Bury Your Gays
Trope commonly used in fiction where queer characters are seen as more expendable and less important and are, in the end, killed in favour of the straight characters in the story.
A: I can't believe they decided to kill off *character*
B: Yeah, it wasn't even really necessary to the plot
A: I hate the "Bury Your Gays" trope
B: Yeah, it wasn't even really necessary to the plot
A: I hate the "Bury Your Gays" trope