Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27738735-20151013142838/@comment-10008368-20151017170122

Yowhatisuppeeps wrote:

Wow. If anything a character dieing and not respawning would teach kids that if you kill someone they won't come back to life like they do in most other cartoons.

Yeah, because at the age of 11 I don't know how death works. Also, right now, you actually sound like you want Mable to be dead, which is something I can't really understand.

I want to point out, it is not just about the concept of killing kids. Which is generally a taboo on TV, but then, I guess, so are bleeding, talking deer heads. If they kill Mable, the lesson wouldn't really work. I mean, Mable cared about social life, mostly, about fun and romance. Dipper was the one to get involved with the dark side of Gravity Falls. If this would cause Mable's death, the leasson would be: "If you get involved with things you have no business with, someone close to you is likely to die." Which is an awesome lesson to traumatize kids with, really, but I thing it'd be a little heavy and life-scarring at this extend, don't you think?