if you think about it, the fact that dc pretty much never lets their heroes stay dead is objectively /worse/ for the characters.
because when your best friend dies? thereâs always going to be that little hope of âtheyâre going to come backâ âtheyâre not deadâ âjust give it timeâ.
how long do the heroes stay waiting for their friend? do they cling to hope, using it as a rope upon of chasm of grief only for that rope of faith to turn into a noose? when do they finally accept that theyâre best friend dead?
imagine watching everyone elseâs friends come back but yours doesnât. imagine how unfair that would be, the despair. why do /they/ get to come back, but your friend canât. why do /their/ friends get to joke and be like âyou can never get rid of usâ
how many times does a flash âdieâ only to come back in a few issues? what happens when they finally die, but you canât convince yourself theyâre gone. thereâs always a part of you thatâs waiting for them to come back, standing on the edge of a cliff.
are there jokes? does dying and coming back become a right of passage? does someone make a bet that wally will be gone two weeks this time only for two decades to pass and he never returns? how does it feel for the anticipation to slowly drain away into realization and horror that heâs /gone/?
i think theyâre should be a comic going into this. or at the very least, someone should write it at some point.
