Talk:STPC48/@comment-37117761-20200120205131/@comment-37117761-20200121033600

You make a good point: death can be used as a way out of things if a writer is in a corner. But in those cases, the death comes suddenly as a deus ex machina. If a character is built up to be permanently dead and then comes back, though, that's just another way to write characters out of a corner so that all their problems are tied up in a nice little bow.