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"If the creator wants to bring back a dead character, then by god that character will come back." It doesn't matter how Deader than Dead or Killed Off for Real that character is, they'll find a way to return. Much handwaving may be required to explain it (if they don't leave it unexplained), but anything is possible with a bit of Foreshadowing thrown in. Also known as "comic book death" because comic books are especially known for taking place in long-spanning continuities where Death Is Cheap, important characters almost never come back wrong, Applied Phlebotinum is everywhere and iconic villains always come back from whatever fate that no-one could have survived. In addition, the turnover of writers means that even if one writer says, "No really, they're dead this time," with no intention of bringing them back, odds are some future writer will disagree and bring them back a few years down the road. Tropes Are Tools, of course. While a Deader Than Dead character showing up out of the blue is almost always jarring, a good story can be told putting the pieces in place for the resurrection, and the sheer lengths needed to make it happen can narratively justify it as well. More often than not however, it's used to quickly bring an iconic character back into the action. The First Law of Resurrection trumps the Sorting Algorithm of Deadness with only a few exceptions, such as Death by Origin Story. May lead to Opening a Can of Clones. See also Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated and Disney Death. Despite the name, there is no "Second Law of Resurrection", let alone a "Third Law of Resurrection". |
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The Mighty Thor: In Thor vol. 2 #85, the Ragnarok destroys the realms of Yggdrasil and all its inhabitants, and all the Asgardians die. In Thor vol. 3, everything gradually comes back. | |
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X-Men: The franchise is the poster-child for this trope. The tendency of dead X-Men coming back to life is hilariously mocked in this flash cartoon parody. The fact of the matter is that there are 20+ main characters, and a writer is likely to have any one of them as a favorite. And various members are constantly being killed off for the sake of either drama or to try to thin out the herd. The result is that the average length of death for any mutant in the Marvel universe is 1 to 2 years. This happens to Colossus in Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men. This happens so frequently that after Banshee dies in X-Men: Deadly Genesis, in X-Factor, his daughter Siryn is informed of his death, and she point blank refuses to believe that he'll stay dead. He showed up in Erebus in The Incredible Hercules #129, coming back from the dead in Necrosha, and again in Chaos War, but the creator writing his daughter ignored all three of them so she could continue working out her issues on the subject. Banshee returns for good in Uncanny Avengers. Though Jean Grey is often thought to have died and come back multiple times, the original Jean Grey has only died and returned a couple times, starting with her death and resurrection in the first Phoenix story, in X-Men #100-101. In New X-Men, Jean dies for the final time, and, aside from her afterlife appearances in the White Hot Room, Jean stays dead, permanently, until her brief series of resurrections in Phoenix Endsong, during which she is revived and killed repeatedly to weaken the Phoenix Force. In X-Men: Deadly Genesis, Jean's reputation for frequent resurrection was further lampshaded, when Vulcan impersonates Jean returning from the dead, with Wolverine swearing in disbelief. While the adult Jean has remained incorporeal, a teenage, time-displaced Jean appears in All-New X-Men. Anyhow, Jean Grey returns in Phoenix Resurrection. The "Necrosha" crossover has Selene resurrecting deceased mutants left and right, proving once and for all that for mutants, death is nothing more than a big game of freeze tag. The earliest example being the death of Professor X in the '60s, with a cover screaming "Not a hoax! Not a dream! Not an imaginary tale! This is for real!" He was back less than two years later. Krakoa is able to resurrect any mutant that has ever died by cloning their body and uploading a stored copy of their mind into it. Wolverine dies in Death of Wolverine and returns in Marvel Legacy #1. That's three years. Sabretooth was beheaded with a sword that negates Healing Factors. Can you get deader than that? Yes, you can. We next see him in Hell, to eventually get beheaded again. How long does having your head and body separated by a blade your Healing Factor is useless against, descending into Fire and Brimstone Hell, and then having your soul beheaded keep you away? One. Freaking. Year. |
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Oasis in Sluggy Freelance has been killed just off-screen many times now. Lampshaded several times that her deaths always occur in such a way as to leave no body. Then it was explained and it was awesome. Zoe, who was not dead but in a permanent vegetative state, was restored to normal in a plan involving nanites by Riff. |
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Krakoa is able to resurrect any mutant that has ever died by cloning their body and uploading a stored copy of their mind into it. | |
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Wolverine dies in Death of Wolverine and returns in Marvel Legacy #1. That's three years. | |
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The Master's bloodline is apparently immortal, what with all the resurrections going on. Angel broke out of hell to come back, Darla was resurrected in the first season of Angel, Spike was also resurrected on Angel, and the Master himself comes back in the comics. | |
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Runaways: Gertrude Yorkes was a subversion; she died during the original series and Chase Stein considered bringing her back in an arc aptly titled "Dead Means Dead" but the price was another innocent person had to die so he chose not to go through with it. However, Chase would eventually use time travel to save her life at the start of the 2017 revival series. | |
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The most (in)famous resurrection has to be that of Bobby Ewing in Dallas by having the entire previous 40 or 50 episodes, stretching over about 2 years of story time, Handwaved away as a dream by Pamela Ewing. To accomplish this, in the last episode of the dream sequence, several characters were killed, including fan favorite JR Ewing. Needless to say, none of the characters introduced during the story arc between Bobby's death and resurrection returned, as they were just figments of the imagination. Which was summarily ignored and thus averted by the creators of Dallas's sibling series, Knots Landing where Bobby remained dead. |
