User blog comment:Blinkn/The Dead and the REALLY dead?/@comment-821254-20120328203537

Well lesser character deaths are preferable to major ones on a series of levels, two come to mind. First it gives the primary character depth as it did with Peter Parker over the loss of Uncle Ben or Magneto's unique history and how it shaped the villainy he brought about. Secondly B and C characters can die and we can be moved deeply by their loss, like Hulkling's Skrull foster mother or the students massacred at Xavier School following M-Day without losing unique personality within a longstanding groups like the death of Torch would have in FF.