Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5679696-20150228205454/@comment-24950802-20150301000715

Who suggested this idea, just out of curiosity? Was it Lady Junky? I bet it was.

It seems very tricky and complicated to have such an unnecessary page, for a wide variety of reasons. First and foremost, the aforementioned reason that death isn't always permanent on this show, especially since season 3 and Wonderland: people keep dying left and right and being brought back to life (Rumple, Blue, Charming, Ana...), to the point where it's exhausting, but I digress. Then there are those characters we can't confirm as dead because we just don't know for sure. People thought Black Beard was dead for a long time, till he was confirmed to be alive in 409. Is Morraine dead? She probably is, since she existed maybe hundreds of years ago, but several characters have survived that long on this show, including her contemporaries Rumple and Bae. Is Greg dead? What about the Red King? Do you plan on imposing a rule that states a character HAS to be inarguably killed off? But then we go back to those characters who are resurrected after a while. Is it logical to include them and then remove them? Or to keep the characters on the list permanently because they DID die, even though they're not actually dead anymore? And if you include those non-permanent deaths, will you include a blurb that indicates they've been resurrected?

Then there's the fact that so many characters that die are nameless and sometimes faceless extras. Are you really gonna keep track of every black knight that meets their maker? Another problem to consider is the chronological mess. You're ordering the deaths by episodic chronology, even though those demises didn't occur in that order, timeline-wise. And some deaths take place in the present day in an episode, some take place in flashbacks. You don't establish any sort of distinction between those.

I think such an idea is a perhaps a bit narrow-sighted - we considered it for our own wiki and gave up on it because of how difficult it would be to make it happen -, but maybe I'm overcomplicating everything.