By Scott Meslow
You may have register headlines recently , at internet site like theNew York PostorRolling Stone , cover that Batman ’s darling sidekick Robin will be killed off in a funny volume scheduled to hit shelves tomorrow . You may have even been sorry about it . But never reverence , Robin fans ; in funny leger , dying is a well - traveled country , from whose bourn many travelers devolve . And indeed , cartoon strip writer Grant Morrison is already evade on the Boy Wonder ’s expiry . " you’re able to never say never in a mirthful book,“says Morrison . " Batman will ultimately always have a cooperator . " If the serial does attempt to revive the fallen Robin , it will be in very good ( or bad ) company . Here , eight of the most ridiculous ways that comic book heroes have been brought back from the dead :
1. Bucky Barnes
The death of Captain America chum Bucky Barnes wasoriginally introduced via flashback , and Bucky ’s decease was a life-sustaining part of Captain America ’s character . Our hero long struggled to care with his guilt over failing to prevent the boy ’s decease — guilt that turned out to be misplaced . More than four X later , it was revealed that a brainwashed Buckyhad been operatingas a Soviet assassinator call up the Winter Soldier all along . Since his resurrection as the Winter Soldier , Bucky has in reality been " killed off " andcome backagain , with his manifest death in 2011 ’s " dread Itself " electric discharge later revealed to have been prevent by an injection of something called infinity formula .
2. Jean Grey
The best arc inX - Menhistory see devotee - preferent Jean Grey ( then ring Marvel Girl ) dietwice — first , as she guided a starship control the rest of the X - Men back to Earth , which exposed her to fateful levels of radiation butallowed her to be rebornas the exponentially more hefty " Phoenix " ; and second in"Dark Phoenix,“when the immensity of her power corrupted her , causing her to destroy an entire galaxy and then disintegrate herself in a moment of remorse . It was a dexterous , moving story about the consequences of even the noblest person having too much power — so of course , it wasretconnedsix years later , when it was revealed that " Phoenix " was a separate identity , and that the literal Jean Grey had been healing in a protective cocoon on the ocean flooring all along .
3. The Flash (Barry Allen)
Much like Bucky Barnes , the death of the second superhero have sex as The Flash gets an star , because it was reveal 23 years after his " death " that he never died at all . Allenstopped a galacticsupervillaincalled the Anti - Monitor from destroy the Earth by creating a " speed vortex " — better know to us person as " run really fast " — that converted his body into pure zip . But even though his nephew , Wally West , picked up the Flash mantle in his stead , Allencame back into beingafter gestating for 23 years in a deus ex auto called the " Speed Force . "
4. Robin (Jason Todd)
Though many comic Good Book characters have hail and lead , only Jason Todd — the 2d Boy Wonder to answer as Batman ’s sidekick — has been kill off at the behest of fans . In 1988 , DC Comics held a telephone poll take fans whether or not Todd should be defeat off , and bya allowance of less than 100 votes , fan said yes . Todd ’s savage demise in 1988 ’s " A Death in the Family , " in which the Joker beat Todd with a pry bar and left him to pass in an explosion , provided one of the most memorable consequence in the story of Batman comics . But in 2005 , when Superboy punch the universe so heavily that it created break in the real macrocosm — an natural process that , perhaps not coincidently , permit writers to muck around with the comedian ’s continuity as much as they wanted — Todd wasbrought back to life , and has subsequently served as both supervillain and superhero .
5. Superman
When news broke that DC Comics planned to kill off Superman aftera climactic battle with Doomsdayin 1992 , it made international headlines — despite the fact that DC always destine to bring him back . Superman ’s end paved the direction for the introduction of a serial of proto - Supermen , include a teenaged clone bid the Metropolis Kid , a bionic man called The Man of Tomorrow , and an armor - clad smith call off The Man of Steel ( later played by note thespian Shaquille O’Neal in a 1997 moving-picture show calledSteel ) . After a brief rough-and-tumble over which of the new poor boy was the " true " new Superman , it was bring out that Superman was awake because his trunk had been place in a machine / otiose plot twist called a " regeneration matrix " at his Fortress of Solitude .
6. Robin (Stephanie Brown)
Yes , anotherRobin has also been kill off , though her clip in the ground was a lot forgetful than Jason Todd ’s . Stephanie Brown was in the beginning enclose as the daughter of a Batman baddie called the Cluemaster , but became a lover favorite as the Spoiler , a superheroine who eventually became the girl of then - Robin Tim Drake . When Tim retired , Brown win over Batman to get her become the next Robin , but hershort - endure term of office endedwhen the nefarious Black Mask tortured her in an attempt to learn more about Batman . Though Brown was indicate die from her injuries in a infirmary seam with Batman at her side , it was disclose four year afterward that she had actually faked her dying to forestall more villains from using her against Batman . Though she later hada brief land tenure asBatgirl , Brown has n’t appeared in recent comics , with no explanation as to her whereabouts . So for all we know , she ’s dead again .
7. Captain America (Steve Rogers)
8. Spider-Man
Given everything you just scan about comic Bible case " deaths , " you ’d think fans would spoil them off by now — but the seeming " death " of Spider - Man in December 2012 , which was also reported in mainstream news outlet , was so polarise that some Spider - Fans madeactualdeath threatsagainst writer Dan Slott . In the controversial military issue , Peter Parker switched bodies with the villain Doctor Octopus for reasons too derisory to explicate — and that ’s enjoin something given some of the far - out account above . After they pull off the switcheroo , the cancer - ridden consistency of Doctor Octopus buckle under to disease before Parker could flip back . Parker was then unveil to be alivein the very next issue , struggle with Doctor Octopus ' psyche as they both set about to control his eubstance .
This is how comic books work , noblewoman and gentlemen — so do n’t mourn too hard for our dearly departed Robin .
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