10 Reasons Why Arrow Needs To Kill Off Oliver Queen
6. Death Becomes Irrelevant
In the world of comic books, death has now become completely irrelevant. It's sad, but it's true.
The notion of death in comics was largely taken seriously until a certain point towards the end of 1993. That point? Why, that would be the culmination of the famed Death of Superman arc. Until that point, death in comics was a permanent arrangement. By October '93, less than a year after being killed off, Superman was brought back from the dead - and the Grim Reaper now wasn't as scary a figure as he once was.
From that point on, death in comic books became an afterthought, an inconvenience, and something that fans knew wasn't going to last. And that, well, that is something that the Arrowverse has to do its best to avoid.
There may have been a handful of moments across the Arrowverse shows where a death may not have stuck, but this shared TV realm has largely done its best to make sure that death is indeed a permanent arrangement. If this long-promised death of Oliver Queen doesn't happen or is somehow reversed, then that opens up the very real possibility of deaths in the Arrowverse becoming meaningless.