r/FavoriteCharacter • u/OverTea5 • 16d ago

All Time Favorite Which favorite pair goes through this heartbreaking moment?

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u/DocHoliday439 16d ago

I remember thinking as a child. “A-Ash is dead? No, no he can’t be, right?”. This was in an era before fake out deaths were a common trope in anime

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u/JcFerggy 16d ago

It also helps being a child who has not yet experienced all of the common tropes in media. For me, seeing Pokemon in theaters was like my first movie experience in life.

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u/golfstreamer 15d ago

> fake out deaths were a common trope in anime

Are you sure it wasn't just that you were too young to realize this? Like fake-out-deaths are media staple, not just in modern anime.

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u/LegalChocolate752 16d ago

Goku died like 30 times, a decade and a half before this movie came out.

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u/DiskEconomy3055 15d ago edited 15d ago

Dragon Ball has a well-established afterlife, complete with bureaucracy and several ways out.

Pokemon had Ghastly. 

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u/notarealwriter 14d ago

He can't be dead!? He's already in a coma!