this is true

What if they’re torn into pieces?

I mean you aren’t wrong

True

A certain flamboyant bubble man and his autistic future telling friend would STRONGLY disagree. But I suppose his Nazi friend would lol

No the real first step is having the dead character did in the grieving characters arms.

You spelled edgy wrong four times consecutively

I thought it was "Edgy brooding, edgy brooding, *REVENGE!,* more edgy brooding because we think it's cool, randomly lashing out at random other people as though it were revenge," AKA. the "modern Batman cycle"

@@toganium4175 It was early my dude and I copied and pasted. My bad.

I thought the final one was going to be "Suddenly turning into a wise and calm person", but then I realised this is 90% of action movies

"Yeah, I got a wife. I'm excited to see her again." *an entire stories worth of pain later* "WHY WONT I DIEEE????"

Make sure to add a cop buddy who is 5 days away from retirement.

@@FatherTime89 *1 minute away from retirement.*

@@501ststormtrooper9 Well he retired, his family is fine. What now?

Don't forget to have other characters comment on his young age.

That sucks.

Force Awakens much?

And the inexperienced protag somehow surpass the mentor with one training arc

Despite the fact anger actually makes you fight worse usually

@@virovac885 May seem random to some but this video made me wanna recommend Atomic Shrimp, Sci Man Dan, Professor Dave and maybe-more-if-youw-want, cause they cover $camms and i dont want people to fal for ‚em.

Logan Sheat Not in Trunks case he felt that pain even years after.

Luke Skywalker: "So anyway, I started blasting."

@Ninja Named Bob the power of friendship

@Ninja Named Bob Protagonist: Actually, you wanted me believe that it was inconceivable because you can't accept that it's unachievable for you, even though you've always known that. It's really very simple: You turned my mind against me, and I believed you. I truly feel sorry for you, because I believe in you, and now you will cry because I am the first person to ever show kindness to you. But I must also make the ultimate sacrifice because that is how my vampire boyfriend, who always warned me about you but I did not believe him but he could never imagine anyone like me ever being replaceable even though I've never believed in myself, and thus I must almost die so my vampire boyfriend will say, "No! I WILL NOT LET HER GO!" and then expand his powers such that I am brought back to life as a vampire too, and then you will surely meet your ultimate fate as death because I will kill you and then my gay best friend will say, "Yaaaasss queen," and I will become the average-looking queen... TWENTY-FOUR PAGES LATER Protagonist: ... and I will have a son, and I will name him after my vampire boyfriend, who will by then be my vampire husband. But you will come back from the dead as a powerful spirit, which my non-binary-other-best-friend will pick up by discovering that she is no longer afraid of her powers. And they will cast a massive spell that makes the ultimate sacrifice for me and my vampire son and vampire husband, who are also witches, but I will become known as Snow Droplet as my best friend dies and their powers transfer to me and everyone is surprised. See, you... TWENTY-FOUR PAGES LATER Protagonist: ...vampire son's best friend, who is a teen werewolf, will strap me into the sling, and he will pull his shirt off and I will run my hands across his bulging chest-ceps and biceps and triceps, which makes me blush red like the Communist Manifesto. And he will put his you-know into my you-know...

Main character: “Oh, my family’s dead and everyone is out to murder me? Oh, boo boo! Anyways...”

Books, comics, TV, movies, video games, this crap is all over every storytelling medium!

@@louisduarte8763 sadly-- yep! I've seen more bad movies than I've read bad books. But both are filling the storytelling medium

Nah just anime

@@DoomBowser64 there are lots of good anime out there though, horror and zombies is where the garbage truly is.

And isekai

Then comes back as a ghost

*thinks of Mia from Ace Attorney *

@@shiibwrry why was I just watching a video where Mia and Edgeworth discuss sans undertale.

*glances at Hamilton.* Hmmm.....

Dr shaym

Yeees, I was watching this show, a character that I really liked died and stay dead, but the goddamn villain resurrected

Samee

@Elalae La what story is this from?

@Elalae La what series are you talking about?

@Elalae La it's okay

I mean you get XP for each character kill. Some writers like to farm them by creating stories that are absolutely full of chod character death, though a few key character deaths will get you more XP in the long run.

The plot to Jet Li's The One.

Your LOVE increased.

