking at its creation and launch, but people keeps editing it out. Its third time I had to add it back in.

I'm holding adding it back in yet again while discussing here...

Should this trope have "Other" examples or not? The examples below was cut out repeatly...

Other

  • In a rare non-video game example, Théodred died in Lord of the Rings book, but were alive in The Two Towers.
  • In Tales Of Symphonia, Sheena's revival technique, Purgatory Seal, essentially creates a literal version of this: the game will treat you as "alive", but you have zero Hit Points, and you go down if you take any damage at all. Healing items and spells work on you as they do on any other living character.

nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
#2: May 11th 2011 at 11:49:12 PM

Well, I know the Lord of the Rings example is 1) incorrect and 2) has nothing whatsoever to do with the trope. It's actually a weird case of Spared by the Adaptation: Théodred died in both the book and the movie, but he lived longer in the latter (in the book, he was entirely a Posthumous Character). It certainly has no reason to be listed on this page.

I don't know anything about the other example, though.

Rolf Since: Jan, 2011
#3: May 11th 2011 at 11:54:03 PM

I do remember reading and realizing that the dead prince was alive and well in second book. The movies fixed it by adding a brother which basically did what the walking dead prince did in second book.

Maybe I just misremembered...

edited 11th May '11 11:54:36 PM by Rolf

nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
#4: May 12th 2011 at 12:17:52 AM

[up]Wait, what? What are you talking about?

...Nothing in Lord of the Rings, that's for sure.

Rolf Since: Jan, 2011
#5: May 12th 2011 at 3:55:45 PM

I guess I'll leave out "Other" section then. I'm frankly tired of people editing it out.

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