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Days of Our Lives had characters shown killed, shown their bloody bodies on their floor, their suited bodies in coffins, had them briefly show up as ghosts, and then showed that they were Not Quite Dead. Friends parodied this by bringing Joey's character back as having been in a coma and receiving a brain transplant. | |
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One of the rules of Caraval is that Legend's performers can't die during the game. They always come back to life after everything is over. | |
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Wonder Woman: While Artemis's death in Wonder Woman (1987) was meant to stick just like Orana's—the character whose story was recycled for Temi's intro and death—she proved more popular than expected and was brought back by William Messner-Loebs and Ed Benes. | |
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The Tomb of Dracula: When Marvel killed off their version of Dracula several years ago, they included a death certificate signed by the writer and editor guaranteeing he'd never be brought back. Guess what happened? Anyone who seriously thinks they can get away with killing off Dracula for good is oblivious to his Contractual Immortality clause — being a Public Domain Character and all. | |
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Thoroughly parodied in Excel♡Saga, with both main characters dying and coming back from the dead all the fricking time. In Excel's case, it's for no other reason than the literally stated "It's your series. You have to live", with the resurrections performed by the Great Will of the Universe herself. In the case of Hyatt, her coming back from the dead is more of a running gag. Of course, you have to keep in mind that this series makes it its quest to parody absolutely everything. | |
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The creators of Supernatural can't even seem to keep their three main characters dead for more than an episode. With the unusual exception of Sam in season 6, all of the leads are guaranteed to come back to life either the episode they die, or the very next one. Dean stayed dead for some four months between Seasons 3 and 4, so while technically he did return the next episode, that next episode wasn't until the next season and several months later real-time. Same for Castiel between Seasons 4 and 5 and yes, Sam between 5 and 6, though that one's a bit iffy depending on whether you count him as really alive or not... Castiel also did manage to stay dead (or at least presumed dead) for most of Season 7 and for the first five episodes of Season 13, though the viewers knew earlier that he was going to return. Even after his Dying Declaration of Love in the final season, he's reported to be alive and in Heaven a couple of episodes later in the Series Finale even though we don't see him. Season 5 has an episode where Sam and Dean die, go to Heaven and are resurrected by God at the end of the episode; they are informed that they have actually died dozens of times off-screen and went through all of that before, though each time their memories were wiped. They are told that this time they will remember it, and they won't get another second chance. As Sam demonstrates, they do, but to be fair it wasn't God who brought him back and this time he Came Back Wrong and had to earn a proper resurrection afterwards over the course of several episodes. But if you're not a main character, even if you're a fairly important recurring character, you're Killed Off for Real. That is, until the Apocalypse World storyline allowed the writers to bring back a number of beloved supporting characters in their darker, alternate timeline version. This is also the reason why the decision to bring back Mary Winchester in Season 12 was so controversial, as her death had previously had such an impact on the story. |
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Tony in the seventh season of 24. The writers had planned for him to die quite a few times during the show's run and they got a lot of mileage from his first real death scene (he was intended to die in the same explosion that killed Michelle). | |
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Ditto for James Bond, who was killed off at the end of From Russia with Love, and then resurrected for Dr. No. The author actually had a fairly good justification for his survival — he wasn't actually dead, just dying, and the people he was with at the time were able to keep him alive long enough for proper medical help to arrive. | |
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World of Warcraft (and supplementary material) has brought back many characters once thought dead. Muradin lost his memory and remained in Northrend, the dreadlords Balnazzar and Mal'Ganis returned to corrupt the Scarlet Crusade, the Alliance expedition to Outland "returned" in the Burning Crusade (although Turalyon and Alleria are still missing), Magtheridon turned out to be just imprisoned, Xavius became the Nightmare Lord, Cho'gall returned twice, and even Deathwing was presumed dead by some before being confirmed to be alive. and now both his children (albeit as undead) and his mate are returning for Cataclysm. The latest is Illidan Stormrage, who reveals in the demon hunter starting questline that he's akin to the player character in that his soul waits in the Twisting Nether until he can return to his body. The Alliance expedition is not a proper example — last we saw them they were in a position to survive for a while longer (Burning Crusade just retconned them to not leaving Draenor after all), it's just that they were presumed dead in-universe (since no-one on Azeroth knew what had happened to them). Of course, the place the expedition was to might be an example — as presented in Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, Draenor was about to be destroyed. Come Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, and the place (while shattered and renamed Outland) is still habitable, more-or-less. |
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Torchwood writers killed Owen just so they could bring him back undead. No other reason. Suzie Costello, too. Though she was also the Sacrificial Lamb. |
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Inuyasha: Rin's life was taken on two occasions as a plot point to teach the initially villainous Sesshoumaru An Aesop about the value of a compassionate heart. He restored her life the first time in a plot point that made him accept he was the true master of the Healing Shiv he hated, but also to give him an A God Am I complex about being able to avoid death. The second time was to cure him of this complex. Rin was restored to life the second time because getting her killed to teach Sesshoumaru a lesson would have defied the point of the lesson, which was to make him understand that people with his kind of power have to protect life. Kohaku spent much of the manga having his life held together by a jewel shard after he was dealt a mortal wound early in the story. Much of the story centred around how, when the jewel was completed, his life would be lost when the shard was taken, and how there was no solution to save his life, not even Sesshoumaru's Healing Shiv. In the end, to show Kikyou had been fully redeemed from having Came Back Wrong, her last act in this world was to save Kohaku's life when the shard was inevitably removed from his body; it was the first and last time a miko was ever shown to be able to defy death itself (for another, that is; she could not defy her own death). |
