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Some people really love whining about "plot armor" (despite apparently not knowing what it actually is) but there's a reason stories don't go around killing their main characters willy-nilly: it kills character investment and narrative potential. Game of Thrones was popular because it broke expected narrative conventions, but if more stories did it, it would be obvious that it's usually better to let the storylines the early narrative sets up actually play out instead of cutting them short.
Even Game of Thrones had to chill on the deaths in the latter part of the story so that the audience could have actual storylines to latch on to. Most characters are more narratively interesting alive than dead. If more stories contained main-character death plot twists you would hate it and you would be right to hate it because it would be boring and annoying.
Characters in a story living long enough to finish that story isn't "plot armor", that's just a story.
edit: this is not a GoT diss post. this is a people thinking characters need to be in actual mortal peril all the time for the story to be good diss post. GoT is popular for a lot of reasons but I'm talking about this one bc of how often i've heard people say that perfectly fine stories should kill more characters like GoT (and, imo, that would ruin a lot them)
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Even Game of Thrones had to chill on the deaths in the latter part of the story so that the audience could have actual storylines to latch on to. Most characters are more narratively interesting alive than dead. If more stories contained main-character death plot twists you would hate it and you would be right to hate it because it would be boring and annoying.
Characters in a story living long enough to finish that story isn't "plot armor", that's just a story.
edit: this is not a GoT diss post. this is a people thinking characters need to be in actual mortal peril all the time for the story to be good diss post. GoT is popular for a lot of reasons but I'm talking about this one bc of how often i've heard people say that perfectly fine stories should kill more characters like GoT (and, imo, that would ruin a lot them)
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