Lead and Variation

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Lead noun - The person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show.

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Variation and lead are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Variation" instead a noun "Lead".

Nearby Words: leading, leader, leaden, leadership, leaded

Variation noun - A distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play).

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Lead and variation are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Lead" with "Variation", this nouns are similar.

Nearby Words: variety, variable, varied, variance, variant

human	human lead	human variation
good	good lead	good variation
female	female lead	female variation
nice	nice lead	nice variation
Other adjectives: particular, common, simple, romantic, real, male, great, little, slight, black, main, innocent, new, heroic, dramatic, possible, occasional.

Animamundi Dark Alchemist has a nice variation on this, where the lead character sells his soul in exchange for his sister's life after she was attacked by a monster in the woods.

Source: Deal With The Devil / Comics
A variation where clothing a character wears doubles as a costume and is lost in this manner can lead to The Reveal, or a Dramatic Unmask.

Source: Right Out of My Clothes
This is a variation of a line from Citizen Kane where it was losing a million dollars per year would lead to closing down in sixty years.

Source: Fiction 500

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