>>56349809You need to have the death planned since the start basically, with actual reasoning for when and how they die
Or at least make it a strong motivator for other characters to act in certain ways, just don't make them live and die exclusively for that
Making it tragic only works for high stakes stories that have a heavy tone already
Revivals only work when people don't care much about the death or the tone implies that death is not that important otherwise it will feel like a massive cop out
I think specifically with Pokemon you could make a character come back as a Ghost-type but without any of the memories they had when they were alive, it would add to the tragic effect
