** SPOILERS ***
In Dark Reign: The List - Punisher, Frank Castle dies. His head and limbs are dismembered by Daken. The comic clearly shows his head and limbs separated and throw off a building and then carried back to the sewers. So Frank Castle is dead... However, Punisher #11 (Vol 7) is releasing in a couple of weeks to find Frankencastle (a Frankenstein version of a re-animated Frank Castle - Punisher).
So does this count as a death for Punisher, if we know he'll be reanimated next month?
When is a death considered a death? (RE: Punisher)
I've tried to avoid adding deaths, because of that. In Punisher 9, G.W. Bridge looks like he's dead (Punisher thinks he's dead) and I almost added it, but then in #10 he rises up and shoots someone. So I still don't know if he dies off camera in #10 or if he just got up and walked/crawled away.
a) travel to the afterlife, even if you are turned back or fight going there and return to your body
b) need to be revived - heart stopped, returned through modern medicine, magic, powers
c) Need to be resurrected - through magic or powers or crazy plot
A vampire is a good question, I think I would count that as a death.
The reader thinking someone is dead shouldn't count
I think whether a writer retcons something or not, they still died in the issue.
Off screen death should count. I think the question should really be 'What does someone use the information of a death issue for?' Is it just an informative tool? Is it an attraction, like 'I have to see the issue where _______ dies' ? Or is it a simple way to view if a character has died and how many times have they been dead? If we know what people expect out of a death issue we could define a death much easier.
Well like most things, I think it's a judgment call. Hopefully any death issue added is also written about on the character's page so that issues can be found and a short explanation is written to make someone want to find the issue and read it. That's in a perfect world of course.
Or more confusedly (for me), does it count if in that issue you are supposed to think the character died but later you find out they didn't die? "no that doesn't count...there are a lot of people who count those moments into Jean Grey's death count but that's stupid
Another thing; how do we list a death that happens off-panel?
For example Shinobi Shaw was confirmed alive and powered in the 198 files, but apparently killed off-panel since he's resurrected in X-Necrosha.
I guess we don't list any death issue at all, and only mention it in the overview?
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