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Regarding comic book deaths. It used to be that the character wasn't dead if you didn't see the body. Now even if you see the body, the character can be brought back. Is there any character who has stayed dead? Barry Allen's back. Rita Farr is back. Mar-Vel is back. This bringing characters back to from the dead makes any character's "death" pretty ho-hum.

Uncle Ben.


I think that about covers it.

Adrian Chase (Vigilante) would be the only other one I can think of at this point.

Haha Dev, I did the thing you did with Fight Club, except I did it with the first Saw movie, about 10 minutes in.

Maybe because I'm hopeless at figuring out mysteries ahead of time, I don't mind the spoiler.

However, it's a lot easier to get spoilers with the internet, too easy if you don't like them.

I'm still a sucker for the preview pages from comic books, although it's a bad habit. They show you three pages out of a measly 20, there's that much less to read when I get the book. Previews aren't generally spoilers, but I find they do take something away from the reading - so I can understand why people don't like real spoilers.

"profh0011 did a few, but at least I couldn't identify the movies of the ones I didn't already know."

Well, that was the point of my writing them that way. So people who knew the films would get it, and those who didn't would understand without having those films blown for them.

The spoiler I said I made up myself, IF you knew which movie it was for, would CERTAINLY blow the ending for you.


By the way, does anyone know which 2 books I quoted?

Prof, from what you wrote, I think I might realize which films they apply to while I'm watching the film, so it's still better not to give examples of famous spoilers.

I keep getting tempted to show the list others have done, but I have to keep stopping myself because that would not only be illustrating the problem , but also repeating it.

Correction to my earlier post re: promotions that spoil a character's death--

I suppose the merit would still be there, so make that "sabotages any artistic or emotional impact the death would have in the story".

Then the Uncle Ben I read that they had a couple years back wasn't the genuine article?

If a movie/book/comic plotline can not survive even a major spoiler and still be an enjoyable read/watch, then it wasn't very good to start with. All the twists and shocks in the world are nothing if you are not moved by the story. This is something that movie makers and comicbook writers seem to have largely forgotten. Mercifully, a lot of authors still "get it".

When was that?