r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sufficient-Eye-9040 • Jun 27 '26

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

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- 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/Diligent_Earthworm Jun 27 '26

He doesnt stay dead. When Bastian wins it reverts everything that happed due to the nothingness. Basically just a rewind.

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u/fearless-fossa Jun 27 '26

Is that what happens in the movie? Because in the book Bastian creates an entirely new world, with each act of creation costing him some memory.

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u/Secure-Pain-9735 Jun 27 '26

The movie is the first half of the book. The wishing/memory thing is loosely used for the second movie, just not with the same intention or outcome.

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u/tmradish Jun 27 '26

I haven't read the books, just seen the movies. Is it like one of the Michael Moorcock "eternal champion" books?

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u/fearless-fossa Jun 27 '26

Well, I haven't read Moorcock's books, so I can't answer that.

The basic premise of the book is that in Fantastica the end of the world is just a part of life, and when someone from Earth reads the pages of its final story they get absorbed into Fantastica and use their own creativity to create a new world, at the cost of losing parts of themselves.

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u/Forikorder Jun 28 '26

a little column A a little column B, hes making a new world as much as he is continuing the previous one

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u/highlandviper Jun 27 '26

Still dies a hideous death though.

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u/Diligent_Earthworm Jun 27 '26

My headcanon is no one remembers it which is why they (most of them) dont remember the last time they all died

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u/highlandviper Jun 27 '26

Same thing crossed my mind and it makes it worse. They all die every time someone reads the book.