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** Additionally, it does some LampshadeHanging on death being cheap; the whole reason it seemed to have started is that Nekron was pissed at having been cheated so often. But then in issue #5, it's revealed that this was all BS; Nekron was ''responsible'' (or at least allowed for) all of the resurrections in the DCU so far. Thanks to their previous deceased status, ''everyone'' whoever "cheated" Death is vulnerable to Black Lantern ring possession.
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** Additionally, it does some LampshadeHanging on death being cheap; the whole reason it seemed to have started is that Nekron was pissed at having been cheated so often. But then in issue #5, it's revealed that this was all BS; Nekron was ''responsible'' (or at least allowed) for all of the resurrections in the DCU so far. Thanks to their previous deceased status ''everyone'' whoever "cheated" Death is vulnerable to Black Lantern ring possession.
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** The Justice League has actually enacted a plan that involved the entire team dying with the assumption that they'd come back to life. They did it to deal with being trapped in the distant past and hunted by foes they couldn't defeat by letting the foes kill them after first arranging for an ally to cast a spell that would resurrect their skeletal remains in the present day.
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** ''ComicBook/AllStarComics'': The ''entire team'' sans Wonder Woman is killed at the start of issue 38. Di and Black Canary cart their bodies to Paula von Gunther who then revives them so that they can track down their murderer. Black Canary's help leads to her becoming the second woman to officially join the JSA.
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** ''ComicBook/AllStarComics'': The ''entire team'' sans Wonder Woman is killed at the start of issue 38. Di and Black Canary cart their bodies to Paula von Gunther Gunther, who then revives them so that they can track down their murderer. Black Canary's help leads to her becoming the second woman to officially join the JSA.
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* The skepticism has reached a point where comic writers need to keep it in mind when they really ''are'' faking a character's death since they know that everybody will guess exactly right that they were just trying to fool the readers. In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', ComicBook/BoosterGold is apparently killed in a grand display of heroism. This was not meant to be a permanent (or even semi-permanent) death, as it was an in-universe scheme to trick the villain, but the writers still wanted it to ''look'' like he was ''really'' dead, and they could think of no way to actually do this, since '''every''' reader would automatically know he was not dead. They went through several sketches of [[ChunkySalsaRule having his dismembered body fall to the ground in several different places]] (since that way readers would say "Well, with that kind of damage he can't just be 'in a coma,' he might actually be dead"), but it ended up just looking ridiculous. Surprisingly, their eventual decision--to have his burned, blasted body fall to the ground--actually ''did'' fool the readers in a way, since many of them thought he was at least out of ''this'' story completely, even if they expected him to come back sooner or later.
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* The skepticism has reached a point where comic writers need to keep it in mind when they really ''are'' faking a character's death death, since they know that everybody will guess exactly right that they were just trying to fool the readers. In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', ComicBook/BoosterGold is apparently killed in a grand display of heroism. This was not meant to be a permanent (or even semi-permanent) death, as it was an in-universe scheme to trick the villain, but the writers still wanted it to ''look'' like he was ''really'' dead, and they could think of no way to actually do this, since '''every''' reader would automatically know he was not dead. They went through several sketches of [[ChunkySalsaRule having his dismembered body fall to the ground in several different places]] (since that way readers would say "Well, with that kind of damage he can't just be 'in a coma,' he might actually be dead"), but it ended up just looking ridiculous. Surprisingly, their eventual decision--to have his burned, blasted body fall to the ground--actually ''did'' fool the readers in a way, since many of them thought he was at least out of ''this'' story completely, even if they expected him to come back sooner or later.
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** Additionally, it does some LampshadeHanging on death being cheap; the whole reason it seemed to have started is that Nekron was pissed at having been cheated so often. But then in issue #5, it's revealed that this was all bullshit; Nekron was ''responsible'' (or at least allowed) for all of the resurrections in the DCU so far. Thanks to their previous deceased status ''everyone'' whoever "cheated" Death is vulnerable to Black Lantern ring possession.
