# Which comic book characters are currently dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727 "2009-07-12T01:27:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/21 "2009-07-12T19:40:53Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > It’s called a joke, son. Well, honestly, I have no way of knowing that you haven’t read a comic book since the 70’s. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/22 "2009-07-12T19:46:19Z")
I may just change my username to “Currently Dead.” ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/23 "2009-07-12T23:09:03Z")
I’ve been out of the loop for a while, but last I knew of the Vision, he’d been brought back (in teenage form) for Young Avengers. I think he’s currently based his personality on the memories of Iron Lad (who himself was a time displaced younger version of Kang/Immortus/Scarlet Centurian/etc etc etc.) rather than on Wonder Man like the adult version was for a good chunk of his “life”. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/24 "2009-07-12T23:12:51Z")
Bats is dead? So who’s taken over? Robin? Nighthawk? Terry? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/25 "2009-07-12T23:41:34Z")
Dick Grayson. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/26 "2009-07-12T23:43:27Z")
Well, I’m guessing Bats won’t stay dead either. (how’d he die BTW?). ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/27 "2009-07-13T00:11:56Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > Well, I’m guessing Bats won’t stay dead either. (how’d he die BTW?). He wasn’t prepared. 🆒 But seriously, battle with Darkseid. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/28 "2009-07-13T01:18:10Z")
More importantly, Darkseid took out Batman (who’d just taken out Darkseid) by the _Omega Sanction_. Which means that Bruce is dead, but is also being reborn into a series of successively worse alternate realities. So he’s both dead _and_ alive, at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/29 "2009-07-13T01:20:54Z")
Great, Schrödinger’s Batman. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/30 "2009-07-14T00:37:16Z")
It depends on what comic books you read, I guess. In many of fhe comics I like (if not, indeed, _most_ of the comics I like), a whole _lot_ of the characters end up getting killed to death, or else catching their death of something. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/31 "2009-07-14T00:41:30Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > Great, Schrödinger’s Batman. ROFL! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/32 "2009-07-14T14:21:28Z")
As long as Bucky and Uncle Ben are still dead. Though, I seem to remember there was talk of bringing Bucky back. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/33 "2009-07-14T14:25:00Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > As long as Bucky and Uncle Ben are still dead. > > Though, I seem to remember there was talk of bringing Bucky back. Bucky’s been back for a while now. Or are you being sarcastic? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/34 "2009-07-14T15:58:26Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Bucky’s been back for a while now. Or are you being sarcastic? No, just ignorant. I thought the rule was, “Only Bucky and Uncle Ben will remain dead,” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/35 "2009-07-14T16:00:13Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > No, just ignorant. > > I thought the rule was, “Only Bucky and Uncle Ben will remain dead,” Well, he was mentioned in post #2 of this thread as being the new Captain America. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/36 "2009-07-14T16:01:30Z")
It was, but rules were made to be broken. Bucky came back as the anti-hero Winter Soldier a few years ago, and took over the mantle of Captain America when Steve Rogers was assassinated a year or two ago. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/37 "2009-07-14T16:26:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The Comedian, Rorschach, Nite Owl I, Captain Metropolis, Hooded Justice, Dollar Bill and Silhouette. Amen. And the notion that these folks will actually remain dead gives me hope. Hope I had given up when Frank Poole\* was brought back. \*Not comics, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/38 "2009-07-14T16:34:05Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Hope I had given up when Frank Poole\* was brought back. > > \*Not comics, sorry. But it was still lame. [QUOTE=Munch] Well, he was mentioned in post #2 of this thread as being the new Captain America. [/QUOTE] So he was. I must have blocked it out. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/39 "2009-07-14T16:38:41Z")
[Article on Captain America returning](http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1614051/20090616/story.jhtml). Apparently no one’s been cast for the [movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/), which will start filming next year. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727/40 "2009-07-14T16:45:12Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > But it was still lame. Oy. It completely redefined _lame_ for me. In ways not even _Garden of Rama_ did. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-comic-book-characters-are-currently-dead/502727.md?page=3)