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Simply put, whenever an author needs to get rid of a historical personality whose further existence, work and deeds might prove inconvenient to the author' | Simply put, whenever an author needs to get rid of a historical personality whose further existence, work and deeds might prove inconvenient to the author' | ||
- | As with most writing conventions and tropes, the overuse of this solution to a narrative or [[pods/pods|POD]] problem can easily cheapen its value and level of impact, both in a general sense, and in the specific story where it occurs. Too many convenient sudden deaths in a work - especially if they are contrived (even increasingly so) - is proof of the author being unable to come up with different solutions to what to do with historical personalities that might not be important to the timeline' | + | As with most writing conventions and tropes, the overuse of this solution to a narrative or [[pods:pods|POD]] problem can easily cheapen its value and level of impact, both in a general sense, and in the specific story where it occurs. Too many convenient sudden deaths in a work - especially if they are contrived (even increasingly so) - is proof of the author being unable to come up with different solutions to what to do with historical personalities that might not be important to the timeline' |
A subtype of this cliché is that it often manifests itself in the oddly specific case of the person dying of a heart attack at just the right / wrong moment. Even if the person had a history of heart disease in real life (and in many examples they didn' | A subtype of this cliché is that it often manifests itself in the oddly specific case of the person dying of a heart attack at just the right / wrong moment. Even if the person had a history of heart disease in real life (and in many examples they didn' |
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