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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Necropolitan" data-source="post: 9726667" data-attributes="member: 6669245">No it's not, as I've repeatedly explained, it's about the use of character death.Important characters died in that comic and didn't come back because bringing them back would be bad storytelling.If Batman got shot in the head everyone would just be waiting for him to get resurrected or for it to be revealed how he managed to survive. Or maybe he'd get replaced by a clone or a Batman from another universe.When a character in the Forgotten Realms comics died there was every reason to wonder if they were gone for good.Either that's true for every setting or it's not true for the Forgotten Realms.The lore remained the same regardless of what individuals groups did and only changed when the company that owned the setting or Ed Greenwood decided it did.Drizzt remains a hero in canon even if a DM decides he's a serial killer in their individual campaign.Exactly. Character death only has real meaning when it isn't undone and reviving a character can make them worse.Like how Palpatine became a massive joke after The Rise of Skywalker.If Sammaster had stayed dead he'd have been an epic villain whose schemes almost laid the entire world to ruin.Now he's not even the only leader of the Cult of the Dragon. And if he's made the lackey of whoever brought him back he'll have been downgraded even further.</blockquote>