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William Boone, Zo'or, and Liam Kincaid in Earth: Final Conflict, although, in the latter case, they Never Found the Body, while Boone and Zo'or were clearly shown disintegrating. Thankfully, Zo'or is finally killed off after resurrection. Unfortunately, so is Boone, albeit off-screen. Liam comes back in the series finale without an explanation. | |
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In Homestuck almost everyone has died at some point, and almost all of those people were resurrected, brought back as ghosts, etc. John in particular has now died three times, and that's not even counting at least one alternate timeline death. The author has compared their many deaths to the way extra lives/ save files work in video games, only in this context the characters are aware of their alternate dead selves. | |
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In Witches' Legacy it doesn't matter what happens to Elisabeth or Morgana, because by the next game at least one of them will be back to cause havoc in the lives of Lynn and Carrie. | |
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In Star Wars: The Clone Wars it's revealed that Darth Maul has survived his bisection at the hands of Obi-Wan in The Phantom Menace. In Star Wars Rebels the aforementioned Maul is finally Killed Off for Real, however a newly introduced character from the old Legends continuity, Grand Admiral Thrawn who got a No One Could Survive That! scene in the series finale had Word of God confirm that he is indeed still alive. | |
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Horror movie villains (particularly slashers). They have a tendency to return from the dead, especially Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. Sometimes they seemingly die but are later revealed in the next film to survive, invoking Joker Immunity. Jason was intended to be permanently killed off in The Final Chapter (fourth film), but after receiving poor reception to a Jason impostor (and a mortal one at that) in Part V, they brought him back to life in Part VI. Jason dies twice more in the series, the second time for good, as a remake series has been started already. As for Freddy, he is destroyed in every single movie he appears in but can always return as long as people remember him (i.e. a studio thinks that enough people will pay to watch another movie of him to make it worth their while). It got to the point where being unkillable becomes one of his signature traits; in Jason X, scientists have Jason's mostly-dead body and are trying to reverse-engineer his indestructibility. It... goes poorly. |
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Lampshaded when Roy dies in The Order of the Stick. The deva assigned to process his death says that it's important to fill out the paperwork concerning his death now, so that any time he dies in the future, they can fast-track him directly into Good Heaven, with as little waiting as possible. The strip portrays a literal revolving door with accompanying astral bellhop. Roy mentions that he assumed the phrase "revolving door afterlife" was merely a metaphor, and the deva begins explaining how Roy can begin earning "frequent dying miles". Subverted, as Roy stays dead for pretty much the entire arc, while the rest of his party is split up and dealing with their own problems, and Haley, Celia and Belkar try to resurrect him several times to no avail and are constantly getting sidetracked. Ironically, this is pretty much the only example of this trope in the entire series, despite the fact that D&D characters can be resurrected as many times as their player wishes, so long as the party has the materials to. The Order of the Stick, meanwhile, struggles to find the resources to resurrect Roy even once, to the point that they have to steal the necessary diamond from the website's character page. No other character is ever resurrected (excluding the undead and immortal Xykon), with the exception of the Oracle (who can predict his own death and makes arrangements to be resurrected afterwards). There is also the caveat that true resurrection is only possible if the body is in one piece, or at least if all the pieces can be assembled in one place: Miko stays dead due to being bisected, and the nearest necromancer being too lazy to search for her legs. This also leads to some pragmatic characters completely destroying the bodies of their enemies to make sure they remain Killed Off for Real: Tsukiko is devoured by a pack of undead, who are then ordered to destroy themselves so nothing remains, Kubota is killed with Disintegration in the first place, and Nale is posthumously disintegrated to dust by a vengeful spellcaster. |
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At the end of Sonic Adventure 2, we see Shadow the Hedgehog plummet through the atmosphere. Initially this was meant to kill him, just case he wasn't popular enough to join the franchise. But he was popular and they brought him back. Nobody's quite clear on how he survived a fall through the atmosphere; at one point he was implied to be a clone, then Eggman saved him and built an android army, sometimes it's Chaos Control, sometimes it's just that you can't assume the Ultimate Lifeform is dead just because he fell from space. Via a throwaway set of quotes in the final battle of Shadow's own game, it's revealed nine minutes in that the Shadow you're playing as is indeed the real one, as Eggman's robots saved and recovered him from the orbital freefall. Even so, it's a compulsive liar telling you this in a pep-talk to save the planet. |
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In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, which takes place in the far future, the Joker "returns" after having met his definite end during an encounter long ago. Terry floats theories as to whether Joker is a clone, robot or just reawakened from cryogenic sleep. He's a clone, sort of, via implanting his DNA in Tim Drake (Robin). The real Joker really is dead. Eventually, he's purged from Tim Drake, making for the Joker's absolute final end... probably. | |
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In the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, Jaws was supposed to die, but test audiences liked him so much that they went back and filmed a scene of him defeating the shark he went up against. He then appeared in the next film, Moonraker. | |
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The Ghost in the Shell (1995) OVA has a variation in that it simply has a major character descend back from A Higher Plane of Existence. Apparently because it wasn't that interesting. | |
