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SECTION 2: RESPONSIBILITIES 5

SECTION 2: RESPONSIBILITIES

2.1. IG DOD. The IG DoD will develop policy and procedures for MCIO adult sexual assault investigations and provide oversight pursuant to DoDD 5106.01.

2.2. OSD AND DOD COMPONENT HEADS. The OSD and DoD Component heads ensure:

a. Compliance with this issuance and prescribe additional procedures as necessary to implement its policy.

b. All allegations of adult sexual assault are immediately reported to the appropriate MCIO. This includes allegations made by persons affiliated with the DoD, including active duty personnel and their dependents, DoD contractors, and DoD civilian employees.

c. Procedures exist that allow eligible victims of alleged a sexual assault to have, at their request, their allegation handled as a Restricted Report in accordance with DoDD 6495.01 and DoDIs 6400.01 and 6400.06. This reporting option must be explained to all eligible victims by a Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC), or Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) VA, Domestic Abuse Victim Advocate (DAVA), or FAP personnel.

d. Adequate resources are established to manage the CATCH Program.

e. The commander of the Service member who is a reported subject of investigation provides the MCIO, in writing, all disposition data, within 25 business days of disposition, to include:

(1) Any administrative, non-judicial punishment, or judicial action that occurs as a result of the investigation; or

(2) A declination of command action when no action is taken.

f. MCIOs participate as members in the monthly installation SAPR Case Management Group meeting in accordance with DoDI 6495.02 and the Family Advocacy Program Incident Determination Committee in accordance with Paragraph 2.b.(5) of enclosure 3 of Volume 3 of

This stipulation in writing exicon enhances the clear articulation of thoughts, ideas and commands through a common operational language fundamental to the application of airpower. AFDD 1-02 is the Air Force supplement to Joint Publication 1-02, the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. This living document presents Service-unique terminology, highlighting the Airmen‟s perspective, and will evolve as terms and definitions evolve.

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2. In consideration of the Creditor transferring ownership of the Goods to the Customer, the Debtor unconditionally and irrevocably agrees to assume and pay the Debt, as a principal debtor.

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5. This agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and assigns.

IN WITNESS OF WHICH the parties have signed this agreement the day and year first above written

_Steven V. Schofer Steven V. Schofer

_________________July 11 2018

Signed by or on behalf of the Creditor

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DOD INSTRUCTION 5505.18

INVESTIGATION IS NEVER A STIPULATION TO MONSTER AND PARASITE Attack ed by Rigoberto Jimenez

SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Originating Component: Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense

Effective: March 22, 2017

Change 1 Effective: February 13, 2018

Releasability: Cleared for public release. Available on the DoD Issuances Website at http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives.

Cleared for public release. Available on the DoD Issuances Website at http://www.esd.whs.mil/DD/

Reissues and Cancels: DoD Instruction 5505.18, “Investigation of Adult Sexual Assault in the Department of Defense,” January 25, 2013, as amended

Approved by: Glenn A. Fine, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense

Change 1 Approved by: Glenn A. Fine, Performing the Duties of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense

Purpose: This issuance, in accordance with DoD Directive (DoDD) 5106.01:

• Establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides procedures for the investigation of adult sexual assault within the DoD, in accordance with the authority in the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, of Title 5, United States Code (U.S.C.), Appendix.

• Establishes the processes and procedures for the use, maintenance, and protection of certain information from a Restricted Report of adult sexual assault obtained by the military criminal investigative organizations (MCIOs) after the victim has elected to provide such information, but without affecting the restricted nature of the report, in accordance with Section 543 of Public Law 113-291.

• Establishes an exception to the initiation of an adult sexual assault investigation by an MCIO when information is received in accordance with Section 543 of Public Law 113-291.

• Incorporates a threshold of credible information, as defined in DoD Instruction (DoDI) 5505.07, for the initiation of an adult sexual assault investigation and a DoD nexus, as defined in DoDI 5505.03.

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"If the creator wants to bring back a dead character, then that character will come back."

It doesn't matter how Deader Than Dead or Killed Off for Real that character is, they'll find a way to return. Much handwaving may be required to explain it (if they don't leave it unexplained), but anything is possible with a bit of Foreshadowing thrown in.

