Marvel Comics
| Character name | Issue Died | Cause of Death | Issue Revived | Resurrection Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur) | X-Men The Search for Cyclops #4 (February 2001) | Killed in an incorporeal astral by Cable's using his Psimitar. | Cable and Deadpool #27 (June 2006) | The Techno-organic virus which infects Cable is revealed to allow Apocalypse to reconstitute himself |
| Annihilus | Annihilation #5 (December 2006) | Disemboweled by Nova | Fantastic Four #578 (April 2010) | Mind reborn in a clone body |
| Ant-Man (Scott Edward Harris Lang) | The Avengers #500 (September 2004) | Murdered in an explosion caused by Scarlet Witch | The Avengers: The Children's Crusade #5 (April 2011) | Rescued from the past by time-traveling Young Avengers |
| Ariel | X-Men: Legacy #235 (April 2010) | Killed when a missile blew up the jeep she was in | X-Men: Legacy #259 (January 2012) | Revealed to have survived in mid-teleport |
| Attuma | The Sentry #1 (September 2000) | Beheaded by the Sentry | Dark Reign: Made Men #2 (September 2009) Notes: this comic book issue is online project | Resurrected by Doctor Doom as a patchwork |
| Aunt May (May Reilly Parker) | The Amazing Spider-Man #400 (April 1995) | Died of trauma in the hospital next to Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson | Spider-Man vol. 1, #97 (November 1998) | Revealed that her death was faked by Green Goblin's deception; the real Aunt May had being held captive is subsequently rescued by Spider-Man |
| Baron Mordo (Karl Amadeus Mordo) | Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #87 (March 1996) | Terminal cancer as a side effect of his use of black magic | The Amazing Spider-Man #500 (October 2003) | Restored to life |
| Barney Barton | The Avengers vol. 1, #64 (May 1969) | Sacrificed his life in order to destroy Egghead's deadly ray-projector | Hawkeye: Blindspot #3 (April 2011) | Restored to life in the healing chamber by Egghead |
| Basilisk (Basil Elks) | Fantastic Four #289 (April 1986) | Killed by Scourge of the Underworld | The Punisher vol. 7, #5 (May 2009) | Resurrected by the Hood using the power of Dormammu |
| Betty Ross | Incredible Hulk vol. 2, #466 (July 1998) | Poisoned with gamma radiation by the Abomination | Incredible Hulk #610 (June 2010) | Restored to life by the Intelligencia |
| Bird-Man (Achille DiBacco) | Captain America #319 (July 1986) | Killed by Scourge of the Underworld | The Punisher vol. 7, #5 (May 2009) | Resurrected by the Hood using the power of Dormammu |
| Black Abbott | Captain America #394 (November 1991) | Killed by Scourge of the Underworld | The Punisher vol. 7, #5 (May 2009) | Resurrected by the Hood using the power of Dormammu |
| Black Bolt (Blackagar Boltagon) | War of Kings #6 (August 2009) | In spaceship which exploded in the last fights with Vulcan | FF #6 (July 2011) | Revealed to have been transported into another dimension |
| Black Box (Garabed "Gareb" Bashur) | Cable and Deadpool #41 (June 2007) | Killed by Sabretooth | Deadpool vol 3, #57 (July 2012) | Revealed to have survived |
| Black Swan | Agent X #15 (December 2003) | Killed by Deadpool and Agency-X after betraying them | Deadpool vol. 3, #58 (July 2012) | Revealed as still alive his healing factor |
| Black Goliath (Doctor William Barrett "Bill" Foster) | Civil War #4 (September 2006) | Killed by a clone of Thor; a large portion of his upper torso was vaporized by a single blast from the clone Thor's Mjolnir-like energy weapon | Ant-Man & Wasp #1 (November 2010) | Revealed that his mind was transferred his consciousness into a virtual reality program by Henry Pym |
| Bolivar Trask | New X-Men #115 (July 2001) | Killed by Cassandra Nova | X-Force vol. 3, #21 (January 2010) | Resurrected by Bastion through use of a Technarch |
| Bucky (James Buchanan Barnes) | The Avengers vol. 1, #4 (March 1964) | His arm gets caught on a plane which explodes. | Captain America vol. 5, #8 (September 2005) | Revealed to have survived the plane explosion; kept in suspended animation as an irregularly-used assassin until his memory was restored |