The bible: STRONKS

What kind of three-eyed sword logic bullshit 🤔🤔

Even SAO is stupid

I think that's what Yahtzee Croshaw criticized about the TOMB RAIDER reboot: everyone else dies off for Lara's character development.

Guido Mista: Laughs

Why hello there danganronpa story structure!

B0cket I love SAO even though it’s super cheesy in that way. I mean what was his face from the second episode who died even though Kirito could have easily given him a health pack or whatever and then he proceeded to give a 2 minute monologue. 😂

I don't remember 0² being redeemed. In fact, I remember that "dark star" _exploding._

Yeah, I feel like most of the Cosmic Horrors that Kirby fights end up completely destroyed. King Dedede and Meta Knight are his friends now, but they were never all that sinister. Now, villains in Steven Universe, on the other hand.... =P

@@Semudara Hitler crystals get redeemed bcs Steven doesn’t discriminate. Such a good reason to redeem these characters/s

@@highadmiraljt5853 No no, you see, they decided to stop being evil after thousands of years of genocide because.... because, uh.... uhhhhhhhhhhh............... muffin button?

@@semudara9723 lol

Same, like do we really need deaths in every story? Try coming up with new ways to absolutely emotionally shatter the audience lol

@@savvystudios7950 What, mindbreak the characters Berserk style?

@@inr9751 this

@@savvystudios7950 I only killed 2 important characters in the main story, but each character has a backstory that involves death.

That is so true, I’ve grown numb to the “dead/abusive parents” trope, lmfao.

especially if they were about to retire, and show their family picture, bonus points if they're a soldier bonus bonus points if it's a male character bonus bonus bonus points if it's a wide-eyed, optimistic, younger man

I did that by making the character have a feeling like someone is going to die and then kill them

Cyanic Double points if it’s a cop rather than soldier

Or if they start talking about their future extensively out of a sudden. Damn, Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans seems to love turning Characters into Death Flag Collectors. Like, seriously, the first death of a named character was actually pretty shocking, but at the second one you kinda saw where this is going, and by the third it just gets frustrating. The series isn't bad at handling Character Deaths, it's just that it telehraphs it a bit much.

@@realhumanbean7915 I got double points then

Blood!! MORE BLOOD MORE SEX SCENES AND MORE SWEAR WORDS!! Also make sure your characters start every sentence with "fucking".

I'm planning on writing horror based on true historical events and the majority of deaths that happen in it will provide social commentary. For example, a character may die because he overdosed on a new synthetic drug, or because of police brutality, or maybe they committed suicide because society doesn't accept them for who they really are. Or maybe they died because someone gave them an overdose of a date rape drug.

Bro you watch Fairy Tail, I don’t feel like you’re allowed to comment on this video.

Hello, I see you everywhere : D (Everywhere except my vids but I won't tell you that)

@@popopop984 watching it doesn't mean liking it. Even liking it doesn't mean you can't make fun of it.

*l a u g h t r a c k*

*Seinfeld theme starts playing*

More like "M E A T" 😢😢😢😢

Comic relief: [signature goofy catchphrase, but spoken slowly and painfully] Ah yes, sadness, now activate emotion liquid so I may have large amounts of monetary gain

@@adielrabino5931 dont do this to me

Shack spear has a lot more satire and medacomintary than anyone realises.

I played the part of Polonius once and overacted the shit out of that death scene. It was fun.

@@s.e.111films3 i wanna see that. o.O

This could explain why Caesar was stabbed 21 times...

@@s.e.111films3 I did the same in my Honor's English.

No that is expected, subvert the trope instead.

I'm gonna retire tomorrow. Here's a picture with me and my loving family. Just one last patrol/job/battle.......

@@Michael-fd1gx nah if he survives his family dies and then he has to avenge them.

Because we all know the only literal way to demonstrate a soldier has someone to wait for him or her is to show a realistic photo of either a family member or the whole family. Child's drawings, engagement rings, and family letters may seem like things to consider, but they're too hard to come up with so let's just throw all those away. 😀

Lieutenant Hughes! Sorry I mean brigadier general

And Castlevania (the series)

Or literally any anime where the mother dies

People with that hair style just die. No exceptions. Get a haircut like that and it’s pretty much certain tragedy will befall you.

But the hairstyle of death is a traditional anime death foreshadowing! ...Besides, everyone knows that the only more deadly occupation than being a mentor is being the protagonist's biological parent.

The loose side poneytail.

That sounds like something I would write.

