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Developing Doomed Characters

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Developing Doomed Characters	comment	All right, you and your friends are hitting up that new monster movie at the theatre. You're ready to see some carnage. Some destruction. Some crazy special effects. This film is sure to be packed full of it. Except you have to wait to actually get to that part. No, the director has decided to spend the first 20 minutes of the flick introducing you to a Ragtag Bunch Of cool, Totally Radical hip kids, aged 16 to 27, who are all experiencing relationship drama and personal issues and family problems. The idea here is to use Character Development to try to make the audience identify with the future victims more, so the audience will be more affected if and when they die. In-Verse, it accounts for why the characters would want to act the part of the hero, or the villain for that matter. Problems often arise when the audience simply doesn't care about said personal issues. Some viewers are Just Here for Godzilla, in which case they have to sit through the tedium of introductions for characters they know are going to start dropping like flies. (After all, viewers are going to be able to guess which characters won't make it through anyway, so why should they care about them?) Other viewers might actually like to see some character development, but they tend to be disappointed too because the development here is usually pretty sloppy and rushed. If the characters aren't very likeable, it's going to be twenty minutes of impatient waiting for the monster to come along and start killing off the insufferable jerks (hence this trope's original name, Twenty Minutes With Jerks). This trope is not confined to film, however, and can frequently be seen in the likes of mystery literature or television series. Often overlaps with the audience Just Here for Godzilla, Monster Delay, and, in video games, the combination of Scenic-Tour Level and Play the Game, Skip the Story. Averted with Starring Special Effects, which puts the thing everyone's here to see front and center as the star. Contrast with the Sacrificial Lamb, a genuinely sympathetic innocent victim. Also contrast the Sacrificial Lion, a straight-up main character who still ends up dead. Compare and contrast the Mauve Shirt, who is expected to be just plain old Cannon Fodder and ends up with enough character development to live through at least an arc, if not the whole series/book/movie. Also compare Hate Sink, who is often doomed and always has the kind of character development that gives the audience a reason to hate them and be glad when they meet their doom. There's also Fatal Family Photo, which is the high-speed version of this: less annoying because it only delays the good part by a few seconds, but really obvious about it. Compare and contrast to A Death in the Limelight, where a character that's suddenly elaborated on is expected to die soon. See Eight Deadly Words, which is a Fan Speak phrase relating to the phenomenon.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_102b7173	comment	inFAMOUS We have Trish, Cole's ex-girlfriend who turns her back on Cole after he is framed for purposefully unleashing the explosion that destroyed Empire City and inadvertently killed her Sister. While Cole can either patch things up with her or permanently burn the bridge based on your actions the choice is ultimately irrelevant as near the end she is kidnapped and put into a Sadistic Choice where he must choose a group of six doctors or Trish alone from dying, no matter the choice she is killed. The ending reveals Kessler (A.K.A. future Cole) had this purposefully planned to prepare Cole for a forthcoming danger he failed to stop, killing his own love to make sure he wasn't "tied down by emotions" when it happened.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_109b4a22	comment	Predators has the audience wait 45 minutes to see a Predator. But like Alien (which also took a long time to reveal the alien), it tries to develop the characters, and has both Scenery Porn and some tense scenes (e.g. an attack by "hunting dogs") to make the waiting worthwhile. It definitely helps that the basic setup - a loosely organized bunch of criminals, soldiers, and hardened badasses stuck on an alien planet with no idea who dropped them there or why - would be a pretty interesting movie on its own even if it didn't have any predators in it.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen spends a large portion of its text showing the lives and character development of a number of civilians - a newsstand operator, a boy who hangs out by said newsstand reading comic books, a pair of detectives, a lesbian cab driver and her ex-girlfriend, and many others - to better show us the horror of Ozymandias' plan when we see it kill them all off. It works quite well.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_14b52449	comment	2012 gives the impression that it knows exactly what kind of movie it is and why the audience is there, by dashing through the science, quickly sketching the characters (unsuccessful author, his kids, ex-wife and her more successful husband; Russian tycoon with bratty sons, young sexy girlfriend, and colder wife; the President, his daughter, and the Vice President; the science expert who alerts the White House, the Indian scientists and the Tibetan family in the Himalayas) and then getting down to its explosive business.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_174d99d4	comment	Wolf Song: The Movie, although largely plot driven, still allows for enough time to develop several characters, only to kill them off in brutal fashion. chronologically, the major deaths are: Zar, who after redemption faces Cobalt and gets torn to shreds as a result; Alador, who is repeatedly lacerated and bitten in an attempt made by Cobalt to get him to submit, only to die of his wounds; Arrow, whoâ€™s desire to avenge his pack leads him to confront the Big Bad himself and then get his back broken and his chest torn open ;and finally Damien, who decides to face the antagonist but has to step down due to injuries, only for the Big Bad to brainwash him. Unlike the others, he dies on his own terms, being reluctantly Mercy Killed by his own daughter.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_1aacbbc9	comment	The Dragon Age series has a knack for introducing Guest Star Party Members at the beginning of the game, developing their personalities and relationships, and killing them off during the prologue. The Origin companions (as well as Daveth and Jory) in Origins, Mhairi in Awakening, and Carver/Bethany in Dragon Age II are the most prominent examples. (The last is an interesting example, as Carver and Bethany are developed equally. Whichever dies, is this trope. Whichever doesn't, continues development.)
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_1beda93b	comment	Zoe's college friends fill this role in the Sluggy Freelance horror spoof "KITTEN." Surprisingly, about a third of them end up surviving (at least until KITTEN II), though only main characters Torg and Zoe escape without being mauled, going catatonic, or becoming Satan's concubine.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_1ff419c5	comment	Kingdom Hearts II's "infamous" Prolonged Prologue seems like this at first though the later games in the series subvert it by explaining why this Prologue was so important: Spend 40 minutes playing as someone who isn't the main character except that that someone is actually a split personality of the main character and his friend Axel goes on to become a major character through his own split personality Lea in the sequels.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_21317f86	comment	Taken to an absurd degree with Grindhouse Death Proof which had 45 minutes with jerks... and then 30 minutes with some simply more badass (and thus entertaining) jerks. Its companion film, Planet Terror, introduced its characters concurrently with its plot set-up, and is generally considered to be the better-flowing of the two movies.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_21a901db	comment	Hobgoblins spends its first forty minutes on a set of thoroughly despicable people who show no Character Development aside from Amy getting sluttier.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_24a64afa	comment	Bad Movie Beatdown: Film Brain and Welshy discussed this for Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning where Welshy refused to let Film Brain tell any of the victim characters' names, stating that they were just dead meat waiting to be slaughtered and should be treated as such by only being given numbers.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_24b7b0fc	comment	It takes almost until the 50-minute mark of The Burning for Cropsy to start killing the campers.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_26c4b445	comment	Rosemary's Baby almost feels like a biopic with a minor subplot about the devil.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_28724fb2	comment	Titanic (1997) is mostly a love story between two young adults separated by social class. This is the focus for the majority of the film, with the inevitable ship sinking happening during the climax.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_2af19179	comment	Participants of Juni Taisen: Zodiac War are often killed at the end of their focus episode.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_2b6778e9	comment	Frankenstein 1970: As the monster doesn't appear outside the lab until almost an hour into this film, the audience is treated to a lot of interlinked personal lives of the film crew.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_2c082d05	comment	The Friday the 13th series of films fall into this trap a lot, due to its general style. Each of the teenagers is hunted down one by one, with none of the others generally being the wiser as time goes by. Thus, the effect becomes a series of murders, interspersed with five-minute segments of jerks. (The remake is especially egregious here, as it makes you go through this twice.)