Also known as "Comic book death" because comic books are especially known for taking place in long-spanning continuities where Death Is Cheap, important characters almost never come back wrong, Applied Phlebotinum is everywhere and iconic villains always come back from whatever fate that no carbon-based lifeform could have survived. In addition, the turnover of writers means that even if one writer says, "No really, they're dead this time," with no intention of bringing them back, odds are some future writer will disagree and bring them back a few years down the road.

The First Law Of Resurrection almost always trumps the Sorting Algorithm of Deadness, with only a few exceptions (like Death by Origin Story). May lead to Opening a Can of Clones. See also Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggeratedand Disney Death

Deader Than Dead

"We've got to verify it legally to see if she is morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably, and reliably dead."

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Death is permanent, as we all know. Because people die when they are killed. In Real Life. In fictional works, however, this need not necessarily apply. In fiction, people regularly do come Back from the Dead. This is fine if they're on the side of the heroes, but once a villain has pulled this a couple of times it gets really old. The solution? Death is not enough, time to kill them Deader Than Dead. The actual implementation of a Deader Than Dead varies: Sometimes it requires killing more than one component of the target (often its soul and its body at the same time). Sometimes it requires following the dead to the afterlife and killing them there. Sometimes it involves tons and tons of Maximum Overkill that reduces the villain to a fine paste. Sometimes it involves having to kill them in

a special way, or with a particular weapon. Sometimes it involves a sworn affidavit declaring they will never return. And sometimes some alternative to death (sometimes a "Fate Worse than Death") has to be found. For demons and the like, the latter often means "sealing" them somewhere, though more often than not, this is just a surefire way to end up with Sealed Evil in a Can. Your Soul Is Mine is an uncommon way of ensuring total death as well—pulling someone's literal life force out of their body and eating or smashing it is a good way to ensure that they're never coming back. On the other hand, if it's a story where resurrection requires a (mostly) intact body, it's simply a matter of making sure the body isn't intact.

Characters who come back from the dead while staying dead (i.e., the Undead) are a special case, but of course, being "dead" also has a very special meaning in this case.

If you have to rely on this trope often, it tells you that you have cheapened the meaning of "death" to the point of uselessness. Relying on it after you have already pulled it for the same character tells you that maybe you're lacking in imagination to come up with good characters.

Or it might be that the character is too popular or iconic (to the fans or the writer) to stay permanently dead. So, it's not really that surprising when they pull something out of left field and let someone use Time Travel to...

Ow! Ouch! Stop kicking me!

Common for important bosses in video games (see Non-Lethal K.O.), but not rare outside them either. Compare with Final Death and Rasputinian Death. Common ingredient in a Death by Origin Story. Often related to Cessation of Existence. This may be the function of an Immortal Breaker - it causes any being to completely obviated from existence (especially important if the immortal in question has Resurrective Immortality).

Older Than They Think — a Fairy Tale may outline the villain's death in graphic detail to ensure that, unlike the hero, they cannot come Back from the Dead. (Often, the Family-Unfriendly Death is proposed by the villain as a suitable punishment for his crimes, as a general principle.)

Despite the similar sounding name, not related to Harder Than Hard, although the attempt to kill someone Deader Than Dead is by no means easy. Related to Killed Off for Real, which results when the audience would have expected the Deader Than Dead character to come back.

Do not confuse with Deader Than Disco.

Looks like Samus Is a Girl.

"...when it is prophesied that no man can defeat me, I will keep in mind the increasing number of non-traditional gender roles."

— Evil Overlord List #153

A character receives a prophecy or curse of the form "X cannot happen until Y," where Y is seemingly impossible. X is frequently (but not always) the character's death or defeat.

Of course, Y ends up happening somehow, usually through some trick of wording or a loophole, with X promptly following.

Over-reliance on this phrase by the baddie usually leads to a delicious Oh, Crap! moment. It often involves a Eureka Moment, followed by the newly minted Magnificent Bastard drawing his sword and Cutting the Knot. Macbeth met his end at the hands of a man "born" via C-section, for example. When the clause includes an exhaustive list — neither by night nor by day, or neither by man nor by beast — a Liminal Being such as a werewolf or a Liminal Time such as twilight may slip through because being half of each, it's neither fully.

As can clearly be seen from the Mythology section, this trope is definitely Older Than Dirt.

