Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-96.252.1.73-20180127135315/@comment-25936766-20180202201807

But Avatar:TLA didn't have Miles and Kerry for writers.

Now, you can make a good show without killing characters, yes, but depending on the setting, a lack of death can hurt the suspension of disbelief. Though that's another topic entirely.

Now, main character deaths are never a matter of "Bob deserved to die", it's always a matter of "Bob's death serves a purpose". A character dying for the sake of it achieves no purpose, and achieves little more than just pissing off the fanbase. But if their death does serve a purpose for the plot, then it's fine, if sad.

In this case, Pyrrha's death lead to Ruby saving Vale by unleashing her Deus Eye Machina on Cinder and the Dragon, and it also serves to give Jaune way for more development (but not Ruby. She apparently DGAS about Pyrrha, "didn't know her very long" and all that).

Out of universe, it also proved to us that main characters could die....or better said, it allowed Miles to tease the fans about X character dying for lulz.

So, her death does serve a purpose. You can argue that it was unnecesary, that she was just becoming a character whose characterization was deeper than just "Jaune", that the "Pyrrha ends up with Amber's Aura inside her" route would've been better. But the fact is, her death served a narrative purpose.