User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Fairy Tail's Ending/@comment-24066070-20140626083302/@comment-7418318-20140627155257

@Anon: Sure but when people are dissatisfied with the role a character plays in the series, they want that character to be gone. And death is one way to get rid of them.

Up until the recent chapters that showed to everyone how awesome Lucy can be, there were plenty of people who said Lucy should die because she's so useless and just a narator and damsel in distress for Natsu and Erza to rescue. Not that I ever agreed with them in the slightest, but they were still quite numerous and vocal (ah, if feels good to write this in past tense, now that they quieted for the time being :D ).