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Also what a lot of fans were hoping for Peter Parker/Spider-Man himself to come back after he died in Doctor Octopus' body and Ock became the Superior Spider-Man. They got their wish — Peter's memories and personality stuck around in the body that Ock now controlled. Even after Ock supposedly wiped it out entirely, he got in over his head and salvaged it to fix things, effectively handing control back to Peter. | |
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2000 AD: While the comic generally tries to avert this, one major exception happened with Strontium Dog. Alan Grant killed Johnny Alpha off via Heroic Sacrifice at the end of "The Final Solution" as a a statement about creators' rights in a way that he was Deader than Dead. Carlos Ezquerra was reportedly so upset by the story that refused to draw it, so the majority of the story was drawn by Simon Harrison, with Colin MacNeil drawing the end of the story. Nine years later, John Wagner began what was originally a Continuity Reboot, but later Ret Conned out the more gruesome aspects of Johnny's death so his body was still intact and had him brought back to life via magical means. | |
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This is one of the trademarks of The X-Files; no one really stays dead. The X-Files, the place where you can put your own death as the reason for missing work—three times (in Mulder's case, at least). | |
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This happens so frequently that after Banshee dies in X-Men: Deadly Genesis, in X-Factor, his daughter Siryn is informed of his death, and she point blank refuses to believe that he'll stay dead. He showed up in Erebus in The Incredible Hercules #129, coming back from the dead in Necrosha, and again in Chaos War, but the creator writing his daughter ignored all three of them so she could continue working out her issues on the subject. Banshee returns for good in Uncanny Avengers. | |
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The Big Finish Doctor Who audio The Boy that Time Forgot brought back Adric, of all people. He dies of old age at the end, though. | |
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In the original Dungeons & Dragons Dragonlance modules, DM's were specifically instructed that certain villains simply were not allowed to be killed off, and that if the players somehow succeeded in doing so, their apparent death should be done in such a way that the players could not recover the body, allowing them to return in future modules. In general, if the players succeed in killing off the Big Bad too early, the Dungeon Master has several options at his disposal to salvage the plot. The players aren't the only ones with access to resurrection spells, after all, and having the villain return as an undead monstrosity is also on the table... And in Ravenloft most of the Darklords are meant to be too powerful for the players to defeat, and in the event that the players kill them, many of them have some method of cheating death. If the players do manage to kill them and stop them from using whatever method they have of cheating death, then either somebody will take that Darklord's place as the new Darklord, or if there isn't anybody to replace them, the Dark Powers who rule over the setting may intervene to bring the Darklord back. |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has a particular antagonist who was intended to be a simple Villain of the Week and dies at the end of the episode. He put in such a memorable performance, however, that the writers turned his species into a race of clones just so they could give him a larger role in the show (and kill him a few more times for laughs). He becomes Deader than Dead at the end after the cloning facility that holds his pattern is destroyed. | |
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Ant-Man: Averted with the final disposal of Elihas Starr/Egghead in The Avengers. After his body is retrieved and put to the fire, Hank Pym personally scatters his ashes at sea. Not many superheroes would even consider scattering the ashes of their enemies; Pym not only did just that, he even turned it into a Meaningful Funeral with a eulogy taken straight from the pen of Mark Twain as he did so. And then played straight decades later when Nick Spencer brought Egghead back with a Hand Wave. |
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Batman: In an attempt to avert this, Batman personally sees to it that Ra's al Ghul's body is burned after the latter's death in one story. Unfortunately, not even fire can stop Ra's, and this trope wound up being played straight anyway. The Joker, who originally started off as a one-shot character, and was Killed Off for Real in his first appearance. At this point in its history, the Batman comic had multiple stories in each issue. The Joker died in the first one - and then returned in the last story of the same issue. Since then, it appears that death is simply one more thing that's covered by Joker Immunity. Batman died in Final Crisis #6. Not even bothering to try to make the readers believe he'd be gone for good, Bruce is shown alive and well at the end of the series. The plot was about how and when he'd come back, not if. Batman got a six-part mini-series called "The Return of Bruce Wayne", which detailed his coming back. Odd, since a few months ago Marvel released Captain America: Reborn, which was a six-part mini-series about Cap coming back. Jason Todd died in A Death in the Family. It actually took Jason Todd almost 20 years to return from the dead. And it was lampshaded in The DCU that death had become cheap after the return of Superman. It also tied in to Infinite Crisis and ties in to Countdown to Final Crisis, so this isn't quite as egregious as some other examples. |
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Several characters on Passions have been killed off during their runs on the show, but all of them got better. The best-known instance of this was when the show employed the Fake Shemp method to keep Timmy alive when Josh Ryan Evans died (having already filmed a scene in heaven and a scene where Timmy appears to Tabitha as an angel). The character then went on to appear later in the series as a gloved hand, wreaking havoc with the show's continuity. | |
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Star Trek has done this on two occasions. Spock dies at the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, sacrificing his life by manually realigning the dilithium crystals in the main power core so that the Enterprise can escape Khan detonating the Genesis device. In Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, the magic radiation of the Genesis planet has managed to raise him from the dead and regenerated him into an infant. When David Kirk and Saavik find him he is a young man, and the rapid aging of the planet brings him back up to his correct age by the time Captain Kirk and friends find him and escape. In Star Trek Into Darkness, it's Kirk that dies, and in this case Spock ends capturing Khan so that Dr. McCoy can use his magic blood to bring Kirk back to life. |
