Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2232235-20150223044721/@comment-25094659-20150309120617

Oniscience wrote: Are people still going on about who is going to die? Wow. I know the new episode airs in less than 24 hours, but I'm still going to have a rant.

People are still saying characters that have literally zero percent of kicking the bucket are going to do so. People, Soos and Wendy are not going to die. They're on Bill Cipher's wheel! It's been shown so often that it can't mean nothing. The wheel is going to have some importance later on, and everyone on it. Also, the side effects of Soos and Wendy dying would turn the plot in the complete opposite direction. Not to mention the fact that neither of them are older than 25.

Older characters such as Stan and McGucket are more likely to die, due to the fact that they're old. Old people die, it's a fact of life (or in this case death). There is imagery throughout the show that Stan will die, such as when Wax Stan is decapitated and when Stan lands in a coffin after riding the geyser in Land Before Swine. But Stan is still on the wheel.

The only characters I think have any chance of dying are the mayor (who we know doesn't have long to live), McGucket and possibly Stan. Firstly, you just Soos and Wendy can't die because they're on the wheel then said Stan might die, when he is also on the wheel. McGucket might be on the wheel also, but if he isn't, it will probably be him :P

Why can't someone on the wheel die? We don't even know what being on the wheel means. Plus, the wheel is over 30 years old, which is older than a lot of people on the wheel. It could be that the prophecy is flexible, and if one person dies, they can be replaced by another "Pine Tree" or "Question Mark", etc.