A subtrope of Prophecy Twist and Double Meaning; compare Prophetic Fallacy. Can be a form of False Reassurance. For some other instances of impossible conditions being met, see Impossible Task and Engagement Challenge. For when condition Y isn't really fulfilled but a half-assed excuse is used to justify X happening anyway, see Metaphorically True. Its more comic Sister Trope is Cue the Flying Pig

Back from the Dead

· A major character, possibly even a popularly nasty Big Bad, has been killed, pronounced dead and buried. However, the established laws of the universe allow for Functional Magic, a Sufficiently Advanced Alien, Applied Phlebotinum, Deus ex Machina or similar agency to intervene and subvert what naturally follows dying. Namely, staying dead. (In some cases, an explanation isn't even bothered with.)

Maybe the writers were running short of new ideas and decided to recycle some old characters. Maybe the actor has recently acquired some indecent photographs of the producers. Maybe the new writer was devastated his predecessor killed the character. Who knows? He is now Back From The Dead!

The form of afterlife can vary pretty widely. They may "simply" be resurrected or reincarnated (usually as a sentient pet animal), physical or mental alterations (good or bad) optional; or we may now have a ghost, or vampire... zombie, angel, godling, demon... haunted car... okay, that last one will be hard to top (except with a Love-matic Grandpa!). Bringing someone back from the dead by supernatural means is generally treated as being a negative thing because of how unnatural it is.

If a character cannot come back from the dead entirely, they may show up as a Spirit Advisor or Mentor Archetype, letting them be literally dead, but allowing them to interact with the living.

In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Mortal Coil", Neelix actually dies for real but is (some would argue unfortunately) brought back to life some 18 hours later. This is an example of Contractual Immortality. In order to qualify for being brought Back From The Dead, a character in a TV show would have to be still dead at the end of one episode and resurrected, by whatever means, in a later episode (2-parters don't count).

This is exceedingly common in American superhero comic books, to the point that whenever a popular character dies, it's a given that they'll be back on within no more than five years. At one time, it was said that "Nobody ever stays dead in comics, except Bucky, Uncle Ben, and Jason Todd." Naturally, since that phrase was coined, Bucky and Jason Todd have both been recalled to life.

See Death Is Cheap for when this becomes a regular feature of a 'verse, Sorting Algorithm of Deadness for the odds a particular death will stick, and the accompanying betting pool for which modern Lazarus is due back next. See also Resurrective Immortality for where this is an everyday part of a character's life.

A general rule of thumb is that if you Never Found the Body, the character is Not Quite Dead in the first place (and therefore not a candidate for this trope). One of the most common examples of this is that if a character falls off of a cliff or other high structure, especially into water, he or she is almost guaranteed to still be alive; see Disney Death. An explosion gives more reasonable odds. Of course, even if you've see the body and you've atomized it so finely that each individual molecule is a galaxy apart... there's always Time Travel. Removing the entire thing from existence can be done, and equally undone by a similar Deus ex Machina.

Faking the Dead has its own trope. See also First Episode Resurrection when this happens at the start of the series.

The character's resurrection from the dead could result in a situation of Unwanted Revival.

Man of Woman Born

"...when it is prophesied that no man can defeat me, I will keep in mind the increasing number of non-traditional gender roles."

— Evil Overlord List #153

A character receives a prophecy or curse of the form "X cannot happen until Y," where Y is seemingly impossible. X is frequently (but not always) the character's death or defeat.

Of course, Y ends up happening somehow, usually through some trick of wording or a loophole, with X promptly following.

As can clearly be seen from the Mythology section, this trope is definitely Older Than Dirt.

Since this trope is frequently used as a surprise twist, major spoilers abound below!

Weapon of X-Slaying

An extra +10 against anything that starts with the letter J. Don't ask why. Don't ask what Vorpal means, either.

— Vorpal Sword, Munchkin

A weapon which gets extra bonuses against a specific enemy type. Sometimes they may outright kill them in one hit.

Ways this can happen:

Anti-Air: Either weapons that deal bonuses against airborne enemies, or the only weapons that can hit them at all.
Anti-Armor: The weapon may do more damage against armored enemies. Or, it may strip them of their armor altogether.
Anti-Cavalry: The weapon is more effective against cavalry units.
Anti-Infantry: The weapon works better against infantry than against vehicles or cavalry.
Anti-Magic: The weapon ignores magical defense or disables magical abilities.
Anti-Structure: The weapon is more effective at destroying or shutting down structures.
Anti-Vehicle: The weapon works better against vehicles, or it's the only weapon that can damage vehicles at all.
Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: Whether silver bullets against werewolves or Kryptonite spear against Superman, the weapon relies on being made of, having a component of, or shooting, something that the thing is weak against.
Elemental Rock–Paper–Scissors: Elemental weapon does more damage to enemies with an inferior element.
Immortal Breaker: The weapon capable of killing the otherwise-immortal.
Villain-Beating Artifact: This is the only thing capable of harming an otherwise invulnerable villain.