| Cable (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers) | X-Force vol. 3, #28 (July 2010) | Consumed by the Techno-organic virus and exploded | Avengers: X-Sanction #1 (December 2011) | Revealed to have been transported into an alternate universe before the explosion |
| Captain America (Steven "Steve" Rogers) | Captain America vol. 5, #25 (April 2007) | Shot to death by a brainwashed Sharon Carter | Captain America: Reborn #1 (July 2009) | Revealed to have imprisoned in time; the Red Skull brought back Captain America's body with his own consciousness controlling it until Captain America forced him out of his body |
| Carnage (Cletus Kasady) | New Avengers #2 (December 2004) | Flown outside of Earth's atmosphere and torn apart by the Sentry | Carnage #3 (February 2011) | Revealed that he was alive, his body was preserved by the symbiote and later repaired |
| Colossus (Piotr "Peter" Nikolaievitch Rasputin) | Uncanny X-Men #390 (February 2001) | Sacrificed himself to spread the cure of the Legacy Virus | Astonishing X-Men vol. 3, #4 (October 2004) | Restored to life by Ord's Benetech and the assistance of Doctor Kavita Rao |
| Cypher (Douglas Aaron Ramsey) | New Mutants #60 (February 1988) | Killed by Ani-Mator | New Mutants vol. 3, #6 (October 2009) | Resurrected with the Techno-organic virus by Selene and Eli Bard, and later restored to life by the Warlock and Magik |
| Daredevil (Matthew Michael "Matt" Murdock) | Daredevil: Reborn #3 (March 2011) | Shot in a head by armed leader | Daredevil: Reborn #4 (May 2011) | Revealed to have survived his protected hands from gun shot |
| Darkstar (Laynia Sergeievna Petrovna) | New X-Men #130 (October 2002) | Killed by Fantomex after being controlled by Weapon XII | Darkstar and the Winter Guard #3 (August 2010) | Resurrected herself with her powers from Reena Stanicoff's death by Dire Wraith |
| Doctor Druid (Anthony Ludgate Druid) | Druid #4 (August 1995) | Killed by Hellstorm, the Son of Satan | Chaos War: Dead Avengers #1 (August 2010) | Returned from the death realms by Amatsu-Mikaboshi's corruption |
| Doctor Octopus (Otto Gunther Octavius) | Spectacular Spider-Man #221 (February 1995) | Murdered by an insane Kaine | The Amazing Spider-Man #427 (September 1997) | Resurrected by the Hand |
| Dracula (Vlad Tepes Dracula) | Captain Britain and MI: 13 #15 (July 2009) | Slain by the Excalibur | X-Men vol. 3, #3 (September 2010) | Resurrected by X-Men |
| Elektra (Elektra Natchios) | Daredevil #181 (April 1982) | Stabbed to death by Bullseye | Daredevil #190 (January 1983) | Restored to life by the Hand |
| Enchantress (Amora) | Thor vol. 2, #80 (August 2004) | Slain by the Mjolnir duplicate of Loki | Thor: God-Sized Special one-shot (December 2008) | Restored to life by Thor |
| Gorgon (Tomi Shishido) | Wolverine vol. 3, #31 (October 2005) | His own power turned him to stone, whereupon he was shattered by Wolverine | Secret Warriors #2 (May 2009) | Restored to life by the Hand using the rock fragments of his body |
| Gravity (Greg Willis) | Beyond! #6 (January 2007) | Sacrificed himself to fully extend his power by holding the planet together long enough for the Fantastic Four to escape from universe | Fantastic Four #545 (April 2007) | Physical body is reborn |
| Green Goblin (Norman Virgil Osborn) | The Amazing Spider-Man #122 (July 1973) | Impaled by his Goblin Glider | Spider-Man #75 (December 1996) | Revealed to have survived impalement thanks to a previously-unknown accelerated healing factor included in his powers |
| Guardian (James MacDonald Hudson) | New Avengers #16 (April 2006) | A time displaced version of the original, killed by the Collective | Chaos War: Alpha Flight one-shot (August 2010) | Returned from the death realms by Amatsu-Mikaboshi's corruption |
| Harry Osborn | The Spectacular Spider-Man vol. 1, #200 (May 1993) | Poisoned by Green Goblin formula | The Amazing Spider-Man #546 (January 2008) | Revealed that his death was faked by his father, Norman Osborn |
| Havok (Alexander "Alex" Summers) | Mutant X #32 (June 2001) | Died in the explosion of a slipshod time machine | Uncanny X-Men #411 (October 2002) | Revealed that he was sent back to the original reality in a comatose state until Annie Ghazikhanian restored his psyche |
