Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-48285-20160410161343/@comment-25814498-20160610133424

Ban Saga because Hisoka is becoming more and more of an antagonist as the chapters have gone on, and he's moving away from simply being an anti-hero. Whilst the Phantom Troupe are antagonists, and in terms of story require "redemption"(mainly through death), you are in the rare majority that intently dislike them, and see them as nothing more than an evil group of criminals. Their characters are well fleshed out, and due to this we have developed an emotional attachment to them, making us dislike Hisoka more and more as the brutal killings continue. As such, the most likely course of action by Togashi will be a the death of a large portion of the Troupe(possibly even all of them), before either Chrollo, Machi or both end up killing him. I believe those two are the only ones capable of killing him because they are the most fleshed out of all the Troupe, Chrollo is the strongest, and Machi has the largest emotional attachment to Hisoka himself, as well as (in my eyes anyway) the most likeable Troupe member.

Therefore it is unwise to prematurely assure Machi's(and the rest of the Troupe's) death, as you have developed a cone shaped view which only views the Troupe as villains, not a group of well fleshed out, and often likeable characters.