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Season 5 has an episode where Sam and Dean die, go to Heaven and are resurrected by God at the end of the episode; they are informed that they have actually died dozens of times off-screen and went through all of that before, though each time their memories were wiped. They are told that this time they will remember it, and they won't get another second chance. As Sam demonstrates, they do, but to be fair it wasn't God who brought him back and this time he Came Back Wrong and had to earn a proper resurrection afterwards over the course of several episodes. | |
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As the World Turns hung a lampshade on this trope with the death of David Stenbeck. David, the son of the villainous, oft-resurrected James (and a character who also had a couple returns from the dead), was killed by the police. When the coffin was being lowered into the ground, Julia shot it full of holes, just to be sure. When James himself was finally Killed Off for Real, a bunch of people came to his funeral just to be sure that his body was found and that he was really dead that time. | |
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Superman: | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks did this when Lieutenant Shaxs was killed in No Small Parts while battling the Pakleds, and was then brought back to life inexplicably in We'll Always Have Tom Paris. That episode really lampshades how dying and being brought back to life has become so common place in Star Trek by now that it is now considered normal. | |
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The mermaid in Axe Cop whom Axe Cop mistook for a bad guy because a friendly mermaid face looks like a human scowl and accidentally murdered was revived in this way. The author of the comic, Malachai called up the illustrator, Ethan, and told him that he didn't want the mermaid to die any more. Ethan assured Malachai that since it was his story, they could bring him back, so they planned out a story where Axe Cop wished the mermaid back to life after finding out she was the daughter of the King of the Mermaids. Also, in one comic, Ethan mistakenly drew the Moon Warriors' bug monster truck exploding, when Malachai didn't say anything about that. When Malachai found out, he called out his brother because he thought the truck was cool, so the next comic includes a Note from Ed. discussing how the heroes found a ninja mechanic to fix it, then killed him. |
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Harry Osborn is back, thanks to One More Day, although they didn't go with the obvious "The Devil did it" explanation. And then The Amazing Spider-Man (2018) revealed that it was a clone and the real Harry had been dead the whole time. | |
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Spock dies at the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, sacrificing his life by manually realigning the dilithium crystals in the main power core so that the Enterprise can escape Khan detonating the Genesis device. In Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, the magic radiation of the Genesis planet has managed to raise him from the dead and regenerated him into an infant. When David Kirk and Saavik find him he is a young man, and the rapid aging of the planet brings him back up to his correct age by the time Captain Kirk and friends find him and escape. | |
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Dragon's Dogma: Wakestones are in-universe resurrection stones that can work on any intact body, including the Arisen. There's even a sidequest to resurrect a commoner for his grieving father. For obvious reasons, they are extremely expensive; a Wakestone costs 30,000G. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, almost all the main characters except for Judai and Sho are killed off in Season 3, but a twist at the end of the season reveals they're just in an alternate universe and are freed after Yubel is defeated. However, this is played straight as can be with Ryo—he isn't sent to another dimension, he dies when his brutal style of dueling takes its toll on his heart and it just plain gives out. However, come next season it's reported he was found washed-up on the beach. His heart condition is still present but not fatal, and he survives to see the end of the series later that season. | |
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The Voyage of Alice has Jolly U meet a Disney Villain Death as he is dropped from the sky by a gigantic bird. Except not. The author liked Jolly U and went on to include him, alive and well, in many more works to come, without any explanation on how he survived. That situation never repeated since the space pirates became so fixed in the plot as Alice's arch-enemies that both acquired Joker Immunity and the author never tried to kill either of them off again. | |
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In The Fast and the Furious, Leticia "Letty" Ortiz dies in a car crash in Fast & Furious, and turns up alive with amnesia later. | |
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Used in Soap Dish, a comedy that takes place behind the scenes of a TV Soap Opera. Whoopi Goldberg plays a writer who has to write for a guy coming back to life after having been decapitated. She is not pleased. | |
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Code Geass, repeatedly. Mao and Cornelia both get filled with bullets and survive anyway (if only for another episode in the former's case), Ohgi gets three knives in his chest and then falls off a cliff onto some pointy rocks and comes back anyway (ditto Viletta less the knives), and then there's the nuke that only killed unseen civilians. Jeremiah was supposed to die in the first season, but became so popular that he was brought back as a cyborg. |
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Magic: The Gathering has plenty of ways to bring back dead creatures. Mostly in black, but green and white can also do so. | |
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And in Ravenloft most of the Darklords are meant to be too powerful for the players to defeat, and in the event that the players kill them, many of them have some method of cheating death. If the players do manage to kill them and stop them from using whatever method they have of cheating death, then either somebody will take that Darklord's place as the new Darklord, or if there isn't anybody to replace them, the Dark Powers who rule over the setting may intervene to bring the Darklord back. | |
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William Afton of Five Nights at Freddy's won't stay dead. While his first death doesn't count, everything else does: Fazbear's Fright from Five Nights at Freddy's 3 burns down? Yeah, guess what, he survived. He gets burned alive again in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator and Ultimate Custom Night is implied to be his Hell? He comes Back from the Dead, and forget about the whole "it's his Hell" thing: It was actually his repeating nightmare. At the end of Five Nights At Freddys Vr Help Wanted he seemingly gets reduced to a plushie? That's not what happened: He actually entered the mind of the Player Character and is ordering them to kill kids. Every time it seems like he was Killed Off for Real, he just comes back. | |
