AND THEN THEY JOKED ABOUT IT! AAAUUUUUGH!
Sorry.
–Cliffy
In the comic books, you can’t really consider yourself established as a superhero unless you’ve come back from the dead at least once. It’s a rite of passage like getting your first nemesis.
Buffy, Angel, and Spike from the Buffy and Angel series.
MANY DC and Marvel Comics characters, including Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Oliver Queen (Green Arrow), Jason Todd (Robin 2/Red Hood), Aunt May Parker, Colossus, Psylocke, and Jean Grey (Phoenix).
Neither in the books nor the movies did Felix Leiter die. I;m afraid you’re confused there.
He was played by a different actor almost every time, though, although David/Al Hedison has the distinction of being the one actor to play him twice (in Live and Let Die in 1973 and then in License to Kill 16 years later). He was played by a pre-McGarret Jack lord in Dr. No, the first Bond movie, by Cec Linder in Goldfinger and by others in Diamonds are Forever, the Living Daylights, and Never Say Never Again (the only black Felix eiter. Connery suggested that maybe that would help people remember him.)
In the books, Leiter got tossed in a shark tank in Live and Let Die, and lost a hand, but came back with a hook in the next book, and several times afterwards. In the movies, Felix gets the shark tank in License to Kill, but doesn’t seem to lose any body parts (although his wife gets killed). I don’t recall him showing up since. Joe Don Baker seems to play the (non-Leiter) CIA agent now.
**Aeryn Sun ** on Farscape.
Fluffy and Uranus the uber-cute teddy bear things from Duckman would be terribly mutilated and killed only to be back unharmed the next episode.
No explanation.
He wasn’t the guy killed in New Orleans during the funeral and was put into the coffin?
I admit, it’s been years since I’ve watched a James Bond movie and only managed to get through one book, but a huge James Bond fan I know joked about this very thing.
Whistler died in Blade, but was somehow only mostly dead, apparently, since he was back in Blade II without much fanfare. I think he’s all the way dead, now, though.
I’m not sure about the movies, but in the novels, Leiter never died, although he did lose an arm. Didn’t slow him down much, though!
Forgot to say, that the guy killed & put into a coffin in the movie was a British Secret Service agent, not Leiter, who was form the Company (CIA).
'Fraid not. If you wath the film again, watch carefully – Hedison, playing Leiter, in fact, appears in the scene just before that one, telling Bond that their man is “keeing an eye on the Filt of Sole” restaurant in New Orleans. They then cut to that unfortunte individual, just as the funeral starts up with its slow dirge. They don’t show the death during this second run-through of the scene. After the band exits, playing the upbeat march, Leiter and Bond come into the scene, talking about how someone go a big sendoff, surprisingly unaware that it was their own CIA guy. (Leiter shoulda asked what happened to him).
I was going to post this, too. Heh. I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers it!
IIRC he lost a leg.
If he was, 007 wouldn’t be thanking him at the end of the movie.
From the OP:
. . . or Buffy, or Angel, or . . .
Just read the OP, folks.
There was a hilarious but short-lived show called The War Next Door in which a retired secret agent finds that his arch-nemesis is now his nextdoor neighbor in the suburbs. They have a fight to the death in which the villain dies; but the hero is surprised to find his neighbor back and good as new. The villain says: “I told you – you and I are locked in a neverending dance of death!” He seems really happy about it. If I recall, he got killed in every episode.
Baldwin’s post reminded me of Spy Vs Spy in MAD magazine.
Well, most of Agrajag 's deaths aren’t necessary to the plot. Then again, I suppose most of them aren’t really mentioned in the books either.
I came in to say NOBODY on a soap opera is ever really dead. Days of Our lives resurrected Georgia Brady, who died at birth in her mother’s arms, as Chelsea.
Even by Soap Opera standards in general and DAYS standards in particular, Stefano (mentioned above) has abused the resurrection privilege. I know for a fact he’s been burned to death, shot twice, had a fatal heart attack, been killed in an earthquake, died in a car crash, been killed by a demon and whatever else, and he still keeps returning.
[hijack]And what’s with this DAYS thing of bringing back actors but in different roles? You can’t fool me, that’s not Roman it’s Chris Kositchek, Roman’s the guy over there pretending to be a doctor that Marlena forgot she married, and that’s Patch’s sister over there not the vill
not that i ever watch DAYS, mind you.