I'd like to read that

Fun concept, but extremely hard to keep it interesting troughout 200 pages

I kinda want to make a d&d campaign where the villain/BBEG turns out to be the DM, so the final battle is the players literally fighting God as the universe turns against them

@@chumbucket3475 that kinda happens in this game I played where the main antagonist is basically the god of the game’s universe but is willing to die to see the game come to an end

I feel like this is a specific reference to a Japanese manga.

Too soon

I want to die in battle an Honorable death, walks up in hospital with a live long injury

*In the court of the Crimson King plays*

I hate how awfully specific this is and it's one of the deaths I don't want to happen

*or have that one specific letter being silent* *or even better...have all the other letters of the name be silent EXCEPT that very one...that's in the middle of the name that includes on of those weird accent marks than no one outside the country of origin has any idea how to pronounce*

Or you know, you can go straight into crazy-ville by introducing a character that seems like they would be that resurrected character or a identical twin of them, but in reality, they were just obsessively jealous of that dead character when they were alive and intentionally got plastic surgery and changed their name to be exactly like them. This can be done well if you use their jealousy as a toxic character motivation, but hey. Unrelated spoiler video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/orSVbMp8u6e-Ymg.html

That reminds me of a British comedy called 'Allo 'Allo, where the main character is a pub/tavern owner during the German occupation of France in the second world war and fakes his death, only to return to the same tavern as the long lost twin of himself.. Granted it isn't exactly the scenario you described but it still makes me chuckle because all the characters not in the loop on this switcheroo are utterly tricked by it.. Kind of showcases how dumb this method of pseudo-resurrection is lmao

Like what BlazBlue did.

_Avdol entered the chat_

Yeah, this can work fine, so long as resurrections aren't a thing (or at least are once in a millenia rare). Else you just get into the "why not just use a Phoenix Down?" argument. So I guess you still need to establish at some point in the story that in that world, deaths for realsies are actually a thing.

@Talkin’ Timb Well, that's the other thing, if you are going to bring somebody back from the dead, you sure as hell better make sure they come back changed (and probably not for the better). There's no way dying wouldn't have some influence on your character. That's the other silly resurrection trope, when characters come back from the dead and they are exactly the same as they were before, usually with a silly handwave excuse like they are too pure too change or something. Once again, unless Phoenix Downs are common in a world, so dying all the time and coming back is a common occurrence (in which case it's often a bit pointless writing deaths into your story anyway, unless the whole point of the story is the Phoenix Downs stop being a thing and people struggle to adapt), a character absolutely needs to change in some way if they are coming back from the dead.

when done well it works

So imma offer a hot take here: DBZ style resurrections are fine if you want to introduce the possibility of a character losing a fight without having to (permanently) kill off said character. Sometimes you just wanna write a dumb action flick where excessively buff guys punch eachother.

Protip: A good writer will know to milk deaths like the ghost of Christmas past.

andrew hussie in a nutshell

A Stand user? And this is NOT a Jojo reference.... but that was.

Jiraiya, is that you?

Nehemia

sometimes fan favorites have to die but it should be done well and at an appropriate time... usually to set up a big bad.

To be fair, the rise of sky walker was a direct reaction and an attempt to appeal to those who... disliked the Last Jedi.

@@maallos334mi8 and it make people who hate and love The last Jedi hate The rise of Skywalker together

@@maallos334mi8 You can’t fix bad writing with even worse writing.

@@chrisdawson1776 "Shit, we ruined Luke and the lore of the franchise, what else can we do now to fix it?" "Ruin Palpatine and Anakin too?" "Great idea, that will do it!"

Fun Fact: That storyline is literally just half of Dark Empire from the EU.

Oh, yeah, that’s true, I wasn’t expecting that.

Except killing Luke Skywalker (the mentor) wasn't a subversion, just a cliche.

Rian Johnson: *Heavy breathing*

If the readers every make a theory that one of your characters die you must instead make a different character die just so you can feel superior to them.

Subverting the audience's expectation of actually getting to experience a well-written story

Sparrrorow that or Satan got really tired of how he started every conversation with “so by the way, I am writing a book. What to know what it’s about?”

Because Heaven wanted his stories

@@juanarocha8629 of course not! Even god itself is jelous of JP writing skills!

so amazing he could even spell 'jealous' and 'writing' correctly

@@jetskioutofwater2913 English is hard. sometimes it puts second "t" in present continues, sometimes it doesn't, and then it throws unnecessary letters everywhere. kurwa mać.

