User talk:Station7/Interesting death facts

Not irony
I hate to be a spoil sport, but technically, none of these are really examples of irony. One of my biggest pet peeves is the misuse of that term.


 * Nina was killed in the same room in which she killed Teri. This is actually quite fitting, aka the opposite of ironic.
 * Likewise, Amador tried to kill Nina with a bomb, yet he was killed by a bomb. Now, if he'd saved Nina from a bomb, then died in a bomb explosion himself, that would be irony. As it happened, not irony.
 * Stephen Saunders' death was merely unfortunate timing and has nothing at all to do with irony.
 * Palmer's time of death is a coincidence, not irony. And Wayne's comment about one shot is merely an unfortunate and unintentional pun.

Irony involves some sort of "opposite" effect happening in contrast to what one would expect in a given situation. A good example of an ironic death on the show is when David Palmer says to the punk kids in Day 1 that if they keep going the way they are, they'll be dead in five years, and then he himself is killed less than five seasons later.

Again, sorry to rain on the parade, but perhaps you should rename your page "Quirky death facts" or something. Or perhaps proudhug should just stop being such a grammar nerd. --proudhug 01:24, August 10, 2010 (UTC)