Dropped A Bridge On Him / Comic Books

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• Ant-Man: Hank Pym's recent end was so abrupt and ignoble that it came off as super mean-spirited. After over a year being forcibly merged to his android 'son' Ultron and being forced to witness every atrocity committed, the Infinity Countdown arc has Hank's soul be ripped free and trapped in the Soul Gem, where he is unceremoniously devoured by a Soul Eater after being trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine hallucination that makes him believe he succeeded in getting home.
• Eric O'Grady aka Ant-Man III got violently Killed and Replaced right around the time Marvel brought his predecessor, Scott Lang, Back from the Dead in Avengers: The Children's Crusade. O'Grady at least got to pull a Heroic Sacrifice and Dying Moment of Awesome, but some fans have noted that it seems like he was thrown under the bus simply so readers wouldn't be confused by two Ant-Men running around. Especially since Scott Lang was later confirmed to be the focus of the Ant-Man movie.
• This happened to Ryan Choi, the second Atom in the pages of DC's Titans: Villains For Hire at the hands of Deathstroke to make Slade seem like more of a threat. The fact that this is the second Asian character to get killed by DC to make a villain seem more dangerous in as many months (the first being Lian Harper) has not gone over well with fans.
  • Especially since A) this was Deathstroke who's already been established as one of the most ruthless badasses in the DCU for over twenty years and B) the person who hired him turned out to be Dwarfstar, a character who was created specifically as Ryan's nemesis.
  • The reception was so poor that the entire series of events was retconned in The New 52 and now Ryan is back to being alive. An additional Author's Saving Throw was implemented in Convergence, where it was revealed that Ryan's consciousness had survived after his body's death.
• A big reason why Avengers Arena is so controversial is this happening to... pretty much everyone who dies. Juston, Mettle, and Red Raven all get killed after having barely any focus and are mainly used as plot devices. It also reeks of Deus Exit Machina; all of said characters are powerful enough that the only way the plot could function is to get them out of the way before they could get a chance to curb-stomp Arcade into dust.
• Black Moon Chronicles:
  • Feydriva is rather suddenly killed off in the third album while the heroes visit a Vanishing Village.
  • Fratus Sinister looks like he's going to play a major part in the final battle between Wismerhill's and Haazheel's forces, but he's casually killed by Hellaynnea.
• Black Widow has had a few examples:
  • Yelena Belova, the blonde replacement for Natasha, was unceremoniously disfigured in the first arc of Brian Michael Bendis' New Avengers. She was brought back in the annual as a villain and quickly disposed of and would only be brought back later by Jonathan Hickman... before being killed again.
  • Natasha herself got this in Secret Empire, a Crisis Crossover, where a backhand from Hydra Cap's shield snaps her neck. She was essentially fridged to give Miles Morales a reason to want to kill Hydra Cap. She was later brought back via cloning.
• Block 109: Otto Skorzeny, who's something of a Memetic Badass of World War II, is unceremoniously killed by Slashed Throat after he boasts that he's the local SS commander to a member of the Teutonic Order.
• Bucky Barnes:
  • When Bucky was acting as Cap's replacement, he showed up out of nowhere in Fear Itself only to be manhandled by the new Red Skull. She slaps him around with his own severed bionic arm before being impaled by a magic hammer.Turns out he was still alive. He was severely injured, but we find out that Bucky's death was faked to get Steve Rogers back in the Captain America costume and lead the others that way.
  • Played straight with Jack Monroe (the former 50's Bucky and later the costumed Anti-Hero Nomad). After wallowing in Comic-Book Limbo for years, he showed up for a few pages in Ed Brubaker's Captain America run just to be shot and killed by the Winter Soldier. The same fate befell the Red Skull's former lover, Mother Night.
• Bullet Points:
  • Baron Mordo's death by Dormammu’s hands is only quickly mentioned.
  • A lot of heroes die fighting the Silver Surfer.
• This happens to Ethan Rayne in the comic adaptation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He's shot by the bad guys while imprisoned, prompting him to disappear from a dream sequence he's helping Buffy with. She walks into his cell, taunting him, only to find him dead.
