Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-11276487-20131125022524/@comment-61022-20140113173021

Xemnas-Spidey wrote: Odd. Heroes die all the time, but villains can't seem to stay dead......

Villains die and come back from the dead all the time. Especially Spider-Man villains (Dr. Octopus, Kraven the Hunter, Electro, Norman Osborn). The difference between a villain dying and a hero dying and the length of time in which it takes them to come back from the dead is that readers have a more emotional attachment to the hero than the villain. You care that Peter Parker is dead because you have an emotional attachment to the character. Yet if someone like Norman Osborn "dies" we don't think much of it and are not surprised when it turns out that he did not die.