# Characters Brought Back to Life **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/61 "2023-11-01T01:44:41Z")
Pretty much every comic book hero and villian has died and come back multiple times. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/62 "2023-11-01T11:22:38Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > They most definitely killed her off in a lab accident a few years back…and the fans started boycotting the sponsors and protesting ABC. Guess who came back to life? I’ve never been a Soap Opera fan, but I’ve known a number of them, and I can see them doing something like that because they are pretty fanatical about their soaps! LOL A mundane and useless fact: I was born in a general hospital, Pittsfield General Hospital, but I never got on TV. 😈 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/63 "2023-11-01T11:58:08Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > But the network liked the character… As I recall, he was saved because he got a good response from test audiences who didn’t want to see him killed off. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/64 "2023-11-01T14:33:26Z")
When Pinocchio was first published as a magazine serial the puppet died by hanging in the fifteenth chapter. Due to popular (and editorial) demand he was brought back by the Blue Fairy for another twenty chapters. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/65 "2023-11-02T15:20:43Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Well, fans don’t care. If you’ve taken away one my favs, bring him back! I don’t care how flimsy the explanation may be! LOL > [@Yllaria](#): > > “ **He was decapitated!** ” Ninja’d! But I have the quote. 🙂 - [Rose Schwartz](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000155/?ref_=ttqu_qu): The guy was killed in an auto accident! I looked it up! He was driving in the Yukon, in a pink convertible, to visit his brother who’s an ex-con named Frances, when a tractor trailer comes along and decapitates him. You know what that mean, it means he doesn’t have a head. How am I suppose to write for a guy who doesn’t have a head? He’s got no lips, no vocal cords. What do you want me to do? - [David Barnes](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000375/?ref_=ttqu_qu): They froze the head. They put it on ice. They put it back on in a precedent setting two-day operation. You know, its like, would you use your imagination. - [Rose Schwartz](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000155/?ref_=ttqu_qu): He doesn’t have a head! ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/66 "2023-11-02T16:58:12Z")
Yeah, that’s definitely “flimsy” 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/67 "2023-11-02T17:17:07Z")
But they still brought him back! ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/68 "2023-11-02T17:18:52Z")
Hey, you never heard of the Resurrection?! So there is a precedent. 😈 ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/69 "2023-11-02T17:30:33Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Heck, Kirk himself did it twice, in “Amok Time” and “The Enterprise Incident.” Kirk was missing and presumed dead in the Tholian Web, too, if I recall correctly (until he turned up in Uhura’s quarters - hmm) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/70 "2023-11-02T17:51:14Z")
I’ve always wondered what the official reaction from Vulcan was when it became known that Kirk hadn’t died after all. Wouldn’t Spock have had to go back and finish the wedding ceremony? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/71 "2023-11-02T18:06:43Z")
I suppose the story was “Kirk was beaten and thought to be dead, but recovered.” No need for the drugging to come to light. Since Spock rejected T’Pring after the fight ended, the wedding is off regardless of Kirk’s status - it’s just that before the shock of apparently killing Kirk, Spock wasn’t mentally capable of declining ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/72 "2023-11-02T18:17:52Z")
“Let me get this straight-Your highly qualified doctor, using a tricorder, misdiagnosed his condition _that_ badly??” ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/73 "2023-11-02T18:18:18Z")
Prove he didn’t ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/74 "2023-11-02T18:21:22Z")
They won’t have to. The Official Starfleet inquiry when they lodge a complaint with them will, though. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/75 "2023-11-02T23:11:12Z")
Starfleet (in Kirk’s era) can miss a lot of things if they don’t want to see them. ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/76 "2023-11-03T04:25:39Z")
does anyone remember the Latino hit man (forgot his name) killed off in Miami Vice pilot, but brought back as conman that Sony used periodically ---
**Author:** ![Eclipse\_Chaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Eclipse\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclipse_Chaser)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/77 "2023-11-05T09:32:59Z")
Wasn’t Neelix in Voyager killed in one episode and revived? Big mistake. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/78 "2023-11-05T10:17:21Z")
Yes, Seven of Nine used Borg technology to bring him back to life. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/79 "2023-11-05T10:21:15Z")
I’m pretty sure Harry Kim died _several_ times over the series’ run. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322/80 "2023-11-05T10:42:19Z")
Superman rather famously died in 1992. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-brought-back-to-life/992322.md?page=5)