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_2fb4d94	comment	The House of Wax (2005) remake has an extended subplot about the Final Girl worrying about moving to New York or not, as well as tension between her brother and boyfriend. The film at least spends time developing a creepy atmosphere before the teens start getting killed. A more egregious example of this trope are the scenes with Paris Hilton, considering how she has a ridiculously large amount of screentime although the only purpose of her character is to get killed in the most gruesome way possible.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_309df9ea	comment	Noted in Atop the Fourth Wall's review of Trouble #1, in that the character's interactions map perfectly to characters being introduced to be killed off by a masked killer, with the unfortunate twist that no such killer ever appears.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_310d6df7	comment	Stand Still, Stay Silent: The Distant Prologue follows a sort portion of the life of various characters Just Before the End, and hints at what enables each of them to survive The End of the World as We Know It. The story's main timeframe is set ninety years later, which means that just about everyone from the prologue has died from old age, safe for a pregnant woman's baby. The trope is played with in that the main characters are their descendants and have Shared Family Quirks along with Strong Family Resemblance. Decisions made by their ancestors in the prologue are also shown to have an impact on their situation at the beginning of the story, keeping them from being completely irrelevant.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_343ad13c	comment	The Babadook spends most of the time on Amelia and Sam, with the monster and title character getting less than 5 minutes of screentime toward the end. The large focus on Amelia, Sam, and their hardships is because Amelia's simmering grief, anger, and resentment are what created the Babadook in the first place.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_34525365	comment	Trevor (2020): We hear some friendly banter from the bulk of the medical team as they make their way to the autopsy room before all hell breaks loose. In a non-verbal example, Colinâ€™s wedding ring is purposely visible to the audience shortly before he becomes Half the Man He Used to Be.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_359049ac	comment	This Is the End: This review at RogerEbert.com says it.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_35a060cc	comment	Parodied in Airplane! with the sad but boring saga of Ted and Elaine's doomed relationship.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Done with Pyrrha Nikos. She became one of the most popular characters in the show due to a combination of badass, Nice Girl (along with Dogged Nice Girl) and the Ship Tease she had with teammate Jaune Arc. She was killed off at the end of volume three, after which it was revealed she had been scripted to die from the very beginning. Also done with General James Ironwood. He was a Four-Star Badass who commanded the entire Atlesian Military and suffered from PTSD following the Battle of Beacon which eventually led him to do a Faceâ€“Heel Turn against the heroes and eventually ended up Dying Alone in the city of Atlas after driving away his closest allies at the end of Volume 8. Following the release of the Volume, Miles Luna confirmed on a Cameo video that Ironwood was always planned to be a good person that eventually crumbled from the stress of the situation and became a villain which would end up leading to his death.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_36d426a	comment	Peeping Tom inverts this, as the killer is the protagonist. Viv gets developed but you know she's going to be the victim - and she's made very likable to create the tension of whether Mark will actually kill her.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_39e45334	comment	The Poirot adaptation of Dumb Witness forces the audience to sit through 40 minutes of nothing but wall-to-wall upper-class twits bickering about breaking the water-speed record before the first of the resident jerks has the decency to die. And then Poirot wastes another half-hour attending sÃ©ances and dicking around with the murder victim's dog before the next corpse shows up.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Happens a lot in Attack on Titan due to the fact Anyone Can Die. A good example is having a Whole Episode Flashback for Petra, Oluo, Eld, and Gunther before they died at the hands of the Female Titan.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_3f231b84	comment	Played extremely straight in Jurassic World. The film juggles the subplots of the two children's parents getting divorced and workaholic Claire — who has Belligerent Sexual Tension with Owen. And it's well over thirty minutes before the dinosaurs inevitably escape and start rampaging around the park. It's still not too bad because, like the first film, most of the screentime involving the titular park is spent checking on the various security measures and building up the suspense to unbearable levels.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_40cf3190	comment	Wrong Turn shows that good horror depends on character development: feature characters who are more or less unlikable, faced with horrors that one would not want to see inflicted on anyone.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_412c21da	comment	Escape Room (2017) spends a large amount of time at Tyler's party, introducing viewers to some fairly unpleasant yuppies, before it ever reaches the escape room. And then more time with them arguing inside the escape room before the dying starts.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_412f0390	comment	The Evil Dead (1981), with its 30-minute buildup to the horror, is sometimes given the dubious honor of creating this horror trope - although the characters aren't unlikeable and the tension is fairly powerful. The sequels, however, avert the trope in increasingly drastic ways: Evil Dead 2 recaps the first movie's plot in about ten minutes before jumping straight into the action, while Army of Darkness starts In Medias Res, followed by a quick flashback sequence explaining how Ash ended up a prisoner in the middle ages.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_447d091	comment	Unlike the short story it is based on, Color Out of Space (2020) spends a great deal of time getting to know the human characters, especially the Gardner family. Which makes it even more heartbreaking when they're horrifically killed by the titular Eldritch Abomination.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_460f1a4f	comment	In Planet of the Apes (1968), it's at least half an hour until we encounter the title characters, and all but one of the humans you meet till then end up dead, or worse, lobotomized.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_467773a6	comment	Rogue One averts this pretty successfully. Even though it takes almost an hour for the entire titular team to be brought together as a complete unit, the plot moves at a pretty fast pace and wastes no time in getting into the rollicking space adventure stuff. Each of the team members gets just enough development and distinct characterization that the audience roots for them to win and feels it in the gut when they all go down in the Final Battle, one by one.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_56edb129	comment	A Nightmare on Elm Street itself tends to be better with regards to this trope due to the camaraderie between the victims and the continuity between movies (aside from the second and sixth films). However, the second movie, Freddy's Revenge, is particularly notable since Freddy only makes his big appearance in the last 15 minutes. The rest of the movie is dedicated to homoerotic scenes featuring the main character, Jesse, though this is what viewers tend to remember most.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_58654d72	comment	The opening chapters of the Peter Benchley novel Beast (essentially Jaws with a squid instead of a shark spend copious amounts of time detailing the lives of the long-time married couple sailing through the Caribbean—their courtship, children, etc. All for them to be killed by the squid when their sailboat sinks. Benchley does this with the other victims too.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_5bf355c7	comment	Thimbleweed Park introduces numerous characters with their own goals and subplots, then has an infamous Ass Pull plot twist near the end that renders all of these irrelevant.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_6209177d	comment	Standard operating procedure for TV mystery shows like Perry Mason and Murder, She Wrote. We're introduced to the eventual victim and suspects in order to establish why the person dies and why everyone wants him/her dead. Cold Case in particular. The flashbacks spend a great deal of time fleshing out the Victim of the Week, to the point where the viewer can easily forget that he/she is already dead, and usually making them so likeable that the scenes depicting their death—even though this was established in the first five minutes of the episode—are shocking and gut-wrenching.