| Hawkeye (Clinton Francis "Clint" Barton) | The Avengers vol. 1, #502 (September 2004) | Sacrificed himself to destroy a Kree spaceship | House of M #3 (July 2005) | Restored to life when Scarlet Witch altered reality |
| Hellcat (Patricia "Patsy" Walker) | Hellstorm #14 (May 1994) | Committed suicide because of the otherworldly being Deathurge | Thunderbolts 2000 Annual (May 2000) | Restored to life by the Thunderbolts |
| Hercules | Incredible Hercules #141 (February 2010) | Killed in the Continuum universe by Athena | Chaos War #1 (August 2010) | Reincarnated enhanced powers |
| Hijacker (Howard Mitchell) | Captain America #319 (July 1986) | Shot to death by Scourge of the Underworld, who was disguised as a bartender | The Punisher vol. 7, #5 (May 2009) | Resurrected by the Hood using the power of Dormammu |
| Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley) | The Amazing Spider-Man #649 (November 2010) | Killed by Phil Urich who then took his place | The Amazing Spider-Man #691 (August 2012) | Revealed that the dead Hobgoblin was his brother, Daniel Kingsley |
| Human Fly (Richard Deacon) | The Amazing Spider-Man #276 (May 1986) | Killed by Scourge of the Underworld, who was disguised as sanitation worker | The Punisher vol. 7, #5 (May 2009) | Resurrected by the Hood using the power of Dormammu |
| Human Torch (Jonathan Lowell Spencer "Johnny" Storm) | Fantastic Four #587 (January 2011) | Died stopping an angry horde of Negative Zone monsters preparing for a second "Annihilation Wave" | Fantastic Four #600 (November 2011) | Resurrected with an implanted biomechanism by the minions of Annihilus |
| Iron Fist (Daniel Thomas Rand-K'ai) | Power Man and Iron Fist #125 (September 1986) | Died of cancer from radiation poisoning at the hands of Captain Hero | Namor the Sub-Mariner #24 (March 1992) | Revealed that he was actually a doppelgänger created by the extra-dimensional H'ylthri; the real Iron Fist was kidnapped and replaced by the H'ylthri |
| Jackal (Miles Warren) | The Amazing Spider-Man #149 (October 1975) | Killed in an explosion | The Amazing Spider-Man #399 (March 1995) | Revealed that the dead Jackal was a clone |
| Jean Grey | Uncanny X-Men #137 (September 1980) | Sacrificed herself to prevent the Dark Phoenix from reemerging | Fantastic Four vol. 1, #286 (January 1986) | Her body is discovered in a cocoon-like structure beneath Jamaica Bay; the Jean that died was a duplicate created by the Phoenix to host its consciousness |
| Jocasta | Avengers Annual #17 (August 1988) | Sacrificed herself in order to stop High Evolutionary's command ship by deliberately disrupting the ship's matter/anti-matter drive | Iron Man Annual #11 (September 1990) | Retrieved by the Avengers and Machine Man |
| Joseph | X-Men vol 2 #87 (April 1999) | Sacrificed himself to stop Magneto's schemes | Magneto: Not a Hero #1 (November 2011) | Revealed that he was alive |
| Kang the Conqueror (Nathaniel Richards) | The Avengers #143 (January 1976) | Killed by his excess energy in battle with the Avengers | The Avengers #267 (May 1986) | Revealed that his death is alternate time version |
| Korvac (Michael Korvac) | The Avengers #177 (November 1978) | Killed in battle by the Avengers | Fantastic Four Annual #24 (January 1991) | Resurrected himself with his powers after near death |
| Kraven the Hunter (Sergei Kravinoff) | The Amazing Spider-Man #294 (November 1987) | Shot himself in the head after defeating and impersonating Spider-Man | The Amazing Spider-Man #635 (June 2010) | Resurrected by Kraven's family by killing Kaine to perform a sacrifice |
| Lascivious (Davida DeVito) | The Thing #33 (March 1986) | Killed by Scourge of the Underworld, who was disguised as her fellow Grappler | The Punisher vol. 7, #5 (May 2009) | Resurrected by the Hood using the power of Dormammu |
| Legion (David Charles Haller) | X-Men vol. 2, #41 (February 1995) | Killed by Bishop to prevent the Age of Apocalypse timeline from occurring | New Mutants vol. 3, #2 (August 2009) | Discovered that he was alive and trapped in a concrete box by the reformed New Mutants |
| Letha (Hellen Feliciano) | Captain America #319 (July 1986) | Killed by Scourge of the Underworld who was disguised as a bartender | The Punisher vol. 7, #5 (May 2009) | Resurrected by the Hood using the power of Dormammu |
