List of dead/resurrected characters

[Rock69]

Continuing on the topic of death of characters by the big two that I posted on the Community Forum http://forums.comicbookresources.com...0#post15020100,

I decided to make a list of major (mostly) Marvel characters that died and came back. Feel free to add to this list, I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

The reason is to realize how absurd and ridiculous some of these deaths were. Amazingly, Iron Man and Hulk never died on comics.

Let’s wait.




Adam Warlock
Death: killed by Thanos the first time. Killed by the Guardians of the Galaxy while in his Magus persona the second time.
Resurrection/Retcon: cannot explain. At all.

Alpha Flight
Death: the entire group was killed by Weapon Omega by accident
Resurrection/Retcon: resurrected during the Fear Itself event

Angel
Death: commited suicide soon after his wings were torn apart during the Mutant Massacre
Resurrection/Retcon: was actually lured by Apocalypse, who promised to give him his wings back, and became his Death horseman (aka Archangel).

Ant-Man II (Scott Lang)
Death: killed by the Scarlet Witch during Avengers Disassembled
Resurrection/Retcon: rescued from the past by the Young Avengers

Blink
Death: sacrificed herself to stop the Phalanx during the Phalanx Covenant event
Resurrection/Retcon: was resurrected by Selene during the X-Necrosha event

Bucky
Death: died in the 40’s while trying to dismantle a bomb launched by Baron Zemo
Resurrection/Retcon: was rescued by the Russians and saved by cybernetic implants in his body. Got brainwashed and turned into the Winter Soldier

Cable
Death: died while trying to save Hope at the end of Second Coming
Resurrection/Retcon: was actually teleported into the future

Captain America
Death: killed by a mind-controlled Sharon Carter
Resurrection/Retcon: his body was dead but his mind/soul went on a trippy travel through time, re-living some of his biggest moments all over again. Was brought back by the Red Skull

Colossus
Death: sacrificed himself in order to spread the cure for the Legacy virus
Resurrection/Retcon: was actually rescued and resurrected by the alien race the Ord

Cypher
Death: killed by the Re-Animator
Resurrection/Retcon: resurrected by Selene during the X-Necrosha event

Cyclops
Death: killed himself when he began to merge with Apocalypse during The Twelve
Resurrection/Retcon: was actually alive and forcing himself to avoid his merge with the villain. Found and rescued by Jean and Cable

Human Torch
Death: killed by a mob of monsters in the Negative Zone
Resurrection/Retcon: was resurrected by Annihilus doctors and sent to fight as a gladiator in the Negative Zone arena. Kept dying/being resurrected multiple times until he was able to defeat Annihilus.

Elektra
Death: killed by Bullseye
Resurrection/Retcon: resurrected by the Hand

Gilgamesh
Death: killed during The Crossing event
Resurrection/Retcon: seen alive again next to his Eternals colleagues

Hary Osborn
Death: poisoned by the Goblin formula.
Resurrection/Retcon: his death was just an illusion created by Mysterio and Norman Osborn. He was actually taken to Europe for rehab from the Goblin formula.

Havok
Death: died while fighting the villain Greystone
Resurrection/Retcon: was actually sent to a parallel universe. Came back in a coma and was eventually found the X-Men.

Hawkeye
Death: sacrificed himsef during the attack by Scarlet Witch
Resurrection/Retcon: brought back to life by the Scarlet Witch shortly after House of M

Hercules
Death: sacrificed himself at the end of the High Evolutionary Wars
Resurrection/Retcon: hes a God so…he just came back I guess

Iron Man
Death: sacrificed his life to stop Kang during The Crossing event
Resurrection: came back with all the other heroes from Franklin's pocket universe from the Onslaught event

Jocasta
Death: her AI was destroyed while inside the Iron Man armor
Resurrection/Retcon: never explained. Hank Pym probably built her again

Legion
Death: seemingly killed by Bishop to stop the Age of Apocalypse reality
Resurrection/Retcon: oy, I can’t explain. Check Wikipedia and see if you can figure it out

Madeleine Pryor
Death: consumed by the Phoenix Force during the Inferno event
Resurrection/Retcon: her spirit was resurrected by X-Man Nate Grey accidentally. While trying to find a new body for herself she was killed permanently (for now)

