Plot-Triggering Death: Difference between revisions

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=== As a death trope, unmarked spoilers are bound to appear. Beware. ===

== [[Anime and Manga]]: ==

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== [[Fan Works]]: ==

* [[Original Character|Ace Swift's]] murder in ''[[Turnabout Storm (Fanfic)|Turnabout Storm]]'', and subsequent accusation of [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|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.

* [[Original Character|Ace Swift's]] murder in ''[[Turnabout Storm (Fanfic)|Turnabout Storm]]'', and subsequent accusation of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|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.

== [[Film]]: ==

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* ''[[Doc Savage (Film)|Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze]]''. Before the movie starts, Doc Savage's father dies in a South American country. When Doc realizes that his father was murdered, he and his aides start an investigation that leads into the main plot.

* ''[[Octopussy (Film)|Octopussy]]'': 009 is murdered in East Berlin. [[MI 6]] suspecting Soviet involvement calls in 007.

* {{spoiler|2's}} death in ''[[~~Nine~~ (Animation)|Nine]]''. The [[Big Bad]] Fabrication Machine absorbs his spirit near the start of the film, killing him and powering it up enough to start fighting against the other protagonists.

* {{spoiler|2's}} death in ''[[9 (Animation)|Nine]]''. The [[Big Bad]] Fabrication Machine absorbs his spirit near the start of the film, killing him and powering it up enough to start fighting against the other protagonists.

* The death of the hooker at Christmas turns out to be important in the first ''[[Lethal Weapon (Film)|Lethal Weapon]]''.

* The murder of her best friend that Tea Leoni's character witnesses occurs at the start of ''[[Bad Boys]]'' and drives the rest of the plot.

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* The death of drug baron Harvey Wratten on ''[[The Shadow Line (TV)|The Shadow Line]]'', which triggers the two main plots of the show by providing a starting point for [[The Protagonist|Jonah Gabriel]]'s investigations and putting [[Deuteragonist|Joseph Bede]] in charge of Wratten's organisation.

* ''[[Single Father (TV)|Single Father]]'': Rita's death kicks off the series as her widower and children try to find a way to cope afterwards.

* ''[[The Palace (TV)|The Palace]]'': King James is onscreen for a few seconds, doesn't even get a line, and dies before the opening titles. His unprepared twenty-something son Richard becomes King. [[Big Screwed Up Family|Scheming ensues.]]

* ''[[The Palace (TV)|The Palace]]'': King James is onscreen for a few seconds, doesn't even get a line, and dies before the opening titles. His unprepared twenty-something son Richard becomes King. [[Big Screwed-Up Family|Scheming ensues.]]

* ''[[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.