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_65c24c45	comment	The 2006 horror movie Turistas spends so long setting up the eponymous tourists' predicament (and, in the process, establishing how incredibly whiny, arrogant, and unlikeable they all are) that by the time the Mad Scientist shows up, it's surprisingly difficult not to think that breaking them all down and selling them for spare parts is really the best thing to do with them.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_6b1cbace	comment	The Predator opens right away with the aliens, but goes on with this trope when the main character is put on a bus on the way to the loony bin with some traumatized and insane soldiers.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_6c6852c9	comment	The fact that Mirei Park of Yakuza 5 very suddenly starts trying to bond with Haruka, with the narrative attempting to make her more nuanced than just being Haruka's manipulative, cutthroat manager, is an indication she's not long for this world. Sure enough, she dies pretty much immediately.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_6d1e3c97	comment	A good chunk of the premise behind An American Werewolf in London is the judicious application of this trope, and part of the reason it's so funny.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_70da6e51	comment	The Goosebumps series can have some particularly interesting plotlines and villains, but the majority of a book usually focuses far too much on kids doing goofy things until the scary stuff happens.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_733fa603	comment	Neil Marshal's The Descent made this work with some good tension between the characters and some genuinely scary scenes of spelunking. Some critics even preferred the beginning segments, due to the film first playing on the fear of getting stuck in a cave, and it's been occasionally opined that the parts where the protagonists are running from the Crawlers are actually less scary than the full half hour of agonizing build-up where the audience just KNOWS that the monsters are coming eventually, but not from where or when.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_7406f8bf	comment	Quest for Glory V also does this. The game plot opens with a contest between five candidates (including the protagonist) who have to take a series of trials so that the best of them will become king. Most of the other candidates prove to be irrelevant as they end up dying in a way you cannot prevent, and the trials turn out to be irrelevant when the hidden enemy starts summoning the titular dragon. By the end of the game, you become king by virtue of having slain the dragon, and the whole trials are quietly dropped.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_76535257	comment	Dead Set. Partially justified as the story is set in a Reality TV Show Mansion and so the characters really are jerks, being the contestants selected deliberately to antagonise each other to make better television. However, this trope arguably works better for establishing affection towards the contestants (like Brainless Beauty Pippa, Wholesome Crossdresser Grayson, and Deadpan Snarker Joplin) than it does for The Determinator Kelly, for whom we are introduced to her love life, friends, work-related woes, Pointy-Haired Boss, celebrity friends, etc., long before she does any of the actual Determinating which makes her so awesome.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_76686539	comment	Mass Effect: Jenkins, We Hardly Knew Ye.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_7cf17151	comment	Battle: Los Angeles uses this, but lessens the annoyance by taking the time to get us acquainted with the main characters. For example, a Marine getting ready to retire, New Meat having a good time, an officer saying goodbye to his wife, and a soldier remembering his fallen brother.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_7df0e02c	comment	The first half of Starman #38 revolves around the formation of a new Justice League Europe, with a lot of time devoted to character interactions. The second half then has each member of the team systematically eliminated by the Mist until Firestorm is the Sole Survivor.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_7f9dbbcd	comment	Subverted at the beginning of Far Cry 3, where the story begins by showing a group of young rich kids joking around, drinking, and generally being insufferable...only for the camera to pan out and reveal it all as a movie being played on a smartphone, the owner of which is locked in a dingy cave, being taunted by the human trafficking pirate that's kidnapped them all.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_81b433f7	comment	The musical Jekyll & Hyde. There is no romantic subplot of any kind in Robert Louis Stevenson's original story, but thanks to Lost in Imitation this version has two. Early on there is a lengthy scene at Jekyll and his fiance Emma's engagement party (the Board of Governors members there, save for Emma's dad, will all be killed by Hyde by show's end); after that he pays a visit to a seedy nightclub and encounters performer/prostitute Lucy. Thus Hyde doesn't show up until about 13 songs into Act One. The show continues to focus more on the two women's relationships with the protagonist and his alter ego than his murderous rampage. Talk about a Romantic Plot Tumor!
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_84e1f890	comment	The original Gojira did not have a glimpse of the monster until about halfway through. Unusually, its first act is used not to develop single characters, but more the political and social context (heavily laden with subtext of the atomic tests and the effect they had in Japan).
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_8a95e28c	comment	Reservoir Dogs basically begins as a funny comedy set in a diner about the mores and opinions of a bunch of easy-going-looking guys. Then, jumpcut to Tim Roth shot in the gut and it's off to the races...
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_8d0e443f	comment	Several chapters of The Mermaid Princess's Guilty Meal focus more upon the various fish that will end up as the Victim of the Week... and as Princess Ela's next meal. Taking the time to flesh them out and explore who they are before meeting their gruesomely delicious end. Doubles as Let's Meet the Meat.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_9459b387	comment	even though the movie's core plot begins and ends with the title, Snakes on a Plane spends a fair segment of the first act introducing a whole pile of stereotypical airplane passengers for the snakes to eventually threaten, only to give each stereotype a unique twist during the action.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_947cae0e	comment	Hitchcock pulled off the same trick in Psycho - where we follow Marion Crane and think she's going to be our protagonist. Then she's killed halfway through the film, and the rest is about the killer.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_976b1e7e	comment	Prom Night (1980) spends almost the first hour of its run-time developing the high school characters before the prom even begins. While the film is sometimes complimented for having more story and character development than most slashers, it's also sometimes criticized by fans of the genre for being too much of a slow-burn, and most of the characters are still little more than high school archetypes.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_976efc02	comment	Three of Mystery Science Theater 3000's Netflix revival episodes deal with movies with this trope, frustrating Jonah and the Bots because the titular events don't happen until the very end of the movie.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_98286bc7	comment	Audition is all about this trope, spending most of the film very slowly drawing back the curtain of horror until the big finale.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_9842b0d3	comment	Neil Marshal's Dog Soldiers does this by necessity, considering the budget limitations on showing the werewolves too often, but actually makes the squaddies pretty likeable. It helps that "badass group of British soldiers out on a mission somewhere" is inherently more interesting to watch than a bunch of horny teenage morons being awful to one another.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_98f107f3	comment	Bokurano. is essentially a Super Robot show, but still insists on spending an episode or two developing each character even after we know for a fact that they will certainly die, which just makes everything so much more tragic.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_990e8621	comment	Melancholia is 125 minutes of dialogue and evolving characters' angstiness, and then 5 minutes of actual disaster. Then again, if you went to see a Lars Von Trier movie called Melancholia expecting a disaster movie rather than a movie about depression, you deserve what you get.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_9ac9d448	comment	Ultimate Spider-Man: Uncle Ben gets a lot of character development in the first arc. Still, he dies at the end of it. He was Doomed by Canon, after all.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_9b66c8f5	comment	Which lead to Tripod's song "King Kong", featuring the line "Get to the fucking monkey!"