Magik
Death: killed by the Legacy virus
Resurrection/Retcon: an alternate version of her remained in the regular universe after the events of House Of M

Meggan
Death: sacrificed herself during House Of M
Resurrection/Retcon: got lost between dimensions, went to Hell and came back by herself

Mockingbird
Death: sacrificed herself to save the Avengers from Mephisto
Resurrection/Retcon: was actually captured and replaced by a Skrull infiltrator prior to her death. Rescued by the Avengers during Secret Invasion

Moon Knight
Death: sacrificed himself to stop the villain Seth
Resurrection/Retcon: No idea

Moondragon
Death: killed by the Defenders while in her dragon form
Resurrection/Retcon: Her body perished but her soul wandered, eventually finding her cousin Pamela, who helped her get a new body

Mr. Fantastic
Death: killed by Dr. Doom, who died with him as well
Resurrection/Retcon: Was actually thrown back in time by a being named Hyperstorm and was eventually found and rescued by his family.

Mystique
Death: killed by Wolverine
Resurrection/Retcon: apparently resurrected by the Hand

Nick Fury
Death: killed by the Punisher, who was misled into thinking he was the one responsible for his family’s death
Resurrected/Retcon: the one that died was actually a life-decoy model (plot point that was used a gazillion times in Nick Fury stories)

Northstar
Death: killed by Wolverine, who was brainwashed by Hydra
Resurrection/Retcon: resurrected by the Hand

Psylocke
Death: killed by the villain Vargas
Resurrection/Retcon: brought back to life by her brother Jamie Braddock, who had the power to bend reality

Punisher
Death: first time, committed suicide after he became a mob boss himself. Second time, was killed by Daken.
Resurrection/Retcon: oh boy...first time he was resurrected by angels and stuff and came back with supernatural powers. Second time he was stitched back and used as weapon against the Legion of Monsters, becoming Franken-Castle, until a powerful jewel called Bloodstone restored his original body.

Quasar
Death: sacrificed himself to stop Annihius during the Annihilation event
Resurrection/Retcon: his spirit was kept alive inside his own quantum bands. Got resurrected by scientists from Project Pegasus, apparently

Rachel Summers/Phoenix II
Death: got sent into the future (another future) and became the leader of the Askani clan. Died of old age.
Resurrection/Retcon: was rescued from the timestream by Cable

Sabretooth
Death: beheaded by Wolverine
Resurrection/Retcon: apparently resurrected by the Hand

Storm
Death: killed by the Nanny
Resurrection/Retcon: the body that died was a clone. Was reverted to a child-state by the Nanny and escaped. Found herself on Egypt, with no memory of her previous life, acting as a street thief again.

Thor
Death: died during the Ragnarok battle, along with all of Asgard
Resurrection/Retcon: seemingly the Ragnarok cycle ended and a new one began. Therefore, he came back.

Vision
Death: destroyed by She-Hulk during Avengers Disassembled
Resurrection/Retcon: was built back by Iron Man. Piece of cake

Warlock (New Mutants)
Death: killed by Cameron Hodge during the X-Tinction Agenda event
Resurrection/Retcon: was found by Nova in his home planet, God knows how

Wolverine
Death: killed by the new Death, one of Apocalypse's horsemen
Resurrection/Retcon: the real Wolverine as actually abducted by Apocalypse and replaced by a Skrull imposter. Apocalypse turned him into the Death horseman so he was the one who killed his imposter

Wonder Man
Death: killed by a Kree alien
Resurrection/Retcon: brought back to life by the Scarlet Witch

X-Man (Nate Grey)
Death: sacrificed himself to save the world from Anti-Man, an alien
Resurrection/Retcon: he never died but apparently became a being made of psionic energy. Eventually he was able to materialize himself again during a battle against the Dark X-Men

[Xothermic]

Is Nova and Star-Lord still dead?

[CTpitch]

Alpha Flight
Death: the entire group was killed by Weapon Omega by accident
Resurrection/Retcon: resurrected during the Fear Itself event

actually AF was resurrected during the chaos war event and only puck was resurrected during fear itself

[Rock69]

actually AF was resurrected during the chaos war event and only puck was resurrected during fear itself

Thats true. Both events were so close to each other that I got confused.

