#2: Aug 7th 2020 at 1:19:57 AM
I think "someone who survived in an alternate history" could be a trope of its own.
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#3: Aug 7th 2020 at 2:54:08 AM
Yeah, this sounds like misuse - adaptation isn't the same thing as alternative history. Perhaps we need an Alternate History trope ... or turn that genre page into a supertrope. Kind of like a supertrope that defines a genre.
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#4: Aug 7th 2020 at 8:24:19 AM
I assume much the same applies to alternate history killing off people who historically survived
Alternate History Survival and Alternate History Death are both definitely tropable
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Does Spared by the Adaptation apply if the character in question is a real person, the source material is real life, and the work in question is explicitly an Alternate History, as opposed to a documentary or biography? I feel like this is somewhat stretching the definition of 'adaptation'.