Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20150926195527/@comment-25926288-20151010001349

Arctucrus wrote: Farerb wrote: NickyHelp wrote: Fan favorites do not mean they will not die. I'm not saying he will, but you should be logical that some fan favorites do not mean they will not die. For example any fan favorite like Mufassa from the Lion King, Oogway from Kung Fu Panda, and Stoik from How to Train Your Dragon have passed away. So clearly, you must understand that being a fan favorite does not truly mean they will die. That is for how the story goes and the producers decide, not fans. You know that don't you? Or do you fans or shippers too stubborn to know that already? Be logical. You're the one who's being illogical. If they said they are going to show us more of Hook's past in 5B and introduce his father, then clearly he is not going to die anytime soon. Actually, that could be exactly what it means.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with anyone here, but I'd just like to point out that sometimes they expand on a character's backstory and introduce people from their past to complete their arc and then kill them off -- it's definitely been done, it's not unheard of, and it could very, very easily happen again.

Think Cora in The Miller's Daughter, for example. Or if anyone's seen Arrow, I believe it was episode 20 of Season 2 where we saw more of a certain character's backstory before they were killed off.

Those are just two examples from off the top of my head, but you get my point. It could very well mean Hook is kicking the bucket if we are getting more backstory, but it could also very well mean he isn't. We just don't know. Such is true, but so far we have no proof of that. We can say Rumple is going to die as we have slightly more proof of that, lol. Even Emma has more "proof" of death as the Savior in the Hero's journey typically dies or travels to the Underworld.