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Lexa's controversial death on The 100 is sticking.

Executive producer Jason Rothenberg revealed Fri at San Diego Comic-Con that Alycia Debnam-Carey — who portrayed the graphic symbol and who also is a series regular on AMC'south Fear the Walking Expressionless — won't be returning for season 4 of the CW drama.

"Lexa is not coming back to the prove," Rothenberg said during the series' console. "She won't be in flavor four. But the Flame is an important thing. It'due south a political antiquity."

The 100 was surrounded past controversy last season when the showrunner chose to kill off the popular lesbian character moments after she had only slept with Clarke (Eliza Taylor).

Although Debnam-Carey had to be written out of the evidence due to her commitments on Fear the Walking Dead, many criticized Rothenberg for killing her off the way he did, perpetuating the "Bury Your Gays" trope, the decades-one-time tendency of LGBT characters getting killed off TV shows, often in the name of propping up and/or advancing a heterosexual leading character'due south storyline. The trope has always been a role of pop culture history, but this past Goggle box flavour saw The 100, along with Jane the Virgin, The Walking Expressionless, The Magicians, The Vampire Diaries and many other shows, kill off lesbian and bisexual characters, sparking viewers to bring the result to mainstream media.

It as well didn't assist that fans of The 100, especially those who were rooting for "Clexa," aka the relationship betwixt Clarke and Lexa, felt that leading up to the controversial episode, Rothenberg encouraged and engaged them on social media, leading them to accept false promise for more positive LGBTQ representation on TV.

Afterwards fan outrage continued to abound, Rothenberg penned an apology letter that outlined three reasons why Lexa died: "practical (an extra was leaving the show), creative (it's a story near reincarnation) and thematic (it'southward a show about survival)." But he also added that he now regrets the mode in which the character was written off the show.

"Despite my reasons, I nevertheless write and produce idiot box for the real world where negative and hurtful tropes exist," Rothenberg wrote. "And I am very pitiful for not recognizing this as fully as I should accept. Knowing everything I know now, Lexa's death would have played out differently. The thinking behind having the ultimate tragedy follow the ultimate joy was to heighten the drama and underscore the universal fragility of life. Merely the end result became something else entirely? —? the perpetuation of the disturbing 'Bury Your Gays' trope. Our aggressive promotion of the episode, and of this relationship, simply fueled a feeling of expose."

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Merely despite the fan outrage in the months subsequently the onscreen death, the only comment made during Friday's panel was a slightly passive-aggressive remark during the audience Q&A when a fan dressed as Lexa said, "I've got my Grounder bodyguard to protect me from stray bullets." Rothenberg, along with the cast, laughed, equally she moved on to ask the cast which character they'd like to play other than their own.

All the same, the audience did cheer when Taylor later revealed a cute story about the twenty-four hours when she and Debnam-Carey shot their passionate love scene.

"We could not stop laughing," Taylor said as the entire ballroom started clapping. "It was so funny. I have some hilarious selfies from that twenty-four hour period actually and with Alycia's permission, I will post one soon."

The show'due south fourth Comic-Con panel began with a sizzle reel (watch, beneath) that focused a lot on Clarke and Lexa, merely ended with what looked like a nuclear blast rolling through Polis, completely decimating the city. The shot was a consequence of what Clarke learned in the season three finale, that the earth'southward nuclear ability plants are melting down and the Earth will be destroyed in less than 6 months' time.

"That's the monster in the water, for sure," Rothenberg said. "If that were to happen, it would probably pb to the end of the flavor. That's means down the line. The Earth strikes back. It is an unbeatable foe, actually. It becomes rapidly most not stopping information technology because that's not possible, but it becomes more well-nigh how to survive and if they even deserve to survive. It's a lot like season one only on a much bigger scale. The Globe is the Ark."

Other highlights from the panel:

• Fan-favorite Grounder characters Roan (Zach McGowan) and Indra (Adina Porter) are both alive heading into flavor four. "Roan played by Zach McGowan is actually joining the bandage as a series regular," Rothenberg announced. "And ane of the showtime things we'll see is Octavia [Marie Avgeropolous] finding her style to Indra. So happy midpoints for both of those characters. And Luna played by Nadia Hilker will be back as well."

• It turns out that Kane was supposed to exist Octavia'south father at the get-go of the series, only that was changed every bit the story developed. "It was supposed to happen, simply it is no longer true," Rothenberg said.

• "Kane is fairly businesslike," Henry Ian Cusick said nearly how Kane will bargain with his deportment from when he was chipped. "He sees what needs to be washed and hopefully he won't delve too much into the PTSD. As a good leader, I would promise he'd put others earlier him and try to atomic number 82 people out or abroad."

• "Next season you're going to see Octavia take a really dark turn," Avgeropoulos said of how she volition deal with losing Lincoln. "Information technology's possible to go darker, nosotros ever surprise yous and do just that. Octavia is going to practice what she does best, which is killing people."

• The stop of the season three finale was supposed to be a lot darker, but the original ending was cut and reshot despite the actor, Devon Bostick, "killing information technology" in the footage. "Jasper leaves that room and goes and blows his brains out," Rothenberg revealed. "But that was besides nighttime. I don't recollect anybody will e'er see that scene. It was merely a horrible manner to leave a actually nighttime season. And there's more than in the tank for Jasper. That'southward just the truth. It was something in my gut I just didn't feel right about, so we cut it and changed the catastrophe."

• Richard Harmon, who plays Irish potato, originally auditioned for Bellamy (Bob Morley). "That tape exists," Rothenberg said.

The 100 returns for season four in midseason on The CW.

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