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** Additionally, it does some LampshadeHanging on death being cheap; the whole reason it seemed to have started is that Nekron was pissed at having been cheated so often. But then in issue #5, it's revealed that this was all bullshit; BS; Nekron was ''responsible'' (or at least allowed) for all of the resurrections in the DCU so far. Thanks to their previous deceased status ''everyone'' whoever "cheated" Death is vulnerable to Black Lantern ring possession.
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* The ComicBook/MetalMen see at least one of their members get destroyed in almost every appearance, including their first one, where the team was wiped out completely. However, because they're robots, and because their creator invented a device that can rebuild them as long as he has enough of the right metal, these deaths are never permanent, and usually don't even last to the start of the next issue.
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* Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' infamously had Buddy's wife and children killed, with Morrison's AuthorAvatar later using their AuthorPowers to resurrect Buddy's family at the end of their run as a final favor to Buddy before the next writer took over. Unfortunately, when Buddy's son Cliff was killed off a second time in the ''ComicBook/New52'' series by Creator/JeffLemire, Cliff ''wasn't'' resurrected afterwards and his death stuck even after ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' in spite of the Rebirth initiative's primary purpose being to restore the DC Universe to how it was prior to ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}''.
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** Remember how devastating it was for [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] when ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, ComicBook/{{Impulse}} and Spoiler died? Well now the first two are both back thanks to Comicbook/FinalCrisis ComicBook/LegionOfThreeWorlds and Steph's death has been revealed via retcon to have been faked without her consent. At one point Tim was desperate and unstable enough to try resurrect Stephanie Brown, Kon-El, Bart Allen and his father using a Lazarus Pit. In a FridgeLogic moment, imagine if Tim did put Steph's DNA into the pit liquid, seeing that she was actually alive...
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** Remember how devastating it was for [[ComicBook/RobinSeries [[ComicBook/Robin1993 Tim Drake]] when ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, ComicBook/{{Impulse}} and Spoiler died? Well now the first two are both back thanks to Comicbook/FinalCrisis ComicBook/LegionOfThreeWorlds and Steph's death has been revealed via retcon to have been faked without her consent. At one point Tim was desperate and unstable enough to try resurrect Stephanie Brown, Kon-El, Bart Allen and his father using a Lazarus Pit. In a FridgeLogic moment, imagine if Tim did put Steph's DNA into the pit liquid, seeing that she was actually alive...
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** ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'': In ''Batman and Son'', The Joker is shot in the forehead by a cop dressed as Batman, and survives. In the final issue of ''Batman Incorporated'', Damian Wayne was killed by his brainwashed evil clone-brother. Even though Bruce grieved, the comic went out of its way to lampshade that people from the al-Ghul family '''never stay dead'''. It took just over a year in real-world publishing chronology.
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** ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'': ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'': In ''Batman and Son'', The Joker is shot in the forehead by a cop dressed as Batman, and survives. In the final issue of ''Batman Incorporated'', Damian Wayne was killed by his brainwashed evil clone-brother. Even though Bruce grieved, the comic went out of its way to lampshade that people from the al-Ghul family '''never stay dead'''. It took just over a year in real-world publishing chronology.
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** Lampshaded in an issue of ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA''; after ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}} died in the pages of the first arc, Superman is attending Metamorpho's funeral and notes how there are little people gathered, as opposed to his own. The priest tells him that no one cares about superhero funerals anymore because everyone knows they come back all the time. And history proved the priest right as a few years later, Metamorpho ''did'' come back -- as did Tomorrow Woman, who debuted and ''died'' the same issue. To emphasize the point that death is permanent, the panel also showed off a few statues of superheroes who died and stay dead. ''Every single one of them'' (Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, Oliver Queen, and Ice) ultimately weren't killed off for real. Metamorpho has in fact died and come back at least ''three times,'' depending on how you count. Hell, the same scene featured statues of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica members killed by Extant -- including the original ComicBook/{{Hourman}}, who likewise also didn't stay dead!