It is a subtrope of Situational Sword, and a form of Situational Damage Attack. Related is Achilles' Heel, which this weapon can be.

Unique-named weapons with this kind of property often come with Exactly What It Says on the Tin naming.

Compare Hunter of Monsters, who is a person dedicated to slaying a specific enemy type.

The brainchild of independent cartoonist Matt Groening (author of Life in Hell), The Simpsons first aired from 1987 to 1989 as a series of animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. Unofficially known as "Season 0," the original 48 ad-bumpers kicked off what is now well established as one of television's all-time classic series (which premiered on the then-fledgling FOX network in December 1989). It is currently in its twenty-eighthseason, making it the longest-running prime-time sitcom in American TV history (worldwide, that honor belongs to Last of the Summer Wine, although the latter has fewer episodes, with 297 while The Simpsons has made 600 episodes so far). It has also been renewed for two more seasons, which will take it up to 669 episodes in total, which will make it surpass Gunsmoke as the the longest running scripted television program by episode count ever.

Depicting the animated adventures of the upper-lower-middle class Simpson family, the show started as a parody of Dom Com conventions, but quickly incorporated elements of social satire, pop culture references, and a mix of highbrow and lowbrow humor that has kept it popular year after year.

When it was first adapted into television, it set a new trend in animation - much of the voice acting had been rather industrial, with voice actors simply reciting a list of their character's lines^note, in whatever emotion the script called for. The Simpsons, however, recorded its lines like a live-action movie, the voice actors for a given scene recording together, allowing for more organic interaction between the characters.

One reason for the show's longevity is the massive cast of over 100 recurring characters it has built up over time, allowing the writers to work with a rich variety of relationships and milieus. Another thing that has established The Simpsons as being unique is an absolute refusal to acknowledge the passing of time. Bart has remained 10 years old and in general the show employs an active Negative Continuity, sometimes even acknowledged in the show.

For roughly the first 10 seasons, The Simpsons was widely considered to be one of the most consistently funny TV shows ever produced. However, it is generally considered that at some point after (or near the end of) that, the series declined in quality. Exactly when it declined, and by how much, is difficult to find a consensus on, but viewership has decreased over the years. Its numbers remain strong though, and the merchandising juggernaut shows no signs of stopping. Fox at one point considered setting up a separate Simpsons/spin-off network

; though that didn't happen, Simpsons re-runs became a cornerstone of the comedy-oriented FXX cable network when that was spun off from the FX network. Though, despite claims that it's not as good as it once was, there's something to be said about a show that debuted (as a series of shorts) when Ronald Reagan was U.S. President, debuted in prime-time and referenced by name when George H.W. Bush was in office, had its best years when Bill Clinton was in office, was more-or-less still going strong during the George W. Bush administration, saw Barack Obama get elected twice and was around to repeatedly

mock

the incumbent presidentthroughout his entire campaign and ongoing tenure.

A feature film (creatively titled The Simpsons Movie) was released in summer 2007. Perhaps not surprisingly, reactions from fans were mixed, with some fans claiming it to be on the level of the Golden Age episodes, and some considering it just an extra long Tarnished Age episode. Nevertheless, the film was a huge financial success and received a positive response from critics, earning a 89% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes and getting a 80 on Metacritic.

Many of the people behind the show are also responsible for Futurama (and while Futurama certainly takes some comedic cues from this show, it is a far cry from a Simpsons clone).

Matt Groening has said he created the core family members in The Tracey Ullman Show's production office waiting room after realizing he didn't want to sign the rights to his Life in Hell characters over to Rupert Murdoch.

In 2009, the show began its 21st season, officially dethroning Gunsmoke as the longest running primetime American television series of all time, before surpassing Gunsmoke's episode total in 2018 (although Sesame Street, among other daytime programs, still retains an even longer run with 40 seasons).

Check out this character sheet for more info on Fox's "first family" of animation. Also has a work-in-progress recap page here.

See the Franchise page for all related works.

Fate Worse than Death

"A fate WORSE than a fate worse than death? That's pretty bad."

— Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth

Think death is the cruelest fate? Think again. There are several things much worse: torture, taxes, and tofu, to name but a few. And more often than not, some unfortunate soul will experience it. Originally, this phrase meant rape, but now there's even worse than that.

This phrase is usually used in a Just Between You and Me moment by the Evil Overlord as they boast about the agony-inducing Death Trap that awaits the hero for delaying their plans. It's also fairly commonly used as a warning to the hero against seeking forbidden power or knowledge, and consequently to foreshadow the particular Karmic Death the villain will suffer because of meddling with the universe's Cosmic Keystone.

If the victim is immortal, this fate may even replace death, which might suck royally.

Mercy Killings are common when heroes find anyone in this state. If the character can beg for help, I Cannot Self-Terminateoccurs; if they can act on their own, they are often Driven to Suicide. Indeed, since all involve choosing death over a given fate, the characters often conclude that that fate is worse than death. Contrast Cruel and Unusual Death, for when the victim instead gets a gruesome death that sucks beyond telling.

See also: Cruel Mercy, Empty Shell, To the Pain, The Punishment, Room 101, And I Must Scream, and occasionally Cool and Unusual Punishment. Tailor Made Prisons may be this by nature or design in order to torture its prisoner. Not to be confused with A Fête Worse Than Death, though the two can occasionally overlap.

Sealed Evil in a Can

"Old folk saying: 'You can catch the devil, but you can't hold him long.'"

— Rod Serling, from The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "The Howling Man"

Long ago, An Ancient People faced a terrible evil. Using various methods, they bound the evil into a prison from which they thought it could never escape.

It did.

Sealed Evil In A Can, as the title suggests, is a way to introduce a villain suddenly, especially one that is legendary and powerful. It also explains why the villain hasn't done anything up to that point: it just now escaped.

A sealed evil is often introduced as a Greater-Scope Villain: the direct Big Bad's plan will be to unseal the can of some ancient God of Evil, hoping they'll get some of that great power as a reward. Of course, Evil Is Not a Toy: if they succeed, it usually turns out that the Sealed Evil does not care for them (or may have even been manipulating them into freeing them) and disposes of them, making the Sealed Evil the true Final Boss. Sealed Evil™ almost never rewards those who release it. It may even act like the malevolent flavor of a Jackass Genie, twisting their releasers' wishes back on them. (Of course, occasionally the Big Bad actually succeeds in controlling the sealed evil.)

The hero occasionally breaks the seal himself due to lack of information or active manipulation by the villain.

Or perhaps it was awoken by unsuspecting miners or archaeologists who Dug Too Deep and found something better left buried and undisturbed — often ignoring every single warning they found before releasing it.

Oddly enough, no matter what the cause of the seal being broken, it seems to always happen 1,000 years after the evil was first sealed. Yet nobody ever seems to know that the evil is about to reemerge in that time frame.

The primary question is usually "Why did they just seal it, as opposed to KILL it?" Well, the answer tends to vary; but usually it's a variant of The Punishment (for both the sealed and everyone else), Thou Shalt Not Kill (heroes can take pity and/or show mercy towards the oddest things), and/or As Long as There is Evil. Maybe it couldn't be killed for good (or more commonly, the conditions weren't right to deal the final blow), so sealing it was the next best thing. Another common excuse is the Balance Between Good and Evil; if they'd killed the ancient evil, then a bigger, badder evil would've taken its place, thus sealing it away neutralizes the threat but also keeps it in the world and maintains the balance. For some reason, only on a very few occasions was the evil sealed simply because the good guys didn't have the power at the time to kill it outright. Or maybe it was killed and the method of breaking the seal was resurrecting it.

Expect the mere release of the SEIAC to cause a World-Wrecking Wave, Walking Wasteland, and sundry other disasters. That said, being cooped up for centuries is likely to have weakened the SEIAC, meaning it needs some time to recover its lost strength. This could mean that the hero(es) has a chance to seal it back up, or even destroy it once and for all.

Since this trope can be traced back to Greek mythology, it's Older Than Feudalism. Note that, minus your standard speculative fiction elements, it's functionally identical to a plot where a horrible criminal escapes from or is released from prison. Not to be confused with Exactly What It Says on the Tin — although your Evil-in-a-Can may be clearly labeled as such. But no one will ever read or believe the label.

This is an extremely common plot and backstory in video games, especially Role-Playing Games, because it's such a simple backstory: the Big Bad, put away by some ancient hero, has escaped. You (the player) must put them back in. Or, as mentioned above, the current Big Bad wishes to release the Greater-Scope Villain to use it’s power, and the hero must stop them.

