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Increasing use of respawn as a plot device in media? (lemmy.world)

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I am watching Severance and playing Hades 2 lately, and I noticed that 'respawn' as a plot device has really increased in last few years.

It's not just respawn, but it's the mechanism where each spawn helps push the narrative further.

The Good Place was similar. Mickey 17 seems to be doing the same thing from what I can tell in the trailer.

Am I just cherry picking or is this a real trend? And does this reflect some other underlying phenomenon?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Respawning has almost always been a thing in video games. A lot of games just started to explain the mechanic via in-world lore after Dark Souls' success and it's pretty low-hanging fruit to duplicate.

Aside from that Tom Cruise movie where he goes back in time after he dies, I can't think of many films that have used this concept.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's a shame that movie wasn't closer to the book. The ending is way more epic.

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