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{{quote|''"Hey, you know what else I love? Living! I love living! I hope to do a lot of living while I'm still alive. I'm just so lively. Wouldn't it be a great tragic irony if I was to ''not'' be living? God, I love being alive. ''Alive!''"''|'''[[That Guy With The Glasses|Nostalgia Critic]]''' on Hiller's ([[Will Smith]]) best friend in ''[[Independence Day]]''}}
{{quote|''"You know how in some [[RPG]]s you start off in your lovely idyllic green grass village where smiling neighbors bid you how-do-you-do that is [[Doomed Hometown|virtually guaranteed]] to get [[Nuke'Em|Hiroshimafied]] before the second act?"''|'''[[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]]''''s review on ''[[
The pursuit of happiness is one of the fundamental activities of mankind, be it from accomplishment, family, or gainfully performing a duty or calling. This is why characters who are shown to have attained a certain amount of happiness are very sympathetic to an audience, something indispensable for an author to tell a good story. However, people who are happy [[Refusal of the Call|don't usually go out of their way]] to answer the [[Call to Adventure]], making their involvement in a story very difficult. The solution writers [[Enforced Trope|most often employ]] is to [[Doomed Hometown|kill the happy characters]].
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