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Spark9 Gentleman Troper! from Castle Wulfenbach Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#1: Feb 11th 2021 at 2:51:10 AM

The trope is that the author wants to show heavy symbolism (generally a massive turn for the worse in the author's world) and does so by having an important character killed off.

However, as far as I can tell, most of the examples are not based on Word of God; but on inferral or speculation of tropers who like the work. Nothing wrong with that, but wouldn't that mean the page is YMMV?

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Delibirda from Splatsville Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
#2: Feb 11th 2021 at 2:52:10 AM

Yep.

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Spark9 Gentleman Troper! from Castle Wulfenbach Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#3: Feb 12th 2021 at 11:46:17 AM

So is that something this forum handles, or should it go in the TRS queue?

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#5: Feb 12th 2021 at 2:18:54 PM

Oh, and you'd want to do a wick check to see if the examples actually read as being subjective.

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