# Back from the Dead Characters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 7, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391 "2007-09-07T18:12:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/21 "2007-09-07T19:34:24Z")
John Kowalski (From Marvel’s series War Is Hell in the 70s). Died in every story and came back. Phoebe Zeitgeist Kenny (you bastards!) The whole Justice League once when Joe Casey wrote the series. The whole Justice Society, a couple of times. Metamorpho, at least twice. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/22 "2007-09-07T19:35:23Z")
Y - Yondu, member of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Killed, along with the rest of his team and about three dozen Avengers, by Korvac in Avengers 177. He and the rest were revived before the end of the issue. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/23 "2007-09-07T20:03:17Z")
[QUOTE=Steve MB] Is this just comics (a long enough list, Ghu knows), or in general? [/QUOTE] I was mentally keeping it to comics (and manga), but anything’s good. And I should’ve guessed it’d get started with Buffy. The single letters were placeholders, not entries. As far as I know Q has never died, but I’m not much of a Trekkie anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/24 "2007-09-07T20:28:04Z")
Did Charles Lee Ray die before he was transferred into the Chucky doll (Childs Play)? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/25 "2007-09-07T20:44:09Z")
Whistler from the **Blade** movies. Never really adequately explained, apparently a Vampirus ex Machina came along to “save” him, despite the sound of the gunshot. Perhaps better covered in the comics (or was there never a “Whistler” character in the comics?)… Chucky from the movies of the same name. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/26 "2007-09-07T21:37:34Z")
Bobby Ewing from Dallas, whose death was explained as part of a year-long dream. Tasha Yar from ST:TNG, who turned out to be still alive in an alternate univese. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/27 "2007-09-07T21:38:20Z")
Beric Dondarrion was brought back several times. Catelyn Stark was brought back although not, it seems, all the way. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/28 "2007-09-07T22:03:19Z")
[QUOTE=bibliophage] Tasha Yar from ST:TNG, who turned out to be still alive in an alternate univese. [/QUOTE] Yes, but then she died there, so it’s kinda a wash. Lots of folks on _Buffy_ and _Angel_ qualify (Besides all the vamps): Warren, Daryl, all the various guises of The First, Holland Manners, Lilah, Fred (sorta)… ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/29 "2007-09-07T22:21:50Z")
[QUOTE=simster] James T. Kirk died atleast twice in TOS only to be revived in the same episode (Enterprise Incident, Amok Time) [/QUOTE] Pretty nearly every TOS character died and was brought back. Besides Kirk and Spock, McCoy died in Shore Leave, and Chekov died in Hour of the Gun. I think Scotty died in The Changeling. If you’re talking real death, neither of your examples count, since he was put under by McCoy or Spock. Thought dead, yeah. You can add Tholian Web, where McCoy and Spock read Kirk’s last directive. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/30 "2007-09-07T22:22:08Z")
Miles Vorkosigan. Chest blown in by a needle grenade, what’s left frozen, then repaired ( mostly ) and revived. From the Vorkosigan series. Marcus Jefferson Wall : Assassinated, then revived as an uploaded computer program. From the Matador series. Ma’ar, aka Falconsbane, Darkness and many other names, from the Valdemar books. An evil mage who returned from death repeatedly, stealing people’s bodies. Sam, aka Siddhartha and Lord Kalkin, from _Lord of Light_. Executed, but came back, because a Rakasha had “strengthend his fires” so mere bodily death couldn’t destroy him. The entire crew of the _Enterprise_, repeatedly, in the time loop episode where they kept crashing into the time travelling _Bozeman_ and resetting to the start of the loop. Wakim, aka Set the Destroyer from _Creatures of Light and Darkness_. Killed while fighting Jehovah by a treacherous blow from The Hammer That Smashes Suns. Sent to the House of the Dead and existed as the amnesiac slave of Anubis for a thousand years. Given back his life to kill The Prince Who Was A Thousand, but regained his memory. Durnik, the Man With Two Lives from the Belgariad. Killed by the Apostate and revived. Horse the horse from the Belgariad. Died when born, revived by Belgarion. Hawk and Fisher from the Hawk and Fisher books. Died, and were restored after persuading the army of dead animals to relent from ravaging Haven. Vanyel from the Valdemar books. Suffers a fatal wound and is given a choice between life and death, chooses life, reluctantly. Do undead count ? Then there’s Deadboy from the Nightside books. And many others. _Innumerable_ vampires. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/31 "2007-09-07T22:31:40Z")
Give your screen name, I’m surprised you missed this one, **Der Trihs** , but almost the entire cast of the webcomic _Schlock Mercenary_ has been killed and ressurected at some point. Standard military tactic in the sci-fi milieu of that comic is to hack off the heads of dead comrades, then regrow their bodies when you get back to base. I think the only major character from the comic who hasn’t received that treatment is the titular Schlock, and that’s largely because he doesn’t have much in the way of discernable anatomy. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/32 "2007-09-07T22:49:08Z")
I’m surprised that Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1) hasn’t been mentioned yet. The Wikipedia page for the character even has a section titled “Non- and semi-permanent deaths.” ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/33 "2007-09-07T23:07:31Z")
The entire lineup of the New Mutants was killed off by the Beyonder in their own book during Secret Wars 2, only to be reconstructed by him in another issue. I can’t remember who exactly was on the team then. Looking it up, I think the team that died included Sunspot, Warlock, Magma, Cannonball, Karma, Mirage, Wolfsbane, Magik, and Cypher. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/34 "2007-09-08T01:03:26Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Give your screen name, I’m surprised you missed this one, **Der Trihs** , but almost the entire cast of the webcomic _Schlock Mercenary_ has been killed and ressurected at some point. [/QUOTE] :smack: Yes, you’d think I would’ve remembered that. All of humanity in the Riverworld books. Some of them repeatedly. Cyllan, in the Time Master trilogy. Murdered by the nasty Sashka, then resurrected by Yandros, Chaos Lord of Life and Death fas a reward for her service to Chaos and because of the love affair between her and Tarod, protagonist and Chaos Lord of Time. Kratos from the _God of War_ game, who falls into the “too badass to die” catagory. Gets killed and fights his way back through Hades to life. Karrakaz and Vazkor, her son from the Birthgrave stories. Both are killed, but return to life in their graves due to being members of the Lost Race; nothing short of complete bodily destruction seems able to kill them permanently. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/35 "2007-09-08T01:18:09Z")
[QUOTE=bibliophage] Bobby Ewing from Dallas, whose death was explained as part of a year-long dream. Tasha Yar from ST:TNG, who turned out to be still alive in an alternate univese. [/QUOTE] I wouldn’t count either of these, Bobby because in Dallas continuity he was never actually dead (and in Knots Landing he stayed dead) and the original Tasha Yar remained dead. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/36 "2007-09-08T01:29:08Z")
The protagonist’s son in the story “The Monkey’s Paw.” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/37 "2007-09-08T01:41:10Z")
The Sten series, the Eternal Emperor. When killed, a clone of him with copies of his memories was created, tested and set on a path back to the throne. Dahak, the AI of the starship _Dahak_, in _The Armageddon Inheritance_. Downloaded copies of his memories into another ship, which activated after his destruction. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/38 "2007-09-08T01:42:00Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] The protagonist’s son in the story “The Monkey’s Paw.” [/QUOTE] Good one! We can add Joyce Summers to the list of ressurected Buffyverse characters, too. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/39 "2007-09-08T01:45:08Z")
You got Vegeta, but you can add most of the other characters in Dragon Ball also. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-characters/418391/40 "2007-09-08T01:53:41Z")
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