• Crisis Crossover series, especially at DC, are notorious for killing off characters who've been around a long time in awkward, Red Shirt like ways, just to show how bad the Big Bad is. These characters are lucky if they get more than one or two lines of dialogue. Some examples include the Losers, Dove of Hawk and Dove, and the original Mirror Master in Crisis on Infinite Earths, Justice Society of America members Atom (Al Pratt) and Dr. Mid-Nite in Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! (Hourman also died, but he got better), and most of the Freedom Fighters (Phantom Lady, Human Bomb, Black Condor) in Infinite Crisis.
  • Teen Titans characters like Pantha and Wildebeest died just to give Superboy-Prime, who'd already had a Face–Heel Turn, a moment where he crosses the Moral Event Horizon. Neither of these characters are given many lines, or a chance for those not familiar with them already to get to know them, before they die.
  • And then there's the Psycho Pirate, who, though portrayed sort of sympathetically in Grant Morrison's Animal Man, shows up in Infinite Crisis as a villain again (recruited by Alexander Luthor due to his remembering the Multiverse) who is suddenly and abruptly killed off when he gets his head gruesomely smashed into a gory mess on-panel by Black Adam.
  • In the ninth chapter of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Brainiac and the Silver-Age Lex Luthor lead an army of villains. Golden-Age Luthor (who'd been around since at least the early 1940s) appears just long enough to say that he, not Silver-Age Luthor, should be their leader. Brainiac says "You are right. We do not need two Luthors.", and disintegrates Golden-Age Luthor. No final battles with Superman for that Luthor. Instead, he goes out like your usual faceless henchman.
  • Countdown to Final Crisis has several, though the most egregious examples of victims of this fate are Duela Dent, the Jokester, Trickster, and three entire Earths. Countdown is very mean-spirited overall.
  • Downplayed overall in Final Crisis. While the series proper had the Martian Manhunter drugged byDr. Light and Effigy, and stabbed in the back by Libra, the Requiem revealed this itself didn't kill J'onn, that he made a decent escape attempt, made sure his friends told his life story, and told Libra off in his final moments.
  • There's a good amount of this in Blackest Night, often to make room for their replacements/predecessors. Tempest gets his heart ripped out by Black Lantern Tula, making room for the Young Justice (2010) version of Aqualad, and the second Hawk is also killed to free up space for her predecessor to return. Dr. Polaris gets it bad too, dying off-screen. Captain Boomerang Jr. went from being an antihero who had movie nights with Supergirl to someone who helps his Obviously Evil zombie father kill and devour women and children. Firestorm's girlfriend Gehenna got her heart ripped out and was turned to salt simultaneously, in order to leave an opening in the Firestorm Matrix for Ronnie Raymond's return (and also so Ronnie and Jason could hate each other).
  • After countless times of escaping death, after being one of the most evil and powerful of supervillains, after clashing with Superman and the Green Lantern Corps and allying himself with the some of the greatest evil powers of the DC universe (Mongul and the Anti-Monitor being a few), how does the normally unkillable Hank Henshaw finally die? He makes the mistake of transferring into a cybernetic character who already has a soul, and then is soul-killed by said character which Word of God says is permanent. What makes it worse is that he is killed by a supporting Green Lantern character who has only made less than a dozen appearances total, and while on the astral plane he was just an ordinary human; reflective of his soul. So his end was in a crubstomp fight of a trained warrior woman killing an elderly man. And, as it turns out, Death Is Cheap, so the situation's not quite so bad as it seemed. Or worse, since Henshaw wants to die.
  • Neron opens Underworld Unleashed by effortlessly Neck Snapping longtime Superman villain Mongul so as to demonstrate his physical badassery (before demonstrating his prowess as a Reality Warper in subsequent scenes). The DC honchos seem to have realized that this was sort of inconvenient, because they subsequently introduced his son, Mongul II, as a Green Lantern villain.
  • Grant Morrison's Author Avatar from their run on Animal Man appeared as a recruit of the Suicide Squad during War of the Gods, but didn't survive the team's mission by virtue of their ability to control the outcome of the story being hindered by the influence of a writer other than Morrison.
• A few years ago, Harbinger, one of the heroes of Crisis on Infinite Earths, was abruptly killed offscreen by Apokolips forces in the pages of The Supergirl from Krypton (2004) when she tried to prevent them from kidnapping Supergirl from Themiscyra, a role that could have easily been filled by any generic Amazon.
