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StarTropes
Since: May, 2014
Scorpion451
Since: Jan, 2013
21st Sep, 2020 01:18:50 PM
Overlaps with Continuity Cavalcade and Back for the Dead if they bring back characters you haven't seen since season three so they can kill them off, too.
WoodKnapp94
Since: May, 2020
21st Sep, 2020 05:17:07 PM
If I had to guess, Kill Em All is for when the main cast all die at the end of the story.
antenna_ears
Since: Apr, 2020
21st Sep, 2020 06:06:15 PM
This might happen when a creator decides to Torch the Franchise and Run
I chose the medium literature but this could apply to almost any type of work.
Is there a trope about how tons of characters seem to die in the last episode/book/movie/etc of a series? It seems to happen a lot in works where almost nobody dies before this final culling of the party, making it even more jarring when it happens.
It doesn't seem to be exclusive to the climax of the story either- a good example is the final Harry Potter book, where tons of fairly important people bite the dust before the book is even 2/3 of the way over
I'm sorry if I over-explained it, but there are so many examples of this that I feel like there are tropes within this one trope