Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Way too short for a main article.
, started by Alrune on Oct 18th 2011 at 11:02:34 PM
Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Duplicate Trope, started by Rjinswand on Apr 19th 2015 at 5:27:15 PM
What the hell is this trope about? There's too much Discworld Death related rhetoric and too little direct explaining what this trope represents. That the male dies and female lead no?
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Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy dies. Girl ONNNNNCCCCCCCEEEEEE
MOORREEEEEEEEEE
YOU OPPPPPPEEEENNNN THE DOOOOOOOOORRRRRR
AND YOU'RE HEERRRRREEE IN MY HEEEAAARRRTTTT
AND MY HEARRRRTTTT WILL GO OOOOOOONNN AND OOOOOONNNNN
Edited by Angrbor "Alright, I'll troll them. Please don't kill me."
I'm pretty sure it's when the love interest, usually male, dies just so that the remaining partner can show how strong they are on their own. Though the last bit was clearer on explaining that before it turned into a paragraph of 'it's not as bad as other pointless death tropes because it usually happens to a male'.
...Come to think, the whole last paragraph seems to be a large rant on the subject that twists the trope into something bizarrely specific. Does anyone else remember when that used to be one sentence?
Edited by Darchane
The last paragraph is less a rant on the subject and more a twist on the usual "Related tropes include..." paragraph that ends most article descriptions.
But yes, the trope is basically when the male lead dies and the female lead lives.
FWIW, I understood perfectly well what the trope is about, and loved the way it's written.
the universe is made of stories
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Um, what is this trope in English?
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I fixed the punctuation problems from the old formatting swap- or were you complaining about the non-traditional style the article is written in?
See you in the discussion pages.
The trope says that it is about the love interest dying to show how strong a character is, and is not gender specific but just tends to happen more with the male character dying, yet I barely see any examples with a female love interest dying to the point. Do you think this is a case where people are under the impression that it HAS to be a male love interest who dies? I feel like maybe the trope name should be changed to gender neutral (Their Heart Will Go On) to make it clearer that it isn't actually a gender-specific trope, just one that is more likely a certain way.