• Cyclops got an infamous off-panel death, as shown in Death of X.
• Dark Nights: Metal: With the exception of the Batman Who Laughs, and the Red Death, who's death was all All According to Plan, the title Dark Knights, after all their build up and development, are all killed off in half a panel fairly anticlimactically.
• Dinocorps: Buzz was, at best, a Mauve Shirt with a few lines, but he was still a member of the eponymous crew. When he finally does something noteworthy, he's shot out the sky by Icks or Blix and seldom mentioned afterwards.
• The plot of the final Silver Age Doom Patrol story is kickstarted by the Doom Patrol's arch enemies the Brain and Monsieur Mallah being abruptly blown up. They eventually got better. Many decades later, Brain and Mallah would get killed during a Final Crisis tie-in by Gorilla Grodd.
• G.I. Joe (IDW) did this to the entirety of the Ninja Force (generally considered an embarrassment from the Audience-Alienating Era of the toy line and the unfortunate final days of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel), albeit, not enough so to make this an excusable act); having them brutally murdered during the 'Cobra Civil War' arc as part of a competition by contenders for the Cobra Commander position to see who could kill the most Joes.
• The Inhumans: The Universal Inhumans return from their bus trip to get murdered to a one, solely to demonstrate how dangerous the villains of Death of the Inhumans are. Several more Inhumans introduced since Inhumanity join them, just so it's clear how Marvel feels about them, and their failed attempt to push the Inhumans as a property.
• Iron Fist: At the end of Power Man and Iron Fist, Danny gets cancer, then gets accidentally beaten to death by the inexperienced superhero Captain Hero. When Iron Fist's fans got upset, Christopher Priest just responded that Danny's death being so sudden and mean-spirited was the point. Danny got better a few years later anyway (he just sort of meditated the cancer away). This is actually a case of Writer Revolt, or more specifically, Editor's Revolt, as Denny O'Neill got royally pissed with Jim Shooter's decision to cancel the comic and decided to kill Iron Fist in a senseless and meaningless fashion, because O'Neill and writer Christopher Priest wanted to mirror the senseless and meaningless fashion they thought they were being treated.
• The sad story of heroine Mystek ended with this. Created by Christopher Priest and was intended to be have her own mini-series, DC Comics asked Priest to insert her into Justice League Task Force to churn up interest. However, DC decided to turn down the idea of the mini-series, leaving Priest with a most-likely unwanted character. So, he promptly makes her claustrophobic, panics and ends up getting shot out of an airlock in her panic.
• Some of the characters from The Mice Templar go down without warning or unceremoniously. Templar Gehned, however, stands out for getting his head-lopped off when a mouse village is raided by rats. We don't even know he dies until Cassius identifies his body.
• Despite being a main character in The Multiversity Guidebook #1, the only clue to the fate of Earth-42's Dick Grayson fate in The Multiversity #2 is during a brief montage, where it's shown that he was hanged by the Atomic Knights.
• All the way back in 1942, Fiction House's Rangers Comics changed its focus from supehero stories to more down-to-earth stories involving American soldiers. The Rangers of Freedom, the super-hero team, became ordinary army rangers. Most of them got bayoneted off-panel before the story ended.
• Robin (1993): Tim finally uncovers evidence that Lloyd Waite, CEO of Strader Pharmaceuticals, is behind the Psycho Serum being sold in Gotham and the execution style murders ordered to cover it up. He goes to confront Lloyd only for their chat to be cut short when Lloyd is shot and killed through the window. He turns out to have been killed by Cassandra Cain, a character famous for her complete innate aversion to killing, as part of storyline where she turned evil that ended up having to be retconned into due to how poorly conceived and received it was.
• In Robotech: Prelude To Shadow Chronicles, Breetai is killed along with the Regent when General Edwards fires on the Regent's flagship. And this was in the middle of Breetai's duel with the Regent. Therefore, Breetai is killed by what is technically supposed to be still friendly fire at this point, but then again, Edwards is already known for his general dislike of non-humans. Exedore is killed aboard the Deukalion (confirmed in the animated followup). The Neutron-S missiles are not what they seem to be and Exedore chooses the wrong moment (when it's too late to stop the countdown) to remember just what these weapons are and where he has seen them. Mirya is strongly suggested (and believed by fans) to have died in childbirth while giving birth to Maia. The behind the scenes reason for these deaths is highly suspected to be Harmony Gold's move to phase out usage of the Zentraedi and other recognizably Macross elements from Robotech canon due to licencing issues.
