#also in literature i have never forgiven redwall for the death of veil the outcast

[silverwhittlingknife]

which character who has canonically died would you most like to codemn to live?

Hi <333 OOOH okay so full disclosure when I was reading that post I was mostly thinking about stories I already like - so, like, there's the near-death stories, which I'm forever obsessed with - Dick trying to do noble self-sacrifice post-Blockbuster, and Tim trying the same thing in Red Robin, and both of them ending up inconveniently alive afterward.

And also, a bit more directly, the Lotus Pier story starts with the protagonist DRAMATICALLY DYING IN NOBLE SELF-SACRIFICE --- aaaaand then getting brought back to life over a decade later. And VERY INCONVENIENTLY it turns out all of the people that our hero was obsessively avoiding having honest emotional conversations with?? They are all still around!! And all those relationships are all still unresolved!! Anyway naturally our hero does his level best to pretend he has NOT come back to life, but fortunately/unfortunately they figure him out after a while.

(He still manages to duck out of some emotional resolutions, because he is the most instinctively evasive man In The World, but that is what fanfic is for.)

THAT SAID IF I LIMIT IT TO CANON COMICS DEATHS FOR CHARACTERS WHO DO NOT COME BACK TO LIFE --

Mostly villains I think?? Like, this isn't really relevant to the earlier post, because that was about self-sacrifice, but right now I'm just thinking about the vibes of "I would like to condemn you to live." And that's usually villains!!

If there's a villain who isn't intended to be especially sympathetic but then is kinda sympathetic in ways that are never fully explored, I am always, like, what if they lived though. Not necessarily in the canon stories, but in fanfic sdfdsfs

So for comics: Tara Markov.