Disposable Pilot: Difference between revisions

 

Occasionally applied to characters who actually matter to the plot, so sometimes rates as a '''[[Death Trope]]'''.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Brians Saga (Literature)|Hatchet]]'' features a pilot whose primary purpose in the story is to have a heart attack, leading to Brian crash-landing in the Canadian wilderness.

* The chauffeur in ''The Wizard of Whitechapel'' gets killed off.

* A darkly amusing example in ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'': Warmaster Varan's ( {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy]], like all his minions}}) pilot is eventually revealed to have starved to death as he had been told to stay there until Varan's return. After Varan dies and [[Decapitated Army]] is noticeably averted, he continues to wait for orders that never come. The rest of the novels tend to avert this, with no other pilots dying (while Cain's riding with them anyway). Although they tend to be very minor characters anyway, when they're not [[Badass Driver]] [[Drives Like Crazy|Jurgen]].

* In ''[[Halo]]: [[The Fall of Reach]]'', Red Team's pilot gets a few throwaway lines before getting blown up in his cockpit, prompting Joshua to take over from inside the troop bay.