That's literally Negan in TWD comics

I don’t just like your thinking, I LOVE your thinking

Vegeta and Shadow the hedgehog be like:

Loki from Marvel and Crowley from Supernatural be like:

or they can just join the main cast if you are writing something like jojo. Almost always the main cast start as minor antagonists to the mc but they become great friends later on.

"oh and also all but one (we cant keep intresting comedic relief characters so lets just make the surviving one a fucking dumbass) of the survivors have the same post-arc personality lol"

Because you make them so likable it’s not fair!

​@@benduford3746 Monokuma: Life isn't fair! now put on the maid dress!

Except the boring guy, he always survives somehow...

@@lordanubis1458 Or an annoying/dumb/immature character (Hagakure (Dreadman)/Souda (shark-mechanic)/Yumeno(magician)). Also: that boring guy may be boring, but actually does give a shit, investigates the murder and actually solves the trial mystery... while other characters sometimes feels like they do not have to actually solve shit.

Called it.

Andrew Hussie: step aside, kid

"Danganronpa": Hold my pink koolaid.

Akame ga kill: *EVERYONE DIES. THE END"

Devilman Crybaby sends his regards.

@@donslipo Im supposed to laugh, why is my eyes leaking?

It's the rule of drama- basically make everything a huge conflict filled mess. You know, like people want real life to be! Everyone knows realism is limited to everyone being either a goody two shoes who will, at most, accomplish nothing, and, at worst, cause the exact opposite of what they wanted, and a variety of scheming vil- I mean morally grey characters with tragic backstories. After all this guy had a puppy and then it died, so it's totally understandable his day job is burning down villages. Make sure to confuse "understandable" and "justified".

MC:*N O .* Author: Shouldn’t have buffed him too much. MC: Correct!

Reminds me of Arthas from the Warcraft series.

Or like Bruno's decaying body in Jojo!

American gods did it

do you know what i love more than anything though and plan for my protagonist? To kill her as some pathetic and miserable dog (not good example... killing cute animals go on screen because we need tears) off screen and then another protagonist find her body? Maybe not even find her body?

That's always been an important aspect of resurrection in writing. Characters who come back to life are often completely changed by that experience, oftentimes not even resembling human anymore. Just look at Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, or Beric Dondarion from Game of Thrones. Both have died in their respective stories, and emerged completely different individuals as a result, often much darker, brooding and more ruthless than they were before.

Honestly, it would be awesome IMO. Cringy as hell, but I would probably be laughing my ass off.

Written by *terrible writing advice* . That would be a shitshow, but still a show nonetheless.

Unfortunately I'm sure many are

@@stefanwalicord2512 COUGH COUGH 50 SHADES OF GRAY COUGH COUGH

There's alredy a film trilogy about that, it's called "star wars sequels trilogy"

Depends on how it's done. With JJBA, I kind of stop talking the plot seriously because Araki pulls out of BS.

@@moonriverbaby4108 ikr when Abbachio died I was like "oh he's fine, Gold Experience will fix that" and I still think its weird that it couldn't for some reason

Chewbacca's dead, be sad for 3 seconds before we say he isnt!

@@MuttFitness that will go down as a historically terrible bit of writing.

@@samvanderstaak7296 Maybe too much time has passed since Abbacchio got punched. I find it funny people talk about how "Stands cant revive people" as if we didn't watch Jotaro revive Joseph at the end of Part 3. Honestly, with how OP and Gold Experience and GER are, Giorno could possibly revive all his dead friends.

and homestuck

And danganronpa

And Gantz...Oh wait Gantz was shit

Dam straight!

Fire Punch Manga too!

That… is actually a good way to do it without making their sacrifices meaningless.

Looking at Jurassic World with that poor woman tossed around from one dinosaur to the next before she was finally eaten along with a pteranadon by the mosasaurus.

JenamDrag0n but that wasn’t a caricature of anyone? Also eh it’s far from the most brutal death. Look at the death of Eddie Carr in JP:TLW if you want brutal. Also if you’re looking for a caricature of a real person in JP, look at the palaeontologist on the side of the InGen hunters who gets eaten by the rex at the waterfall. He’s called Robert Burke and is a caricature of Robert T. Bakker, a rival to Jack Horner who was the paleontological advisor to the JP films.