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** Lampshaded in an issue of ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA''; ''ComicBook/JLA1997''; after ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}} died in the pages of the first arc, Superman is attending Metamorpho's funeral and notes how there are little people gathered, as opposed to his own. The priest tells him that no one cares about superhero funerals anymore because everyone knows they come back all the time. And history proved the priest right as a few years later, Metamorpho ''did'' come back -- as did Tomorrow Woman, who debuted and ''died'' the same issue. To emphasize the point that death is permanent, the panel also showed off a few statues of superheroes who died and stay dead. ''Every single one of them'' (Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, Oliver Queen, and Ice) ultimately weren't killed off for real. Metamorpho has in fact died and come back at least ''three times,'' depending on how you count. Hell, the same scene featured statues of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica members killed by Extant -- including the original ComicBook/{{Hourman}}, who likewise also didn't stay dead!
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** Remember how devastating it was for [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] when ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, ComicBook/{{Impulse}} and Spoiler died? Well now the first two are both back thanks to [[Comicbook/FinalCrisis Legion of Three Worlds]] and Steph's death has been revealed via retcon to have been faked without her consent. At one point Tim was desperate and unstable enough to try resurrect Stephanie Brown, Kon-El, Bart Allen and his father using a Lazarus Pit. In a FridgeLogic moment, imagine if Tim did put Steph's DNA into the pit liquid, seeing that she was actually alive...
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** Remember how devastating it was for [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] when ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, ComicBook/{{Impulse}} and Spoiler died? Well now the first two are both back thanks to [[Comicbook/FinalCrisis Legion of Three Worlds]] Comicbook/FinalCrisis ComicBook/LegionOfThreeWorlds and Steph's death has been revealed via retcon to have been faked without her consent. At one point Tim was desperate and unstable enough to try resurrect Stephanie Brown, Kon-El, Bart Allen and his father using a Lazarus Pit. In a FridgeLogic moment, imagine if Tim did put Steph's DNA into the pit liquid, seeing that she was actually alive...
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** Bart Allen's superhero name was changed from ComicBook/{{Impulse}} to Kid Flash, then he was aged up and called Flash before being beaten to death. He was brought back alongside Kon-El during ''Legion of Three Worlds'' by the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes.
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** Bart Allen's superhero name was changed from ComicBook/{{Impulse}} to Kid Flash, then he was aged up and called Flash before being beaten to death. He was brought back alongside Kon-El during ''Legion of Three Worlds'' ''ComicBook/LegionOfThreeWorlds'' by the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes.
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** A brilliant quote from Fabian Nicieza after fans attacked him for apparently killing off two members of the ''Comicbook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'': "In that case, I want to take this opportunity to formally apologize to all the readers for having killed off a '''shapeshifter''' and a '''teleporter''' in a '''superhero comic book'''."
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** A brilliant quote from Fabian Nicieza after fans attacked him for apparently killing off two members of the ''Comicbook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'': ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': "In that case, I want to take this opportunity to formally apologize to all the readers for having killed off a '''shapeshifter''' and a '''teleporter''' in a '''superhero comic book'''."
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* ''ComicBook/ZeroHour'' saw pretty much everyone in the DC Universe die at some point during the event outside of Parallax and Damage and--outside of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica--they came back to life at the end of the story.
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* The skepticism has reached a point where comic writers need to keep it in mind when they really ''are'' faking a character's death since they know that everybody will guess exactly right that they were just trying to fool the readers. In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', ComicBook/BoosterGold is apparently killed in a grand display of heroism. This was not meant to be a permanent (or even semi-permanent) death, as it was an in-universe scheme to trick the villain, but the writers still wanted it to ''look'' like he was ''really'' dead, and they could think of no way to actually do this, since '''every''' reader would automatically know he was not dead. They went through several sketches of [[ChunkySalsaRule having his dismembered body fall to the ground in several different places]] (since that way readers would say "Well, with that kind of damage he can't just be 'in a coma,' he might actually be dead"), but it ended up just looking ridiculous. Surprisingly, their eventual decision--to have his burned, blasted body fall to the ground--actually ''did'' fool the readers in a way, since many of them thought he was at least out of ''this'' story completely, even if they expected him to come back sooner or later.