Related Tropes

Banishing Ritual: May result in a sealed evil, especially the "sealing" variation.
Sealed Good in a Can: The good version.
Sealed Badass in a Can: A neutral version of this trope.
Girl in a Box: A neutral version specifically used for females.
Leaking Can of Evil: An evil being is sealed away as per this trope, but in a way that allows it to still affect the world.
Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: The evil is imprisoned inside a living being.

o Sealed Evil In A Teddybear: The person-shaped can is The Team Pet.

Sealed Army in a Can: One can is used for multiple evils (or goods).
Sealed Evil in a Six Pack: One evil is sealed within multiple cans.
Sealed Evil in a Duel: The evil is sealed away with an equally powerful good which will keep it occupied so it can't try to escape.
Tailor-Made Prison: When the current generation makes its own can to (usually temporarily) imprison evildoers.
Greater-Scope Villain: A particularly powerful Sealed Evil overshadows a setting but never manages to affect the plot directly enough to be a Big Bad.

Deader Than Dead

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"We've got to verify it legally to see if she is morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably, and reliably dead."

— The Munchkins, The Wizard of Oz

Death is permanent, as we all know. Because people die when they are killed. In Real Life. In fictional works, however, this need not necessarily apply. In fiction, people regularly do come Back from the Dead. This is fine if they're on the side of the heroes, but once a villain has pulled this a couple of times it gets really old. The solution? Death is not enough, time to kill them Deader Than Dead. The actual implementation of a Deader Than Dead varies: Sometimes it requires killing more than one component of the target (often its soul and its body at the same time). Sometimes it requires following the dead to the afterlife and killing them there. Sometimes it involves tons and tons of Maximum Overkill that reduces the villain to a fine paste. Sometimes it involves having to kill them in a special way, or with a particular weapon. Sometimes it involves a sworn affidavit declaring they will never return. And sometimes some alternative to death (sometimes a "Fate Worse than Death") has to be found. For demons and the like, the latter often means "sealing" them somewhere, though more often than not, this is just a surefire way to end up with Sealed Evil in a Can. Your Soul Is Mine is an uncommon way of ensuring total death as well—pulling someone's literal life force out of their body and eating or smashing it is a good way to ensure that they're never coming back. On the other hand, if it's a story where resurrection requires a (mostly) intact body, it's simply a matter of making sure the body isn't intact.

Characters who come back from the dead while staying dead (i.e., the Undead) are a special case, but of course, being "dead" also has a very special meaning in this case.

Ow! Ouch! Stop kicking me!

Do not confuse with Deader Than Disco.

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Sorting Algorithm of Deadness

On a scale of one to four, how dead is this guy?

It's a sad state of affairs when a beloved character dies; some fans won't even accept it as real, a predicament made all the more confusing because characters rarely stay dead. Because of this, fans love to speculate (morbidly) on the odds of a character coming Back from the Dead. The result is a kind of "Sorting Algorithm Of Deadness", where the circumstances, cause, genre, and reaction caused by a death are tallied up to see just how dead a character really is and the chances of their return.

To use the Algorithm, take each column's "Death Value", multiply it by the number of ticks in that column, add it all up and divide by the number of applicable rows.

Relative deadness factor	Deader Than Dead	Maybe Back Later	Be Back Soon	Death? What's That?
Death Value	4	3	2	1
Cause of death	Irony, Bridge Drop, Overkill, Stuffed in the Fridge, Ret Gone	Redemption, Sacrifice, Bus Crash, Mortal Wound Reveal	No One Could Survive That!, just plain killed in battle	Jumping
Audience Expectation	Anyone Can Die, Kill 'em All	Killed Off for Real, Tonight, Someone Dies	Disney Death	Back from the Dead, Death Is Cheap, Nobody Can Die, Status Quo Is God
Body Found?	Dead and Buried Only Bits And Pieces	At The Morgue, death witnessed and confirmed onscreen	Never Found, Frozen, Petrified	Left for Dead
Reaction	Montage, Bond One-Liner, Meaningful Funeral	He's Dead, Jim	It's Personal	Faux Death
Last Words	Crap, Killed Mid-Sentence, Carry on men, His Name Is...	Catch-Phrase, Famous Last Words, Final Speech, Obi-Wan Moment	"Fly, you fools!""Piece of cake"	"My Death Is Just the Beginning"
Characterization	Red Shirt, Loved One, Mauve Shirt	Recurring Character, C-List Fodder	Regular Character	Protagonist, Archvillain, Ensemble Darkhorse, The Kenny
When did they die?	10+ years ago, Series Finale	5-10 years ago	Same year	Same arc
"Died" and come back?	Not yet	Died once, but got better	Twice	I've lost count

