Element
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- This is a kind of partial Adaptation Distillation where the explanation is removed in the distillation process but the element it explains isn't.
- Arguably a partial subversion: the narration never quite makes clear if the suffering child is really necessary or not, merely that we the readers would never believe the story if not for that element.
- The Diva's song in The Fifth Element during Leeloo's fight against the mongolore soldiers is a partial example of this trope (partial in that it is a moment of high asskickery rather than of grief or dramatic tension).
Source: One-Woman Wail
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