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[*] minor role stock character whose primary
purpose in the plot of a story is to die soon.
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Ensign Toast (John Gushue ... Dot Dot Dot, 09.05.2009)
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Als Redshirts (englisch, zu deutsch etwa Rothemden) werden, in Anlehnung an die US-amerikanische Science-Fiction-Serie Star Trek, Figuren bezeichnet, die kurz nach ihrem Auftritt sterben.
[...] Um das Ausmaß der Gefahr für die Fernsehzuschauer deutlich zu machen, war der Tod eines Mitglieds des "Außenteams" meist Teil der Handlung; da die Hauptcharaktere generell einen länger angelegten Vertrag hatten, "starb" also ein Redshirt. [...]
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Rothemden (Wikipedia, 27.08.2009)
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The color of shirt worn by the nameless security personnel on the original Star Trek series. Their only job was to get eaten/shot/stabbed/disrupted/frozen/desalinated, and give William Shatner or DeForest Kelley a corpse to emote over.
A Red Shirt is the good cousin of Evil Minions - set filler for our heroes' side. Their purpose is almost exclusively to give the writers someone to kill who isn't a main character, although they can also serve as a Spear Carrier. They are used to show how the monster works, and demonstrate that it is indeed a deadly menace, without having to lose anyone important. Expect someone to say "Hes Dead Jim", lament this "valued crewmembers senseless death", and then promptly forget him.
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Redshirt (Television Tropes and Idioms, 27.08.2009)
