User:Green meklar/Arwen Awards

As a parody of the well-known Darwin Awards, green_meklar's Arwen Awards are given to fictional characters who do something stupid enough that they deserve to die (or worse) for it, whether or not they actually do (because whoever was writing it might have decided to let them live anyway out of pity). Mostly, they are a sarcastic, cynical look at what would normally be a willing suspension of disbelief. They are named after Arwen Evenstar from the Lord of the Rings, who earned one herself for sacrificing living forever in order to remain with her mortal lover (Aragorn). A character is allowed to win more than one Arwen Award, and in fact a significant fraction of fictional characters are eligible for Arwen Awards.

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Arwen Awards currently held

• Diablo - The Diablo I hero - For stabbing Diablo's soulstone into his head when he could have just had it taken to the Hellforge and destroyed.

• GhostBusters - Walter Peck - For shutting off the containment machine and releasing all the ghosts.

• Harry Potter - Nicholas Flamel - For giving up immortality in order to prevent Voldemort from getting the elixir of life.

• Lord of the Rings - Everyone on the good side who knew they had the One Ring - For not using giant eagles to fly the One Ring to Mount Doom and throw it in the lava before Sauron could do anything.

• Lord of the Rings - Sam, Pippin and Merry - For lighting the fire on Weathertop that attracted the ringwraiths.

• Lord of the Rings - Arwen and Luthien - For giving up immortality in order to enjoy a few decades with a mortal husband when an immortal one probably would have been almost as good in every other way anyway.

• Lord of the Rings - Denethor - For deliberately burning himself to death.

• Lord of the Rings - Elrond - For not pushing Isildur into the lava when Isildur refused to throw the One Ring in.

• Lord of the Rings - Sam - For not pushing Frodo into the lava when Frodo refused to throw the One Ring in.

• The Prydain books - Taran - For using the dwarven horn to save Craddoc when he could have saved it and waited for a much better opportunity.

• The Prydain books - Taran and Eilonwy - For sacrificing immortality in order to work at rebuilding Prydain for a few more decades.

• StarCraft - The Xel'Naga scientists - For making the zerg even after having had such a disastrous experience with the protoss.

• StarCraft - Tassadar - For crashing himself into the Overmind when he could have just waited for Zeratul and the other dark templars to finish it off.