Light
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Although she says, "It was a hardship softened by me" in a light tone, there is no sarcasm in her voice, and Charles kisses her on the cheek as a quiet "thank you" for her support and understanding in what is a very sensitive matter to him.
Source: Film / X-Men Film Series - Necessary Weasels such as Faster-Than-Light Travel and Humongous Mecha aside, it averts many common scifi tropes such as Artificial Gravity, Inertial Dampening, ignorance of heat management and unrealistically high accelerations, but is "softened" by many Scale Failures.
Source: Mohs / Physics Plus - Though neither avoids death per se, Light and Sayu have their fates softened and avoided, respectively - Sayu isn't kidnapped, and thus doesn't go temporarily insane, and Light dies in Soichiro's arms rather than alone, though he's still batshit insane to the end, much to Soichiro's dismay.
Source: Spared By The Adaptation / Anime
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