5 Horrible Movie Resurrections That Were Dead on Arrival
Sometimes when a character is killed, he or she is better off dead.
The killing off of a major character, whether hero or villain, is supposed to be crucial to the plot of the movie.
And most of the time it is, providing the audience with a shocking twist or dramatic moment and sometimes becoming the most memorable part of the movie.
Unfortunately, sometimes characters return with little to no explanation, severely undermining the overall story.
Here are five such miraculous resurrections that should never have happened. Beware of potential spoilers.
Han (Fast & Furious)
After his untimely death in Tokyo Drift, Han makes several appearances in the sequels, constantly retconning the timeline of the entire series, which leads to its own set of problems.
Eventually it is established that he survived, with an overly complicated and impossible explanation.
We understand that the whole saga is not the most realistic franchise ever, but was it really necessary?
Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker)
One of the most infamous examples of changing the course of a franchise midway through, the iconic line "Somehow Palpatine has returned" will forever be remembered as one of the dumbest explanations for a character's comeback in all of film history.
Of course, they try to squeeze in that he is a clone, but that is never fully explained in the movie and does an extremely poor job of covering up this obvious retcon.
Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez (Highlander II: The Quickening)
After getting his head chopped off in the first movie, which was established as the only way to kill an immortal, Juan returns in the sequel with a half-assed explanation for his survival.
An altogether terrible sequel to a renowned masterpiece, it is just one of the reasons why Highlander fans prefer to pretend that it does not exist.
Galahad (Kingsman: The Golden Circle)
Completely demeaning the purpose of one of the best and most shocking scenes in the original, Harry survives a bullet to the head with the help of nanomachines.
In addition, this retcon completely undoes Merlin's character development, who had fully earned his status as one of the main heroes after the end of the first movie.
Shazam (Shazam! Fury of the Gods)
After Billy heroically sacrifices himself to save the day, he is almost immediately brought back to life by Wonder Woman, who appears out of nowhere.
All of this is clearly just added for a 5-minute emotional funeral scene and just feels cheap. At least Superman has been dead for a while.