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Originally Posted by Saint Nicola

The trend of soaps killing off random big characters for shock value, ratings and press attention came with Tina McIntyre when Michelle Keegan left I feel. Tina wasn't a character that suited being murdered. Then came Lucy Beale, granted we got a plot from that. Then Katie Sugden in Emmerdale. Then Val Pollard again in Emmerdale. Then Kylie Platt in Coronation Street. Then Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell in EastEnders. Now Abi Branning. It's basically popular female characters.

Lucy died first you silly slut.

Major characters have been killed off for years, it's just the last 5 or so years EE particularly have made it a regular occurrence.

Yes, they've killed them in other soaps but it hasn't got out of control in the others.