Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1294565-20131023221832/@comment-5238615-20131214173442

I have watched the entire classic Saint Seiya series including the OVAs, i have both Saint Seiya games for PS3 (Sanctuary Battle and Brave Soldiers). True, Ikki will never die permamently because he is the Phoenix.

These are all the deaths of Ikki in order, if I forget some, please tell me. Been a while since I watched the classic series, will do again soon though.

1. An avalanche killed him after Seiya and the others defeated him.

2. Ikki sacrificed his own life to defeat Shaka.

3. Saga beat the crap out of Ikki and took all his senses, almost killing him.

4. He was on the verge of death after the battle against Mime.

5. Ikki took Hilda's spear that was meant for Seiya, almost dying.

6. Ikki was thrown into the Golden Triangle by Kanon.

7. Ikki was directly attacked by Hades and thrown into Cocytus.

8. Thanatos nearly killed Ikki with the Terrible Providence.

9. Ikki was killed by Mira (under the the effects of the illusion from the Gen Ma Ken).

10. Ikki sacrificed himself to kill Aegaeon.

My conclusion is that he has actually died 9 times during his time as a Saint of Athena, and returned 8 of those times (Mira only killed him after Ikki dealt the infamous Gen Ma Ken and was thus killed in the illusion, not counting as a real death). I have no doubts that Ikki wil return once again to help his fellow Saints defeating the remaining Class-1 Pallasites, Pallas and the mysterious God hiding behind all of this. This is my thoughts at least, but I know no more than you others do. So I will keep watching the series and see what happens.