NOTE: though the trope name includes "kills", no death has to happen. Though similar, this trope does not include things like Selective Obliviousness, You're Just Jealous, or Sarcastic Confession, as those are failures to listen rather than speak (though listening is also a vital part of good communication). Authors who pull this trope badly run the risk of straining the audience's Willing Suspension of Disbelief. Alternately, if everyone in the story has unreasonably bad communication skills, it may be an Idiot Plot. A Ditherer may refuse to speak up on something because it would mean having to make a choice one way or the other.īasically, the miscommunication or misunderstanding should be borne out of flaws and behaviors that a character has had from the start rather than something that happened because the author needed a story to go a certain way and derailed the characters involved, making them hold the Idiot Ball. A Horrible Judge of Character may implicitly trust a villain who wants nothing but bad things for him, and tend not to believe those who tell him of the villain's evil intentions. Someone who is naturally shy or has No Social Skills may also have trouble getting their point across. A character who has a hard time trusting someone, for example, is more likely to dismiss that someone's explanation of what's going on out of hand than to hear the person out.
In order for this trope to work, the misunderstanding or miscommunication needs to have a reason to occur, best borne out of the natural characterization of the characters involved.
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