Basic Trope: A prequel or interquel seals the fate of one or more characters in order to maintain the continuity with later installments.
- Straight: The Early Tropes begins with the rest of the heroes visiting Bob's grave, and then flashes back to its beginning, with Bob alive.
- Exaggerated: Not only is Bob established to die at the beginning of the series, but The Early Tropes explicitly states how, when, and why he dies.
- Downplayed: The characters state that Bob is no longer with them, but it's left ambiguous as to what happened to him.
- Justified: The Early Tropes is a prequel that was released after the main entry, The Main Tropes, which states that Bob died during the time The Early Tropes took place.
- Inverted: Saved by Canon
- Subverted:
- The Early Tropes is a spin-off that takes place at the same time as The Main Tropes, and while sharing a universe, the events of The Main Tropes are largely unaffected by the events of the series...
- The Early Tropes begins with Bob's grave and flashes back to Bob still alive, but it turns out that reports of Bob's death were greatly exaggerated.
- Double Subverted:
- ...but The Additional Tropes, The Movie for the series, features characters from both The Early Tropes and The Main Tropes, and Bob, the main character from The Early Tropes is shown to be dead in The Additional Tropes, which came out before The Early Tropes.
- ...But sometime after that, Bob dies again, and this time we see him lowered into the grave from the beginning.
- Averted:
- The Early Tropes is set in an alternate universe.
- Bob wasn't mentioned in The Main Tropes, so it doesn't matter what his fate is.
- Invoked: Bob's death is stated to be a catalyst for Alice's Character Development in "The Main Tropes".
- Exploited: Bob knows he's going to die due to seeing a vision of his death, so he decides to invoke Taking You with Me to take out the Big Bad or The Dragon.
Back to Doomed by Canon.