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_9d255c2	comment	Seven Soldiers #0 featured a team of largely new, never-before-seen heroes assembled to fight a huge threat. After all the characterization that 24 pages could take, they were all slaughtered. Surprisingly, this has some bearing on the plot of the miniseries that follow — for instance, the Bulleteer was the missing member of the doomed team, and does some research into what went wrong.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_9d37e993	comment	Edge of Tomorrow is essentially made of this trope in that it centres on a cowardly Armchair Military officer who gets stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop fighting a losing battle against Starfish Aliens who are conquering Earth. Throughout the loops there's quite a lot of Character Development of both him and his squaddies, only for them all to be repeatedly killed. It works better than most invocations of this trope since the backdrop is a fairly epic annihilation war rather than suffering a cast of jerks, and the audience doesn't have to suffer through the awfulness of the main character - the one real jerk in the cast - that much because most of the first fifteen minutes or so before we see actual combat gives us the vicarious thrill of watching him be physically and metaphorically kicked in the balls repeatedly.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Every book in A Song of Ice and Fire starts off with a chapter from the perspective of a doomed character. Later books sometimes end with similar chapters.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_9d64bc7b	comment	Unskippable mocks video games that start out with five-to-ten minutes with jerks before pressing buttons starts to matter.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_9db82263	comment	The Birds merges this with Halfway Plot Switch. You think you're watching the development of a romance between Melanie and Mitch - then the birds attack. But the film does foreshadow the birds slowly getting more violent.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_9e8e9ba3	comment	Dan Abnett does this a lot, especially in the Gaunt's Ghosts series, both with the Ghosts themselves to establish that Anyone Can Die and with one-off characters to humanize people who are about to die horribly, regardless of which side they're on.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_9e9eee54	comment	The Ruins follows this trope to the letter, taking almost exactly 20 minutes. And goes above and beyond when it comes to the "jerks" part.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_9ebb8e6f	comment	The first issue of the Milligan-Allred run on X-Force featured a whole team of never-before-seen mutants. By the end of the issue, all but two of them were killed off in a mission gone horribly wrong. It's later revealed that their leader intentionally set them all up to die because their sponsors demanded a new lineup.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_9ec7bc59	comment	Life of Pi takes around 70 pages to get to the shipwreck. Before then, Pi speaks at length about animal psychology, his upbringing, and his following of three religions.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_a0df916	comment	Gosford Park is both an extreme example and proof that Tropes Are Not Bad — it's a two-and-a-half-hour murder mystery where the murder doesn't take place until nearly two hours in, but the screenplay won an Oscar.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_a3566b26	comment	The Haunted Mansion (2003) has about 15 minutes establishing protagonist Jim Evers as an obnoxious workaholic to go between the prologue and the family arriving at the house.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_a40b1126	comment	The filmmakers were likely trying to recreate their successful application of this trope in Independence Day, which spends much of its opening 40 minutes establishing characters in classic Disaster Movie style before the aliens start their destructive attack. The initial arrival of their spaceships in Earth's atmosphere happens less than 15 minutes in, so the looming threat quickly starts shadowing and informing everyone's actions and builds both character and excitement. There's also a far greater number of characters to follow even after the first attack wipes many of them out (one of the most memorable, Dr. Okun, isn't introduced until Act Two!). By comparison, the audience has to spend a lot more time with the few characters of significance in Godzilla — and since there are so few, it's easy to guess that most will not end up victims.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_a5b8b965	comment	The Iliad has numerous sections where Homer describes the name, ancestry, and personal history of someone who hadn't appeared in the story before he went into describing their background, and who die the paragraph (or sometimes sentence) after he finishes.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_a68c19b8	comment	Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War develops the entire cast for half the game, only for pretty much the ENTIRE PLAYABLE CAST UP TO THIS POINT to be brutally wiped out in a cutscene. The only thing that prevents a Downer Ending is the Tagalong Kids taking the conflicts where their parents left off to bring the story to a close.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_a694a49b	comment	The first 40 minutes of The Wages of Fear are spent introducing us to a bunch of unlikable characters, four of which become part of the actual Suicide Mission. And none of them will survive.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_a705c715	comment	Especially called out in Cabin Fever where Phelous notes that by making the Jerkass so much of a jerk you not only don't care about him but lose sight of the other characters because you're just wondering when and how the jerk will die.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_a7ff76a4	comment	Freddy vs. Jason is a film whose synopsis only needs to be as long as its title, and yet it shows the audience warmed-over teenage drama for a large part of the movie, instead of Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees actually fighting each other.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_ac259af8	comment	Parodied in Saki Biyori, in which Hiroko "FunaQ" Funakubo of the Senriyama mahjong team has two horror movies to watch before returning- a zombie movie and a shark movie. Lacking the time to watch both, she gives the zombie movie to Ryuuka and Toki, the shark one to Izumi and Cera, and walks back and forth between the two rooms. It takes over 90 minutes out of two hours for a zombie to appear in the former, and around the same time, a shark appears in the latter.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_ac5db594	comment	King himself acknowledged that he hardly ever plans out a plot for his novels or stories in detail (The Dead Zone is the most notable exception), preferring instead to place a group of characters in a situation and see what happens.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_afc879df	comment	Whether Until Dawn plays this straight or subverts it depends on how good you are at the quick-time events (or whether you care enough to complete them to save the characters in question). With some effort, it's possible to get an ending where Everybody Lives.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_b0e712ea	comment	Funny Man: EVERY character is unlikable to one extent or another, to the point where you'll just find yourself rooting for the Funny Man. At least he brings some Black Comedy to the table!
