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L's death.

This stops the narrative in its tracks and forces the story to slowly - SLOOOOOOWLY - build back up to speed. It's the sort of thing that hurts A Song of Ice and Fire, as anybody can die in that series without warning, but then the writer has to introduce new characters and lands to patch up the unresolved plot threads, because nobody was waiting in the wings to pick up in case of a major character death. Plot armor exists for a reason. If you're going to remove it, you *need* characters who can work in proximity to someone else and have similar information/power to the dead person. (I rant about Arcane a lot, and I'll do it again because it is a goddamn brilliant show. Its 1st season ending leaves several characters with unclear fates, but *ALL* of them have somebody close to them that can pick up their narrative threads : one character has an ideological enemy and close friend that could be shaken and pick up the plot thread if character A dies. Another two characters of uncertain fate are good friends who have been drifting apart in political beliefs, and removing either one could have radical effects on the narrative moving forward.)