Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 147 - Too Good for this Sinful Earth

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Shrinking Violet
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Despair Event Horizon
Even the Girls Want Her
Even the Guys Want Him
Blue-Collar Warlock
Pop-Cultured Badass
Your Soul is Mine
One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Beef Gate
Crutch Character
Taste of Power
Magikarp Power
Lethal Joke Character
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
Stone Wall
Glass Cannon
Lightning Bruiser
That One Boss
That One Level
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere
Game-Breaker
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Poisonous Person, was Poison Ivy (DC Comics), who got 4 votes.

Previous winners: Day 111 Onwards
Degraded Boss - El Gigante (Resident Evil 4)
Hypercompetent Sidekick - Shego (Kim Possible)
Throw the Dog a Bone - Sweet Victory (Spongebob Squarepants)
The Snark Knight - Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)
Relationship Upgrade - Ron and Hermione (Harry Potter)
Pair the Spares - Shaggy and Velma (Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated)
Guile Hero - John Constantine (Constantine)
Bookworm - Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Disproportionate Retribution - Cartman feeds Scott Tenorman his parents (South Park)
Accidental Misnaming - Benedict Cumberbatch
Like You Would Really Do It - Pikachu's Goodbye (Pokemon) / Jon Snow "dies" (Game of Thrones) / Goofy "dies" (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Adorkable - Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
The Trickster - Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
The Dog was the Mastermind - Scabbers (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Wham Shot - Lily of the Valley plant in Walt's back yard (Breaking Bad)
Cerebus Syndrome - Harry Potter
Shipper on Deck - Genie ships Aladdin and Jasmine (Aladdin)
Shoo Out the Clowns - Mimir gives Kratos and Atreus privacy to scatter the ashes (God of War) / Half the trolls die (Homestuck)
Disc One Final Dungeon - Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) / Hyrule Castle (Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Back for the Finale - Miles Edgeworth (Most Ace Attorney games)
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon - Cannon's Core (Sonic Adventure 2)
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)
Elegant Gothic Lolita - Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa)
The Turret Master - Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
Shear Menace - Scissorsman (Clock Tower)
Infinity +1 Sword - Ultima Weapon (Kingdom Hearts)
Infinity -1 Sword - Fully Evolved Starters (Pokemon)

Chiaki (Danganronpa 2)
Aeris (Final Fantasy VII)
Euphemia (Code Geass)
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Today's trope is Too Good for this Sinful Earth. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth

The good die young, or so authors would have us believe.

A popular and old (and perhaps outdated but overused) trope to justify Kill the Cutie. If there is a child of extraordinary beauty, goodness, and innocence in the story, she (its usually a she) will invariably die in as Anvilicious a manner as possible. The child will be certainly an Ill Girl, and frequently a Waif Prophet, whose death will be slow, torturous and lingering (tuberculosis or other disease was a particular favorite in the 19th Century), giving the child a chance to bid farewell to everyone she loved in a long, drawn-out drama scene. Sometimes she gets to speak a few last words to hammer in An Aesop relevant to the larger plot at hand. After she's breathed her last, her loss is mourned by all who knew her in particularly extreme cases even the Big Bad will take a moment to reflect on it and may serve to re-energize tired or disillusioned heroes to fight on for her cause.

The trope name comes from a frequent comment made at the subsequent funeral, that the poor departed child was too good for this sinful earth, and thus was called home to a good afterlife by a just God. In Real Life, this trope is a common way to understand tragic deaths among those who believe in some form of positive destiny.

TL,DR: An unambiguously innocent, pure and good character dies horribly through no fault of their own.

Nominations:
Nina (Full Metal Alchemist)
Ofelia (Pan's Labyrinth)
Red (There Will Be Brawl)

Well since this is a death trope guess I'll just spoiler tag everyone just to be safe

Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2)
Jonathan Joestar (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Lisa epe(Castlevania) (Not spoiler tagging this one since her death is in episode one and kicks off the whole plot anyway)

Honorable Mentions:
Emmeryn (Fire Emblem Awakening) (not a full vote since she's possibly still alive only with amnesia because DLC or whatever.
The Boss (Metal Gear Solid)
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We usually don't put spoilers on those, don't we?
Oh well, edited my post too
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Nanis23 posted...

We usually don't put spoilers on those, don't we?
Oh well, edited my post too

Mostly I just like Danganronpa and didn't want to spoil a late game death for people that haven't played it yet. I figure most of my other votes are pretty commonly known deaths
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Hinawa (Mother 3)
Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2)
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Hodor (Game of Thrones)
Chiaki (Danganronpa 2)
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Nina Tucker (FMA)
Lisa Tepes (Netflix Castlevania)
Ofelia (Pan's Labyrinth)
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Maria Robotnik (Sonic Adventure 2)
Android 16 (Dragon Ball Z)
Fantine (Les Miserables)

HM:
Hide (Tokyo Ghoul)
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Ofelia (Pan's Labyrinth)
Johnny (The Room)
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Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2)
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Poussey (Orange is the New Black)
Shireen Baratheon (Game of Thrones)

I'd argue Hodor isn't a good example though because he's innocent and pure but he also chooses to stay behind and sacrifice himself for the others

Snake5555555555 posted...

Ofelia (Pan's Labyrinth)

HM:
Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2)
Miki (Devilman Crybaby)
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Johnny (The Room)

Does suicide qualify given the parameters?
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Underleveled posted...

Snake5555555555 posted...

Johnny (The Room)

Does suicide qualify given the parameters?

Hmm I guess you're right
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Johnbobb posted...
I'd argue Hodor isn't a good example though because he's innocent and pure but he also chooses to stay behind and sacrifice himself for the others
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I'd say the same thing for Aeris, she knowingly goes after the big bad singlehandedly, that doesn't really fit the through no fault of their own part.

John Coffey (Green Mile)
Ofelia (Pan's Labyrinth)
Henry VI (Henry VI Part III)

John Coffey (The Green Mile)
The Giving Tree
Jesus Christ (The Bible)
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John Coffey (The Green Mile)
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Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol)
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Chiaki (Danganronpa 2)
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Mary Sue (A Trekkie's Tale)
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John Coffey (The Green Mile)
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Rankings so far:
Ofelia (Pan's Labyrinth) - 5 votes
Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2) - 5 votes
John Coffey (The Green Mile) - 3 votes
Nina Tucker (Full Metal Alchemist) - 2 votes
Lisa epe (Castlevania) - 2 votes
Red (There Will Be Brawl)
Jonathan Joestar (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Hinawa (Mother 3)
Hodor (Game of Thrones)
Maria Robotnik (Sonic Adventure 2)
Android 16 (Dragon Ball Z)
Fantine (Les Miserables)
Poussey (Orange is the New Black)
Shireen Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
Henry VI (Henry VI Part III)
The Giving Tree
Jesus Christ (The Bible)
Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol)
Mary Sue (A Trekkie's Tale)

By my count Chiaki was at 6.
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Hbthebattle posted...

By my count Chiaki was at 6.

Yeah that looks right.

Nanis, me, Mewtwo, Janus, Ava, and you
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Change Shireen to
KamikazePotato posted...

John Coffey (The Green Mile)

Probably too late to make the difference but it's a perfect answer
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