Plot-Triggering Death: Difference between revisions

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* In ''[[One Piece]]'', the death of Gold Roger lauches the Golden Age of Piracy, the setting of the story.

* ''[[Code Geass]]'': The murder of Lelouch's mother Marianne is the initial trigger of the series' plot.

* The first/second season of''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' is motivated by the death of Pegasus's wife.

* The Comedian's murder in ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]''.

* [[Original Character|Ace Swift's]] murder in ''[[Turnabout Storm]]'', and subsequent accusation of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Rainbow Dash]], which caused (allegedly) the accidental summoning of [[Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright]] to Ponyville while Twilight was trying to summon the best defense attorney in Equestria.

* ''[[The Big Chill]]'', the reunion of old college friends happens thanks to the suicide of one their friends Alex.

* In a rather roundabout example, Coral's death in ''[[Finding Nemo]]''. Her death happens some years before the actual story, but hadn't it been for that, the plot wouldn't have happened, at least not the way it did.

* ''[[Ordinary People]]''. In both the film and the novel the death of the family's eldest son in a sailing accident sets into motion the emotional crisis which the family has only outwardly recovered from at the start of the narrative.

* Used recurrently in [[Dan Brown]]'s novels.

* In ''[[True Grit]]'' The murder of Mattie Ross's father by Tom Chaney sets in motion the revenge quest that drives the story.

* Henry Archer's death in ''[[Atlanta Nights]]''. Nearly all characters in the book are in some way connected with him.

* In the first season of ''[[The Killing]]'', Rosie Larsen's murder is what brings all of the characters into the plot.

* ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' had some seasons begin with the death(s) of important characters to stimulate the season long story arc or A-plot.

* ''[[Alias]]'': Sydney tells her fiancé that she is a spy, leading to her boss [[First Episode Spoiler|having him killed]]. When her leave of absence gets a bit too long for her boss's comfort, he [[It Got Worse|sends killers after her too]]. Then she finds out that she works for the bad guys, and that her semi-estranged dad is one of them. Then she earns the bad guys' trust so that she can become a double agent with the CIA. ''Then'' she finds out that her dad has been a double agent all along. Whew. On to episode two.

* [[Older Than Steam]]: ''[[Hamlet]]'' begins with the king's death (though the dead man also appears as a ghost).

* In ''[[Xenoblade Chronicles]]'', the death of Fiora in the hands of the Mechon in the first moments of the game is what made Shulk and Reyn go ahead and kick Mechon ass [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|in order to avenge her]]. This later got them involved into something much bigger.

* President Al-Fulani's execution in ''[[Modern Warfare]]''.