User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 411: Quid Pro Quo, Review./@comment-4489126-20141201170459/@comment-25111584-20141204052655

If History, then one could argue that anybody who survived the slavers' raids, captured or not, had a close brush with death. Not to mention that rioters who survived the revolts in the Tower of Heaven, failed or successful, also had a close brush with death. What makes these battles different from the normal battles which none of us bother calling close calls? The same thing that makes Gray vs. Deliora and his survival in his city and Laxus vs. Tempesta close calls: the fact that many protagonists are actually implied to have died. That would send the close call count for Erza and Jellal through the roof.

On the other hand, not really counting History, we're talking about current escapes from death. So I wouldn't really count those two times for Gray or the countless times for Erza and Jellal.

Does the Iced Shell thing count? I ignored it because it wasn't really that much of a deal. But then I guess we can count Jellal and the Self Destruction Circle too.

lol, the minor stuff would make almost every battle an escape from death. Heck, anybody caught in Natsu's dragon-fire 'which burns everything' and surviving would have had a brush with death. XD Not really counting all that stuff. I was only counting all the stuff where people had a serious doubt about whether the character would be alive. Only one real case for Gray: GMG. Only one real case for Jellal: Etherion. As far as I know, nobody else has had such moments, not even Natsu. So never understood what the moaning was about. >.>

Cute girl ... gory death.

What more could you ask for?!