| Loki (Loki Laufeyson) | Siege #4 (May 2010) | Killed by the Sentry, who was possessed by the Void | Thor vol. 3, #617 (November 2010) | Reincarnated by his stepbrother Thor in the form of a child |
| Mad Jim Jaspers (Sir James Jaspers) | The Mighty World of Marvel vol. 2, #13 (June 1986) | Killed by The Fury | X-Men: Die by the Sword #1 (October 2007) | Resurrected by a large-scale reality warp originating on Earth-616 |
| Magik (Illyana Nikolaevna Rasputina) | Uncanny X-Men #303 (August 1993) | Died of the Legacy Virus | X-Men Return Of Magik one-shot (November 2008) | Several X-Men were captured and tortured by Belasco in a realm between Earth and Limbo; Magik assisted them and freed them |
| Marrina Smallwood | Dark Reign the List: X-Men one-shot (September 2009) | Killed by Namor | Chaos War: Alpha Flight one-shot (August 2010) | Returned from the death realms by Amatsu-Mikaboshi's corruption |
| Mary Jane Watson | The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2, #13 (January 2000) | Killed in an airplane explosion | The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2, #29 (May 2001) | Revealed that her death was an illusion created by the Mutant stalker; the real Mary Jane had being held captive was subsequently rescued by Spider-Man |
| Miracle Man (Brother Joshua) | The Thing #24 (June 1985) | Shot to death by Scourge of the Underworld, who was disguised as a bus passenger | The Punisher vol. 7, #5 (May 2009) | Resurrected by the Hood using the power of Dormammu |
| Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex) | New X-Men #46 (January 2008) | Life drained by Rogue | X-23 #6 (February 2011) | Revived of clone by his assistance Miss Sinister |
| Mockingbird (Barbara "Bobbi" Morse-Barton) | Avengers West Coast #100 (November 1993) | Killed by Mephisto | Secret Invasion #8 (December 2008) | Revealed that the dead Mockingbird was a Skrull that was posing as her; the real Mockingbird was subsequently rescued from Skrull captivity |
| MODOK (George Tarleton) | Captain America #313 (January 1986) | Killed by Death Adder | The Avengers #386 (May 1995) | Resurrected by his organization AIM |
| Moondragon (Heather Douglas) | Annihilation: Conquest #2 (February 2008) | Killed by Ultron | Guardians of the Galaxy #12 (August 2008) | Rescued by Phyla-Vell |
| Moon Knight (Marc Spector) | Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #6 (December 1985) | Sacrificed himself to save his loved ones from a computerized Seth program | Moon Knight: Resurrection War #1 (January 1998) | Resurrected once again by Khonshu |
| Ms. Marvel (Carol Susan Jane Danvers) | Ms. Marvel #37 (March 2009) | Incinerated herself | Ms. Marvel #47 (November 2009) | Revived the energy beings by MODOK and Storyteller protocols, in the form of infants, their power was used to fuse Ms. Marvel back into a single being |
| Mysterio (Quentin Beck) | Daredevil vol. 2, #7 (May 1999) | Committed suicide after being diagnosed with a tumor | Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #13 (December 2006) | Although in Hell for suicide, his "superiors" in the afterlife sent him back to earth to maintain a cosmic balance |
| Mystique (Raven Darkhölme) | Wolverine vol. 4, #9 (May 2011) | Stabbed in the chest by Wolverine | Wolverine vol. 4, #302 (March 2012) | Restored to life by the Hand |
| Namorita (Namorita "Nita" Prentiss) | Civil War #1 (May 2006) | Caught in explosion created by Nitro | Nova vol. 4, #32 (December 2009) | Earlier self rescued by a timetraveling Richard Rider |
| Nick Fury | Over the Edge: Omega one-shot (October 1995) | Killed by the Punisher who was manipulated by Spook | Fury/Agent 13 #1 (June 1998) | Revealed that the dead Nick Fury was an Life Model Decoy |
| Odin | Thor vol. 3, #600 (February 2009) | Killed by the Frost Giants | Thor vol. 3, #618 (December 2010) | Reincarnated |
| Psylocke (Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock) | X-Treme X-Men #2 (August 2001) | Killed by Vargas | Uncanny X-Men #455 (April 2005) | Her spirit to where she had died |
| Puck (Eugene Milton Judd) | New Avengers #16 (April 2006) | A time displaced version of the original, killed by the Collective | Alpha Flight vol. 4, #2 (July 2011) | Escaped from Hell |