@@SunlitSonata14272 That was the first thing that came to my mind when watching this video.

Wait, this kind of thing actually happens in storytelling?

Hahaha, funnily enough, I actually used to do that in my stories when I was younger. Though it wasn't for hatred of the guy or anything. I just liked to laugh at him sometimes because... yes. Think of it as one of those weird "bullyish" friendships where one friend's favorite hobby is to joke and get some few laughs at the other one from time to time.

The whole series retroactively becomes a tragedy.

Terrible terrible terrible

ahh the most dissappointing cliche

The best kind of twist 😂 it is still lame writing, but this can be used anywhere. Would prefer it if there were signs of it all being a dream of something while Harry, in his schizophrenia, crashed into the wall at that one platform

I'm making a book where at the end the protagonist finds out she's been in a coma and half the book didn't actually happen

his death is one of the deaths that's handled rather poorly in jojo

Aerith: "Hold my Phoenix Down"

Friendly Space Dragon this one doesn’t really happen that often. It’s one of those cliches that are so cliche that it is often a real surprise to see them nowadays. Like the bad guy who just really wants to kill because he is evil and not because of some tragic backstory that is supposed to justify why he burned down all those kitten orphanages.

Taki yeet puppet but alive is common, but not puppet and dead

This is literally Zato=1 from guilty gear and Gael from dark souls

Super man

**Cough** Transformers G1 S3 'Dark Awakening' **Cough**

Cough internet historian cough

It's a genius move, really. To make your ads engaging by giving them a story.

Nostalgia Critic says hi.

I actually dont like his ads. Im just not a fan of long sketches in videos

@@arte0021 Err but his videos are one big sketch to begin with?

Or, magnus chase

danganronpa: well yes, but actually no

Jojo: oh please

Me: *HERES A LITTLE LESSON IN TRICKERY, THIS IS GOING DOWN IN HISTORY!*

Red Dead Redemption games: *maniacly laughing* you serios?

RIP Kakyoin

He born on The Nationals Donuts Day.

We talking One Piece or Demon Slayer?

People who watched Mugen Train be like:

JoJo

Well duh, I mean they *are* acute

@@TheMamaluigi300 That was an obtuse joke

TV tropes calls 4:26 a "death of the hypotenuse" which technically refers to the characters as "sides" rather than "angles," but it's pretty much the same concept. =^p

rhombus

I mean that only happened to kakyoin and zepelli no? And even in zepelli’s case he was reminiscing over the fact he accepts his fate

June Oh you poor poor soul. Just because Araki changed it a bit doesn’t mean that characters don’t still die

@june and naranica

Gabriel 2020 it’s not edgy characters just actually die in realistic ways in jojo

@Gabriel 2020 Edit, because people keep on arguing with me about this: The original comment I replied to said that the fact that characters die in the show is edgy. Stop thinking I'm calling the show's deaths realistic. I only mean that the fact that characters die is realistic, not the way they die. Now, here's my actual comment: It's never edgy, it's sad and somewhat-realistic most of the time.

Stop JJ or else the Star Wars we know is doomed!

@@pyeitme508 Sorry but he already wrote the trilogy. He's done now... hopefully.

@Talkin’ Timb I actually like the force awakens and the last jedi is bad but not as bad as people say and TROS is the bad movie in the trilogy

TROJ, what is that movie you speak of. I remember there only being two movies in the final trilo- I mean, short series. Yup. It was a bit of a jump, I don't remember Luke dying at all in the TFA, and it was a little strange having some baddies back with no explanation, but hey at least there wasn't any major universe shattering plot points.

@Mikhail G Phantom Menace is great.

Bonus point if said character was never really that important in the story.

I'm worried that might give the character characterization, so make sure the grieving is as shallow and drawn out as possible to counteract any possible unintended characterization.

@@kingsleycy3450 The best characters are the ones who never contributed anything meaningful except dying for someone else's arch

BOOK NAME, NOW!!!!

Wrong-ish

Code Geass.

Steins;Gate 0 when they tried baiting a Mayuri death at the end of one of the episodes, but the next episode revealed that the bullet grazed her head. Steins;Gate 0 honestly follows too much of the bad writing advice from these videos.

@@comicsans1689 wait, when does that happen? I've only played the visual novel so maybe it's an anime only thing or a route I didn't get?

so its my fallout character

*MUHAMED AVDOL!*

They realized letting JP in meant admitting the entire cast of his video sponsor skits. 😂

He was going to get A/C installed down there, so he had to be sent back here.

