The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Oliver Pulumbarit ponders superhero mortality in an article that must seem batsh*t insane to the average newspaper reader:
Like Osiris, Jesus and even King Arthur (whose legend foretells his eventual return), your average superhero has at least died once (maybe twice!) and has lived anew, with a renewed sense of purpose. In universes like DC and Marvel, there are Lazarus Pits, cosmic entities, and Hand Ninja rituals that don’t let the dearly departed corpses stay that way for long.
Big magic spells and cosmic deus ex machinas prove very handy in breathing new life into them again. Apart from Dead Girl, Resurrection Man and Mister Immortal (because that’s actually their shtick), some previously deceased characters that have lived again include the following:
He then goes on to rattle off a daunting laundry list of the dead-and-returned that includes everyone from Captain America and Superman to Adam Warlock and Buffy Summers.