| Punisher (Frank Castle) | Dark Reign: The List - Punisher one-shot (October 2009) | Dismembered and decapitated by Daken | The Punisher vol. 7, #11 (November 2009) | Resurrected by Morbius and the Legion of Monsters as a patchwork |
| Quasar (Wendell Elvis Vaughn) | Annihilation: Nova vol. 4, #4 (July 2006) | Killed by Annihilus | Nova vol. 4, #17 (November 2008) | Restored to life in a Quantum Energy form by the scientists of Project Pegasus |
| Ragnarok | Thor #608 (March 2010) | Destroyed by Thor | New Avengers vol. 2, #18 (November 2011) | Retrieved by AIM |
| Red King (Angmo-Asan) | Incredible Hulk vol. 3, #102 (January 2007) | Attacked by wild scavenger robots | Skaar: Son of Hulk #6 (February 2009) | Revealed to have survived |
| Sabretooth (Victor Creed) | Wolverine vol. 3, #55 (July 2007) | Beheaded by Wolverine with the Muramasa Blade, a sword that blocks the healing factor | Wolverine vol. 4, #311 (August 2012) | Revealed that the dead Sabretooth was a clone by Mister Sinister |
| Shaman (Michael Twoyoungmen) | New Avengers #16 (April 2006) | Killed by the Collective | Chaos War: Alpha Flight one-shot (August 2010) | Returned from the death realms by Amatsu-Mikaboshi's corruption |
| Sharon Carter | Captain America vol. 1, #237 (September 1979) | Sacrificed herself by detonating the National Force | Captain America vol. 1, #445 (November 1995) | Revealed to have faked her death |
| Stepford Cuckoos (Sophie Cuckoo) | New X-Men #137 (April 2003) | Died by result of a drug given by Kick | Chaos War: X-Men #1 (November 2010) | Returned from the death realms by Amatsu-Mikaboshi's corruption |
| Swordsman (Jacques DuQuesne) | Giant-Size Avengers #2 (November 1974) | Killed with lethal energy bolt fired by Kang the Conqueror | Chaos War: Dead Avengers #1 (August 2010) | Returned from the death realms by Amatsu-Mikaboshi's corruption |
| Thanos | Annihilation #4 (November 2006) | Heart torn out by Drax the Destroyer | Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, #24 (March 2010) | Resurrected in the cocoon by the Universal Church of Truth |
| Thing (Benjamin Jacob Grimm) | Fantastic Four #508 (December 2003) | Shot by Nick Fury, after while possessed by Doctor Doom | Fantastic Four #511 (March 2004) | Returned to life by the One-Above-All |
| Thor (Thor Odinson) | Fear Itself #7 (October 2011) | Killed in the final battle by his uncle, the Serpent | The Mighty Thor #12 (March 2012) | Reincarnated and escaped from limbo of forgotten dead gods |
| Thunderbird (John Proudstar) | Uncanny X-Men #95 (October 1975) | Killed in an airplane explosion | Chaos War: X-Men #1 (November 2010) | Returned from the death realms by Amatsu-Mikaboshi's corruption |
| Thunderbolt Ross (Thaddeus E. Ross) | Incredible Hulk #330 (April 1987) | After temporarily regaining control of Zzzax and sacrificed himself combined energy to killing the mutant of Nevermind | Incredible Hulk #464 (May 1998) | Resurrected by the agents of the alien, Troyjan |
| Turner D. Century (Clifford F. Michaels) | Captain America #319 (July 1986) | Assassinated by Scourge of the Underworld | The Punisher vol. 7, #5 (May 2009) | Resurrected by the Hood using the power of Dormammu |
| Vindicator (Heather MacNeil Hudson) | New Avengers #16 (April 2006) | Killed by the Collective | Chaos War: Alpha Flight one-shot (August 2010) | Returned from the death realms by Amatsu-Mikaboshi's corruption |
| Vision | The Avengers #500 (September 2004) | Destroyed by She-Hulk to stop Ultron, who had taken control of him | The Avengers vol. 4, #19 (November 2011) | Retrieved by Iron Man |
| Wonder Man (Simon Williams) | Force Works #1 (July 1994) | Incinerated in battle of the Kree | Avengers vol. 3, #2 (March 1998) | Resurrected by Scarlet Witch |
| Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara) | Avengers: The Crossing #1 (September 1995) | Killed by Iron Man, after she had being under control by Kang the Conqueror | Chaos War: Dead Avengers #1 (August 2010) | Returned from the death realms by Amatsu-Mikaboshi's corruption |
| Zeus | Ares #3 (May 2006) | Killed by Amatsu-Mikaboshi | The Incredible Hercules #131 (September 2009) | Reborn as a child after drinking from the River Lethe |
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