Terrible dying advice

Hi, I'm new here. Who is JP lol

@@nenzothefirst4712 The guy making the videos.

Didn't we already see Kairi alive and Sora fading in vanilla KH3's ending?

This may be a dumb question but what the _fuck_ is the DLC???

@@kit-katsforlife7436 downloadable content

I thought you were talking about "Awakening" until I saw love interest...

*Tis

@@skilerketchum6633 I didn't even notice that at first lol.

Most writers today are trying not to kill off gays...unless they want Twitter to eat them alive.

@@canaisyoung3601 I didn't mention killing. Usually, gay people are there to add "representation" or hindered the plot in some way like being the sassy gay friend who pushes the usually female lead to be confident or to be a shoulder to cry on.

I think the only good gay character ive seen, was someone from Fallout New Vegas i think. He's gay but his life or character didnt revolve about being gay. I would never know he was gay if i didnt ask him.

*more awkward if the Hero is WEARING them when she walks up*

Scott Mantooth well those red shows were really stylish and I thought she wouldn’t need them anymore. And look at how well they complete my bikini armor outfit.

@@frankwest5388 *besides, i feel sooo pretty wearing them*

two words: Andrew Hussie

*Araki killed my cherry boi*

conny:

average danganronpa related thing ever

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners be like: It's killin' time!

your comment was so cool Andrew Hussie used it

My favorite story of all time uses the "everyone died" ending, and it's the most touching and moving story ever. "Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The end."

Chainsaw man memories...

Camila cuevas: WRITE THAT DOWN- *WRITE THAT DOWN!!*

Daisy and Waluigi sorta have the same treatment.

Rwby be like

Arctic Fox RIP Torchwick

Gojo

You heard that, Rian?

PanaMoment get over it

@@odiadordeisrael In his case, he actually used it to further the story and characters. That's what the whole point is

@@FraserSouris No one knew Luke died. Rose's sister wasn't even given a name. What exactly was her death's effect on Rose? Or would she have taken all of those actions even if her sister was still alive?

@@leandersearle5094 Everybody saw that Luke died after trolling the entire FO to give hope to the resistence. As for Rose's sister, we didn't need her to be fleshed out more. Rose already had a character journey to be on.

Nice, where do you post stories? 😇

Same here.

aw

Good, thank you

Honestly haha!

In stories where everyone is eliminated one-by-one, you should absolutely take one or two "main" characters out fairly early on. This will increase the stakes and establish the game's ruthlessness.

NB That’s an interesting idea. So take out that one jerk character that everyone knows will survive longer because jerks make good drama, early on? Boy what a twist that would be.

Danganronpa is actually a great case study in "how to aggressively kill your characters and (mostly) not screw it up". Arguably its most effective tactic is giving screen/page time and development to all the characters throughout the story. This uses the audience's growing investment in the remaining characters to make up for the diminishing shock factor, thereby allowing later deaths hurt just as much as the early ones.

@Elalae La That can certainly help by adding a last minute cherry on the cake, but It's very difficult to rush audience investment in what is essentially an emotionally charged info-dump. The best deaths in the series were typically those that made us care about the characters long before we realised that they weren't going to survive the game.

Do it like that game everybody talked about in june: Kill everyone except the main villain and the protagonist, without giving the former a real redemption plot because that require effort. The more unlikable the villain the better this technique will work... But seriously, most of the time an expected and logical plot is the best option by far. Trying to subvert expectations is rarely a good idea.

and homestuck

Demon Slayer is good at killing off potential characters!

Thrills! Chills! Kills!

*A BODY HAS BEEN DISCOVERED*

@nameless one if you're talking about the normal v3 ending, then you are actually wrong. There are 3 survivors in the 'good ending' wich is shown in the epilogue, while in the bad ending where you vote for someone you're presumably the only survivor even though we never saw that. The closest thing to a killing game with no survivors is the student council killing game where even though there's one survivor, they die like a month later so everyone who participated in the killing game is dead.

The terrible writing advice expanded universe (trademark) is quite the show.

I'm not sure JP will mind that the section that earns him money is the part people want to watch. It will enable him to demand more.

All according to JP's plan

yeah the sponsor war stuff at the end is nearly always good. some videos it is just as good as the main video, other times it is better.