  • Breetai's death actually was done years before in the novels, though in that case it was more Taking You with Me than Unfriendly Fire.
• In the Runaways arc "Home Schooling", someone fired a missle at the Runaways' home, killing Old Lace and triggering a violent episode from Klara. Later, Old Lace's partner Chase gets hit by a car. Apparently, the story arc was supposed to end with the resurrection of Gertrude Yorkes, but it would seem someone at Marvel was displeased with the increasingly dark tone of the arc, so the whole series was put on a hiatus, and the events were later minimized.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics):
  • The comic did this to almost the entire echidna population with everyone except for Knuckles and Dr. Finetivus are trapped and apparently wiped out within the Doctor's Warp Ring.
  • Not that Finetivus escaped this. At the end of the "Worlds Collide" crossover, Finetivus, along pretty much every single supporting character the comic had, was wiped from existence completely.
• Spider-Man:
  • Nightwatch was a character who actually had his own comic book; when sales of said book tanked, he was killed rather unceremoniously by an armored criminal named F.A.C.A.D.E. (Who also killed Lance Bannon; the killer's identity remains unsolved, as it was eclipsed by The Clone Saga, but it was never officially aborted.
  • Dr. Octopus died during The Clone Saga. His death happened thusly: He's sitting in a police car. And then Kaine comes and kills him. And then Kaine jumps away.
  • The same thing happened to the Grim Hunter, one of Kraven's sons. (These attacks by Kaine for no known reason would eventually be explained later.)
  • Spider-Verse infamously did this to a bunch of Spider-Men. Particularly the ones from the cartoons, who got off-panel panel deaths. Made worse by the fact that they hadn't been used in over a decade, so they were called out of retirement for the express purpose of serving as cannon fodder. Other examples of this are: the 1602 Spider-Man, the Spider-Man from the MvC games, the Spider-Man from Spider-Man Reign, a Spider-Man who kept his cosmic powers, and the Mc2 Spider-Man.
  • A villain example occurred in the miniseries, Hobgoblin Lives. Jason Macendale, the second Hobgoblin and major villain for almost a decade, was quickly shot and killed in one page in order to make way for the original Hobgoblin to return. Given his Villain Decay it was probably for the best, as he'd been revamped twice as Demogoblin and as a cyborg. Ironically, this occurred in a miniseries that reversed a previous bridge drop on the first Hobgoblin. Longtime supporting character, Ned Leeds had been unceremoniously killed by assasins in a Spider-Man/Wolverine miniseries. As Roger Stern, the creator of the original Hobgoblin had left Marvel Comics before he could reveal who the Hobgoblin really was, the Editorial staff decided that Leeds would fit the bill. Despite the original Hobgoblin having taken the Goblin formula making him powerful enough to avoid his death or at least survive it. Stern took the opportunity years later to fix the issue and establish his original choice Roderick Kingsley as the true Hobgoblin. By that logic Macendale had to go.
  • Toxin (or more specifically his host, Patrick Mulligan) was unceremoniously murdered offscreen by Blackheart and the Toxin symbiote was confiscated, only to later be forced onto Eddie Brock by Crime Master.
  • Likewise, his fellow symbiote hosts Hybrid and Scream were later killed by Eddie Brock. This is made more egregiously humiliating by the fact that Brock was completely without powers at the time, and not even his own prior symbiote experience should have been enough with the way things went down. Combine that with the reality that neither Donna nor Scott were amateurs, and that Scott/Hybrid had the power of four symbiotes in one, made for a tragic end to both characters.
  • Ditto for Carnage, who appeared in New Avengers only to be quickly flown to space and torn in half. Unsurprisingly, the writer of the story has stated that he has a dislike for the character.
• The Sub-Mariner once discovered that his family had been murdered by a single supervillain named Destiny. This led to a Story Arc where Destiny plots conquering Earth and destroying Namor for good while the latter intends to hunt him but gets sidetracked. How did it end? Destiny seemingly kills Subby, then spontaneously decides that he can fly even without his power helmet, and falls to his own death. Namor reappears and states that the fact he was still alive drove the villain mad. The scene had been inspired by a movie (The Silver Chalice), but for many readers, it comes across as Only the Author Can Save Them Now.
