To-do list:
- Remove on-page examples that don't fit the trope definition for "Everybody Dies" Ending.
- Move wicks from Kill Em All to "Everybody Dies" Ending if they fit, and move them elsewhere or cut them if they don't. Tropes that can be used in place of Kill Em All:
- Characters Dropping Like Flies (numerous characters dying over the course of a work)
- Leave No Survivors (an order from a baddie to kill everyone in this area)
- Leave No Witnesses (kill everyone who witnessed something)
- Anyone Can Die (no Plot Armor for anyone)
- Killer Finale (the Grand Finale of a show kills a main character)
- Omnicidal Maniac
- Dwindling Party (characters in a group die one by one as the story progresses)
- Kill All Humans
- Rape, Pillage, and Burn
- Kill Enemies to Open (video game trope where all enemies must be killed to proceed or get a prize)
- Gotta Kill Them All
- Absolute Xenophobe
- Check Genocide Tropes
- Yoshiyuki Tomino - occasionally tropers have been lazy and stick Kill Em All in place of the creator's name
- Kill Em All wick list
- Kill Them All wick list
Now, the wick check found that, when considering just the Correct Use and Misuse categories, they were surprisingly more-or-less even, with the misuse being greater with 5 wicks. Though when the rest is considered, then the correct examples become a minority. So there is still a clear problem here. Another thing I noticed was a pattern- wicks within work namespaces like Literature and Live-Action TV tended to use the trope correctly, while wicks in other namespaces and potholes misused it.
Wicks checked: 85/85
Wick check: Wick Em All
Edited by Tabs on Sep 19th 2022 at 11:24:08 AM
You can't escape this monster
- Yandere Simulator: If you manage to kill everyone in the school (barring those you just can't kill such as Info-Chan and the Headmaster) without Senpai noticing in the first day, a special ending will play where Yan-chan kidnaps Senpai all to herself without competition.
Doesn't this one count since it is essentially an ending? Or does it have to be the main ending?
I'm mainly a fan of underrated media.
I think one ending out of multiple counts.
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How "everyone" does it have to be to constitute "everyone dies"? Yan-chan, Senpai, and whoever you can't kill are all still alive, after all.
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If you think it cannot apply due to obvious survivors, that example might be Developer's Foresight instead.
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That's doesn't sound like "everyone", or even a one or two Sole Survivor situation, more like obeying the phrase "Kill Em All" where "'Em" is characters who get in the protagonist's way.
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- But there's no reason to kill the guys except to get rid of possible witnesses, so it's not just getting rid of obstacles.
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That's details. The reason I deleted the example was that members of the principal cast were alive (main character, Info-chan, crush) so it's not "Everybody".
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Edited by Tabs on Jan 5th 2023 at 12:22:22 PM
A question regarding the clean-up effort and replacement trope "Everybody Dies" Ending. Does that one apply to when the whole cast dies AT the end or does it suffice if they are all dead BY the end, as in Dwindling Party?
The former.
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Consensus was to rename Kill Em All due to misuse. What should its new name be?
752 wicks. Undertale count: 212