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It should be limited to situations where death is real or occurs, but every character survives (even nameless ones) or is brought back to life.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
At the very least, the risk of death of dangerous situations should be addressed.
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agreed
Edited by antenna_ears on Sep 19th 2020 at 6:02:52 AM
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Exactly. Everybody Lives is meaningless if there is no actual threat of death in the work. Nobody expects Rugrats to have characters dying.
However, this trope is specifically about episodic or serial works in which death is a regular occurrence, and thus an episode with a deadly threat that all the characters miraculously survive is unusual enough to be worth some amount of celebration, or at least In-Universe acknowledgment.
The Trope Namer is an episode of Doctor Who, a show with a remarkable body count considering that it runs in prime time on BBC, in which the Doctor manages to save everyone for once (and is quite proud of himself for it).
Thus, the requirements:
- The work comes in installments that have at least some continuity (characters remember previous events).
- Character Death is a regular occurrence, enough so that the audience expects it. It's a serious and persistent threat.
- An episode takes place in which there is a serious threat of death, yet Everybody Lives, including the villains, if any.
- (Optional but preferred): A recurring character experiences some distress (guilt, trauma, etc.) from the deaths and is relieved when everyone can be saved.
Addendum: if Never Say "Die" is in effect, then Everybody Lives is right out.
Edited by Fighteer on Sep 19th 2020 at 7:36:45 AM
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Does Everybody Lives mean absolutely nobody was dead, or can minor characters and fodders die and still count for the trope?
But more importantly... This trope is so heavily reliant on context. By its nature it only counts cases of works where death is (in one way or another) a possibility; in certain kinds of shows (such as kids' cartoon or slice of life stories) it'd actually be jarring to see someone dead. I just think that the trope is lacking something.
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