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I'm tired of people saying "this is RT they can do what they want" because that's a bullshit excuse and invalidates the whole point of the story. Just because they can do whatever doesn't mean they would, or should. Maine wouldn't advance the plot unless the plot was about him again, which would just be a repeat of stuff we've already seen before when we could be moving on to other things. There are plenty of reasons why he should stay gone, but I've yet to see a legitimate reason as for what the show stands to gain from bringing him back. Also, if you're saying "they can do what they want" as a reason for his possible return, you're basically assuming that they ARE going to do whatever they want with no concern to the past story they've established at all. They have to consider what they've already done in the show and what that would mean for this character if they were to bring him back - like I've been doing this whole damn time. The Freelancers are dead, the AI is gone, the Director is done. There's nothing left for Maine. He can't get his AI anymore so he'd just be this eternally pissed guy with one of the stupidest bullshit cliche motivations ever (pointless revenge that doesn't actually further the plot) and then he'd just die. Again. People would get to see him fight in our new poorly choreographed animation and he'd die. Is that what you want? Really?

And, they could bring Carolina back because there was only one thing contradicting her return - people thought she was dead. So, they explained why people thought that. Maine isn't so simple. Sure, you could also say "people thought he was dead", but whereas they were able to build up Carolina's character and give her a purpose in the present story, we've already done that for Maine and he's already served his purpose. And now he's dead. They're not gonna "do what they want" and bring him back because that's not how it works. He's dead.

Miles hates bringing dead guys back anyway so yeah