Thread:Tupka217/@comment-24172144-20140907203331/@comment-220364-20140907214402

2¢...

"Death" is consistent, at least grammatically, with "First Appearance" and "Final Appearance" in it is an event. That is it reads as "This is the story of the character's first appearance/death/final appearance."

"Dies" is an action as in "The character dies/first appears in this story."