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_b0ec0986	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep Is a prequel that tells the tale of 3 doomed apprentices: Terra, Ven, And Aqua in their search for the missing Keyblade Master Xehanort, by the end of the game Terra is stripped of his body and his soul animates his armor to attempt to stop Xehanort from escaping, left stranded in the Keyblade Graveyard after. Ventus is used to complete an ancient weapon known as the "X-Blade" and in his attempt to destroy it has his heart damaged in a way that leaves him comatose. Finally Aqua does battle with possessed Terra and falls into the Realm of Darkness saving Terra's body which ends up becoming the "Xehanort" Sora would later face in the original two games in his Heartless and Nobody incarnations. While this ending also sets them up to hopefully be saved somehow by Sora in the Secret Ending it does not detract at all from the Hopelessness of this game's Darkest Hour and the fact that they are all still like this for 10 years before anything could be done about it.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_b5c06d08	comment	The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies takes it a step further. Only in the last ten minutes of the movie are the eponymous zombies even seen... the lead-up to which consists of some relationship stuff between some unlikeable people and shitloads of singing.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_b9a0d78d	comment	All the main Alien movies do this (including Prometheus and Alien: Covenant), with varying levels of success. Indeed, this article basically suggests that Aliens is the gold standard for the aversion of this trope.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_b9e40229	comment	Averted in Feast: while the 99% Red Shirt cast are indeed an assorted bunch of jerks, time that would otherwise be wasted introducing their personalities is supplanted by a quickie on-screen caption for each, and the film does not take long to get to the killings.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_bacb156b	comment	The opening scenes in The Reef establish that Luke and Kate are a couple that broke up years ago, with some clear sexual tension.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_bcd67dfd	comment	The original The House on Sorority Row zigzags this. Word of God is that he wanted to do more than just the typical half-assed character development in the opening segments - so there's actually a story and connection other than random teens trying to get off with each other. But still it's well over twenty minutes before the killer starts slashing.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_c020caa1	comment	Sorcerer, while being a remake (and unlike the original film), interestingly starts with twenty-five minutes of introducing its characters.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd: In the Dark Justice story that reunites the four Dark Judges, a lot of time is spent developing their four thousand unfortunate victims who set out on a deep space voyage. The colonists are almost all completely slaughtered after the foursome infiltrates the mission. Dredd and Anderson are Late to the Tragedy, though some survivors manage to stow away on the ship.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_c353ea41	comment	Jurassic Park: The early scenes of Jurassic Park — the stuff before the dinosaurs break out — are actually some of the most interesting scenes in the movie, since they focus on the idea of a dinosaur zoo rather than on simple survival. Given how many of the JP video games have been about managing such a park and ignoring the movie's themes of chaos theory and dinosaur breakouts, it looks like these scenes had a surprising impact. Played extremely straight in Jurassic World. The film juggles the subplots of the two children's parents getting divorced and workaholic Claire — who has Belligerent Sexual Tension with Owen. And it's well over thirty minutes before the dinosaurs inevitably escape and start rampaging around the park. It's still not too bad because, like the first film, most of the screentime involving the titular park is spent checking on the various security measures and building up the suspense to unbearable levels.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: To veteran fans, "The War Games" is the one that introduces the Time Lords, establishes the Doctor as an alien, and ends both the Second Doctor's appearance and two very likeable companions... in the very last minutes of a ten-parter serial. That's more than four hours of interaction with villains and allies that end up brushed under the carpet. It's a general rule in New Who that if the Doctor offers companionship to a guest character in the middle of an episode, while they're still in the midst of a dangerous adventure, then something Very Bad is about to happen to them. Examples range from a space waitress desperately wanting to see the universe turning into stardust to his own daughter/Opposite-Sex Clone seemingly dying in his arms after his initial resistance to her warmed and she expressed her desire to, you guessed it, see the universe. When the Doctor meets a nurse during a crisis and (only half-jokingly) tells Amy she's been replaced, Rory snarks that it's time to alert the poor woman's next of kinâ€¦ and he wasn't wrong. Possibly the only time this doesn't happen is with the scientist lady in Doctor Who S36 E7 "The Pyramid at the End of the World", who does survive but still doesn't become a companion.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_c4a7b5d3	comment	Spoofed in Shaun of the Dead. The Zombie Apocalypse has actually started right from the opening scene, but no one notices due to either self-absorption, idiocy, or the fact that the zombies staggering around the streets arenâ€™t incredibly different from everyday people doing everyday things, making it hard to tell the difference between a coffee-deprived nine-to-fiver and an undead monster or precisely when the former has become the latter. This also actually works to foreshadow both the main characterâ€™s Character Development and his at-that-point dormant potential and leadership qualities, as numerous times he notices something very odd and seems to be just on the verge of working out exactly whatâ€™s going on... only for something to distract him before it clicks and make him lose his train of thought. The first morning after the apocalypse is in full swing, the protagonist takes a casual stroll down a street littered with zombies to the corner shop for coffee and walks back without noticing a thing.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_c75605f9	comment	The first half of The Great Gatsby is mostly composed of episodic chapters that serve to introduce us to the main characters. The actual plot is kicked into gear when Gatsby requests that Nick set up a private meeting for himself and Daisy. Arguably justified in that Fitzgerald is aiming to paint these characters in a negative light and does so quite successfully.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_c864004	comment	The first quarter of The Company Of Death is almost entirely spent with Emily and her squad preparing for the dreaded "Misson 12", the infiltration of a vampire commune by using three team members as bait. We see Emily interact with Ramon the squad leader, her friend Rosa, the Hot-Blooded Sherice, Daisy the merciless instructor, and Carlos, who's scared out of his wits after seeing Death with his own eyes. We get attached to this team as a family, each member having their own doubts and issues. When they stumble across a small travelling commune and they naÃ¯vely try to wipe it out âˆ’ not expecting the vampires to use hordes of zombies as a defensive weapon âˆ’, mission 12 is aborted and absolutely none of them survive (they are even Killed Offscreen). Emily "survives", but as a sentient zombie and in the literal company of Death. That point also coincides with the book's relative tone shift, due to the sheer absurdity of the situation Emily finds herself in.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_c95c1834	comment	Minor cult hit Outpost manages to pull this off: The characters are all badass anti-hero mercenaries from various walks of life, making them actually interesting in their own right. They could've gotten away with double the time spent developing the characters before the inevitable grisly death and it wouldn't have been boring.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_caf76c89	comment	The Happening spends its time split between the protagonists running from a mysterious suicide epidemic and bickering about whether or not Zoe Deschanel's character is cheating on her husband. At least when that particular thing is resolved, the movie has the grace to acknowledge how dumb it was.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_cba3559b	comment	The Survival of the Fittest 'Pregames'. A variation in that its purpose is to establish relationships and set up storylines for the island itself — as well as flesh out the characters.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_cf8e87c8	comment	Weird example from Re:Zero. Subaru and the audience remember everything, but all that character development every other character went through before every one of Subaru's deaths gets reset back to his latest "save point" - no matter how positive it was for them. Thus, "doomed" is only temporary in this case, but it spans multiple arcs across the series.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_d0799db8	comment	The early scenes of Jurassic Park — the stuff before the dinosaurs break out — are actually some of the most interesting scenes in the movie, since they focus on the idea of a dinosaur zoo rather than on simple survival. Given how many of the JP video games have been about managing such a park and ignoring the movie's themes of chaos theory and dinosaur breakouts, it looks like these scenes had a surprising impact.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_d43be22a	comment	While the earlier Halloween movies aren't so bad - the first one even opens with the iconic scene of Michael's first kill, shot entirely from his point of view - the later ones revolve around the typically unlikable, rebellious teens with teen issues that are standard in many slasher flicks. In fact, Michael Myer's killings come off as more of a background issue to the love triangles and teen angst of the protagonists. The original Halloween (1978) handles its initial minutes very well. After the prologue where Michael kills his sister, the film focuses on only two characters, the pleasant Final Girl Laurie and Michael's psychiatrist Dr. Loomis, with other jerks only appearing to interact with those two characters. And while Laurie spends the beginning of the movie doing normal teenager things, she keeps seeing Michael spy on her and going past Meaningful Background Events of Michael's plan. In the 2007 remake it takes about 20 minutes for Michael to kill a human, and this is before we get to the present day.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_d4ab5d5a	comment	Twister shares half its plot with gigantic tornadoes and the other half with a divorced couple constantly arguing over every little thing before inevitably getting back together. And a smaller fraction devoted to the Hate Sink Jonas, because you need someone to boo, and can't really hate tornadoes (although part of the heroine's Backstory is that she does, so to speak).
