It refers to female characters being killed in order to advance a male character's storyline. Usually to give him angst and stuff.
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
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Dana - Dec 16, 2009 2:24:38 pm PST #6406 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Morgana - Dec 16, 2009 2:45:49 pm PST #6407 of 10434
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
Thanks Dana. I had noticed that plot element overused way too often before, but I hadn't realized it has a handy title.
Consuela - Dec 16, 2009 8:47:35 pm PST #6408 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I am occasionally entertained at how often these discussions in teh blogosphere end up using a link to TVTropes.com. And I remember being one of the first tropers.
Huh.
Dana - Dec 17, 2009 5:44:26 am PST #6409 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I can't quite believe that the site is also the focus of a lot of the Victoria Bitter wank.
amych - Dec 17, 2009 12:28:38 pm PST #6410 of 10434
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I always feel the same way when tvtropes comes up -- even more so when it happens in real life (my ex-boss discovered the site the other day and a half a dozen people immediately twittered "see you in a few months!" and the like) (as did I, but also thought "hey, I was there before it was even a domain!")
P.M. Marc - Dec 17, 2009 12:36:02 pm PST #6411 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I always feel kind of skeeved when it comes up.
(Hell, Sean and I, we were ADMINS in the first days! Ahahaha.)
amych - Dec 17, 2009 12:38:01 pm PST #6412 of 10434
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Well, yeah, that too. Mostly, it's a "Let me splain... no, is too much. Let me sum up... no, even that is no fucking way going to fit into a tweet."
P.M. Marc - Dec 17, 2009 1:02:29 pm PST #6413 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Well, yeah, that too. Mostly, it's a "Let me splain... no, is too much. Let me sum up... no, even that is no fucking way going to fit into a tweet."
Too weird; didn't tweet? (tw;dt?)
JZ - Dec 17, 2009 1:07:41 pm PST #6414 of 10434
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I always feel kind of skeeved when it comes up.
Me too. And the one other board where I lurk regularly posts links to it all the time.
Cass - Dec 17, 2009 1:14:53 pm PST #6415 of 10434
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I always feel kind of skeeved when it comes up.
So much this.
tw;dt
::hearts::
(why do I never recall that certain things don't display because they're code?)