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Plot immunity
Plot immunity
- Plot immunity is a phenomenon in fiction (particularly serialized fiction, such as television series and comic books) that allows for major characters – usually the protagonist and/or antagonist – to avoid the consequences of events that would remove them from the plot. The most common variation of this is the protagonist's seeming invulnerability to fatal consequences. Killing the hero would end the story without resolution. Reader's awareness of this "immunity" drains the dramatic tension, as they know that the main character won't die in the middle of the first act. The result is the hero being locked in a deathtrap while the audience yawns or laughs.
- One way in which a story might work around this is by causing a form of near-fatal injury or consequential setback to the "immune" character. Another is to kill a supporting character, particularly one which the audience has likely grown fond of (for example, the sidekick or love interest, or the hero's pet dog); the sacrifice of "red shirts" do not convince the readers that the main characters are in actual danger of even emotional harm. (Source: plot immunity at Wikipedia )(Updated by: Fritz Freiheit)
Character Critique
- Cardboard character
- Central Casting
- Character stereotyping
- Flat character
- Funny-hat characterization
- Gary Stu
- Head popping
- Hollywood clone
- Homoism
- Kill your darlings
- Marty Stu
- Mary Sue
- Men-in-rubber-suits syndrome
- Mrs. Brown
- Murder your darlings
- Plot immunity
- Powderpuff
- Round character
- Stock character syndrome
- Submyth
- Viewpoint glitch
- Character and Viewpoint Critique
- Mary Sue
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