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_dacffea0	comment	The Stardancer series in the Chakat Universe, SO MUCH. For the uninitiated, this is one of the most dark, disturbing tales in the Chakat Universe, a tale of what is very nearly a first-contact worst-case scenario. Many characters are introduced, and even well developed, just to die in the chapter they appear in, but quite a few are around for multiple chapters, and in one case from the beginning, but are eventually Killed Off for Real, often in horrible ways such as having their escape pod crushed or being sucked into space.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_dcd4ffd1	comment	Perdido Street Station dedicates something like the first third to the troubles of a maverick arcane scientist named Isaac and his taboo relationship with Lin, a khepri (read: human with a giant beetle for a head) artist. We get to meet their friends, witness the social stress of New Crobuzon, and see relationship tensions develop that wind up only barely mattering because a caterpillar Isaac has been caring for turns out to be the unholy spawn of a xenomorph, Mothra and a mind flayer and proceeds to throw the whole thing into a horror plot with souls being eaten left and right.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_dd3fe595	comment	It takes about 700 pages for the hero of Atlas Shrugged, John Galt, to show up. It takes about 400 pages for some of the instigating action to take place. That first portion of the book is taken up with introducing the characters, establishing just how bad the "looters" are, and setting the stage for their truly awful deeds.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_de8f6b17	comment	While the 1998 Godzilla movie does present a few scenes of Godzilla sightings at the beginning, it still takes a good half hour until he shows up, and until then you had to watch a spineless New Yorker complain about her career. And once Godzilla shows up and then keeps 'hiding' during parts of the movie, guess what? More of a spineless New Yorker, except now you get to watch her screw everything up and have an awkward rekindling with her ex-boyfriend Matthew Broderick.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_de8fbcb1	comment	Godzilla (2014) takes a long time before we see the big G in all his glory, and the majority of the monster bash in is the last half hour. Gareth Edwards and Bryan Cranston talked about the way to avoid the problems with this trope is for the character arcs of the humans to intersect with the monsters in an interesting and, in Edwards' words, "unexploitative" way so you don't feel that they're wasting screen time on them; unfortunately, they didn't succeed. However, the movie does focus on developing the mythology behind Godzilla himself and how the characters deal with trying to survive, rather than being concerned about less important issues. Despite this, many felt there was still too little Godzilla and too many flat characters in the movie.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_e02d5288	comment	At the start of the first episode of Invincible (2021), we see the Guardians of the Globe in an action sequence that wasn't in the original comic. At the end of it, we see the various members of the team during their everyday lives: Red Rush is trying to console his girlfriend on a date because of her issue with the fact that he'll often dash away to stop supervillains in the middle of conversations, War Woman is an Honest Corporate Executive, Martian Man is friends with a young girl who is clearly very poor and possibly homeless, Darkwing is apprehending criminals, Green Ghost is doing a photoshoot, The Immortal is defeating a supervillain, and Aquarius is bored. All of them are called away from what they are doing to take care of an emergency. And then they are all brutally killed by Omni-Man.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_e2950b55	comment	Never Gives Up Her Dead: You are told very early on that Emrys is going to die at the end of the game. Still, the rest of it explores her relations with other people aboard the ship, along with exactly how and why she will need to die.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_e43ab410	comment	When Film Reroll recreated Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, the DM decided to recreate the behavior of people unaware that they're in a horror film by convincing them they're actually playing an obscure sex comedy called "Summerspell". To help sell the illusion, each character was given secrets and objectives to complete, as well as a simple relationship-building mechanic. Jason appearing, and killing most of them in a short period of time, led the dead players to wonder if there was a point in keeping their secrets anymore.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_e5d5d23c	comment	One of the criticisms of the Doom movie is that it has too many talking Space Marines followed by too few demons for about 20 minutes.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_e60d3d7a	comment	The first two Predator films use this trope extremely well, since the protagonists are respectively a commando leading a crack team on a rescue mission in Central America and a police lieutenant leading a raid on drug dealers, and the monster is a tribal alien Hunting the Most Dangerous Game. The first act of each film shows the hero and his team engaging in shootouts with scores of Mooks to establish them as a One-Man Army, which makes it all the more tense and terrifying when the Predator starts hunting them and picking off their allies. The Predator opens right away with the aliens, but goes on with this trope when the main character is put on a bus on the way to the loony bin with some traumatized and insane soldiers. Predators has the audience wait 45 minutes to see a Predator. But like Alien (which also took a long time to reveal the alien), it tries to develop the characters, and has both Scenery Porn and some tense scenes (e.g. an attack by "hunting dogs") to make the waiting worthwhile. It definitely helps that the basic setup - a loosely organized bunch of criminals, soldiers, and hardened badasses stuck on an alien planet with no idea who dropped them there or why - would be a pretty interesting movie on its own even if it didn't have any predators in it.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_e6267766	comment	A Star Wars Legends horror novel Red Harvest spends several chapters on daily lives of students in the Academy where the outbreak of Zombie virus later happens. What makes it even worse than other horror examples is that it's a Sith Academy Every. Single. Character. is an Asshole Victim.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_e6fca67a	comment	Hell House LLC works in part because the characters are sympathetic and made what was happening to them as things got worse much more compelling. It's debatable if this was done effectively in the sequel Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_e93b2f62	comment	The Fly (1986) spends a fair bit of time introducing its leads and their love story; the Tragic Mistake happens at slightly past the half-hour mark, whereupon a Slow Transformation begins. But it's done very well and audiences end up caring deeply about what happens to them. Plus, the movie only has three major characters, so if it got right to the violent stuff it would be a very short movie.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_e944602	comment	In Goblin Slayer, we are introduced to a young priestess who wants to become an adventurer, so she joins a group of other beginners, consisting of a cocky warrior guy, a very nice fighter girl, and a snarky wizard girl. Then they all decide to enter a cave to slay goblins. Despite giving them good character designs, different personalities, and in the manga, backstories, they are sadly slaughtered one after the other; the wizard girl is stabbed with a poison dagger by the goblins and the warrior guy is overrun and eaten alive. The fighter girl is able to buy the priestess enough time to escape until she is overpowered by a larger goblin and sadly gang-raped. When it looks like the priestess is about to suffer the same fate, she is rescued by the true main character of the show, who then proceeds to kill all the goblins in the cave single-handedly. So despite all the potential these characters could have had, they were killed to start off the story and set the tone.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_e971bd33	comment	The Perfect Storm takes much time to show the regular life of the Andrea Gail before the storm actually starts. This trope is far more excusable with stuff Based on a True Story, since it helps you get to know a little bit about the people who actually lost their lives for real.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_ea055b69	comment	The 1990 made-for-television film Challenger spends much of its runtime delving into the personal lives of the seven astronauts who will later perish onboard the eponymous Space Shuttle.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_ec80dae4	comment	Zero Punctuation: The trope is invoked by Yahtzee during his review of Until Dawn, who says the entire point of the cast of a Slasher Film is to see "twats get twatted".
