Talk:Amon/@comment-69.117.172.27-20120730053118/@comment-50.53.109.37-20120731174716

Honestly, Amon coming back would completely trivialize his and Tarlok's final moments in the first season. This would be exactly the sort of a**pull that is constantly being parodied; when a character that should be dead inexplicably comes back for no other reason other than they were "popular".

A good, relatively recent example of something similar would be captain Barbosa from the Pirates of the Caribean movies. He had a great kharmic death at the end of the first movie (though the whole apple scene still bugs the crap out of me), and then *BAM* he is suddenly back amongst the living at the end of movie 2. Why? He was popular, so they shoehorned him back in, and utterly wrecked his character in the process. He was my favorite character in the first movie, but I never wanted to see him alive again after his death, precisely because it would ruin his character. And it did.

Same thing here. Bringing Amon back would serve no legitimate purpose to the next story, but would only serve to needlessly shoehorn in an old character simply for the sake of popularity with no regard to logic, reason, or good writing. Just because we like a character doesn't mean that those characters should come back from death simply because we like them. It would ruin his character, and it would ruin his death. Not to mention the plot holes it would raise as to how he survived such an explosion.