Lots of fun discussion here. For me death/consequences is simply a matter of the stakes being elevated. Any time in a story that the stakes are raised like a big monster being unleashed or people going off to save the entire world, there needs to be some sort of cost to that raised stake. Otherwise it feels too easy. It feels hollow. Whether that cost is a death or an injury makes no difference to me. I would also like to see new cast members take the place of older ones and I understand people's desire to have characters killed off to facilitate that. If they are dead then in theory they shouldn't be coming back anymore. It's the only way you can be certain that the cast has been changed for good. I feel like people are poorly communicating those two concepts when they talk about how they want the scions to die. They want a cost and they want new people.