Characters Who Surprised Us By Being Resurrected For Sequels
Jul 14, 2026
There are some movie characters who have been given definitive on-screen deaths, only to come back in a later film. A lot of the time, resurrection is a financial game, and if a character is popular enough, the franchise will bring them back in a sequel. Sometimes, like with Credence Barebone in the Fantastic Beasts films, they won't even explain how the character came back. Other times, of course, the resurrections were planned all along, like with Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings. Let's take a look at some movie characters who surprised us by being resurrected in a sequel.
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