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StarTropes Since: May, 2014
23rd Apr, 2019 05:52:26 AM

Pretty sure that Back for the Dead is used for non-main characters who've been gone for a while and come back just before being killed.

Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
23rd Apr, 2019 10:44:19 AM

^ There's situations where it can overlap: Say, Alice was the most prominent of several main characters, but she's been Out of Focus for most of the final season. In the finale, we finally see what Alice has been doing this whole time in a Grand Finale that ties off the remaining loose threads, and ends with her dramatic death.

There's also a related trivia trope, Torch the Franchise and Run: the creator(s) end a work in some way so that it cannot be continued without a hard Retcon or Reset Button, usually because they're in danger of losing creative control over it, or as the ultimate Creator Backlash to a creation they no longer enjoy and want to see ended permanently. A common way to do this is to make sure the main character gets Killed Off for Real.

Edited by Scorpion451
shokoshu Since: May, 2012
23rd Apr, 2019 11:58:43 AM

I know The Hero Dies but it is too general, I think. Torch the Franchise and Run would be perfect if only it doesn't apply to the special situation. (I.e. the German "Tatort" crime series - more than one Kommissar has bitten the bullet in the long run, but since there are many different teams, franchise crimefighting goes on, so in this case it *would* be best to file under The Hero Dies :-)

4tell0life4 Since: Mar, 2018
23rd Apr, 2019 03:34:44 PM

Kill Em All is when (most) everyone dies in the end.

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crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
23rd Apr, 2019 05:15:18 PM

"end it spectaculary" is covered by Grand Finale.

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