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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8712119" data-attributes="member: 6801228">95% of all media involves the protagonist reaching their goal in the end. They are always going to reach their goal. Adrian Monk from the show Monk is going to catch the killer. Deku from My Hero Academia is going to defeat the villains. The Fellowship of the Ring is going to destroy the Ring of Power. The vast, vast, vast majority of stories involve people achieving their goals. Sure, some stories involve people not achieving their goals. Dying in less than ideal circumstances. But those are notable because those are the exceptions. And even then, it is incredibly rare to find a story where the protagonist was given a goal, and they fail to achieve that goal because they died doing something unrelated. The journey is the point. The journey and the friends you take it with. I don't need people randomly dying off to keep it interesting. I never have. And I don't see achieving goals as only meaningful if I could have died in the process.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8712119, member: 6801228"] 95% of all media involves the protagonist reaching their goal in the end. They are always going to reach their goal. Adrian Monk from the show [I]Monk [/I]is going to catch the killer. Deku from [I]My Hero Academia[/I] is going to defeat the villains. The Fellowship of the Ring is going to destroy the Ring of Power. The vast, vast, vast majority of stories involve people achieving their goals. Sure, some stories involve people not achieving their goals. Dying in less than ideal circumstances. But those are notable because those are the exceptions. And even then, it is incredibly rare to find a story where the protagonist was given a goal, and they fail to achieve that goal because they died doing something unrelated. The journey is the point. The journey and the friends you take it with. I don't need people randomly dying off to keep it interesting. I never have. And I don't see achieving goals as only meaningful if I could have died in the process. [/QUOTE]

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