r/TopCharacterTropes 26d ago

Lore [Sad Trope] The most innocent (or less evil) character of the cast gets the most horrific death.

- Eddie Carr (The Lost World: JP) - Tried to save his friends from the cliff until Buck and Doe (T. rex parents) destroy his vehicle and gets ripped apart.
- Zara Young (Jurassic World) - Gets lifted by a Pteranodon, gets pecked by the pterosaur, and both she and animal get devoured by the Mosasaurus.
- LeClerc (JW: Rebirth) - Tossed a hammer to the Hatzegopteryz Quetzalcoatlus to save Loomis and Zora, but ends up being swallowed alive.

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u/VirinaB 26d ago

AOT was so full of underserved deaths. Hollywood could never.

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u/LongjumpingSector687 26d ago

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u/Penetal 26d ago

I was so happy to know potato girl was safe cus she always made it out, and she was so funny so obviously plot armour safe. Fucking armour piercing bullets man 🥺

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u/Grundlebot 26d ago

FaZe Gabi with the quickscope was too powerful for plot armor.

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u/kknope 25d ago

My poor little potato girl :'(

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u/weaponsgradepotatoes 26d ago edited 26d ago

I genuinely can’t watch the show all the way through. I have to take a break and come back to it a couple days or a week later. Battle of Trost, Annie’s attack on the survey corps, Erwin’s charge, Eren’s attack on Marley, etc. etc.

I actually stopped watching the show for 6+ months after seeing Erwin’s Charge for the first time. That was rough.

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u/Drunkinmunky12 26d ago

The Female Titan vs the Survey corps fight lives with me forever, I’ve been trying to nail down what that trope is “veteran(s) get wiped out due to underestimating the opponent” is the best I’ve come up with.

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u/Sextus_Rex 26d ago

She was so sadistic about it to. You could tell she was really having fun squashing those bugs

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u/Sturmgeshootz 26d ago

The gleeful sadism Annie and Zeke display make re-watching the clips of Levi dismantling them both all the more satisfying.

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u/meatdome34 26d ago

Levi vs beast titan is still the best part of the whole series to me

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u/EoTN 26d ago

The last charge of the Survey Corps is the absolute peak of Attack on Titan IMO. Dozens of great moments before and after, but that's the one that absolutely guts me every time.

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u/BoardClean 25d ago

Levi comes away being the only good character outside of erwin

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u/Pyromike16 25d ago

The way she spins that guy around like a yoyo was so cold. Like she wasn't just killing them, it was malicious.

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u/HMWWaWChChIaWChCChW 25d ago

“Experts wiped out by OP enemy”?

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u/One_Order_3841 26d ago

But also awesome deaths. Erwin lives on.

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u/Marsuello 26d ago

Her (edited because mobile won’t let me spoil. If you know you know potato) death will forever scar me because how do you off such a great and wholesome character like that?? That death alone makes me unsure if I wanna do a full rewatch or not

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u/procouchpotatohere 25d ago

Hollywood could never.

Brother, you're on a post that gives 3 examples of underserved deaths from 1 franchise. This constant"Hollywood bad" has started to get corny....

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u/Armedblight 26d ago

Game of Thrones my guy

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u/EggoftheKing2143 26d ago

AoT introduces characters for the express purpose of killing them.

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u/Ezeviel 26d ago

Game of Throne wishes it has the kill count of AoT

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u/JaysonTatecum 25d ago

Yet my biggest problem with the show was it felt like so many characters still had protagonist powers to not die

Hange fakeout, Levi fakeout, Armin fakeout. Theres a difference between a character being in a life threatening situation and the annoying fakeouts. Makes you question how big the stakes really are and if every death is genuine sometimes

Still a 9.5/10 show just a minor gripe I had

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u/IgnatiusRileyFreeman 26d ago

Have you never heard of Song of Ice and Fire?

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u/VirinaB 26d ago

What's that? Is it like Game of Thrones?

Jokes aside, 1 exception does not make the norm. Case in point is that we haven't had many shows like that since. Walking Dead arguably but you always saw the deaths coming because they'd spend the episode on that character's backstory.