Board Thread:Council of Arrowverse Wiki/@comment-9346948-20180119051714/@comment-33975217-20180125205512

Ninja72 wrote: Kagemamoru wrote: Itamar20112 wrote: Sorry if someone already said that (because I don't have time to read all the other messages), but in the status discussion, I suggest that:

If a character's death was never shown on-screen and was never confirmed on the show (like if they didn't find the body), than the statue will be '''Unknown. '''

If a character was visited in the past by Time Travel and wasn't confirmed to be dead, the statue will be Alive (as of [the year we last saw the character]).

In that way, Eobard Thawne is alive, becuase he appeared in the present and didn't die on-screen at the end.

Also, I want to mention 2 characters that there deaths were never shown and were never confirmed on the shows: Malcolm Merlyn and Black Flash. Both statues right now are deseased, but I think it should be Unknown, because we don't know for sure that they died, because Malcolm's death wasn't shown on screen and they never actually find his body, and Black Flash was also thought to be dead when Barry seemingly crashed him (or whatever) in the episode "Into the Speed Force", but we later found out that he's alive, and his "death" on "Finish Line" looks the same. Merlyn blew himself up. Bodies don't exactly come out intact from that kind of thing. Also, we saw the explosion from a distance. And if he did manage to get himself away alive, he wasn't with the team on the plane or with Slade on the boat when Prometheus blew the island to hell. First of all, we never saw his body, so it should be Unknown. Second of all, this isnt the first time, he has been confirmed to be dead. Third of all, John Barrowman saying he is leaving  Arrow, might simply be a lie, Katie Cassidy also said, and yet she returned, although playing a different character. Not to mention that this isnt an in-universe confirmation. And for my final point, we listed "Jay Garrick" as Unknown after Season 2 episode 14, even though we literally saw Zoom stabbing him through the heart, just because we didnt see his body, so the same logic should apply to Malcolm.

I was actually thinking of a way Merlyn could come back, and I remembered that yet again Damien Dahrk is in Legends of Tomorrow, so I think that they're gonna show us a flashback where right before the explosion, a time traveller (could be the Legends or Damien) came there and lead him away through a portal. Then we see the explosion, just like in the finale of Arrow season 5.