# List of superheroes who have stayed dead **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240 "2006-03-28T13:43:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/First_Amongst_Daves)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/1 "2006-03-28T13:43:14Z")
No resurrections (Phoenix, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, dozens of others), clones (Goodwin/Simonson Manhunter), manifestation as ghosts or demons (Deadman, Ghost Rider) permitted. Dead, and then that’s it, no return. Visits in the afterlife permitted. Costumed superheroes only (Rick Flagg from Suicide Squad doesn’t count). Lets see… The Flash (Barry Allen) Ferrous Lad (LSH) Kole (New Teen Titans) Captain Marvel Goldstar (Booster Gold’s sister) ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/2 "2006-03-28T13:48:32Z")
Ferro Lad did come back in one of the reboots. Chemical King of the LSH has stayed dead. ---
**Author:** ![First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/First_Amongst_Daves)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/3 "2006-03-28T13:50:14Z")
Argh. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/4 "2006-03-28T13:55:42Z")
How about the Jason **Robin**.? Not to mention my favorite, 1/3 of **Triplicate Girl** back in the 1960s. Does the original **Proty** count? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/5 "2006-03-28T14:01:06Z")
There are several characters used in one-off appearances that got bumped off at the end of their stories. There’s the _really_ original **Supergirl** , pre-Danvers, in her orange and green costume from the 1950s, for instance. Or, IIRC, some of the Bizarro Supermen. Although I guess they’re not really heros. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/6 "2006-03-28T14:19:32Z")
What about Toro the original Human Torch’s bed warmer? He’s dead isn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/7 "2006-03-28T14:24:35Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > How about the Jason **Robin**.? Nope, he’s back, as Red Hood. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/8 "2006-03-28T14:25:23Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > How about the Jason **Robin**.? > > Not to mention my favorite, 1/3 of **Triplicate Girl** back in the 1960s. > > Does the original **Proty** count? Back; Rebooted; Out of Continuity, in that order. I think Chemical King may have been back in one of the Legion reboots - his death is certainly out of continuity. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/9 "2006-03-28T15:13:57Z")
I was going to say half of the Doom Patrol, but it looks like they Sledge Hammered\* them a couple of years ago. \*Sledge Hammer: The Early Years. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/10 "2006-03-28T15:26:40Z")
I’m fairly (but not fully) certain _Chemical King_ has stayed dead. If you are going to take current continuity, ever-changing as it is, into account, this is going to be way more difficult. Earth-2 Bruce Wayne then? ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/11 "2006-03-28T15:57:46Z")
I think the original Thunderbird of the X-Men has stayed amongst the non-living. He’d be about the only X-Man to manage that. Now that I think on it, Skin and Synch of Generation X have been dead for a minute or two without coming back. If only they’d been in a more popular book. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/12 "2006-03-28T16:33:42Z")
> [@Sweetums](#): > > Nope, he’s back, as Red Hood. How did they explain that one? ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/13 "2006-03-28T16:40:56Z")
> [@middleman](#): > > How did they explain that one? An alternate Superboy got pissed off and punched reality so hard that dead Jason got switched with one from an alternate reality where “Robin Lives” won the vote. Superboy’s reality punches are also the explanation for every retcon and continuity error since Crisis on Infinite Earths. Hawkman? Donna Troy? Doom Patrol? Reality Punch. I want a crossover with Marvel where Superboy-Prime punches Scarlet Witch, thus destroying all casuality everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/14 "2006-03-28T17:15:47Z")
The original Bucky is still dead, as far as I know. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/15 "2006-03-28T17:20:55Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > The original Bucky is still dead, as far as I know. Nope. Zombified by the commies. Now called “the Winter Soldier”. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/16 "2006-03-28T17:21:13Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > The original Bucky is still dead, as far as I know. Nope, back as the **Winter Soldier** as of three or four months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/17 "2006-03-28T17:31:12Z")
Spoilers for the crisis that is infinite: Ted Kord as Blue Beetle was killed in the IC titles and still seems to be dead in OYL canon (there’s a new Blue Beetle, can’t remember his name). But maybe it’s too early to be hedging bets… ---
**Author:** ![mazinger\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mazinger\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazinger_z)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/18 "2006-03-28T17:34:17Z")
> [@Max Carnage](#): > > Nope, back as the **Winter Soldier** as of three or four months ago. How is that story line anyway? I’m not a big Captain America fan, but this seemed pretty interesting. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/19 "2006-03-28T17:46:11Z")
As far as I know, three of the four DC Sandmen (Sandmans?) who’ve so far died have stayed that way: Wesley Dodds, Garrett Sanford and Dream/Morpheus. I believe Hector Hall is currently dead again, too, but he’s been through the Pearly Revolving Door nearly as often as the Dalai Lama. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240/20 "2006-03-28T17:57:15Z")
I don’t usually join in these comics threads as its been quite a while since I read them…and then I read the more obscure comics from independant studios and such. I remember though a comic series where in the end ALL the ‘super hero’s’ died. It was about a special process that allowed humans to gain super powers (in response to an alien invasion IIRC), but randomly inside of a year they would die…sometimes quietly, sometimes spectaularly (I recall one went up like an atomic bomb…luckily in the midst of an alien horde). I can’t recall the name of the comic now (it was Strike Force something…Moriorty or Moriarty…something like that). Anyway, it certainly fit the bill as EVERY superhero died in the end. I only read 5 or 6 issues but someone died in every one of them. -XT [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-of-superheroes-who-have-stayed-dead/350240.md?page=2)