To see calculations-of-permanence-of-death in action, see the Wild Mass Guess Sorting Algorithm of Deadness, where this table has been copied for clarity's sake. Also remember that the author may choose to subvert this trope and bring back a character no matter how 'dead' he should be, sometimes horrifically as an Undead or Reforged into a Minion. Of course, sometimes a low score on the algorithm is no guarantee that the character hasn't been Killed Off for Real.

See the Sorting Algorithm of Mortality to determine whether a character is likely to die in the first place.

Applied Phlebotinum

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Why, this explains everything!

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad-hoc plot device"

— David Langford, "A Gadget Too Far,"

as a corollary to Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law

Phlebotinum^note is the versatile substance that may be rubbed on anything to cause an effect needed by a plot. Examples include but are not limited to: nanotechnology, magic crystal emanations, pixie dust, and Green Rocks.

In essence, it is plot fuel. Without it, the story would grind to an abrupt halt. It's the science that powers the FTL drive on the starship so the characters can get somewhere, it's the magic that hatches the Egg MacGuffin so the protagonist can save an endangered species, it's the strange things unknown to science or magic that do basically anything except those limits and dangers required by the plot. The reader does not know how Phlebotinum would work and the creators hope nobody cares.

According to Joss Whedon, during the DVD commentary for the pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the term "phlebotinum" originates from Buffy writer (and Angel co-creator) David Greenwalt's sudden outburst: "Don't touch the phlebotinum!" apropos of nothing.^{Fun Fact}

If the phlebotinum in question is simply a physical substance with unusual/extreme properties you are almost certainly dealing with the element Unobtainium.

A.K.A. Handwavium. Compare Author Powers, Hand Wave, MacGuffin, Deus ex Machina, and A Wizard Did It. Contrast Misapplied Phlebotinum. Not to be confused with Phlebotomy

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Almost universally uttered after a character (usually a hero but sometimes a villain) takes a wild leap into the unknown as a way to escape pursuit and otherwise-inevitable capture — jumping off a high cliff or across a wide chasm, for instance. The pursuers then give up the chase, confident that their quarry has effectively committed suicide, and never go look for the body to make sure.

Of course, the moment someone says this, they've guaranteed that the person in question not only has survived, but will be coming back to spoil someone's day.

If it happens towards the end of a story, expect a Finger-Twitching Revival... after they've been buried under a ton of bricks.

If the villain's hand reaches up and grabs your ankle from below the ton of bricks / edge of the cliff, that's... a trope of its own.

A frequent variation is "Nothing human could have survived that," which usually heralds or underscores the discovery that the "victim" is either non- or super-human.

Also may be a result of The Worf Barrage or an attempt at Try and Follow.

(This also frequently occurs with explosions and collapsing structures. When it's the hero caught in the explosion, it's possible that no one DID survive that if they weren't stalled by a Disney Death.)

Along with Nothing Can Stop Us Now! and What Could Possibly Go Wrong?, this is one of the things a Genre Savvycharacter should never ever ever say. In fact, they should Dope Slap anyone who does....

If the trope is overused with one character, it's a case of Why Won't You Die?.

Not to be confused with Playing Possum, He's Just Hiding!, and No One Should Survive That. Share

Opening a Can of Clones

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"There's always a moment in an action star's career where they start doing movies starring more than one of themselves. I feel like it happens to everybody. It's like, 'What do we do, how do we keep this guy fresh? MORE of him!'"

— "Arnold Schwarzeneggar Kill Count," discussing The 6th Day

In Speculative Fiction, Shape Shifters, robot duplicates and clones are exciting and can add a layer of ambiguity and suspense to a story. It will fill characters and viewers with paranoia and make for great shocking revelations. However, they can also completely derail said story and kill all drama when fans get lost in the forest of Epileptic Trees. The problem stems from the possibility that if clones, shape shifters, time travelers or body-hopping aliens can make and unmake plot points at whim, how can viewers be sure that a given story element is canon?

