Thread:The Mangle (Toy Foxy)/@comment-4220590-20151128153507/@comment-477304-20151128212704

"The reason that I (repeatedly) delete the Deceased Characters category is because being dead is not a defining aspect of a character. Works of fiction take place in a type of 'perpetual present' - every time you read/watch/play as a character, that character is still alive. Keep in mind that this wiki doesn't have an in-universe focus. We're not pretending to be archivists from Sonic's world writing the history of our heroes; ME does that, and that's fine, but we don't. We are producing an encyclopedia from a real world perspective of fictional characters, so to a newbie who is playing Sonic Adventure for the first time it makes no sense at all to classify Gamma as dead when, as far as they are concerned, he's clearly alive because they are playing as him right now. (And this isn't getting into the dodgy characters who may or may not be dead, like Tikal, or characters who died and came back to life, like Shadow or Archie Knuckles.) -- Supermorff (talk) 21:32, February 1, 2013 (UTC)" Forum:Deceased Characters Category.

This is why we don't have a deceased character category.