Folks used to say “nobody except Uncle Ben and Bucky Barnes ever stays dead”.
And I think that there was a time when that statement also included “And Thomas and Martha Wayne”.
King Kong Lives was (ostensibly) a sequel to the 1976 remake of King Kong, where apparently getting machine gunned and falling off the World Trade Center merely left Kong in a protracted coma.
The American version of the Kingsmen - The Statesmen - saved Harry with advanced nanotechnology, however he did have cognitive issues and amnesia. They use that same nanotechnology later in the movie to save Whiskey (Pedro Pascal) who Harry suspects is a bad guy, and is proven right eventually.
That was his grandson, Eye-gor.
I remember when they killed off Mr. Fantastic and Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four. For something like two years (I think) there was a battle on the letters page between the readers who weren’t buying it and the editors who insisted that Reed and Doom were really truly dead and were never coming back. They were trying to make their return some sort of big surprise when it was totally expected by anybody who had ever read a comic book.
Not a sequel, but perhaps a wink at the many resurrections (if it can be called that when he’s already undead) of Dracula. In Buffy, when Dracula shows up there is of course a big battle, Buffy stakes him, and he turns to dust. The dust then reforms into Dracula again, another battle and Buffy re-stakes him. The dust starts to form again, and she tells him, “I’m standing right here,” so the dust flies out the window.
Other than flashbacks and the afterlife, the only one I can think of was Sayid.
Locke, sort of. And all of the other forms Jacob and the Man in Black took.
Godzilla’s resurrection in Godzilla Raids Again goes unexplained. It is ironically pointed out that they can’t use the oxygen destroyer used in the first film because the inventor was killed…just like Godzilla.
James Woods is murdered in the Family Guy episode And Then There Were Fewer, and is resurrected for Back to the Woods.
Wasn’t Logan set in some indefinite future? Ten, twenty years? it wasn’t our world at any rate.
Before Kenny, there was Hans Moleman.
Oh no. My brains.
There are some Road Runner cartoons where the Coyote looks rather extra destroyed in the last skit. Unless there have been multiple coyotes (a possibility I pointed out in another thread) he’s probably had to be revived multiple times.
What you quoted was my reply when someone stated he was killed at the end of The Wolverine. He was alive at the end of that movie. He dies at the end of Logan. Deadpool and Wolverine uses the end of Logan as a jumping off point.
A lot of the good examples have been mentioned.
Meh, speaking of MTV, Aeon Flux was already back from the dead for a sequel (and pulling off Kennys) long before that Simpsons episode.
Speaking of Simpsons characters…Marvin Monroe.
Not to mention Get A Life!
I brought this up recently – it’s either upthread or in another concurrent thread.
David Cross thought he’d made sure that he’d never have to be Todd Margaret again, but a fellow writer came up with a creative solution. Cross said “That’s brilliant! I’ve got to do it.”
It’d take too long to explain. Quicker if you just watch all 3 seasons… (they are SO fun).