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Major Character Death Warning

This is sort of a M*A*S*H question but also an AO3-warnings question.

In a post-GFA story where Frank Burns never actually appears as a character but the reader finds out during the story that Burns is dead, do you have to tick the Major Character Death Warning tickbox? Technically yes because Burns is a major and so if he dies this is a Major Character Death. Technically no because he's not a major character in the story in which he dies. Which is it? Asking for a friend.

If Frank Burns is not a major character in the story in which his death is mentioned, is this a Warn For Major Character Death situation?

Yes, you can never have too many warnings

Yes, Frank Burns is a Major Character

No, Frank Burns is not a major character in the story, no warning

No, if you tick that warning people will feel misled

None of the above, I have another opinion and I will add it in the tags

I hate warnings I don't care what you do

Voting ended onAug 13, 2023

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Rewatched "Sometimes You Hear The Bullet" and I forgot just how (can't think of the right word here) blatant it is. Like I can't see any other reading than "This is Tommy, Hawkeye's lifelong friend, he's a gay communist." Like they really just Say That in his very first scene.

quordleona03

I just rewatched "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet" and realised that - from the first time we hear Tommy going "Doc, Doc!" until he and Hawkeye say goodbye in the Swamp (the "Hello I am Heterosexual" nurse temporarily having removed herself) Tommy Gillis appears upright, walking around, and unwounded, for a total of...

FOUR MINUTES

We hear his voice 7 minutes 10 seconds into the episode. Hawkeye hugs goodbye, tells Tommy "you still owe me for a pint of milk" and walks out of the Swamp 11 minutes 10 seconds into the episode. The scene in OR over Tommy Gillis's body, wounded and dying, during which we see his face and hear his voice, takes

LESS THAN ONE MINUTE

That's it. That's Tommy Gillis. Five minutes of screen time in one episode, From when hawkeye sees his face to the end of that scene with Henry "Doctors can't change rule number one" is less than four minutes. Tommy reappears about 19:30 and disappears from the narrative at 22:57 and yet, we know he's Hawkeye's gay Communist boyfriend and Hawkeye loved him and was bereft at his death.

Alan Alda and James T. Callahan achieved it by nothing but acting and chemistry.