How sweet it is
#2: Oct 25th 2017 at 6:29:27 AM
We need actual evidence to prove that the trope has a problem. Anecdotal evidence, which you presented, will not suffice.
Rejected.
edited 25th Oct '17 6:30:25 AM by Berrenta
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This trope is messy. The definition is too vague. Unless we can come up with a clearer one, I think we should make this a YMMV trope.
I mean, whether a death is sufficiently climactic or not is subjective. Look at the Buffy examples. The page says that Joyce's death is one of the exceptions, while I find it entirely mundane. Not to say that it lacks emotional impact; death tends to be fairly emotional in and of itself, but that's part of my point.
Even the trope namer, Kirk, comes from people bitching and whining that it was anticlimactic and meaningless. But the guy died saving a heavily populated planet from a madman. What more do you want?
It amounts to people bitching that it wasn't the death they envisioned for him, and I believe the trope as a whole amounts to the same thing: "This character was killed off in a way I don't like so I'm tagging it with this derisive name stemming from when another character was killed off in a way people didn't like."