I will admit, the death thing does get really old. It really removes the pathos, the paths that such an event could open. It just removes the sense of consequences from a confrontation. I mean, if the good guy dies, there's less feeling, because they can just revive him with magic/science/religion/superpowers/drugs/clone body/you get the point. It just... really makes things seem meaningless, at the end of it all.