DISQUS

JMoney · 7 months ago

You forgot to mention Beerfest!

Sam_isusingan_ · 7 months ago

Number 1 makes me think of Beerfest, and how Broken Lizard directly parodies it.

phrenetik · 7 months ago

I think you can dig up more examples from Lost. I'm too lazy to think them up now. By the way, Gandalf returned because he had 'unfinished business'. Instead of No.8 being 'Seriously, I'm a New Character', methinks it's better to put it this way, 'I'm Not Done Yet.' XD

Neil Miller · 7 months ago

You are correct. We could probably do an entire list just from Lost... But we're saving that for a rainy day. :)

Michelle_FSR · 7 months ago

In that case, put Starbuck in there too!

PaulSileo · 7 months ago

"Farewell, my brave Hobbits. My work is now finished. Here at last, on the shores of the sea comes the end of our Fellowship. I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."

Oh, Gandalf. SCREW VALINOR, COME LIVE WITH ME!

phrenetik · 7 months ago

AMEN! :P

Cole_Abaius · 7 months ago

Bringing someone back to life is nothing.

Now, bringing back the entire earth like in Hitchhiker's Guide is tough.

RobertFure · 7 months ago

Nah they just built a new one.

Bethany P · 7 months ago

dude, city slickers 2 is REALLY good.

dragonmum · 7 months ago

Movies & TV don't have a lock on this... just look at comics. I can only think of one semi-major character that's stayed dead: Gwen Stacy. (If anybody has others, feel free to chime in.) Jean Grey's died and come back to life at least twice; Peter Parker and MJ have both been cloned; Superman died and not only came back to life, he had no less than THREE clones. Hell, just recently Bruce Wayne - yes, frickin' Batman - was killed off, but at the end of that storyline it was implied that's he's not truly dead. I'll be more impressed when a major character is killed off and manages to stay dead.

RobertFure · 7 months ago

Yeah, documenting all the comic deaths like this would take about 650 pages. Even Gwen Stacy has managed to come back to life a few times. Uncle Ben, I think, has the record for staying dead the longest, but even he came back. Comics are funny because they'll do this cycle: Dead - Return - KIDDING THAT IS SOMEONE ELSE - Dead - Return THIS ONE IS THE ORIGINAL - Retires - New character - Dead - Original Returns.

And all of that is in about 4 issues. ;)

Kangaroo Be Stoned · 7 months ago

Make sure you add "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II" to the list in 2011.

rlr260 · 7 months ago

Don't forget "it was all a dream" form Dallas.

rlr260 · 7 months ago

Oops. "from."

switchkosterice · 7 months ago

How about pretty much ALL of The Green Mile?

lauren · 7 months ago

starbuck coming back was cool. it was the thing at the end that sucked. She just disappeared? WTF?

El Patro · 7 months ago

What about HRG coming back to life after a blood transfusion from his daughter? That's what made me stop watching Heroes.

Brandon · 6 months ago

Uber bonus points for the Sledgehammer reference!

Troy · 6 months ago

Gandalf didn't die when he fought the Balrog, he transcended himself and became Gandalf the White. Read the books...
You took most of this stuff out of context to make your point. It may fool stupid people, but not anyone paying attention. Its all just stories anyway. Sheesh.

lewpom · 6 months ago

having someone come from a parallel universe.

bendy · 6 months ago

Umm... every single Friday the thirteenth. He was resurrected with electricity, psychoteneathas, cryogenically frozen, sole transfer (voodoo), and damn near anything else. But I think none of it would have “worked” if he wasn’t the ultimate mama’s boy.

Joe R. · 5 months ago

Time travel anyone?

Justin · 5 months ago

Kenny from South Park.

DumbDude1994 · 5 months ago

HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy (among other books and movies), go back in time and stop the event from happening.

Clay · 5 months ago

first off, #8 and #4 are the same concept. Secondly, they both describe situations where a character starts out alive, continues to live and then later is shown to still be alive... when did the resurrection part come in? Doesn't one have to die first before they can come back to life?

as for clones and twin brothers, these are new characters who have no bearing on the life/death status of another character... they are not the same character returned from the grave. Maybe you are confused because the same actor is utilized to play the new character... but according to that logic, all characters played by a single actor throughout his/her career are resurrections of previous characters... like, Ted from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure lives a long happy life, eventually grows old and dies, then a hundred or so years later, he is resurrected as a guy named Neo, who dies to free mankind, but is then resurrected as Constantine in an alternate universe... very silly.

The heretofore unknown twin and clone concepts are preposterous, but they have nothing to do with a dead character coming back to life. and as such deserve no place on this list (certainly not the number one spot.)

It's like saying, "the most preposterous way for a character to be resurrected is for a guy to get superpowers from a radioactive spider!" a preposterous movie situation to be sure, but not one involving resurrection.

Boya · 5 months ago

The worst was Blood and Doughnuts - a Canadian piece of crap that I can't believe I watched. They used jumper cables and jelly from a doughnut.

Solosurfer · 4 months ago

I'm no starry eyed fan of Pirates of the Caribbean but c'mon, you're harping on Voodoo resurrection in a movie with ghosts and curses and monsters? Really?
Might as well bash Peter Pan where they're all yelling 'I DO believe in fairies! I do! I do!' to bring Tinkerbell back to life... although it's such a hilarious Gay pride refrain.