Who Would You Bring Back?

[Manic]

With the X-Men comics about to dive into Necrosha, DC running its Blackest Night event, and resurrection being so common in superhero comics, I got to thinking about my favorite characters that have died over the years. Sure, we all like to complain about certain resurrections for whatever reason, but I'm sure we all have characters we'd like to see come back.

If you could bring dead characters back to your favorite Marvel books, would would it be? How would you do it? Why?

Also, are there are any particular dead characters you think should never come back?


There are a few characters I'd bring back, like Banshee, John the Skrull, and Mimic from the Exiles. This one's going to sound strange, but one character I'd really like to see resurrected is Magda, Magneto's late wife. Her sudden return (which could easily be explained as "Wanda did it at the end of House of M") could really shake things up for Magneto and Quicksilver. I'd love to see how her presence would affect Magneto's goals, behavior, and priorities. Sure, he'd be back to his sociopathic nutter self within the next year (no other characterization seems to stick with that man), but I think it'd make for a good story nonetheless.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Mimic from Exiles would be a great addition to the main Marvel universe. I'd love to see him come back.

Ben Reilly would be cool. I'd read Ben Reilly Spider-Man comics.

I say go for broke and bring Uncle Ben back, too. Spider-Man's never gonna stop being Spider-Man at this point, so Uncle Ben's death served its purpose. It'd be interesting to see how his bona fide return would throw Spider-Man's world into disarray.

 

[bryanss3]

Corp why don't they just bring Gwen back too.

I'd like to see Bill Foster and The Wasp alive, their deaths felt so meaningless to me. It seemed like they had to round out who they could kill that won't effect anything in the long run after CW and SI.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't really care either way about Gwen. It's obvious Peter's romantic relationships will never go anywhere at this point, so she'd just be another name on the list of his many conquests who might pop up from time to time.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Jack of Hearts!
i love Jack cause like he said "i wear my heart on my sleeve if i i hate you you know it!.Also Jack is also one of the more striking characters in comics for me.The cosmic origin i would leave off, i like the whole getting doused in Zero fluid better. he went out kinda like a sucker and needs another chance baby!

 

[Franklin Richards]

I'd bring me back.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Jack of Hearts!
i love Jack cause like he said "i wear my heart on my sleeve if i i hate you you know it!.Also Jack is also one of the more striking characters in comics for me.The cosmic origin i would leave off, i like the whole getting doused in Zero fluid better. he went out kinda like a sucker and needs another chance baby!

He would be good on the Guardians of the Galaxy.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Since Necrosha is X-Men based I'd love to see Synch back. He was my favorite character in Generation X and... well... favorite character at all for that time period. I was so stoked to see him in New X-Men's House of M tie-in but that didn't last sadly.

Besides him I'd like to see Banshee back. His death was stupid. And Skin... but we all know that's not going to happen.

If you can't tell I loved Generation X.


OH.... X-Man... good old Nate Grey!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'd rather see Cable get his full powers back rather than Nate come back. It feels a little redundant when both of them are around to me.

 

[sdc10]

Id like to see Pyro come back, always thought he made a good bad guy

 

[CombatRock319]

Mimic from Exiles would be a great addition to the main Marvel universe. I'd love to see him come back.

Ben Reilly would be cool. I'd read Ben Reilly Spider-Man comics.

I say go for broke and bring Uncle Ben back, too. Spider-Man's never gonna stop being Spider-Man at this point, so Uncle Ben's death served its purpose. It'd be interesting to see how his bona fide return would throw Spider-Man's world into disarray.

bring uncle ben back? that's such a good idea! you know what else they should do while they're at it? create a story that says that all these years spider-man was a clone. but then wasn't. but then was. that would be such a good idea...oh wait...

i'd like it if jean grey would just stay dead. that would be cool.

oh, and DONT F*#$^*# REVIVE CAPTAIN AMERICA EITHER. cap reborn is the stupidest ***** i've ever read...

