Every so often there's a suggestion that a police state may actually be a lousy idea, but this thought dies even faster than the disposable characters.
But Munro's stories spurn the idea of the short form as a fleeting glimpse of disposable characters' lives, a casually sophisticated backheel from the writer propelling them into a tidy ending.
I haven't seen it yet, and I don't suppose you have either, but I think we can guess what happens: there will be running, and screaming, and disposable supporting characters will duly be disposed of in a rehash of Crawlspace-meets-Sliver.
As with many Star Trek productions, new, disposable redshirt characters are killed off over the course of the plot.
Twenty-three yearsincece the original DOOM, it's a shame "space marine" has become synonymous for bad, disposable video game characters.
"Every civilization was built off the back of a disposable workforce," Leto's character says.
Every character is disposable, so don't get too attached to anyone - yet that's exactly what Staff Sergeant William James Jeremy Rennerr) does when he befriends a young Iraqi boy.
Most of the rest of the characters are disposable, though: the caffeinated best friend, Audrey Sarena Parmarr), and even the supposed heartthrob Gavin (Adam DiMarco), who has huge features that do the work his words don't.
A talented ensemble can't hide the fact that many of the secondary characters are disposable (perhaps rightfully so, given the show's climax).
Single purpose characters needed a distinctive personality trait to quickly establish them with the player, rather than serving as a disposable item, while major characters had to reflect the player's progression and actions through the game.