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Morph in X-Men: The Animated Series was supposed to remain dead to show the Darker and Edgier tone of the series. Due to his Ensemble Dark Horse status, Mister Sinister brought him back to life. | |
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Spider-Man: The Green Goblin/Norman Osborn had one of the greatest death scenes in comics in The Night Gwen Stacy Died - impaled on his own Goblin Glider after a brutal fight with Spider-Man (after having killed Peter Parker's girlfriend, Gwen Stacy), and was then resurrected with a lot of Handwavingnote Basically, it turned out the serum that gave him his powers also gave him a Healing Factor; he then murdered a lookalike for his funeral and ran off to Europe to found a criminal empire and took over a weird evil cult called the Scriers; after coming back, he even wrote a book to explain why he had to fake his death and to refute all the evidence that he was ever the Green Goblin. The resurrection didn't happen until 20+ years later, and the writers brought him back because they had written themselves deep into a corner with The Clone Saga and had to come up with something suitably climactic to end it. His resurrection also allowed them to bring back Aunt May via a contrived storyline involving an actress replacing her in her final days. Since he came Back from the Dead Osborn Took a Level in Badass/Took a Level in Jerkass and has become a major player in the wider Marvel U. as well as once for all firmly establishing himself as Spidey's one, true Arch-Enemy, so in many ways he's an example of how to do this right. Harry Osborn is back, thanks to One More Day, although they didn't go with the obvious "The Devil did it" explanation. And then The Amazing Spider-Man (2018) revealed that it was a clone and the real Harry had been dead the whole time. Also what a lot of fans were hoping for Peter Parker/Spider-Man himself to come back after he died in Doctor Octopus' body and Ock became the Superior Spider-Man. They got their wish — Peter's memories and personality stuck around in the body that Ock now controlled. Even after Ock supposedly wiped it out entirely, he got in over his head and salvaged it to fix things, effectively handing control back to Peter. Ben Reilly is back in Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy. |
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In Star Trek Into Darkness, it's Kirk that dies, and in this case Spock ends capturing Khan so that Dr. McCoy can use his magic blood to bring Kirk back to life. | |
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The Incredible Hercules: Lampshaded, where the entrance to Hades' underworld is a casino where various deceased heroes can gamble for their next resurrection. Interestingly, one character in that scene has since been resurrected, but in a "wasn't dead after all" manner rather than an actual supernatural resurrection, so Wasp shouldn't have been in the Underworld in the first place. | |
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Blackest Night: The event was built around a number of big name characters who had died and come back over the years. The series ends with a promise that from here on out, "dead is dead," with the explicit exception of Bruce Wayne, whose return was already well underway. | |
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Played with in X-Men: when Toad knocks Storm down an elevator shaft, he looks down and sees that she somehow survived the fall. Turning away, he mutters, "Don't you people ever die?" | |
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Eldrad in Warhammer 40,000. Originally had his soul eaten by Slannesh when he tried to board the blackstone fortress at the end of the 13th Black Crusade. One revision of the codex later though, and it was revealed that he actually never tried to board the fortress at all and was alive and well (Abandon instead crashed it into Cadia). | |
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Moriarty gets this treatment in the Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies, with no regard being paid to continuity in which he is supposedly killed (usually by a long fall) repeatedly. | |
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In the Dark Empire graphic novel, Emperor Palpatine and Boba Fett both return from what looks like certain death in Return of the Jedi. Palpatine really did die in RotJ. He came back with the help of a few cloned bodies and some dark side abilities. He's conclusively dead by the end of that story, though. Boba Fett only fought his way out of the Sarlacc off-camera. |
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Doctor Who: The Daleks, especially in the new series. Not a single character per se, but after having "definitely killed all of them forever, no really, this time we mean it" at least seven times, only to have them invariably show up next series, they're certain to be back sometime. Their first reappearance was explained by time travel; while the Daleks were destroyed at the end of the Doctor's first encounter with them, that doesn't mean he can't meet them in a time period before their destruction. This kind of non-linearity rarely seems to happen to the Doctor; usually he seems to encounter allies and enemies (even time travellers) in the same order they do. Indeed, the Daleks' "final end" in "The Evil of the Daleks" would have been explained away with a far more straightforward "it wasn't the final end, and the human-factor Daleks were wiped out" explanation in a cut scene in "Day of the Daleks". The Master, introduced in the early 1970s, is known, from the early 1980s onward, to always return, usually with no explanation given. In "Planet of Fire", for example, we see him completely burned away in full view of the Doctor and the viewers. When next he returns in "The Mark of the Rani" in the next season and when reminded that he's supposed to be dead. He replies that "You jest, of course. I'm indestructible, the whole universe knows that." The Master ended up Deader than Dead in the TV movie, sucked into the Eye of Harmony, a harnessed black hole with the power to destroy the universe if left open. His return in the new series is handwaved with a single line: "The Time Lords only resurrected me because they knew I'd be the perfect warrior for a Time War." He was stored in a time lock in "The End of Time", only to return yet again in Series 8, having regenerated into a woman this time. Missy, who once explained a return from being disintegrated with, "Death is for ''other'' people!" was last seen shot with an Anti-Regeneration blast by her past self, minutes before a massive explosion that destroyed the deck of the spaceship she was on. Come Series 12, the Master is back in a new regeneration with no explanation. The Big Finish Doctor Who audio The Boy that Time Forgot brought back Adric, of all people. He dies of old age at the end, though. Referenced by Neil Gaiman in a question-and-answer session regarding what happened to the body of a character in "The Doctor's Wife": |
