Regarding Homestuck: People keep adding back the death of the Author Avatar as some kind of evidence that anyone can die in the story. Personally, I don't think that's credible enough. He's a comic relief with only around... a dozen appearances if memory serves (not counting wordless cameoes), and not really a major character (he is important to the storyline thanks to saving Spades Slick, but he has very little screentime compared to main characters like John or Rose), so it's a little misleading. Especially when compared to Creator's Pet-type author avatars, the type who are basically regular characters that have been accused as being used to fillibuster for the author's messages.
Also "If the author can die, anyone can" is simply not true. Plot Armor hits the comic pretty hard after Act 5 ends — I went on that page back around... Act 6 Act 6's beginning, I can't remember, and stated that any death that any human Sburb player, Karkat, or one of Karkat's close friends has will turn out to be undone in some way, and over a year later that's still true. I'm not saying that the entire comic doesn't count for the trope since there are occasional named permanent deaths (outside of the five trolls (now that Vriska's back) there's AR, Calliope, and Doc Scratch, among others) but AH's in-comic death just seems like a little development/plot twist that's being exaggerated.
My question is, does that count for the trope despite being a pretty minor character, and if it doesn't, can I add a comment on the page stating to not include Hussie's death because that alone is not indicative of Anyone Can Die?
Regarding Homestuck: People keep adding back the death of the Author Avatar as some kind of evidence that anyone can die in the story. Personally, I don't think that's credible enough. He's a comic relief with only around... a dozen appearances if memory serves (not counting wordless cameoes), and not really a major character (he is important to the storyline thanks to saving Spades Slick, but he has very little screentime compared to main characters like John or Rose), so it's a little misleading. Especially when compared to Creator's Pet-type author avatars, the type who are basically regular characters that have been accused as being used to fillibuster for the author's messages.
Also "If the author can die, anyone can" is simply not true. Plot Armor hits the comic pretty hard after Act 5 ends — I went on that page back around... Act 6 Act 6's beginning, I can't remember, and stated that any death that any human Sburb player, Karkat, or one of Karkat's close friends has will turn out to be undone in some way, and over a year later that's still true. I'm not saying that the entire comic doesn't count for the trope since there are occasional named permanent deaths (outside of the five trolls (now that Vriska's back) there's AR, Calliope, and Doc Scratch, among others) but AH's in-comic death just seems like a little development/plot twist that's being exaggerated.
My question is, does that count for the trope despite being a pretty minor character, and if it doesn't, can I add a comment on the page stating to not include Hussie's death because that alone is not indicative of Anyone Can Die?