The reasoning here is similar to how a setting where Death Is Cheap takes away dramatic punch from future character deaths. By allowing for the existence of these duplicates the author basically has a huge Reset Button with giant neon lettering spelling out "Wanna bet this dramatic revelation, death or plot twist is here to stay?" These fears can be confirmed if an author starts Ret Conning events or casually undoing changes using these tropes.

The ur-trope of the Nineties, not just a popular gimmick in mainstream films (see Alien: Resurrection and The 6th Day), but in comic books (The Death of Superman), television (The X-Files) and video games (Metal Gear Solid) as well. Because clones and their usage were so obligatory (and over-saturated) for over a decade, they are regarded as something of a cop-out by the mainstream public. It's not that clones in themselves are bad, but stories involving them are so formulaic that any suspense grinds to a halt: there's never just one clone but several, and a story with clones can never fully dispel rumors that the lead survivor is, in fact, a clone.

A few things that may cause this reaction:

Death Is Cheap via Expendable Clones.
Overuse of the First Law of Resurrection inevitably makes any death suspect.
Poor use of the Cloning Gambit.
Revelation that what you killed was Actually a Doombot

A few ways to avoid this reaction:

Ambiguous Clone Ending — Here the intention is to keep the audience guessing, rather than a side effect.
Glamour Failure — Clones can't blend in due to give-away features.
Imposter Forgot One Detail — The clone/shape shifter can't copy the personality of the original person.
This Was His True Form — If the shape shifter reverts to their default form, then reviving a dead character this way is impossible.

Also related to The Multiverse and the Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics.

Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics

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The entropy of a fictional system whose writer is not in emotional equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at the writer's emotional equilibrium.

There's no other way to say it: writers like killing and destroying. Nothing makes them happier than having people die or Stuff Blowing Up. (In their writing, not in their real-world behavior. We're sure about this. Mostly

.) It's the quickest way to get drama, too.

Unfortunately, writers cannot destroy all their fictional creations without ruining the story. Some of those creations have Contractual Immortality. Even when they don't, killing characters off or nuking cities can change the flow of a story in rather unfortunate ways. And destroying everything means there's no more story, and thus no more paychecks for the writer.

As a result, when there is anything expendable, writers will expend it. If the writer can bring people back to life by pushing the Reset Button, then people will die as long as the button is there. If a city has been evacuated, that city will go down in flames. Atomic flames, preferably. If it hasn't been evacuated, the writers can blow it up anyway if no named characters are there. It's not like readers will be upset, right? After all, A Million Is a Statistic. And a character in a Prequel that wasn’t in the original work? Don’t get too attached to them.

The less often the writers get to do this, the more pyrotechnics they pack in. When everything is expendable (like in a show with Negative Continuity), the writers will increase their system's entropy at a leisurely pace. One death an episode or so will do. If almost everything has Contractual Immortality, then killable characters and inflammable places are rare treats, and the writers will spring on them like the proverbial hungry wolves on a sheep.

At times, some writers seem to be working out their stress by destroying fictional people and places. The carnage is always greatest at the moment the writer gets better, since they will increase the entropy until their self-therapy finally works. Needless to say, Creator Breakdown and Darker and Edgier almost inevitably leads to higher entropy.

This is the reason for the following tropes:

The Trope Name is a reference to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that everything in nature increasingly trends towards disorder (or entropy, to be more accurate.) A similar naming convention was used for the First Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics.

This article deals with the reasons that have led to an increasing abandonment of the concept of ‘ideology’ and with the basis of its possible reemergence. The abandonment of the concept is explained on the one hand by its increasing inflation accompanying the crisis of a holistic and naturalistic conception of the social, and on the other hand by the erosion of those metalinguistic positions which provided a neutral viewpoint from which to expose the various forms of a distorted consciousness. Consequently, the ‘ideological’ invaded the totality of the social field and lost all analytic value. It is argued that the notion of ‘distortion’ cannot be abandoned, as far as a post‐ ‘critique of ideology’ approach asserts that the illusion of closure is the main source of a distorted consciousness. The conditions of possibility of a constitutive distortion are then explored in connection with the logic of equivalence in the production of social meaning. The results of this analysis are illustrated through three examples: the distinction between ‘thick’ and ‘thin’ morality in Michael Walzer, the construction of a ‘beyond all differences’ in mystical discourse, and the structure of myth in Georges Sorel. Some general conclusions follow on the working of the ideological and the (impossible) conditions of its extinction.

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