Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Put through is an antonym for avoid.
Put through
Put through verb - To carry through (as a process) to completion.
Both terms in one sentence
- On that note, Regina herself qualifies, as she struggled hard to avoid becoming evil, but fate itself seemed to conspire against her and the more pain she was put through, the more evil she became.
Source: Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains - Angst aversion then is the situation occurring when these two conceptions collide: The personal tendency for a person to avoid a work once they hear it has an unhappy ending, or is generally filled with sympathetic characters that will be put through hell.
Source: Angst Aversion
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