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** Or just, y'know, have his ''twin'' raise the whole "the army won't act if an alternate legitimate heir/commander makes a challenge" thing? The same link that killed the poor kitten would prevent him from dueling her and render the army useless.

*** Of course, Abe could have just '''not''' given him the piece in the first place, considering that the Prince's threat of killing his sister was about as empty as they come. Well, unless the Prince was suicidal enough to do it... But then he couldn't use the crown either...

* In ''[[Frozen (film)|Frozen]]'', Dan, one of three people (two guys and a [[~~Distressed~~ Damsel]]) stuck on a skilift for five days with no hopes of rescue due to [[Idiot Plot]] decides to jump down said skilift ''on his feet'', this earns him broken legs, bleeding wounds and an off-screen death by wolves who he ''knew'' were down there. It is treated as a dramatic scene, [[Viewers are Morons|some people even calling the character 'heroic']], but his death basically serves ''no purpose''. The idiot got himself killed for ''nothing''. His death didn't help either his friend or his girlfriend get away from the wolves. His friend later also died killed by the wolves in a [[Shocking Swerve]] that only served to have the [[Damsel Scrappy]] survive, so Dan, you were a complete idiot who got himself killed for '''nothing at all''.

* In ''[[Frozen (film)|Frozen]]'', Dan, one of three people (two guys and a [[Damsel in Distress]]) stuck on a skilift for five days with no hopes of rescue due to [[Idiot Plot]] decides to jump down said skilift ''on his feet'', this earns him broken legs, bleeding wounds and an off-screen death by wolves who he ''knew'' were down there. It is treated as a dramatic scene, [[Viewers are Morons|some people even calling the character 'heroic']], but his death basically serves ''no purpose''. The idiot got himself killed for ''nothing''. His death didn't help either his friend or his girlfriend get away from the wolves. His friend later also died killed by the wolves in a [[Shocking Swerve]] that only served to have the [[Damsel Scrappy]] survive, so Dan, you were a complete idiot who got himself killed for '''nothing at all''.

* The whole point of Lars von Trier's heroines existence. And the major point of ''[[Eight Deadly Words]]'' on the part of the audience.

* In the big battle sequence of ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', pilot Trudy Chacon has the Big Bad's massive gunship in perfect alignment to shoot it down -- from above and behind -- yet after a couple pot shots she maneuvers right into the front of the gunship, where all the big guns are, for no clear reason other than she wanted to die or something.

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** To say nothing of {{spoiler|Asch's death scene. "Alright, we'll fight and the winner will go and beat Van while the loser stays and powers the fonic door mechanism long enough for he other guy to get out. Leave together? What do you think we are, a pair of some sort of city-disintegrating, two-people-across-a-continent-teleporting, fonic-tech rewriting plot devices, who happen to be holding the two halves of the world's most powerful amplifier of seventh fonons, or something? Don't be ridiculous."}}

* One chapter in ''[[Nintendo Wars|Advance Wars: Days of Ruin]]'' would be a hell of a lot easier if you actually had control over Brenner's unit rather then it being forced in place as a fighting retreat would have been possible.

* Several of the people who were killed/seriously injured in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]]'':

* Several of the people who were killed/seriously injured in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'':

** Raiden, who, upon seeing that Snake is in danger of being crushed by a giant warship heading directly towards the pier he's laying on, decides to ''hold back the warship''. Instead of the alternative, ''picking up Snake and running as fast as he can away from the pier''. Raiden loses both arms for his trouble.

** Naomi, who commits suicide by destroying the nanomachines that were keeping her cancer in check. Aside from the fact that the explanation for this is wholly unsatisfactory (she never forgave herself for creating Vamp, but she wasn't even the one who ''made'' him, not to mention she'd finally helped stop him for good), but she left behind a newfound love interest and a girl who looked up to her. There was a spare seat for her in Metal Gear Rex, but she decides to stay behind and say her final words - to no one in particular. Good going.