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? there’s always going to be that little hope of “they’re going to come back” “they’re not dead” “just give it time”.
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 they’re best friend dead?
imagine watching everyone else’s friends come back but yours doesn’t. imagine how unfair that would be, the despair. why do /they/ get to come back, but your friend can’t. why do /their/ friends get to joke and be like “you can never get rid of us”
how many times does a flash “die” only to come back in a few issues? what happens when they finally die, but you can’t convince yourself they’re gone. there’s always a part of you that’s 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 he’s /gone/?
i think they’re should be a comic going into this. or at the very least, someone should write it at some point.
