In fiction characters often face untold challenges and perils. There may come times when they are unarmed, captured, even tortured, or injured, sometimes even killed. But above and atop all their abilities, all their powers, all their equipment it is plot armor that reigns above all else.
Plot armor refers to the protection from the writers in fiction, something that will ensure victory, success, survival or the accomplishment of the predestined path regardless of the obstacles or opposition within the story.
Often this armor is conferred to the good, those fighting for good tend to have such armor, and it is the thing that ensures no matter the bullets that fly by, no matter the injuries or peril good wins in the end. It is the hand of fate that ensures the victory of the good in fiction.
In this world, there are those that believe in True Randomness, something that leads to nonsense, and unpredictable even seemingly contradictory outcomes. But whether True randomness exist or not, I believe is an open question. Personally I think it is a nonsensical concept.
Devoid of true randomness, you have superdeterminism, which is just another word for true determinism, or determinism.
If it is so that superdeterminism is an aspect of truth, then the history of man is set in stone, and the path is set. Destiny, and immutable path, towards the future. If there is Fate, a kind of plot armor exists outside of fiction, because if something is destined to happen, meant to happen, it will happen regardless of what stands in its way.
There are those that believe the world moves towards the ideal state, becoming the ideal world. Is this so? Perhaps. It would certainly be preferable for the ideal world to be in the future, in a certain way, predestined to be.
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