• After a prolonged absence, the cast of Supreme Power showed up in New Avengers just to be unceremoniously slaughtered by Namor and his new Cabal. To add insult to injury, the Cabal then blew up the Squadron's planet.
  • It gets worse. They somehow survived this and reappeared in Secret Wars...only to be easily (hilariously easily) slaughtered by the Squadron Sinister. Only Nighthawk survived.
• Terra 2 from Teen Titans gets pointlessly killed one day to make way for a Legacy Character, in the form of her sister. She didn't even live long enough to even reunite with said sister, let alone having her true origin revealed to her: she was a princess from a underground kingdom who was given human form (of Terra, oblivious of the fact that Terra was evil), who was ultimately kidnapped by the Time Trapper and mindfucked into thinking she was from the year 2001 as part of an underground group of rebels fighting against the mad son of Donna Troy.
• Kid Eternity had just joined the Teen Titans during Sean McKeever's run, but was quickly and unceremoniously written out in a following arc by Bryan Q.Miller. Eternity was kidnapped by the Calculator, as apparently it was felt by editorial that he was too "overpowered" of a character and would interfere with the Blackest Night event. His status remained vague and up in the air until it was later revealed that the Calculator had tortured him into constantly summoning his dead son's spirit, and then when his powers burnt out, brutally beat him to death. To make the death even more ridiculous, the Titans would not express any concern for their teammate or remember his existence until a much later arc in JT Krul's run, where the Calculator reveals Eternity's death to them.
• Due to Executive Meddling, this was the fate of all of the Dead Universe Transformers in Simon Furman's Transformers comics for IDW. Grindcore, Straxus, Cyclonus, Bludgeon, Thunderwing, and Monstructor were all destroyed (or presumed to be destroyed/deactivated) offscreen after the Autobots managed to deactivate the machines keeping them from disintegrating in the Live Universe. While this was probably going to be the case anyway, it felt like a Bridge Dropping because these characters had all of four issues to terrorize the Autobots, and it was left unclear whether the mind-controlled Decepticons died or were defeated offscreen.
  • Later stories revealed that Cyclonus, Bludgeon and Monstructor all survived, but confirmed the deaths of Grindcore and Straxus. Thunderwing's still up in the air, though Furman suggested that if he didn't reappear, the Autobots threw him into the nearest black hole.
• The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers: Many of the deaths were intentionally written as this as a Deconstruction of the franchise's glorified portrayal of war. Rotorstorm is unceremoniously shot just as they arrive, Pyro attempts a Heroic Sacrifice but only ends up getting ripped to shreds without getting a shot off, and Ironfist dies of unrelated injuries after the action settles down. Kickoff gets torn apart offscreen. The death given the most ceremony is Topspin and Twin Twist as Topspin heroically sacrifices himself to stop Twin Twists torture and both go out with a battle cry. As Pyro points out the death was to turn on a computer. On the bad guys side, Wingblazer and Skyquake get shot by Overlord because he was annoyed.
• Narrowly subverted in The Transformers: Robots in Disguise. During the Decepticon attack on New Iacon in the last arc of season 1, Broadside is seemingly crushed to death at random when Devastator caves Autobot Command in with him still inside. For quite a while most fans assumed that this was his fate, but issue 29 of More Than Meets The Eye reveals that he survived and joined up with the Lost Light crew.
  • Played straight with Hardhead during Dark Cybertron, who gets disintegrated by Nova Prime. Arcee later comments several issues afterwards that "Hardhead died and no-one cared". And she was the closest thing he had to a friend.
  • Later on, though, Scoop, who'd been a recurring character since the end of the first year, is part of Devastator when Dev gets crushed into nothingness by Victorion. Nobody comments or seems to care.
  • In The Transformers: Unicron, all the Cybertronian colony planets are destroyed and eaten, with almost all their populations, offscreen.