Puple realm.

Wonder if he was refering to that Berserk book about Gundairs back story.

@@patrickflying17 to be fair thats like the 3rd worst fate berserk gives people 2nd being slower and 1st being guts

@@patrickflying17 I was thinking about that time in Re:zero when Rem got kinda forced to play twister

With the fridge reference it seems more like he's referencing an old Green Lantern comic from the late 90s where they killed off Kyle Rayner's girlfriend and then shoved her in a fridge for him to discover. It's an infamous moment in comics history, even non-GL-fans know of it.

Ah yes, the Determined Widow. A wonderful trope

Crimson witch of flames....

What church is he referring to

Dang the Catholic's be really put out by that. "You mean we've been eating these crackers and drinking this wine for nothing?"

*Primary Uber Antagonist to expendable temp henchmen: You idiot...you've just killed off the comic relief's stunt double....ZAPPERS!!!*

...this is EXACTLY why i despise the later parts of homestuck. They did EXACTLY that.

N from Death Note lmao

Introducing the evil clones in Chapter 12 and then never to be mentioned again, will definitely fly with the readers

Aw Sabo. Yes how to take one of the few actual deaths in the series handled well and just make it all but meaningless.

wait till you read homestuck

Game of Thrones only started doing it poorly after season 5 and The Walking was pretty smart about it at first too, but it started fucking it up sooner.

@@Wveth Game of Thrones kills characters right in the first chapter, just like the video suggested!

@@Wveth the walking dead has spared more characters than the comics did. A few characters who did in the show but not the comics only did because the actors wanted out.

Wait till you hear about Warrior Cats

There are more narrative in TWA than in some published novels

@@tuskinekinase true.

Or is there?

All according to plan!

Bet you anything there's a worldanvil or some other fanwiki up detailing all of the deep TWA lore in the works

He was only one day away from retirement

@@Iron_Gov that fall into the about to get his freedom category. 😆

finlayjohnston9 so he’s got early retirement.

Hot Shots' Dead Meat comes to mind........

homie was talking about eating pizza, going back to school in italy, and meeting his friend again after he beats the boss of an organization until he got impaled on an iron-bar fence

*cough cough* Avdol *cough cough*

And.......Big Boss

XENOBLADE CHRONICLES SPOILERS ngl I was pretty happy when it turned out fiora was alive all along

@@finjaquetemumnomeaqui4838 "the bullet grazed me"

I mean, that's functionally identical to an instant resurrection; while it's different diagetically, from a writing standpoint, the character is functionally dead until they aren't any more. They aren't part of the plot until the resurrection/reveal and all the other characters in the story act as though they're dead. It gets you out of having to explain how and why the pearly gates have a revolving door installed, but naratively it comes to the same thing. (That's unless you have the characters acknowledge in-universe that, for a certain class of person, a fall from a great height is just a minor inconvenience.)

I propose it to be called plot guillotine. All in favour?

I think "Final Fantasy V" has a very good example of this as one of the 4 party members dies and the survivors try using everything from Phoenix Downs to potions in a desperate attempt to revive them, but with no success.

*more than enough reason to never volunteer or be very reluctant or wary for anything that requires wearing a red shirt*

Astral marmots are underrepresented in mentor death scenes imho

Eventually most new stories probably will only have characters from one particular demographic because that's pretty much the only way to actually avoid backlash from some blue checks on twitter with any certainty, but they'll probably still find a way to complain. Hell just look at how many Netflix shows just straight up only focus on a particular demographic.

@@wraithwyvern528 There are plenty of books and movies by minority authors that do not have this issue - and plenty of books and movies with all-white casts that still contain racist elements. Literary segregation is a band-aid over the real problem; and that will only be solved by some deep societal soul-searching and the willingness to abandon ways of thinking that reinforce inequity. That's a much harder ask that "well let's just never write about it", but it is the only way we'll uproot the toxic mindset that leads to tokenizing.

