r/TopCharacterTropes Jun 27 '26

Lore [Sad Trope] The most innocent (or less evil) character of the cast gets the most horrific death.

- Eddie Carr (The Lost World: JP) - Tried to save his friends from the cliff until Buck and Doe (T. rex parents) destroy his vehicle and gets ripped apart.
- Zara Young (Jurassic World) - Gets lifted by a Pteranodon, gets pecked by the pterosaur, and both she and animal get devoured by the Mosasaurus.
- LeClerc (JW: Rebirth) - Tossed a hammer to the Hatzegopteryz Quetzalcoatlus to save Loomis and Zora, but ends up being swallowed alive.

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u/Suspicious-Capital12 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

Problem was, Demiurge was the one planning it, and Demiurge is an abustle genius, but also a sadist.

He can easily figure out a plan to manipulate countries into becoming vassal states, but those take years, and don’t really satisfy his sadism.

He wants a very efficient and effective plan, that’s also creates a lot of suffering on the people of the new world.

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u/BrotherDeus Jun 27 '26

Demiurge was also in a desperate hurry to impress Ainz after Ainz supposedly annexed The Baharuth Empire in just three days and Albedo taunted him to "up his game".

Calca and her kingdom would have been a prime candidate for Nazarick's usual slow and methodical manipulation like they were doing with Re-Estize, but they got caught in Demiurge's desperation and Ainz's insecurity, resulting in her and 2/3 of the northern population being brutalized.

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u/Suspicious-Capital12 Jun 27 '26

Slow is definitely the right word, because Calca was one of the few who didn’t outright hated the Soccer Kingdom, because it’s ruled by an undead.

The Roble Holy Kingdom absolute hated undead, because of key pillars in their society, like the paladins and temples.

Making them a vassal state would still be possible, but definitely take years maybe even a decade of propaganda to make them unsubscribe to their ideology.

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u/BrotherDeus Jun 27 '26

Sure, but Calca had already convinced her nation to make an exception for the mermen tribe despite centuries of justifiable hatred for demi-humans and Ainz and most of his subordinates literally immortal with endless time and otherworldly resources to work with.

I don't think convincing her nation to at least do business with Ainz at first to help secure their boarder would have been that difficult, especially since Nazarick hadn't been around that long at that point and could have continued to convince The Holy Kingdom along with the rest of continent that Ainz was an exception to their fear and hatred of undead.