 

[JewishHobbit]

I'd LOVE it if they brought back Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy!!!! Though I have to say the only reason is so Spider-Man bleeds even more readers until Marvel just goes and fixes everything since OMD.

 

[Manic]

I think it's pretty clear that as long as Marvel keeps an acclaimed creative team on Amazing Spider-Man who churn out some overall good ideas, Marvel can do whatever the hell they want to that book without worrying about losing readers. Erasing a 20 year long marriage and wrecking continuity to the point where readers aren't exactly sure which of their back-issues still count as canon? ASM gained readers after that.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter are the only characters that need to come back in my list. I would prefer Janet van Dyne, Kitty, and Jean Grey come back.

I would also like to note that I want Vixen to be killed in a horrible manner and never come back.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I think it's pretty clear that as long as Marvel keeps an acclaimed creative team on Amazing Spider-Man who churn out some overall good ideas, Marvel can do whatever the hell they want to that book without worrying about losing readers. Erasing a 20 year long marriage and wrecking continuity to the point where readers aren't exactly sure which of their back-issues still count as canon? ASM gained readers after that.

Yeah, infuriating. But it's been 50 issues and we should just suck it up

 

[Manic]

If by "suck it up" you mean "stop reading" then yes, that's exactly what I did.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Same here. I gave it a fair shot with American Son. I liked it but it wasn't Spider-Man anymore. I'm planning on getting the Clone stuff so I thought I'd buy stuff inbetween since it's only a few issues but 600 was $5, which I won't pay, and 601 had Peter get drunk and sleep with some random chick I didn't know, which is very out of character as well, so I just said screw it. I'm not even sure if I'm going to buy the Ben Reilly arc now thanks to that. I'm strongly considering the Clone Saga mini though. I like the original Clone Saga and Peter and MJ are married in it

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm buying the Deadpool issue. That'll be my reintroduction to Spider-Man, since I dropped all his comics on the third part of OMD and never bought anything further.

I'm definitely buying the Clone Saga mini, though. For better or worse, that was my childhood Spider-Man, so I'll be glad to see the story as it was originally intended to be.

 

[random_havoc]

I wouldn't bring anyone back. In fact, if I had the power, I would put a ban on resurrecting any character that hasn't been dead for at least 5 years. And I would require a 50 page essay justifying bringing back any character that HAS been dead for 5+ years.

Deaths are completely meaningless in the Marvel U at this point. I literally laughed when I read that Ms Marvel was going to die. And that lasted, what, 2 issues before she was resurrected? It had such little impact it STILL hasn't even been MENTIONED in NA despite her being a team member (and I don't blame Bendis one bit for not referencing it).

The various X-Men have all been resurrected to the point where if someone asked me to name 5 that haven't been resurrected it'd take me some time to stop and think about it.

It's just gotten pathetic.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't mind that deaths are meaningless, personality. Shouldn't they be, if you're going to have characters who just go on and on forever? I wouldn't want to be a huge Colossus fan who worked my way into the industry solely to write him just to find that some short-sighted ass had killed him while I was still in college.

 

[Manic]

The combination of Bucky, Jason Todd, and Barry Allen all coming back from the dead has convinced me that deaths are not sacred in comics, and that any character can come back at any time.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, it was Barry Allen that did it for me. In comics, death < nostalgia, clearly.

 

[Speedball]

< I want the guy I'm named after back.
He needs to stop being an emo little effer, take off his little "I love to cut myself" suit, and start bouncing around and being an annoying little effer again!

 

[kguillou]

I just wish there was at least a 5-7 year limit to death. If a character is dead at least 7 years then at least the death meant something. The point of a death is for it to be shocking and saddening. At the rate marvel and dc are going, now everytime a character dies, the readers are just gonna giggle and roll their eyes. What would be the point then?

 

[Kurosawa]

The combination of Bucky, Jason Todd, and Barry Allen all coming back from the dead has convinced me that deaths are not sacred in comics, and that any character can come back at any time.

And that is why I say death in comics should be very VERY rare.