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MiinU
Since: Jun, 2011
23rd Feb, 2021 01:59:37 AM
Heroic Red Ring of Death and Your Days Are Numbered
I wouldn't mind failure so much, if I didn't fail so much.
Scorpion451
(Edited uphill both ways)
ZombieAladdin
Since: Nov, 2010
24th Feb, 2021 11:55:54 PM
All right, thanks! Looks like it's not any one trope in particular, but the intersection of a few related ones.
What is the trope for when a character uses some Dangerous Forbidden Technique or undergoes Training from Hell that gives them amazing strength, speed, intelligence, or some other useful thing in a battle, but under the condition they have a small amount of time left to live? By this, I mean the time left is a matter of hours or minutes—if they can't win the battle and defeat the enemy then and there, they die in vain. (They'll die anyway even if they win, of course, but they'll have accomplished what they wanted to do.)
Is this a form of Cast from Lifespan?
Edited by ZombieAladdin