destruction really is n’t the end in skill fabrication … It just depends on whether or not it can be written around later . Here are some of our favourite NotDeaths that prove that the Grim Reaper should really up his game .
Benjamin Spock
Died : Sacrificing himself by fetch the warp engines back online at the end of Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan , leading to his dying from exposure to radiation .
Undied : His body was resurrected in Star Trek III : The Search For Spock thanks to the Deus Ex Machina powers of the Genesis Planet , and it rick out that his soul had live on all along thanks to judgement melding with Bones .
Cause of Undeath : Mind - basket rummy and clamant patch ridiculousness in fiat to keep the fans happy . Admittedly , it was all dress up in Star Trek II , but still .
Does It Count As Death ? : Well , his soul was alert the intact time in Bones , but his body had enough time to go through a funeral and being shot off into space , so … 50/50 ? But not really , let ’s face it .
Ellen Tigh
Died : Poisoned by her husband after ( in his oculus ) betray humanity in “ Exodus , Part II ” at the start of Battlestar Galactica ’s third time of year .
Undied : Instantly downloaded into a new torso as part of the Fifth Cylon retcon , as uncover in the fourth time of year ’s “ Sometimes A Great Notion . ”
Cause of Undeath : Traditional cylon download / reincarnation .
Does It number As Death ? : Well , she was outright born-again , which suggests that she was never really beat as such , but the whole Fifth Cylon thing muddies the waters … peculiarly when she was reborn as someone who was n’t exactly the Ellen she was when she died . We ’re going with “ Kinda , but not really . ”
Boba Fett
give out : fall into the Sarlacc ’s mouth in Return Of The Jedi .
Undied : Climbing back out of the Sarlacc ’s backtalk in comic sequel Star Wars : Dark Empire .
Cause of Undeath : He was swallow by apparently never chew or digested and climbed his way out , apparently .
Does It Count As Death ? : If you think Dark Empire , not in the flimsy . George Lucas manifestly disagrees , however ; it ’s said that he edited Fett ’s last coming into court in the particular version of Return Of The Jedi to make it clearer that it ’s meant to be the ending of the quality .
John Sheridan
Died : avoid sure death by atomic blowup at the ending of Babylon 5 ’s third season finale , “ Z’ha’dum , ” by jumping into a cavity so late that it was impossible to survive . Oh , and then there was that atomic burst , which presumably would ’ve destroyed the pit and everything within it anyway .
Undied : At the start of the show ’s fourth season , Sheridan was bring out to be in a oblivion between living and death because of his love for Delenn . With the avail of – and 20 years deserving of lifeforce from – helpful fellow oblivion - ite Lorien , he come back to the land of the livelihood .
Cause of Undeath : As Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting would say , choose aliveness . Who knew it was that unsubdivided ?
Does It Count As expiry ? : Nope . Think of it as getting as far as death ’s foyer , before deciding to turn back because you ’d commute your brain .
Tasha Yar
Died : Wanting out of her Starfleet contract bridge early , Denise Crosby catch her character killed at the hands of a gloopy , ooky oil color demon in the first season episode of Star Trek : The Next Generation “ hide of Evil . ”
Undied : Thanks to time travelling shenanigans , turns out never to have decease in the alternate timeline of third season sequence “ Yesterday ’s enterprisingness , ” and then cope to return to the past of the original timeline at the end of the installment in a way that still does n’t make a good deal of mother wit .
Cause of Undeath : alternative timelines having prevent her from dying in the first place .
Does It Count As Death ? : Well , a Tasha Yar emphatically died . In fact , as we learn upon the visual aspect of the second Yar ’s daughter Sela , the other Tasha was killed unsuccessfully judge to escape from the Romulans , so it looks as if any and all Tashas would end up dead one elbow room or another .
Superman
Died : At the hands of the on the face of it unstoppable Last Day in 1993 ’s The Death of Superman storyline .
Undied : Midway through the follow - on The Return of Superman plot line , when it ’s been revealed that none of the four character who ’ve taken up the mantelpiece are the real thing .
Cause of Undeath : He woke up . No , really ; the interview is pretty much severalise that he ’d never croak in the first place , he ’d just live on into superhibernation for heal from the fight .
Does It Count As dying ? : Not at all , but it definitely numerate as a moneyspinner for DC Comics , who went on to toss off Green Arrow and Green Lantern within the next brace of years , as well as teasing deaths for the Flash and fracture Batman ’s back .