** It didn't help that ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' was a prequel to the "One Year Later" books, i.e., other stories taking place after it but released before it had already shown ComicBook/BoosterGold. It was still possible to justify those sightings since he was a time traveler.
* ''ComicBook/ActionComics'': In issue #687-690, it turns out Superman never died in ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman''. Superman's body, still showing signs of life, was inhabited by The Eradicator, placed in a regeneration matrix, and left to recover at the Fortress of Solitude.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}:''
** While the Lazarus Pits could not originally bring the dead back to life (only working in such a capacity for ComicBook/RasAlGhul because the madman marinates himself in the poisonous but physically healing things) these days the Pits are a go-to simple fix for bringing a character back from the dead, even if they're usually left with a bit of Pit Madness to work through.
** ''Comicbook/Batgirl2009'': [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Stephanie Brown]] spends a lot of time thinking about what would happen if Bruce Wayne ever returned as {{Franchise/Batman}}. "I've just been worried that if you ever popped up again - and I mean, who really stays dead nowadays anyway, right? [[Comicbook/BlackestNight You missed the zombies, by the way]]." When he ''does'' reappear, she ''slaps'' him. And then freaks out and runs away.
** ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'': In ''Batman and Son'', The Joker is shot in the forehead by a cop dressed as Batman, and survives. In the final issue of ''Batman Incorporated'', Damian Wayne was killed by his brainwashed evil clone-brother. Even though Bruce grieved, the comic went out of its way to lampshade that people from the al-Ghul family '''never stay dead'''. It took just over a year in real-world publishing chronology.
** Remember how devastating it was for [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] when ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, ComicBook/{{Impulse}} and Spoiler died? Well now the first two are both back thanks to [[Comicbook/FinalCrisis Legion of Three Worlds]] and Steph's death has been revealed via retcon to have been faked without her consent. At one point Tim was desperate and unstable enough to try resurrect Stephanie Brown, Kon-El, Bart Allen and his father using a Lazarus Pit. In a FridgeLogic moment, imagine if Tim did put Steph's DNA into the pit liquid, seeing that she was actually alive...
** In ''ComicBook/RedRobin'', Tim's assertions that Bruce isn't actually dead is brushed off as him being in denial and losing it due to how many of his loved ones had died in the previous two years. He's not wrong and manages to find Batman lost in the timestream even though Dick and Cassie don't believe him. (Superboy does believe him after his own return).
* The entire ''Comicbook/BlackestNight'' event of 2009 seems to be this trope played out in the [[ZombieApocalypse grandest, darkest way imaginable.]]
** Additionally, it does some LampshadeHanging on death being cheap; the whole reason it seemed to have started is that Nekron was pissed at having been cheated so often. But then in issue #5, it's revealed that this was all bullshit; Nekron was ''responsible'' (or at least allowed) for all of the resurrections in the DCU so far. Thanks to their previous deceased status ''everyone'' whoever "cheated" Death is vulnerable to Black Lantern ring possession.
** The ending is essentially one giant burst of Death Is Cheap bringing back most of the characters DC killed over the last several years, but also some characters whose resurrections will cause problems. In spite of this, the series ends with one of the characters saying "I think death is death from now on" since Nekron was defeated.
*** On that very same page, though, they observe that another character who had been presumed dead ({{Franchise/Batman}}) probably wasn't. So DC superheroes will still have to deal with Comic Book Death in the form of deliberately faked deaths, {{Disney Villain Death}}s, [[ExpendableClone deaths of clones]], deaths of AlternateUniverse copies, death followed by being cloned with memory implants in the clone, being saved at the last second by TimeTravel... just not ''true'' resurrection. Meaning they'll wait two or three months before they start bringing people back to life for real again.
** Amusingly {{inverted|Trope}} by the resurrection of Deadman, who has been a ghost since the character was introduced forty years ago. Since StatusQuoIsGod, he was soon killed off and back to normal.
** The Anti-Monitor is resurrected, after being destroyed in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', used as a multiversal tuning fork in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', and being resurrected and killed in ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'', and still hangs around in ''Comicbook/BrightestDay''.