​@@AstralMarmot Although literary diversity is a good thing in theory, in practice it can backfire. Simple example: Harry Potter is a series about an all white cast of british kids. Not a single drop of diversity, unless you count gingers. Does this mean JK Rowling is racist? No, it does not. JK Rowling lives a life surrounded by all white people, so she doesn't know how to write diverse characters WITHOUT relying on cliches (aka racism). She wisely chose to write what she knew, and keep her nose out of things she didn't know. In fact, she wrote quite a bit about class and wealth divisions in a constructive way. She is in no way at fault for not having room in her book (or her personal life) for studying each of the five LGBTQ genders, all 5 skin colors (black/yellow/red/brown/white), and all 300+ disenfranchised ethnicities that colonial Britain oppressed throughout history. Sensitivity towards minority issues is not a matter of "soul searching as a society", it is a matter of absurd levels of the study and pandering of groups that are, by definition, too rare to find in your average day to day life. I say it's enough to be generically kind to everybody. That way, I don't have to bother with understanding much less noticing racial and ethnic divisions. That's what TRUE equity looks like. Anyone who asks for more than that isn't after EQUITY. Keeping track of multigenerational greivances ends up causing more problems than it solves. Just look at the middle east. THAT'S where the "equality" movement is headed, which is ironic as that place is the exact OPPOSITE of equal.

*time to update the 'ole resume' again*

That is very inaccurate, its 50/50.

@@corryjamieson3909 its a joke- but understandable

Just have a giant monster erupt out of the ground killing every single main character.

*Cough cough* Game of Thrones *Cough cough cough*

@@mckaylamarille8630 Here's some water. It'll help.

@@gustavferreira627 Thanks.

@@mckaylamarille8630 You're welcome.

Homura (PMMM): (resets timeline again)

Pmmm as great as it is has nearly singlehandedly warped the public perception on tropes in magical girls Which does make watching sailor moon an interesting experience as everything is played straight and earnestly

Sleepless domain

@@june9914 It's kind of crazy when you think about it. Imagine if School Days had become so popular that it became the standard for every harem anime since lmfao

Precure doesn’t do that.

It's now FAR more than 100.

Gill from Street Fighter Three

Palpatine in disney star wars

I mean every JRPG final boss, and some anime villains.

Frieza in Dragon ball Z, twice

@@csona4030 Palpatine in all Star Wars, even before Disney he got brought back with what’s basically the Death Star on a star destroyer.

...considering the _real_ JP actually has published time travel stories before, I would say he's uniquely qualified to do that. That's a good idea.

@@LendriMujina I'm from the future. No, but he'll do it anyways.

Normal JP: The number one rule about time travel stories: ignore all the implications except the ones you think will make good drama points, but even then only follow them through on the one or two drama points you have in mind. "Good guy JP": Well..... actually, he has a point there. Time travel can be so complicated that it quickly becomes impossible to follow all possible ramifications through. But, do try to keep the rules for time travel in your universe consistent. Nothing breaks the illusion faster than inconsistent application of the rules.

Travis Smith Pffft, the only illusion we need is the depth of our character development

Step 1: always make sure your time travel rules are consistent... Just like the Terminator series! Terminator movies _always_ stay consistent with how _their_ time travel works and how it affects the future!

Looks like someone has a grudge 🤨

"Oh, and you get emotional attached to all the characters so when they die you cry for *hours on end-* " Boy have you read Homestuck.

please tell me what book it is. I wanna cry for funsies.

@@sneefinsnorfintime I think they're talking about hunger games

I accept nerd points for mmorpg items.

@@rockyfalldownstairs *REPEAT* Disclaimer: Nerd points are not redeemable for any good or service that is real, digital, or imagined.

Do you mean trolls 2?

TheAtheistPaladin You want gold trimmed rune armor for 50 nerd points?

@@theatheistpaladin No no, I'm pretty sure nerd points can be redeemed for plot bricks and character bricks.

Or in fantasy novels. "they aren't dead because magic!"

@@CarrotConsumer they're always like "pfft you thought I DIED? I'm too magical and crafty to die"

Yes, but heroes tend to come back unscathed (though may suffer the occasional bout of amnesia) and villains horribly disfigured and even more insane. Syndrome is not dead, just thrown into the future by a power vortex created by his zero-point energy boots encountering the spinning blades of the jet. He was, however, horribly mutilated and is now convinced that Jack-Jack really is his son. We also encounter the man behind the power who funded the high power lawyers that were able to sue someone for saving a life in an attempted suicide as well as gave the then Buddy Pines the startup capitol to make his fortune.

That is literally what happens in a story im working on they didn't flipping die, they were just badly injured and survived

Reminds me of a part from the Robot Chicken DC comics special. "Green Arrow? Didn't you die horribly?" "Yes, but I found this magic amulet!"