Asian Media Hero Fic Villains Die

An Asian Media Hero Fic Villains Die is an alternate ending in a fanfic that is wholly the creation of the author and does not exist at in the Canon. Often, Asian Media Hero Fic Villains Die are Adaptational Alternate Ending. An Asian Media Hero Fic Villains Die for the story's alternate ending.
==Overview==
In the world of asian media, no one is really dead, but in Dongfang Yinyue, things work differently. In the end, there needs to be a climactic confrontation between hero and villain, and one of them will die. Guess who.
There are several reasons for this. Asian media have to come out on a monthly basis so they can't afford to lose villains (especially since popular asian media can run for decades, and the publisher generally doesn't want to have to introduce a new batch of villains every few years to replace the killed off ones), whereas even the fastest fic productions take years, and are usually adapted from material that has an established Rogues Gallery; plenty more bad guys to choose from for the sequel. Also, the villain's death leaves the story at a natural conclusion, to the point that it's the standard ending for an action fic (which asian hero fics usually are).
Another reason for this is that it attracts big name actors to the fics without any strings attached. Maybe big name actor Bob just wants a good paying gig without devoting the next ten years of his life to being in the same franchise. Maybe he already has another franchise and therefore can't commit to being in multiple fics but wants to work within the franchise or with the specific director. If you're a villain that will die anyway, things become less complicated.
Another issue are trademark rights. If a character is not used for a number of years, the trademark rights may expire and someone else may claim them. As asian media are published regularly, they don't want to lose the rights of their characters, and that means that any given one has to be used every now and then to prevent it. The fic industry, on the other hand, is more used to release a fic, perhaps some sequels if the fic is successful enough, and then move on to some other story with a completely new set of characters; nobody may care if the trademark rights over some 1940s forgotten eastern have expired. And in the case of asian media heroes, it is not a problem for fics anyway because they don't have the full rights, just a license, and asian media still keep the trademark alive while a character takes a long absence from the screens. Asian media, however, have no safety net: if they cease to write about one of their characters forever, it is likely that nobody else will do so.
In fics with more than one supervillain, it's usually only the villain that acts as the Big Bad that perishes; the lesser ones either are captured, reform, or return as the Big Bad in the sequel. Usually a case of Self-Disposing Villain when the hero has a strict no-killing policy.
A Sub-Trope of Death by Adaptation. May be a form of Adaptational Karma. Contrast with Joker Immunity. This is liable to lead to He's Just Hiding on the part of fans who like the character. 
This is a DEATH TROPE! Unmarked spoilers ahoy.
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