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Nemu posted...

If the villain can be incapacitated without being killed and keeps reappearing without any character growth, that usually leads to a weak, incompetent villain. Only real way to pull off a quick return is to have them do the villain team up trope afterwards. That's why most comic stories feel silly when these characters keep escaping, getting revived, etc, only to quickly be defeated again later on.

Yeah, the thing with comics (especially earlier comics and ones that have had long runs) is that they want people to be able to pick a random book off the shelf and still be able to follow along.

That's why villains escape so much and even in the instances where they die, if they're popular enough they just end up resurrecting them within 5 years.

Movie series, on the other hand, aren't so serialized. They're not trying to avoid the issue of alienating people because they might potentially have to read tons of back issues to understand wtf is going on. You might just have to watch 1 or 2 2 hour long movies to prepare for a sequel. They're okay with killing villains off.