User blog comment:LucidPigeons/Category Cleanup/@comment-3581997-20160228102923/@comment-26884760-20160228103604

I think "friend of hero", "villain related to hero" etc should be removed under the same reasoning we don't allow appearance based categories.. if a category has no holding on what makes a character "evil" it is usually a waste of space.. same with gender.. being male, female or related to a "hero" has zero effect on whether the character is a "bad guy" or not and just makes for a poor excuse to add more categories than needed for an article.

as far as deceased goes we only need three:

1) Deceased (for characters who have died on screen, where it is impossible they could survive)

2) Presumed Deceased (for characters who may of died but it is left largely to the viewer's imagination or their is a hint they survived)

3) Damned Souls (for characters who are neither alive nor dead since they have become imprisoned in a "Hell" realm, due to their evil deeds while alive (and not undead either, since undead tend to be soulless, damned souls are "unclean spirits").

all else can be removed