jc37's argument regarding this category has to do with the perpetual present of fictional narratives. The argument is that we cannot say that something is true or false of a character if it is something that they do or that is done to them during the course of a fictional narrative. As the entire narrative exists in the real world as a singular thing, all parts of it perpetually exist as equally valid states of the character, and all real life descriptions of fictional events are therefore written in the present tense. Ok, that still sounds esoteric... But the example of a character death is the best illustration to make the point. Saying that Darth Vader is dead is a nonsensical statement; instead, Darth Vader dies in Return of the Jedi. Categorizing him as a dead character would be inappropriate because he is depicted as a living character through the rest of his depictions, and unlike in the real world, later events in fiction do not supersede prior ones. We cannot flip back a couple days to when Harvey Pekar was still alive, but we can always watch Star Wars or Empire Strikes Back again. Pekar is dead, even though there was a time he wasn't, but whether Darth Vader is dead depends on within what work of fiction you're talking about (and at what point within that work of fiction). jc37's argument was that the same thing may apply to a character's dietary habits, that vegetarianism may be adopted or rejected over the course of a narrative, thus making an absolute statement of whether a character is or isn't a vegetarian similarly nonsensical when it isn't tied to a particular place within a specific fictional narrative. That wasn't the basis for my deletion !vote in the prior CFD, but anyway, that's the argument jc37 was making. postdlf (talk) 17:04, 13 July 2010 (UTC)