# 2021 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881 "2020-12-01T02:10:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 210
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881/210 "2021-01-05T01:42:51Z")
> [@You can't make a Sequel -- You killed off the Character!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-make-a-sequel-you-killed-off-the-character/924670): > > Authors and filmmakers have proven incredibly capable of resurrecting characters that were apparently “undeniably and reliably dead.” Sometimes it’s public clamor for the character, and sometimes it’s a desire or a need for money the poster child for this is Sherlock Holmes.. Doyle wasn’t really very fond of his most famous creation, so he killed him off in the aptly-named story The Final Problem.. But the public wanted more Holmes. Doyle wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles, which was supposed … We have an entire thread dedicated to ~~the one I love~~ the undead. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2021-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/926881)._