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_ed525174	comment	The Colonel's Bequest (and its sequel) opens up with a long list of unlikeable stock characters and their cliched interrelation dramas, affairs, blackmails, and so forth. You get points for discovering every little detail about these through spying on them; however, none of it matters even one bit as soon as people start dying like mayflies. By the end of the game, all of the cast except two are dead, and the only bit that the character can prevent (in the first game. The second has even less agency) is the identity of one of the two survivors.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_edaf52ea	comment	DeepStar Six is a pretty hefty example: it takes almost an hour for the monster to appear, in a film 99 minutes long. As you could expect, it's a relentless barrage of disasters and monster attacks between that point and the time the credits roll.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_ee62842e	comment	During the Need for Speed film, the first 30 minutes are spent building up the protagonist and his friends, as well as highlighting the backstory of him losing the love interest to the antagonist. All this leads to the antagonist eventually killing the youngest friend of the protagonist during a staged street race, which he further uses to set up the protagonist by framing him for the fatal accident that killed the friend. And then the true plot of the film begins.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_eec04867	comment	Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series does this on a regular basis, but with a slight twist. Most of the novels center around some historical artifact or another. Cussler frequently dedicates a prologue to this artifact: how it got to be lost or what-have-you. Since these artifacts have been lost for decades or centuries all the people who were involved in putting it where it eventually winds up are inevitably doomed if only by the passage of time. A lot of them still die to murder or treachery though.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_f066e26d	comment	HetaOni plays with this trope in that the development is largely done ahead of time in its parent series, Hetalia: Axis Powers.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_f08ae063	comment	In Our Wives Under the Sea, there's something clearly wrong with Leah from the moment the story starts and she returns from her expedition. Much of the plot focuses on Miri losing her grip on her wife as Leah's body and mind slip away and she undergoes a strange metamorphosis. The story still develops Leah with flashbacks to her childhood, her job at the aquarium, some of her memories with Miri, and a full subplot about what happened leading up to the fateful encounter on the expedition.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_f4bc7cf	comment	The third book of the Venus Prime series opens with Dare Chin, an assistant mayor of the colony on Mars, as he deals with paperwork, his troubled relationship with his girlfriend, and an asshole in the lobby who insists on "studying" a Martian relic. By the end of the first chapter, Chin is dead.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_f5bddacb	comment	While Grave Encounters features this to a degree, it works due to the movie relying on Nothing Is Scarier for the first half of the horrific part, so empathizing with the characters' situation is a must.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_f5c936a3	comment	A common complaint about Cloverfield is that the first twenty minutes are spent watching the main characters throw a party. The point is to show why they would travel across Manhattan to save someone, which not everybody bought.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_f67012a7	comment	Terror in the Jungle (1968) is about a little boy who survives a plane crash in the Amazon rain forest. About the first half-hour of the movie is spent on the plane, bizarrely developing the other passengers (including a rock band and a woman who was just acquitted for the murder of her husband but is still widely thought to be guilty) who all either die in the crash or are eaten by alligators right after it. (One of the three credited directors posted his story on the IMDb; the producer was incompetent and pretty much making things up as they went along, causing two of the directors to quit and resulting in a wildly disjointed story.)
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_f8a2cb3f	comment	Neal Stephenson's Seveneves takes this to an extreme — the entirety of Earth is doomed, and we learn early on that it has about two years, tops, to live. Even as humanity as a whole puts all their hopes in a space-based Ark project, we know that seven billion people are dead men, women, and children walking. The first 300 or so pages of the book are spent building up to the destruction, and when the end finally comes it is crushing.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_fb9c177d	comment	Many Transformers fans accuse the Transformers Film Series of this with everyone who isn't Lennox or Epps. However, this is generally par for the course in the franchise. The sequels were even more slammed for this, Revenge of the Fallen getting the most flak (due to teenage angst over a long-distance relationship). Dark of the Moon and Age of Extinction were moderately better received because the human drama was more about survival and friendship with the robots than strictly teenager problems.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_fbf8acc	comment	The Cabin in the Woods subverts the whole "jerks" aspect of the plot, which is standard in slashers. Curtis's introduction makes him look like a typical Jerk Jock, only for him to make a joke and give some helpful academic advice. Overall, the main characters are all likeable people. Until they are artificially turned into jerks by means of chemical pheromones for the benefit of the Eldritch Abominations watching. Though the stoner & final girl who make it to the end decide to screw over every innocent person on the planet... so, then they were jerks all along, and then they died. Of course, that was the whole point of the ending: if humans need to ritually kill people in order to maintain control of the planet, there are no truly innocent humans...so why not give something else a turn?
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_fc4698bb	comment	My Soul to Take. To quote from this review: "The first half of the movie is devoted to the weird hierarchy at Bugâ€™s high school, where a mean girl named Fang (Emily Meade) rules with an iron fist and doles out punishments to lesser students — none of which has anything to do with anything."
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_fd350996	comment	Most of the first half of Ultima VII Serpents Isle is spent traveling through the three towns of Monitor, Fawn, and Moonshade, with lengthy plots in each one exploring their politics and relationship to both the Britannian and Ophidian virtues. Great effort goes into making you care about the Non-Player Character residents and sympathize with their problems. Then virtually everyone on Serpent's Isle gets slaughtered offscreen by the Banes. According to Word of God, it was the only way they could get the game on store shelves by the deadline. (Though the original idea amounted to everyone getting slaughtered onscreen by the Banes, who you deal with one at a time instead of all at once)
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_fe5fdb32	comment	Everyman HYBRID has a weird take on this. At first, it looks like Marble Hornets-lite, with the Slender Man making painfully obvious background appearances while the cast talks about diet tips and workout routines. Then someone else wearing a very convincing Slender Man outfit shows up, and you find out that it was an in-universe ripoff that has now been gatecrashed by the real deal. The rest of the series is more dialogue-heavy than any other Slender-story on Youtube, but from that point on the characters are actually talking about relevant stuff.
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Developing Doomed Characters / int_ff2165b	comment	Cold Case in particular. The flashbacks spend a great deal of time fleshing out the Victim of the Week, to the point where the viewer can easily forget that he/she is already dead, and usually making them so likeable that the scenes depicting their death—even though this was established in the first five minutes of the episode—are shocking and gut-wrenching.