• Transformers: Wings of Honor: While most deaths got some dramatic tone to them (Dion and Magnum got The Hero Dies, and Metalhawk's death marked the point of no return for Onslaught), Over-Run got his helicopter dropped on top of him and Ironfist (while Ironfist survived, Over-Run didn't). The Stealth team also got hit with this. After an entire narrative focusing on their adventures, they come to base and get caught right up in the climax, Powerflash dying offscreen, and Tap-Out's corpse being seen once the battle was over. A deft shot later kills Rumbler in the second arc.
• In Über, Katyusha Maria, one of the most powerful and sympathetic characters in the comic, is unceremoniously haloed in the back immediately after a victorious battle by her Deceptive Diciple Olesya and two other Soviet übers, after Stalin decided on You Have Outlived Your Usefulness.
• Ultimate Spider-Man: Monica Chang is killed in Miles Morales, Spider-Man by the revived Green Goblin without so much as a fight.
• Marvel's Ultimatum is infamous for this trope, as it kills off over half the cast of Marvel's Ultimate Universe in brutal, violent, pointless ways similiar to many of the above DC examples. The most infamous is the Blob's gruesome murder of the Wasp.
• The Vision (2015) sees Victor Mancha having his heart violently ripped out of his chest for no other purpose than to establish that Virginia Vision was truly dangerous... which was by that point already well-established. To make it worse, he only appeared in the series because Virginia's original intended victim, Jim Hammond, was considered too obscure to be worth killing. Victor's death was undone two years later in Runaways (Rainbow Rowell), making the whole thing even more pointless.
• The Wild C.A.T.s (WildStorm)/Aliens crossover from 1998 had most of the members of the WildStorm team Stormwatch killed off this way. Word of God from writer Warren Ellis is that he only took the job so he could get rid of the artifact characters to pave the way for a new title with the characters he created during his Stormwatch run (The Authority).
• Former Wonder Girl Donna Troy's ex-husband Terry Long was in a random car accident which killed him, but unfortunately took out his children as well. Despite the fact that it was entirely out of her control and not related to her his family blamed Donna anyway due to her being a superhero.
• X-Men:
  • After the House of M event in the Marvel Universe, many mutants lost their powers. The ones who got it the worse were probably a set of young student X-Men, mostly minor characters in the series, who were literally Put on a Bus... then the bus was hit by a missile. Every one of them died.
  • Banshee was regarded as dying like this when Vulcan crushed him with the Blackbird, as were several mutants killed after House of M. The fanbase is not pleased that at least one major character is killed each story.
  • Exiles member Sunfire was killed off by dropping a literal bridge on her. Or maybe it was a building. It's hard to say, because it happened off-panel.
  • Jean Grey's death in the 2003 Planet X storyline fits this to a "T".
  • The Wolverine characters had a mass culling at one point, seemingly in an attempt to streamline the character. This includes his son Daken being off-handedly killed by an amnesiac Logan, along with Omega Red. Daken at least later returned, along with literally every dead mutant, during X-Men (2019).
• In X-Men: The End by Chris Claremont, which is set in the future, not everyone gets a stirring death in the limelight. And somewhat suspiciously, a lot of characters Claremont didn't create have it happen to them.

  • Siryn and Multiple Man were enslaved years ago by the interdimensional slavers, and killed in the opening issue.
  • Irene Merriweather turns out to have been the host of Apocalypse all along, somehow. Then Apocalypse himself is easily defeated and killed by Khan's goons.
  • Boom-Boom gets eaten by Divinity and then blasted by Apocalypse.
  • Shatterstar and Warpath are turned into Technarx.
  • Carter Ghazikhian, supposedly a powerful Reality Warper, is too traumatized to fight the Warskrulls when they attack the mansion, and killed in one shot.
  • What's left of X-Force - Domino, Feral and Rictor - are ambushed and easily killed by Warskrulls.
  • After being a main character through the story, Carol Danvers is fried by an EM pulse during vol 3.

• Rick Remender created Father and the Descendants in his Uncanny X-Force run, and later had them appear as major villains in the final arc of Secret Avengers. Despite building them up in such a big way, he casually killed them off near the beginning of Rage of Ultron to show that Hank Pym had crossed the Moral Event Horizon.
• The Vision from Young Avengers is taken out due to a writer planning to bring back an older version of the character during the above-mentioned Children's Crusade. He got unceremoniously destroyed in the final issue (and his friends refused to even TRY and rebuild him), right around the time Brian Bendis decided to bring back the original Vision.

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