Talk:Accelerator/@comment-113.172.91.205-20140320172155/@comment-11571396-20140328205721

That's fine and all, sweetie, except it is not appliable how you used it.

You blatantly sweep Awakening and Touma's misfortune as 'Plot Armors', except

A) Awakening was hinted at by the narrative even before even its first use, and the way Accel awakened the first time had been built up previously. Plot Armor is litterally when the MC is saved through contrived reasons explained after the fact (see Sasuke's Great Snake Escape), however Accelerator's relation to Christian symbolism was beginning to be implied way back to Volume 6, Index met Accelerator the previous novel, she used magical songs before, there is a parallel to be done with Kazakiri's and Index's wings, etc. In short, there was a build up, you can't chalk it all up to 'Lol, Plot Armor'.

B) Touma's misfortune is not Plot Armor for the simple and good reasons it has seldom importance to Touma resolving the conflicts. Most victories of Touma and his allies were a mix of support, group tactics, and quick thinking. Add to that that the elements of victories are never last minute ass pulls, and instead were introduced earlier or referenced throughout the novels.

As for the main characters not dying, it has less to do with Plot Armor, ''and more to do with the genre and atmosphere of the setting. ToAru is not Attack on Titans, The Walking Dead, or Game of Thrones''. Since the first novel, it is set firmly in the Shounen/Seinen genre, and the tone of the series was never one of people dying left and right. You might say 'unrealistic', except ToAru has never tried to advertise itself as realistic to begin with. It's not Plot Armor if the main characters don't die in an universe leaning towards the optimistic side of things, they are simply adjusting to the narrative conventions of the work they have been created in.

Plot Armor is a lot more complicated than how you seem to understand it.

That's the problem with people with only knowledge of TvTropes, they don't even take the time to correctly understand the tropes before throwing the terms around like faux intellectuals. Go take some courses in Litterature and Media.