Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27070091-20161031185655/@comment-25275196-20161102050658

Quauntonaut wrote: No. Just no.

This is nothing but a creative restraint. You don't like non-death in fights? Good on you keep doing deaths in YOUR fights, don't enforce it on people who don't wanna make all their fights deaths. While the wording could have been put more delicately, I agree with this. Users should be free to make their own fights with minimal restrictions. In fact, I remember the Wiki rules and guidelines saying:

2. All What-If? Death Battle's are to be respected, content and outcome included.

"Content and Outcome" refers to all things within the fight. If one of the combatants survives, that's part of the Outcome. It should be respected regardless. Death Battle is ultimately "who would win in a fight", and not "who would be the most likely to kill the other". While it is a running theme to include Death in a series with "Death" in the title, if it's either too hard to implement, or out of character, it shouldn't matter. As long as there's a clear defined winner to each fight, it doesn't matter if there's Death or not.