Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28109177-20181101030053

I think we should consider the "no body, no death rule" on this wiki when it comes to characters who quote "DIED" unquote.

I think this because some of the deaths we "see" are ambiguous or off-screen and we don't really have a definitive answer for IF they are actually deceased, yes shows will imply that to throw viewers off most times. For example, On the Ronnie Raymond article, his status is "Deceased" but the problem is, WE don't know what happened to him at all! All we know is, he merged with Professor Stein to try to help Barry stop the Singularity, His body got lost in it. So tell me? How does that mean he's dead? We gotten no confirmation from any writers or actors, even the actor who played Ronnie couldn't give a clear answer. FOR ALL WE KNOW, he could just be on Earth 2 or some other earth, Need I remind you, that singularity was just a very large breach between Barry's Earth and other earths, which is how Hunter Zoloman aka Zoom and some of the Earth 2 metas even got here on Earth 1. So whose to say Ronnie isn't on another Earth?

Rip Hunter, he supposedly Died while stalling Mallus in Season 3 of Legends but we did not see a body or him "dying" so we don't know for a fact he's dead. So I'm glad to see his status is "Unknown" unlike Ronnie's whose should also be "Unknown"

See, writers create these ambiguous "deaths" to leave openings for a characters potential return, so either a character leaves on some soul searching journeys like Wally West or "Died" aka Disappear.

If actors have other things to do and have to take a break from the show, these methods are used. So I think if a character disappears without a confirmation of actual death, their status should always been unknown.  