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Noun

plot armor (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial, fiction, sometimes derogatory) A plot device wherein a fictional character or other entity repeatedly and inexplicably avoids harm or misfortune, due to their importance to the work's continued plot; the property of being prone to deus ex machina.

Synonyms

  • plot shield
  • character shield

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