Climactic
Climactic adjective - Of, relating to, or being a major turning point.
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Tragic
Tragic adjective - Of a kind to cause great distress.
Climactic and tragic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Climactic" instead an adjective "Tragic".
Nearby Words: tragically, tragical
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- Go Home Johnny also counts, as while it's climactic when you battle the Dojo Buster/Tiger Man, it becomes downright tragic when you battle Sticky, if you've spared him before.
Source: Sad Battle Music -
A tragic inversion of the trope occurs midway through Half-Wits Holiday when Curly walks off camera and is never seen nor referenced again, even during the short's climactic pie fight.
Source: Film / The Three Stooges - That is part of the reason their climactic fight was so tragic.
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