Perils of plot armour

I've been thinking about the recent Door Monster video The Plot Armor Problem and I agree, because it's Kyle, and I agree with Kyle, that's just the rules. My big thing with plot armour is we know the character has Plot Armour but the characters don't. This, I think, ought to be a useful workaround for writers of books and shows but is less used. I've been catching up on Monarch, because I love big dumb monster movies, or big dumb TV show spinoffs of monster movies in this case. In Monarch there's this constant "Oh no, someone is squashed!" A titan trod on them! Except of course they aren't squashed. The writers haven't randomly squashed a character halfway through episode two, or five, or seven. But several times a season we have to go through that rigmarole of the writers wanting us to think someone has been squashed. Only for it to be revealed seconds later that no, they are fine. Phew! Really had me going there. We, the audience, are too cool for that tension. Too story-savvy. We…

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