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Ian Malcolm in the original Jurassic Park novel. He is implied to die while other characters watch near the end of the novel, but in the second he's back, and says in a lecture that reports of his death were "exaggerated". The real circumstances are left ambiguous at best: When they are escaping with the helicopters, Muldoon tells Grant that there is another heli which will collect the other survivors. When Grant asks him about Malcolm, Muldoon just shakes his head. Muldoon could have been wrong; the evacuation was pretty hectic, and there was also a lot of stress with some roaming raptors. The epilogue, in which a funeral for Hammond and Malcolm is mentioned, is clearly written in Grant's point of view, so he may have received wrong information from Muldoon—or others—or Malcolm was revived after Muldoon left. | |
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Portrayed in Misery. Author Paul Sheldon kills off the title character of his "Misery" romantic potboiler series, only for a psychotic fan to force him to write a new book where she comes back. His initial attempt directly contradicts the circumstances of Misery's "death", and the fan forces him to play fair. He ends up coming up with what is actually a very clever way to not only bring her back to life, but reveal that she's royalty (something to do with her blood type) in the process. She shares a rare, like-death-coma syndrome triggered by bee's venom. Simple, and still plain good. | |
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This has happened a few times in Dick Tracy. Pruneface returned as a Human Popsicle. Mumbles has actually come back three times (although the third time was by the current writers simply ignoring the story that killed him, since his death story had a lot of continuity problems anyway). A recent major story arc involved the apparent return of Moon Maid. It's not really her. Still, these are exceptions; the strip generally averts this trope. Popular characters like Flattop have died and staying very dead. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, it's revealed that Neo is, in fact, Mu la Flaga... in spite of the fact that Mu performed a Heroic Sacrifice in the second-to-last episode of the preceding series, blocking a massive positron cannon blast with his mecha to keep it from destroying a much larger spaceship. Mu's shattered helmet is shown floating amidst the wreckage in the SEED TV series, and is edited out in the compilation movies to make his survival look more plausible...and utterly fails to do so because this just makes it seem as though the antimatter weapon more realistically vaporized him.. | |
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League of Legends brought back from the dead Yone, Yasuo's half-brother, to be the game's 150th champion in the tenth season of the game. Yone was previously killed by Yasuo when the former pursued the latter after Yasuo was blamed for murdering their sword school's master (which Yasuo didn't do), and while there's some justification for his revival (a demon who was hunting him in life followed him to the spirit realm and tried to consume him, but Yone defeated him and is now hunting other demons in both realms), how he came back is left intentionally vague. Also, while they weren't "truly" dead, both Kai'sa and Senna were previously lore characters related to already-existing champions (Kai'sa is Kassadin's daughter and Senna is Lucian's wife) who were described as being lost (Senna "merely" had her soul trapped in Thresh's lantern, while Kai'sa was thrown into a void rift by Malzahar when she was a child) but eventually came back to become champions themselves in the game's ninth season. Also, all three champions mentioned are notable for not coming back wrong; sure, they're changed (Kai'sa is bonded to a void creature, Yone has a demon mask that he can't remove, and Senna has dark powers), but all of them are still sane and all on the good side. |
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In the Legendary Heroes arc of Yu-Gi-Oh! (the first of two arcs centered around the Big Five), Joey, Mai, and Mokuba are destroyed by the Mythic Dragon (controlled by the Big Five). It seems that they are gone forever, but the Mystical Elf casts a spell that brings them back. It was a Filler Arc, though. The spirit of the Millennium Ring is defeated many times, but keeps coming back. To count: he loses to Yugi, the ring containing his spirit is thrown away, he loses to Yugi again, and then he loses to Marik. And that's not counting "Season 0" taking place before the main series, where he's defeated a fifth time. With the exception of a Hand Wave that all the people Marik defeated are returned to normal when he's beaten, none of these revivals are adequately explained. It should be noted, however,that the manga explains/foreshadows things much better. After his first defeat (which was not in a duel) he is shown to still exist (although Yugi and friends think they have destroyed him,the reader remains under that illusion only very briefly), he never loses his ring, and he is not defeated again until the fights with Yugi and Malik in the battle city (in which, again, Yugi doesn't destroy him, but Malik does; he still survives thanks to the above-mentioned handwave (which acts more as a foreshadowing in the manga) to be the final arc's villain). His ring is also never destroyed. |
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Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine is fond of this one. Rat's character Angry Bob has been resurrected (or "undied") in each of his appearances. Sometimes it will be because Pastis forgets which characters he's killed off, other times, he'll bring someone back from the dead because it's funny. Pastis has even killed himself off in the strip, only to return. | |
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Which was summarily ignored and thus averted by the creators of Dallas's sibling series, Knots Landing where Bobby remained dead. | |
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Played for drama in the fan comic True Believers. Peter, in despair that MJ has been retgoned, allows Doc Ock to kill him in hopes of invoking Together in Death. He later gets revived in an unrelated crossover and realizes to his horror that as a comic book character, he can't be killed permanently as long as people want him around. He eventually gets fired and moving to a town of unused comic characters, rejoining Mary Jane that way. | |
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Kenny in South Park has this in spades, and in fact, the They Killed Kenny Again trope is named after him. | |
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door lampshades this in the levels you control him. His life count is the infinity sign. | |
