| Killing off a character only works if you don't do it excessively as at that point it is hard to develop sympathy for characters that die as they are all dropping like flies. |
| usually a character dying is bad vibe so no soemtimes they are good for narrative and stufd but that is rarer |
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| It depends on the situation, as always. Sometimes it can be good, sometimes it can be bad, like a famous battle shounen that killed a fire character that had said 3 words in the movie and it looked like they killed an important character |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
| Fake out deaths are the worst, if you are going for a tear jerker just commit to it. Trying to have both the character death and the character is such a manipulative BS, no wonder everyone hates when that happens... |
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| Sometimes It's Good But Most Of The Time It's Bad. |
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| I usually dislike deaths in animes, but if it makes the plot better then can't be helped... |
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| Yes... I absolutely loved lucifer and the biscuit hammer killed of that ponytailed chuunibyou fella with his half-baked sense of justice and wanna be hero syndrome |
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| Cute girls being brutally murdered on screen is always tough to watch. Usually when it happens it serves some sort of plot purpose. But sometimes we have outliners like Symphogear or Blood-C, who seemingly do this as a shock factor. |
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TheFireNinja said: I've seen people get upset over the betrayal of expectations whenever a character dies and is then brought back to life somehow. And it's sometime confusing to me since you would think these people would be relieved that a character lives If characters are to remain alive at the end, I would rather they not be killed off in the first place. I tend to view resurrection as an underhanded trick as @JaniSIr points out. |
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| Only if that death would make a great impact to the plot, like pushing the story to its climax or helping character development. Some Anime just like to randomly kill off characters to look dark but in reality it's just edgy and pretentious. |
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| Yes. But only if it can definitely help with plot development and can make the story more realistic |
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Ionliosite2 said: Akame ga kill anime adaptation vibes.Killing off a character only works if you don't do it excessively as at that point it is hard to develop sympathy for characters that die as they are all dropping like flies. |
| A character death should be earned or serve a narrative purpose. Then they can be a very impactfull part of a story. Or they can be goofy and funny - that's fine too. They can also be misused though in a attempt to create artificial drama, in which case they are more of a nuissance. Especially if those deaths aren't even permanent either. So yeah - it depends. Mod Edit: NSFM image removed, please refrain from posting images containing Gore in the forum. |
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| Yes. Done right, it can establish the seriousness of the stakes the characters are dealing with. My biggest complaint about the otherwise excellent Record of Lodoss War TV series is that it was too chicken-shit to kill off its characters. |
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| Of course not... What a strange question. |
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| If a character death is actually a natural conclusion to a character arc or narrative, then I can appreciate them. But I really hate fake out deaths (like some people have mentioned) or deaths just for the sake of having them. Like you can tell when a show or movie was just like, "we need someone to die here"- but it doesn't actually mean anything within the story it was trying to tell. The worst thing a character death can do is make me not even care when it happens, because it was set up so poorly. So I think when done right, when they lead to the culmination of a character moment that truly makes sense- character deaths can be really impactful and memorable. I love when they're used to realistically raise the stakes and show us, the audience, exactly what we're dealing with. |
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| I enjoy them when it's a character I dislike, lol. Okay, but to be serious, they CAN work, but you have to do it right by making sure I'm able to connect with them in a sentimental level, either by giving them enough character depth or by just making them a generally likable character throughout the story. If I barely know much about the character or if they straight up made them absolutely detestable, I'm not gonna care if they end up kicking the bucket at some point in the series. |
| I love character deaths, however there is a caveat. It's more to do with what they're a mechanic of; Consequences. If your actions have no consequences, then there is no more danger. Even if you do die and then you overcome death somehow or come back from the dead, it's still gone. Since X can't die, i guess they have eternity to do whatever the hell they want as a pseudo-immortal. TheFireNinja said: This specifically is because it makes death meaningless. The most grave consequence of an action, meaningless. It also immediately eliminates any and all future worry or anxiety for said character, that no matter what they do they'll still be alive or can come back to achieve their goal or fulfill the plot. The reason I ask this question is because often times I've seen people get upset over the betrayal of expectations whenever a character dies and is then brought back to life somehow. And it's sometime confusing to me since you would think these people would be relieved that a character lives rather than being upset that these characters didn't have more screentime or development. Death itself is an immortalization process for your image of someone, one that stops evolving, where they stop existing and you appreciate the sum of their life. Due to that physical inexistence, you're forced to make decisions based on the effect a death has on you. Not only is it an opportunity for growth, it's a fact of life we all have to deal with, we only get 1 shot at it. The better a person is, the more important and impactful said death is. Death is a beautiful thing, when written well. |
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| If it is needed within the context, it hads more than just pure shock factor and cheap melodrama and genuine character development for the MC, then yes. |
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| Well, if a character who had no chance of surviving, just comes back. That kills the tension of an anime. If no one ever dies then the impact is less because they'll always get up. |
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| I only feel attached if i liked the character prior. Sometimes i feel bad for the characters, especially if i either like them or they were just some innocent bystander caught in a bad situation. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| The death of significant characters present a big opportunity for the surviving characters to develop. Their demise presents a vacuum of responsibility that other characters can grow towards. An example is a death of a certain figure in the first half of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Their demise allowed someone else to step up and lead. An even better example is the death of a One Piece character: |
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