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* MenAreTheExpendableGender: When Ares starts massacring Andromeda's army, the lone female's death is depicted as uniquely horrible and a personal betrayal, while around half a dozen male soldiers are killed with no fanfare.
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* MenAreTheExpendableGender: When Ares starts massacring Andromeda\'s army, the lone female\'s death is depicted as uniquely horrible and a personal betrayal, while around half a dozen male soldiers are killed with no fanfare.
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@/{{triton}} has repeatedly removed this example from the page, asserting that
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@/{{triton}} has repeatedly removed this example from the page, asserting that \"her sex had nothing to do with it\", and that the female character\'s death is depicted as worse than the men\'s because she has a personal history with her killer and was expecting him to protect her.
My view is that this is missing the point, because that\'s \'\'why\'\' it\'s an example of MenAreTheExpendableGender. To quote the trope page: \"If the story requires random anonymous characters to die just to move the plot forward, they\'ll likely be male. If the plot requires a tragic death that motivates the protagonists or shows how evil the villains are, the victim will be female.\"
To my mind, that\'s exactly what this is. A bunch of men get casually killed off because that\'s how war is, but when the writers want to show he\'s really evil they do it by having him kill the one female character right after she\'s turned to him for protection.
My view is that this is missing the point, because that\'s \'\'why\'\' it\'s an example of MenAreTheExpendableGender. To quote the trope page: \"If the story requires random anonymous characters to die just to move the plot forward, they\'ll likely be male. If the plot requires a tragic death that motivates the protagonists or shows how evil the villains are, the victim will be female.\"
To my mind, that\'s exactly what this is. A bunch of men get casually killed off because that\'s how war is, but when the writers want to show he\'s really evil they do it by having him kill the one female character right after she\'s turned to him for protection.
