Regardless of the intent, they came across everybit as dead as Flash did. More so in lots of those cases. All we know about Flash was that he was in a building that blew up.
That's not half as bad as showing the chracter shot in the face or knowing they were locked inside a ship that was burried alive under a volcanoe or whatever.
All I'm saying is that there are plenty of instances where characters looked dead but weren't, or should have been dead, but aren't.
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