aceluby Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I see this thrown around all the time, and I just don't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blutraven Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 How some characters are kept alive because the author wants to keep them alive (like how Tyrion probably wouldn't survive the Battle of the Green Fork in real life). I've never really cared about it, everything is done so the story goes where the author wants it to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agamemnon Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 My understanding: All the random and seemingly impossible events that happen that are contrary to the way the story normally works and take place to keep a certain character alive where almost any other character in the same situation would have died. Its kind of like the GRRM Deus Ex Machina.Im sure people will provide great examples I'm blanking on them at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Alysanne™ Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 How some characters are kept alive because the author wants to keep them alive (like how Tyrion probably wouldn't survive the Battle of the Green Fork in real life). I've never really cared about it, everything is done so the story goes where the author wants it to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yolkboy Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 The notion that some characters are too important to the plot to be discarded, and are therefore seen as not as vulnerable as other characters. The plot is their armour - they are needed to serve it. For example, Dany has plot armour at the moment, because we can be pretty sure she will be involved with a Dance of the Dragons. So whatever happens with her current Dothraki showdown, we kind of know she won't die just yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gar Weg Wun Sygerrik Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Something that people invented to bitch about characters they don't like, and why they aren't dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Alysanne™ Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Something that people invented to bitch about characters they don't like, and why they aren't dead. i agree on that too :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petyr Patter Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 If you are watching a heist movie, and somebody says they need the Safe Cracker to open the store/bank/museum's safe or the heist is pointless... you know nothing is going to happen to the Safe Cracker, because otherwise there is would be no movie. So, if the Safe Cracker has a bad heart, you KNOW he won't die of a heart attack. If somebody hold a gun to the Safe Cracker, the armed man will be talked down, miss, or otherwise not endager the guy who needs to stay alive to move the plot. Of course, towards the end all bets are off. So, in literature, it is a very crude way of saying a character can't die because he needs to move along the plot. For example, despite the dangerous situations Harry Potter found himself in, did the reader ever really expect him to die? Well, maybe in the last book. Did he die in the last book? I should probably have picked an example I actually read. Regardless, no Harry Potter, no Harry Potter franchise. Harry Potter has plot armor. Realistically, one of those villains (or was it the same villain?) should have killed him by sheer luck. Still, sometimes readers can incorrectly assign plot armor to characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gneisenau Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Usually it just means you know a character won't die in certain circumstances because they play a crucial part in the plot. For some it is derogatory term used to attack a character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sleeper Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Something that people invented to bitch about characters they don't like, and why they aren't dead. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muggle Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Jon at queenstown refusing to kill the old man is a prime example of plot armor. He should of died but the seemingly impossible happened, i.e summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djinn Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 It's how different characters suffer( or not) different consequences for their actions or how certain aspects of logic apply( or not) in different ways. For example, dragons are seem as a wonder, rare and priceless, but nobody of power tries to forcibly get them for themselves. Or how Valyrian steel weapons are seem as a symbol and pride of the families that possess them, but some are given away despite that. Or how someone with several physical limitations suddenly suffer none of them in combat situation.The term sometimes is overused(like mary sue), and it's always a relation between characters, for someone to have it, that means others that clearly don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aceluby Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 Jon at queenstown refusing to kill the old man is a prime example of plot armor. He should of died but the seemingly impossible happened, i.e summer But that example provides Jon with information about Bran that he could not have ascertained in another way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mladen Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Steven Seagal or Chuck Norris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-Ro Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Plot armor is when a dwarf that cant climb steps without back pain in one scene becomes a killing machine on the battlefield in another scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryk Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Something that people invented to bitch about characters they don't like, and why they aren't dead. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryk Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Plot armor is when a dwarf that cant climb steps without back pain in one scene becomes a killing machine on the battlefield in another scene. Adrenaline is a wonderful thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienarea Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Tyrion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Shake Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Plot armor is when a dwarf that cant climb steps without back pain in one scene becomes a killing machine on the battlefield in another scene. Agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Ravens Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 This is the most common definition of "plot armor" on this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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