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At the beginning of Ori and the Blind Forest, Naru dies of starvation due to the "blinding" of the eponymous forest and ensuing famine, then the eponymous protagonist himself runs out of energy and dies after setting off into the forest alone. The latter is immediately revived by the Spirit Tree's residual power, while Gumo brings the former Back from the Dead with the Light Vessel at the start of the game's last act. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy lampshades this in the musical. "Hey, I've died twice!" And she very nearly dies a third time in "Seeing Red". The Master's bloodline is apparently immortal, what with all the resurrections going on. Angel broke out of hell to come back, Darla was resurrected in the first season of Angel, Spike was also resurrected on Angel, and the Master himself comes back in the comics. Cordelia came back from the "higher plane", which is pretty obviously a type of heaven. Twice. Though she did stay dead after the second time. Warren comes back in the comics, and it is explicitly mentioned he was resurrected by Amy Madison. |
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While Star Wars Legends usually has All Deaths Final, it has used this trope on several notable occasions. In the Dark Empire graphic novel, Emperor Palpatine and Boba Fett both return from what looks like certain death in Return of the Jedi. Palpatine really did die in RotJ. He came back with the help of a few cloned bodies and some dark side abilities. He's conclusively dead by the end of that story, though. Boba Fett only fought his way out of the Sarlacc off-camera. No matter how many times the Jedi seem to kill Asajj Ventress, she always comes back. The Jedi K'Kruhk has multiple scrapes with death over the course of nearly 200 years, and each time emerges unscathed - along with his straw hat (which is jokingly attributed by fans as the reason for his survival). He even lampshades it: "I've died any number of times... or so I've been told." |
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Ben Reilly is back in Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy. | |
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In most cases, whenever a good character dies in Dragon Ball Z, you know they are going to find the Dragon Balls and wish them back sooner or later, no matter what the odds are. And Goku even got the chance to get brought back in a completely different way since it had already been stated the typical form of resurrection wouldn't work. In the Buu saga, when things start looking really bleak for the heroes, the Elder Kai trades his life for Goku's to bring him back. Aside from being a literal Deus ex Machina, this barely even counts as an inconvenience for Elder Kai since he already lives in the afterlife; he's able to remain an active part of the arc, but now with a halo over his head. And even that gets reversed when Vegeta wishes back everyone killed by Buu. |
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Sherlock Holmes is probably the Trope Codifier, if not the Ur-Example, and retconned death is often named Sherlockian Death after him. Arthur Conan Doyle didn't actually want to bring him back. But everyone else did, and they pestered him about it until he gave in. | |
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Fantastic Four: He doesn't do it as much anymore, but in the Silver Age Doctor Doom would die about every other appearance — coming Back from the Dead was one of his most terrifying abilities — again and again, he'd return from things no one could survive, and describe his miraculous return with casual arrogance. What with everyone doing it nowadays, not so much. (Doctor Doom prefers to be as unique as possible.) As the Silver Age passed it became a retcon subversion. "Doom" would still die, but invariably when he returned the "death" had actually been a Doombot. At one point someone pointed out that there had been 41 Doombots who apparently thought they were Doom that had died. |
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Charmed. Oh boy. Over the course of 8 seasons, Piper and Phoebe die 9 times each. Paige reaches the same number of deaths within just 5 seasons and Prue has 3 deaths to show. And of course, being the main characters, they all get better. Well, except for Prue at the end of season 3, which actually underlines the point that the characters only get better when the creators want them to. | |
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YuYu Hakusho actually starts with the main character, Yuusuke Urameshi, dead on the first page. He gets better. He gets better the second time, too. | |
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Transformers: In general, the mechanical nature of Transformers means that it's easier for writers to think up ways to have them repaired or rebuilt when the plot or a new toy calls for it. Optimus Prime. His deaths have their own fan page. Also Optimus Primal in Beast Wars. Ravage isn't quite that bad, but he's returned by multiple methods in comics that are not in continuity with each other, both G1 Ravage (intended to be dead, with his head shown being knocked off a cliff to really hammer it home, at the end of his Beast Wars three-parter appearance) and Movieverse Ravage (can you get deader than having your spine ripped out, and what's left of your carcass being used as a blunt instrument to bash Rampage with?) |
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One major character in Happy Heroes, Kalo, performs a Heroic Sacrifice in Season 7. Fast forward to Season 10, said character is now inexplicably alive and well again. | |
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Captain America: The Red Skull was pretty much guaranteed to get caught in a lethal explosion or some such every time he showed up—just never leaving a body—only to casually reappear next time. This culminated in an 80s story where Cap actually saw him die, complete with a corpse. This left Skully dead for longer than usual, and the next writer to use him had to invoke some particularly wacky Applied Phlebotinum to explain his return. Hell, he doesn't even have a body these days. Apparently averted with the villains "retired" by the Scourge of the Underworld. Of course, they were C-List Fodder to begin with. |
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At the end of Justice League Unlimited, Lex Luthor and Darkseid both seemingly die, thanks to Lex making a Heroic Sacrifice to kill them both with the Anti-Life Equation. Batman muses that neither of them are likely dead and both of them will probably come back. Unusually, this was the Grand Finale of the show, and for all intents and purposes the entire DCAU came to an end with this, so as far as anyone knows they don't come back. Even more unusually, the whole thing was so ambiguous that it's not even clear that Lex was even using the Equation to kill the two of them in the first place, and both of them might not even have died at all. (According to Word of God, they didn't: They ended up trapped in the Source Wall, which still means they're not coming back.) | |
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