Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-76.24.70.43-20161124214458/@comment-198.242.211.102-20161130210317

73.Anon.52 wrote: KNN005 wrote: Better to kill off a lot of characters then have the fade away into the background never to have lines or fight scenes. I say over the course of the story kill off most of the cast. That way it really drill home how powerful and hard this struggle is. Make sure its known how cruel and unstoppable the villains are. And it'll be that much more satisfying when the villains die one by one. That only really works if the villains are Static... otherwise the plot over a long series just become GI-Joe like bullshit of "this guy dies now because villain of the week needs a kill.., now that we killed the villain of the week we need another kill for the new one's street cred..." eventually all your side characters are so shallow you better hope the surviving heroes are fan favorites, because all your other fans have left after you ganked their favorites.

Deaths need to happen(lest you get tropes like Star-treks) but they don't need to become commonplace.

To me Harry Potter and LOTR have a good balance, Staf Wars did too but I feel like it's case is kinda different