Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1031724-20161020032419/@comment-1031724-20161022230825

Point is, they did die, they just made it kid-friendly and, in the cases of the Deadly Six - who I guess are the only speaking non-robots to die onscreen other than Black Doom, Mephiles, and the revived Sonic - more cartoonish.

And what makes Zor's death seem a little more morbid is what he says during his fall: "I long for death's cold embrace."