User blog:Grizzhly/Deleting the Colossi

Okay, I know I tried this before and was refused, but I still think all pages on the colossi from Shadow of the Colossus should be deleted from the wiki.

I'm talking about
 * Valus
 * Quadratus
 * Gaius (Shadow of the Colossus)
 * Phaedra
 * Avion
 * Barba
 * Hydrus
 * Kuromori
 * Basaran
 * Dirge (Shadow of the Colossus)
 * Celosia (Shadow of the Colossus)
 * Pelagia
 * Phalanx (Shadow of the Colossus) (especially)
 * Cenobia
 * Argus
 * Malus

The game
For those who don't know the story, let me give you a brief overview. You play the character Wander, who brings the body of Mono, a deceased girl, into an empty, forbidden land. There, he makes contact with the mysterious Dormin and the two strike a deal - Wander has to kill the sixteen colossi roaming the lands and Dormin will resurrect Mono.

The game basically consists of tracking down all colossi and killing them. After killing each colossus, a shadowy mist emerges from their corpses and flies into Wander, who then loses consciousness and wakes up back in Dormins temple. After all colossi have fallen, Dormin is free to rise again and uses Wanders body as a vessel but is sealed again by Lord Emon.

My reasons for proposing their deletion
First of all, it is revealed that Dormin is a sinister being whose essence was split into the sixteen colossi - thus the colossi serve as seals to prevent Dormin from regaining their power. While the narrative presents both Dormin and their adversary, Lord Emon, as enigmatic and morally grey/villainous figures, the colossi are not ever shown to be evil beings. They are bosses, but not villains.

They are not consciously evil - most seem to have animal-like instincts and either defend themselves or act like animals do. There is no malevolence or sadism and they do not go out of their way to cause harm; they just roam the wilds and defend themselves against attackers. At most, they act like animals hunting prey, but that in itself is not evil. One of them, Phalanx, does not even attack at all and merely soars around in the air.

Most of the colossi take the form of animal-like beings, e.g. a lion, a horse, an eel or others. Througout the game, they merely defend themselves from Wander who has come to slay them. The game does not portray the colossi as evil or malevolent and - although I guess that's up for interpretation - makes it clear through the beasts' struggles and the sound and music, that killing them is ultimately tragic.

Since I do not want so slap Deletion templates onto the articles only to battle back and forth if they should be deleted, I guess it can be discussed here. What are your thoughts on the matter?