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I've never liked this type of "no resurrections" take. I posted a big thing about this, regarding Kamen Rider W, but resurrection doesn't negate the meaning of the death if the surviving character actually learned and grew from that death. I feel like when people complain about resurrection, there's an assumption that relationship dynamics will return to how they were, before the character death. And I think that's the thing that negates the meaning of the death. But those things CAN be mutually exclusive. Characters can keep their Growrh, from how the death effected them, then move on from their new points of Growth with new struggles and new starting states wirh their new relationship dynamics, even with the same people, based on how they've changed. I'd say that maybe this assumption of "returned status quo always coupled with return of the dead character", is likely an assumption based on people watching a lot of sitcoms, where return to status quo was normalized and necessary for that genre. But do people watch sitcoms enough anymore to subconsciously build that expectation? Or are other sources/genres of writing also returning situations and relationship dynamics to status quo, whenever possible?