[ SECRET POST #2089 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2089 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Slender Man]


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[TGWTG]


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[Twin Peaks]


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[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]


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[Journey Into Mystery]


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[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]


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[Transonic (X-men)]


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[Baldur's Gate]


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[Wanted]


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[Tiger & Bunny]


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[Bionicle]


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Comments

[forgottenjester]

The scene resonated with me but I do admit at the time I felt it was cheap when I first saw it.

Then again, I think most death scenes are cheap.

However, after my initial "cheap" reaction I thought it fit well into the overall story.

[oroburos69]

For me it was because IDK how many other people had just died, but we were concerned with just this one. This single, important guy who's name I kept forgetting.

Why didn't they just go with "57 men and women just died because Loki is a dickhead. You saved five hundred more by working together. Incidentally, Loki is targeting New York.."

[forgottenjester]

I find that a common thing in a lot of stories so I tend to let it pass. It goes along with the feelings of when you look on the news at night and you find "X many people died when occurred." You feel bad for those people. It's sad. However, for most people they feel much more strongly when a close loved one dies, such as a family member or best friend.

You'd think they would feel worse for the X amount because more people were lost but that's not how it works. It's more about previous emotional investment in the dead subject.

This is not always the case, of course, but it happens often enough that it's reflected in our stories.

(Of course, I feel targeting New York or those already lost people could have been used as the primary motivator, but more attention would have had to been paid to them.)

[intrigueing]

Because that'd be a terrible, shitty, boring movie that no one would care about. And it wasn't that "a whole bunch of people died but we only care about this one", it was "a whole bunch of people died, including him, and a whole bunch of people are gonna die just like him if we don't work together".

Putting a face on a multitude of nameless victims by having one person to represent them is one of the single oldest narrative tropes in existence.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, in fairness going '57 men and women [that you probably don't know' just died' doesn't usually have anywhere near the same impact on people that saying 'This person [that you all have known to some extent] just died fighting to prevent Loki from escaping. Now are you going to stop him before someone else dies trying to do your job?' because people just don't respond as strongly to things that don't personally effect them. Someone you know dying because you weren't doing your job is definetly more of an effect than 'X NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAVE DIED BECAUSE OF THIS GUY'.

What I raised a little more of an eyebrow was how well they had the team getting along at the end, considering just how much they'd been fighting before that.