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Life/Death Juxtaposition
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As two very different concepts, life and death are stark contrasts in fiction. When a writer wants to form an immediately obvious contrast between two characters, places, or events, it can be particularly visually jarring to associate one with life and one with death — perhaps utilizing Light is or is Not Good or Dark is or is Not Evil. The contrast may also draw on rejuvenation and disease, lively youth and chronically ill elders, or an orphanage and a graveyard. Characters juxtaposed in this way may be any combination of Villain Protagonist and Hero Antagonist or the Big Good and the Big Bad or whatnot. Others may be a Fertility God versus a God of Death or Destruction. Virtually any Elemental Power can be construed as being related to either life or death (e.g. fire creating life-sustaining heat or death-inducing burns), but this trope applies to those life/death contrasts that are strongly associated with "life" and "death." If life and death are personified as absolutes and come into conflict, then that's Yin-Yang Clash. Also, if the juxtaposition comes in the form of characters dying while other characters are born, then that's Birth-Death Juxtaposition. Compare and contrast Light/Darkness Juxtaposition, which often associates life with light and death with darkness; Fire/Water Juxtaposition, when one of those elements has a creation motif and the other a destruction motif; Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition, when the same happens between lightning and fire; Elemental Rivalry, when "Life" and "Death" are treated as elements in a work, and Birth-Death Juxtaposition, which is when the act of being born is juxtaposed with the act of dying. Compare Interplay of Sex and Violence. Expect Symbolic Baptisms to play with this type of contrast. A character embodying this is in a Mortality Grey Area. See Also: Died on Their Birthday, where a character's death coincides with the anniversary of their birth. |
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In the anime of Natsume's Book of Friends, Fuzuki is the god of the Absent Moon and Houzuki is the god of the Harvest Moon. During the competition in the Moon-Splitting Festival, Fuzuki says that if he wins the competition, he'll make Misumigahara barren for ten years, and Houzuki says he'll make her bountiful and healthy if he wins the competition instead. | |
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RWBY: The Grimm Reaper is a legendary Huntsman who dual-wields two scythes called "Life and Death". Their identity is never revealed and they hide their face behind a skull mask. Maria Calavera was born into a family of silver-eyed warriors, and kept her identity secret because her father realised someone was hunting their kind for unknown reasons. Maria's theme is Dia de Los Muertos, which doesn't simply mourn the deceased, it also celebrates life. The power of the silver eyes is rooted in the desire to protect life and empowers such a warrior when fighting the Grimm that seek to destroy humanity. | |
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In RPG Stuck, Claire Sigma is the Sylph of Life and becomes a member of the undead after getting resurrected, and she's also a Death Seeker. | |
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In World of Warcraft, Life and Death are two of the six Background Magic Fields in the setting, opposing Background Magic Fields at that. They give rise to Nature and Necromantic magic, respectively. | |
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In the Dungeons & Dragons cosmology and those derived from it (e.g. Pathfinder), the positive energy plane is the origin of all life and provides energy for magical healing and resurrection while the negative energy plane is the origin of The Undead and its energy weakens or outright destroys all living matter. | |
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Overwatch offers Moira who is a support hero who can heal her allies with her left hand and rip her enemies apart with her right. Both her hands are visually distinct, with her right hand appearing corrupted and necrotic with long, clawlike nails. | |
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General Hospital's BJ Jones is killed in a school bus accident. Her heart is donated to her ailing cousin Maxie, who was at death's door until then. | |
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In the world of Dungeon Life Quest, Healing and Necromancy are related fields. At one point, a Healer approaches Brianna and asks for her help using her necromancy powers. | |
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In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Nia flat out states this to Malos during a confrontation after The Reveal. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire has the myths of R'hllor—a deity of fire, light, and life—and his nemesis the Great Other—a deity of darkness, cold, and death. | |
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Pokémon has two legendaries representing life and death respectively, the Fairy-type Xerneas, the mascot of Pokémon X, and the Dark/Flying-type Yveltal, the mascot of Y. Xerneas is capable of granting everlasting life, while Yveltal absorbs the life force of every living creature in its immediate vicinity upon dying before reverting to its cocoon form. | |
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Plants vs. Zombies: The Plants represent life and defend humanity from the Zombies, The Undead who threaten it. | |
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In Green Lantern: Wrath of the First Lantern as Sinestro retrieves his yellow ring, Hal Jordan, in the Land of the Dead with the Black Lantern ring, leaps from a cliff in order to die so that he may wield the Black Lantern ring and escape. The panels welcoming them to their cores are even side-by-side. | |
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Game of Thrones: Right as Sansa's direwolf, Lady, is killed, the scene immediately cuts to her brother Bran waking up from his coma. Their family has a wolf theme, meaning that one wolf dies as another wakes from a death-like slumber. | |
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Most of Hope for the Heartless has this dynamic between the Horned King and his Morality Pet Avalina. The Horned King is The Dreaded centuries old lich and a Walking Wasteland who lives in a Mordor, while Avalina is a young peasant girl and a Friend to All Living Things who has an unusually strong aura of life which helps her to gradually turn said Mordor into a small paradise and turn the Horned King more humane (and even resurrect his dormant heart. The Horned King's slow humanization eventually leaves his spot in this dynamic open to his Sealed Evil in a Can Evil Mentor Arawn, the Death Lord of Annuvin. | |
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Without a Trace. Two agents get word that a co-worker has made it through a risky surgery not two seconds before they're ambushed by gunmen. The prisoner they're transporting is killed, and one of them is badly injured. | |
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At the conclusion of the ER episode "Hell & High Water", the little girl who had been stable throughout the episode abruptly deteriorates and dies. Meanwhile, in the room next door, the little boy whom Doug had struggle to save finally stabilizes and survives. | |
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Hades: Per myth, Hades (god of the underworld) used to be married to Persephone (goddess of verdure). This is a recurring theme for the relationship between Zagreus and Thanatos. Achilles even argues that Zagreus's (nebulous and speculative) position as a god of blood and rebirth is what makes him Thanatos's soulmate. |
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Tales of Kaimere: While the Great Dying, the largest mass extinction on Earth 252 million years ago, occurred, Kaimere was experiencing a golden age of biodiversity of synapsid megafauna that were harvested million of years earlier. | |
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In the second season of Within the Wires, Claudia Atieno's fictional painting "Still Life with Orchid" is meant to communicate the cyclical nature of existence by juxtaposing life and death. Specifically, the painting depicts a living orchid with dead leaves and some oranges with subtly rotting undersides. | |
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Humboldt's Gift: The last paragraph of the novel has Charlie walking away from his old friend Humboldt's grave, as the dirt is shoveled in, and noticing the first spring flowers coming up out of the ground. | |
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