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# Put them in red clothes: For [[Red Shirt|throwaway characters]] and [[Bring My Red Jacket|warriors]] ''and'' [[Little Dead Riding Hood|young girls]] a fatal choice of fashion.
# Inflict them with [[Genre Blindness]].
# Or with too much [[Death
# Get 'em [[Death
# ...preferably [[Cartwright Curse|by the main character]].
# Put them on [[New Meat|"point"]].
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# Alternatively, let the [[Big Bad]] decide that they have [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|outlived their usefulness]].
# Let them [[Heel Face Turn|have a change of heart]] and [[Redemption Equals Death|switch sides to fight with the heroes]].
# Send them out of doors on a [[Partly Cloudy
# Let them [[Fatal Family Photo|show a picture of their sweetheart (or their baby)]] to the rest of [[The Squad]].
# [[Distant Finale|Flash forward]] to their deathbed, years later.
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# Write them as such a [[Mary Sue]] that the audience demands they be killed off as a [[The Scrappy|pointless annoyance]].
# Have them kidnap [[Mama Bear|someone's]] [[Papa Wolf|kids]].
# Have them [[Rewarded
...but really, [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]?
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