[Rock69]

Is Nova and Star-Lord still dead?

Yup. And this Nova from Avengers Vs X-Men is a new one, not Richard Rider (oh the heresy!!)

[Hrist]

Didn't Tony die during the Crossing? (And then Franklin Richards brought him back.)

Didn't Hawkeye die in Avengers: Disassembled? (And then Wanda brought him back.)

[CTpitch]

I didn't mean to be a scrooge

magnificent list there

[chariset]

Are you counting all the times a character dies/disappears and is brought back within the same arc, or does there have to be some time elapsed between death and return?

[Rock69]

Didn't Tony die during the Crossing? (And then Franklin Richards brought him back.)

Didn't Hawkeye die in Avengers: Disassembled? (And then Wanda brought him back.)

Well THAT death during Crossing doesn't count because it didn't last.

As for Hawkeye...yup, true, so true...Hawkeye died during Disassembled and came back during House of M.

Like I said, I knew I'd be forgetting some things.

[Rock69]

Are you counting all the times a character dies/disappears and is brought back within the same arc, or does there have to be some time elapsed between death and return?

Well if a character dies and comes back after 2 issues then it doesn't count. Said death had to had some impact to it.

Some may question that Wolverine death but it was on the cover of the issue so it was kind of a big deal, even though everyone knew he'd come back (otherwise Marvel would make a huge deal over it).

[Shellhead]

Iron Man died in Avengers #132. He was roasted inside his armor by Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch.

And almost every single Marvel character died and came back during Marvel: the End, which is in continuity and not a What If story. The only exceptions were Thanos, Adam Warlock, Gamora and a little girl.

[Rock69]

I didn't mean to be a scrooge

magnificent list there

Thanks. I had a lot of free time on my hands this morning. And these random deaths annoy me oh so very much.

[Rock69]

Iron Man died in Avengers #132. He was roasted inside his armor by Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch.

Wow nice death. But it probably doesn't count. How long did it take for him to come back? What was the retcon?

And almost every single Marvel character died and came back during Marvel: the End, which is in continuity and not a What If story. The only exceptions were Thanos, Adam Warlock, Gamora and a little girl.

This doesn't count as well because it had no impact to it...and it will never happen.

[Shellhead]

Wow nice death. But it probably doesn't count. How long did it take for him to come back? What was the retcon?





This doesn't count as well because it had no impact to it...and it will never happen.

Iron Man was brought back to life in the next issue, which was Giant-Size Avengers #3. Immortus use time travel technology to retroactively snatch Iron Man away just before he would have died.

It's true that there were no lasting consequences from Marvel: the End. Or for that matter, from most of the deaths in your original list. Captain America in particular has died or seemingly died so many times, that it's just silly now:

http://filingcabinetofthedamned.blog...isticuffs.html

I'm not saying that Marvel should ever seriously adopt that dead is dead policy, but it would be nice if they could figure out a few alternatives to the stereotypical Marvel Death plot twist, because nobody is buying that anymore.

[Rock69]

Iron Man was brought back to life in the next issue, which was Giant-Size Avengers #3. Immortus use time travel technology to retroactively snatch Iron Man away just before he would have died.

It's true that there were no lasting consequences from Marvel: the End. Or for that matter, from most of the deaths in your original list. Captain America in particular has died or seemingly died so many times, that it's just silly now:

http://filingcabinetofthedamned.blog...isticuffs.html

I'm not saying that Marvel should ever seriously adopt that dead is dead policy, but it would be nice if they could figure out a few alternatives to the stereotypical Marvel Death plot twist, because nobody is buying that anymore.

Well...out of all those Captain America deaths I think the only one that might be relevant is the 1996 death. I don't remember it though. But Brubaker's was THE big one.

I didn't only took into consideration the lenght of said death but also the emotional impact of it.

For instance: Storm showed up again 10-15 issues later or so (as a child, so we didn't really know if it was the same Storm). But her death was so shocking to the X-Men that the team was disbanded shortly after it. And it really did seem like she died.