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Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Saki Sanobashi / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Amazing Fantasy #15 (Comic Book) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Civil War (2006) (Comic Book) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Secret Warriors (Comic Book) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Seven Soldiers of Victory (2005) (Comic Book) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Thessaliad (Comic Book) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Transformers: All Hail Megatron (Comic Book) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia (Comic Book) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Civil War / Comicbook / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Always Visible (Fanfic) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Extra Life (Fanfic) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Hell Gate (Fanfic) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
March of the Inevitable (Fanfic) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Redaction of the Golden Witch (Fanfic) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Negotiations-verse (Fanfic) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Silverscale Arena (Fanfic) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Alien: Covenant / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Aliens / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Alien vs. Predator / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Altitude / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
An American Werewolf in London / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Apollo 18 (2011) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Avalanche / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Battle: Los Angeles / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Birdemic / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Blood Rage / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Body Double / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Bone Tomahawk / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Cabin Fever / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Carver / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Cemetery of Terror / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Challenger / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Circle / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Cloverfield / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Color Out of Space (2020) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Curse of Chucky / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Danger!! Death Ray / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Dawn of the Dead (1978) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Dead End (2003) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Death Proof / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
DeepStar Six / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Deepwater Horizon / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Desperado / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Dog Soldiers / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Don't Go in the Woods (1981) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Dracula: Prince of Darkness / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Drag Me to Hell / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Dragged Across Concrete / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Earthquake / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Edge of Tomorrow / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Elephant / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Elephant (2003) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Escape Room (2019) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Eyes in the Dark / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Final Exam / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Fire Twister / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Forever Evil (1987) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Frankenfish / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Frankenstein 1970 / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Frozen (2010) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Funny Man / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Godzilla (2014) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Green Room / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Grindhouse / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Grizzly Rage / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Halloween (2018) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Hatchet / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Hell House LLC / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Hobgoblins / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Home Sweet Home / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Hostel / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
House of Wax (2005) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Hulk / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
In Fear / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
In the Aftermath: Angels Never Sleep / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Into the Storm (2014) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Jaws / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Jaws 2 / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Jurassic Park (1993) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Knowing / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Kong: Skull Island / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Lady of Burlesque / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Leviathan (1989) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Life (2017) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Lone Survivor / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Lone Wolf and Cub / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Madman / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Mandy (2018) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Aliens / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
My Super Psycho Sweet 16 / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
9/11 / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Ninja Assassin / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Occupation / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Open Water / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Opera (1987) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Ouija: Origin of Evil / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Paranormal Activity / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Patriots Day / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Pearl Harbor / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Planet of the Apes (1968) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Pod People / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Predators / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Prom Night (1980) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Prom Night (2008) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Psycho / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Quarantine (2008) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Ranger Rick / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Raptor Ranch / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Red State / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Rockabilly Zombie Weekend / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Rocketship X-M / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Rovdyr / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Scalps / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
See No Evil / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Session 9 / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Skyline / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Slacker / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Sorcerer / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Sorority Row / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Starship Troopers / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Tarantula! / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Terror from the Year 5000 / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
ThanksKilling / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Beast / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Birds / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Black Dahlia / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Blair Witch Project / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Bunker (2001) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Burning / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Cabin in the Woods / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Cassandra Crossing / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Descent / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Evil Dead (1981) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Fly (1986) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Giant Gila Monster / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Hateful Eight / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Haunted Mansion (2003) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Hindenburg (1975) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Host (2006) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Houses October Built / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Last Voyage of the Demeter / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Last War (1961) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Monster Squad / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Philadelphia Experiment / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Poseidon Adventure / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Postman / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Predator / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Reef / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Ruins / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Sand / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Strangers / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Swarm / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Swarm (1978) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Thing (1982) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The 13th Warrior / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Tower / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Towering Inferno / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Wages of Fear / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Wave (2015) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Wolf of Snow Hollow / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Zombie Diaries / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
These Are the Damned / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
13 Minutes (2021) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
This Is the End / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Threads / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
303 Fear/Faith/Revenge / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Titanic 666 / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Twister / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Uncle Sam / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Underwater / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
VHS / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
V/H/S/2 / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
V/H/S: Viral / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Vacancy / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Wyrmwood / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
X (2022) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Yakuza / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Zulu / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Friday the 13th (Franchise) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Godzilla (Franchise) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Halloween (Franchise) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Perry Mason (Franchise) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Predator (Franchise) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Transformers (Franchise) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
WorldEnd: What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us? / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Beast / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Daikaiju Yuki / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Doomsday Book / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Ian Savilles Reality TV Show For The Paranormally Challenged	seeAlso	Developing Doomed Characters
Juni Taisen: Zodiac War / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Leia, Princess of Alderaan / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Lone Survivor / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Mass Effect Annihilation / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Nemesis Saga / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Our Wives Under The Sea / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Parker / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Perdido Street Station / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Re:Zero / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
'Salem's Lot / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Sano Ichiro / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Shandril's Saga / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Shattered Continent / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Slime (1953) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Slimer / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Fall Of Supervillainy / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Girl With All the Gifts / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Iliad / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Immortal Journey / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Legend of Rah and the Muggles / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Long Walk / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Magicians / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Queen's Thief / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Rage War / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Tuskers / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Venus Prime / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Wayfarers / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
WorldEnd: What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us? / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Dinaranger	seeAlso	Developing Doomed Characters
It Gets Better	seeAlso	Developing Doomed Characters
NineLives	seeAlso	Developing Doomed Characters
As the Gods Will (Manga) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Bokurano (Manga) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Choubu no Shinobi (Manga) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Delicious in Dungeon (Manga) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Gyo (Manga) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
IDOL × IDOL STORY! (Manga) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Kami-sama no Iu Toori (Manga) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Brilliant Despair The Heartbreaking Voyagethrougha Deceptive Sea (Roleplay) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
CDT Adventure (Roleplay) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Celestial Despair: The Cosmic Confluence in Conspiratorial Confinement (Roleplay) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Class Trials Season 4 (Roleplay) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Conundrum Estate (Roleplay) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
DR Falling Future (Roleplay) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Masquerade Mayhem 3 (Roleplay) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Revival Of The Fittest (Roleplay) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Seaof Rumors (Roleplay) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Silent Despair (Roleplay) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Storytellers Winter (Roleplay) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
American Horror Story: Freak Show / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Cold Case / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Dracula (2020) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Fear the Walking Dead / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Harper's Island / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Into The West / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Jericho (2006) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Mr. Sunshine (2018) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Star Trek: Discovery / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Assassination of Gianni Versace / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Chase (Game Show) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Y: The Last Man (2021) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Zoo / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Jekyll & Hyde (Theatre) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Theatre) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
We Are the Tigers (Theatre) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Equestria at War (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Far Cry 3 (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Friday the 13th: The Game (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Glory By Example (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Honest Hearts Reborn (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Life Is Strange: True Colors (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Never Gives Up Her Dead (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Nightfall Mysteries (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Paper Mario: The Origami King (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Pathologic (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
SOS (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Seven Minutes (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Shivers (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Shivers (1995) (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Frontier (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Unheard (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Xenogears (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Zero Wing (Video Game) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Home Body / Videogame / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Mother's Basement (Web Video) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Phelous (Web Video) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Iji (Captain Lhurgoyf) (Webcomic) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Space Boy (Webcomic) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Stand Still, Stay Silent (Webcomic) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
TREVOR (Webcomic) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Trevor (2020) (Webcomic) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Invincible (2021) / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Planet 51 / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Starship Troopers: Invasion / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Atlas Shrugged / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Jericho / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters

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