Bucky
Died : Trapped on a bomb that mentor and Nazi - crusade partner Captain America had managed to jump off of before it explode , as explicate right smart back in 1963 ’s Avengers series .
Undied : In 2005 ’s “ Winter Soldier ” storyline of Captain America , where he got reintroduced and prepped to become the new Captain America in 2007 .
Cause of Undeath : Turns out that Bucky was , in fact , blown to bits by the exploding bomb … It ’s just that they were pretty large bit . Large enough to reconstruct him into a brainwashed no - expert commie assassin who gets put on ice between missionary station , until he meets Cap , goes scallywag , remembers who he is , and then use his mighty Russian applied science for the good of American mankind .
Does It calculate As decease ? : What ’s brainwashed Russian assassinator for no ?
The Flash
Died : Which one ? Barry Allen died in 1985 ’s Crisis On Infinite land . Wally West go away and was , at various meter , dare dead / missing / no - one could make up their brain in 2004 ’s Infinite Crisis , and Bart Allen give up the pail in 2007 ’s The Flash : The Fastest Man Alive # 13 .
Undied : Wally come back in 2007 ’s Justice League of America # 10 , Barry in 2008 ’s Final Crisis # 1 and Bart in 2009 ’s Final Crisis : Legion of Three Worlds # 4 .
Cause of Undeath : Both Barry and Wally had , it turns out , never die . Barry had been swallowed into the Speed Force , which is the cosmic … affair … that gives all super - speed fiber their magnate in the DC Universe , while Wally ’s fate was at long last ( after a twosome of failed attempts that were rapidly contradicted ) decided upon a variation of “ He took his crime syndicate on vacation to an alien planet and did n’t tell anyone . ” Do n’t ask . Bart , meanwhile , did die , kind of … but his teen self was trapped in a futurist lightning pole and then as if by magic released in the 31st one C to fight Superboy Prime . Again , it ’s in all probability skillful if you did n’t ask .
Does It consider As decease ? : No question for either Barry or Wally ( No ) , but Bart … I have no idea . I ’ve read Legion of Three Worlds multiple times , and still do n’t empathise the explanation that ’s given there ; let ’s just never mention it again and feign it did n’t happen .
Jason Todd
Died : As the result of a tangible - life story phone voter turnout to see if Todd , the second Robin ( as in Batman and ) , should be killed at the hands of the Joker . in earnest , 1988 ’s comic industry , what the blaze were you thinking ?
Undied : 2004 ’s Batman revealed that Todd was not only not dead , but had magically maturate more than most other part in the DC Universe in his off - panel absence seizure .
Cause of Undeath : Superboy was punching the walls of realness , and thing went a bit weird . You know how it is with these superheroes and their plug the walls of reality ; history gets rewritten all over the place . Just be glad that Batman did n’t end up as Batdinosaur . Although , now that we intend about it , that ’d be awesome .
Does It reckon As destruction ? : Magically contradicting Schrodinger and his cat , Jason Todd both did and did n’t die . His official chronicle has it that he died , and then just came back to life thanks to the punching of reality , meaning that he was still alive . So , while it ultimately does n’t count as lasting expiry , there was a demise in there somewhere .
Jean Grey
Died : In 1980 ’s famous Uncanny X - Men # 137 , where she sacrifices herself for the good of the universe to turn back herself from becoming overwhelmed by the godlike power she possessed that might lead her to exhaust a pair of planets if she got peckish .
Undied : It ’s bring out in 1986 ’s Fantastic Four # 286 that the Jean Grey who killed herself was never actually Jean Grey at all , but the Phoenix force , who ’s been cosmically imprinted with Jean ’s personality . Do n’t interest ; the Phoenix force was already back by that breaker point anyway .
Cause of Undeath : Jean had n’t died ( at that item ) , and the Christ’s Resurrection of the Phoenix strength was somewhat connote by the name – The official explanation was that the Phoenix force had n’t actually died either , just lie torpid until someone else ( Jean ’s daughter from an alternative timeline . If you do n’t already bed , do n’t ask ) claimed it .
Does It enumerate As dying ? : Before the retcon and ruined Chris Claremont ’s X - Men once and for all you bastards , it did . Now ? No - one died until age later , when Jean really got the Phoenix power and then ended up choke anyway . Guess there ’s something ill-fated about the name or something .
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