# Characters Brought Back to Life
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** movies
**Created:** [October 30, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322 "2023-10-30T16:50:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/21 "2023-10-30T20:21:43Z")
By this point, doesn’t pretty much the entire stable of DC heroes meet this test?
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/22 "2023-10-30T20:23:04Z")
There was one soap opera death/revival that was so infamous it was parodied in the movie _Soapdish_. On _As The World Turns_ Shannon O’Hara had her head cut off then shrunk. A few years later she pops back in, healthy as a horse.
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### Author:  [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/23 "2023-10-30T21:21:53Z")
I don’t know if you can kill something made of Play-Doh, but Mr. Bill was certainly brought back after some probably fatal injuries.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/24 "2023-10-30T22:03:28Z")
> [@Lancia](#):
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> But in _The Lost World_ Malcom is the main character. His death is the first book is waved away, with Malcom saying something to the effect of “My death was reported, but those reports were inaccurate” or some such, and then it’s simply never mentioned again.
IIRC, he quoted Mark Twain’s “Rumors of my death were greatly exaggerated”.
As, presumably, were the rumors of his burial, and the rumors of the firebombing of his burial site.
> [@mbh](#):
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> It has been said that the only Marvel Comics character to stay dead was Peter Parker’s uncle Ben.
They used to say that the only people in comics who stayed dead were Uncle Ben and Bucky Barnes. But then, well…
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### Author:  [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/25 "2023-10-30T22:18:10Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> They used to say that the only people in comics who stayed dead were Uncle Ben and Bucky Barnes. But then, well…
When I heard it it, it was Uncle Ben and “The Fantastic Four’s second baby” - yeah, apparently she was all of theirs. And she came back long ago. Not sure if baby May ever did in main continuity - haven’t read Marvel since One More Day. Well, I tried FF once a couple years ago, but I didn’t like what was going on then.
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### Author:  [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/26 "2023-10-30T23:44:30Z")
Buffy of Vampire Slayer fame died twice. The first time IIRC it was the standard TV “timely CPR” shtick, but the second she was dead and buried before Willow used witchcraft to bring her back.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/27 "2023-10-30T23:46:10Z")
Life, uh, finds a way.
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2023, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/28 "2023-10-30T23:59:15Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#):
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> Suprised that no one has mentioned Jesus yet.
And all the other zombies.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/29 "2023-10-31T00:02:52Z")
Daniel Jackson died, ascended and came back twice in Stargate SG-1.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/30 "2023-10-31T00:03:20Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> They used to say that the only people in comics who stayed dead were Uncle Ben and Bucky Barnes. But then, well…
And Gwen Stacy, but, then, well…
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### Author:  [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/31 "2023-10-31T00:21:19Z")
The second one was weird, since Willow seemed convinced her hero friend who died saving the world went to Hell. We endlessly wondered about that on Usenet at the time…
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/32 "2023-10-31T00:32:14Z")
My favorite Marvel death was Ben Grimm, The Thing. After Ben was vaporized by Doctor Doom, the Fantastic Four travel to heaven to retrieve him. Heaven is ruled my two creator gods named Jack and Stan.
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### Author:  [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/33 "2023-10-31T00:42:57Z")
Everybody makes a big deal about Spock’s death, but it was just the latest in a series. Do you know how many Star Trek characters have died and come back to life?
McCoy in “Shore Leave.”
Scotty in “The Changeling.”
Chekov in “Spectre of the Gun.”
Heck, Kirk himself did it twice, in “Amok Time” and “The Enterprise Incident.”
Dying and coming back to life is a necessary attribute of serving on the Enterprise. It’s like a rite of passage. Spock was simply taking his proper turn.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/34 "2023-10-31T00:45:36Z")
There’s always **Bill the Cat**
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/35 "2023-10-31T00:47:39Z")
At least some of these deaths probably count.
> **[Phoenix Rising: The Many Deaths Of Stefano DiMera](https://soaphub.com/days-of-our-lives/phoenix-rising-the-many-deaths-of-days-livesstefano-dimera/)**
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> Find out more---\>
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/36 "2023-10-31T00:59:09Z")
Aren’t we on the 15th incarnation of The Doctor? (Depending on who’s doing the counting?)
Bobby Ewing was famously killed at the end of season 7 of Dallas, then in season 9, season 8 is revealed to have been just a dream. (I think those numbers are right, but I never saw the show.)
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/37 "2023-10-31T01:48:01Z")
Jamie Summers was written off as dead after a skydiving accident in _ **The Six Million Dollar Man** _, but the audience liked the actress (Lindsay Wagner) so much she was brought back to life as _ **The Bionic Woman** _. They could do this because **they had the technology!**
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### Author:  [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/38 "2023-10-31T02:11:51Z")
Both Sam and Dean Winchester have died numerous times. If the episode **Mystery Spot** was not something The Trickster totally faked, Dean has died well over 100 times.
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/39 "2023-10-31T02:18:20Z")
Jon Snow in **Game of Thrones**.
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/40 "2023-10-31T02:26:27Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Jamie Summers was written off as dead after a skydiving accident in _ **The Six Million Dollar Man** _, but the audience liked the actress (Lindsay Wagner) so much she was brought back to life as _ **The Bionic Woman** _. They could do this because **they had the technology!**
Saving Jaime from an otherwise fatal skydiving accident with bionic technology was all part of her original episodes in _The Six Million Dollar Man_. She then died because her body rejected the bionic implants - that was the element that they changed to bring her back for her own series. The opening twist was that they had kept her alive in suspended animation but had not told Steve. It was all very heartbreaking - I think they had to keep them apart because she had some brain problem and if she saw him and remembered her love for him it would make her head explode or something. I know it all made perfect sense at the time, I had a huge crush on her as a kid.
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