About Joes dying, I would say it is normal. Man, they are soldier, sometimes some of them need to die. Well soldiers die, don't?
I disagree with Sonne killing Big Ben, cuz I like the character. But his dio isn't bad just because of that. And in my 'verse he is still alive .
What means to me is that everyone need to do what they need, to tell they're story. I just can't get a dio serious, when it should be, if people start to make funny of some characters in a way that would not be believable. Let me explain. Imagine that you are trying to do a dio with tension and in some point of the dio you show some greenshirt kickin' SE, this would make me laugh. Breakin' all the tension. You can have the same greenshirt kicking SE, SS or Duke in a comedy diostory. That is totally possible. In another way I would not eat it.

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