** One of [[ComicBook/TheBlackRing the followup storylines]] saw ComicBook/LexLuthor meet [[Comicbook/TheSandman Death of the Endless]] -- who is supposed to be the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Death, ''period'' -- and ask her about how cheap death is. She answers that [[TimeAbyss a few years or decades isn't much to her]]; everyone will meet her ''eventually''.
--->'''Death:''' You know, people do come back from the dead. It's not a big deal. I am kind of busy.\\\
'''ComicBook/LexLuthor:''' The dead have come back to life! Several of them!\\
'''Death:''' It happens! In the end, they all come back to me.
** Predictably, despite supposedly closing the door on resurrections, the second-to-last ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' storyline and the post-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' reboot brought back several deceased characters.
* ''Comicbook/{{Convergence}}'': Kara Zor-El, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} of Earth-One, made a HeroicSacrifice to stop the Anti-Monitor in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', and she returns. With the crisis prevented and the multiverse restored, an infinite number of people didn't really die. This includes Kal-L, Superman of Earth-Two, who was retrieved from the past timeline, and does not get to experience his death in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''.
* {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} can revive the people he kills with his Omega Beams using those same Omega Beams. This just means that Darkseid can kill underlings that annoy him without any worries, since he can bring them back if he needs them again. He can also kill and revive people over and over again for fun.
* The entire concept of Comic Book Death is explored in ''ComicBook/EternityGirl'', in which a washed-up old superheroine seeks to die but the universe simply won't let her.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'':
** As mentioned below, Barry Allen died in 1985 and for a long time was notable for being one of the character deaths that stuck. He eventually returned 23 years later. Due to both himself and his successor Wally frequently time traveling (along with alternate universe stories and flashbacks), Barry managed to appear in many stories in the intervening time.
** Bart Allen's superhero name was changed from ComicBook/{{Impulse}} to Kid Flash, then he was aged up and called Flash before being beaten to death. He was brought back alongside Kon-El during ''Legion of Three Worlds'' by the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}.
* ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'': Batman and Martian Manhunter die, and both come back later.
* ''ComicBook/Gen13'': The entire team dies in volume 2, and comes back in volume 3.
* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'': In the 'Quiver' story arc Oliver Queen comes back from the dead after being resurrected by Hal Jordan, as Parallax, before Hal's own death. Queen later meets Hal Jordan on a trip to the after-life, although Jordan has since taken on the role of Comicbook/TheSpectre. When later mentioning to Batman of Jordan's involvement, Batman replies, "It seems none of our former allies know how to stay dead."
** In ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', Oliver meets Hal as Spectre and we get this exchange
-->'''Green Arrow:''' So when you are you really coming back?\\
'''Hal Jordan:''' (smiling) I'm working on it.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague'':
** The Justice League has actually enacted a plan that involved the entire team dying with the assumption that they'd come back to life. They did it to deal with being trapped in the distant past and hunted by foes they couldn't defeat by letting the foes kill them after first arranging for an ally to cast a spell that would resurrect their skeletal remains in the present day.
** Lampshaded in an issue of ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA''; after ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}} died in the pages of the first arc, Superman is attending Metamorpho's funeral and notes how there are little people gathered, as opposed to his own. The priest tells him that no one cares about superhero funerals anymore because everyone knows they come back all the time. And history proved the priest right as a few years later, Metamorpho ''did'' come back -- as did Tomorrow Woman, who debuted and ''died'' the same issue. To emphasize the point that death is permanent, the panel also showed off a few statues of superheroes who died and stay dead. ''Every single one of them'' (Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, Oliver Queen, and Ice) ultimately weren't killed off for real. Metamorpho has in fact died and come back at least ''three times,'' depending on how you count. Hell, the same scene featured statues of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica members killed by Extant -- including the original ComicBook/{{Hourman}}, who likewise also didn't stay dead!
* As the first-ever SuperTeam the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica has brushed against this trope time and again.
** ''ComicBook/AllStarComics'': The ''entire team'' sans Wonder Woman is killed at the start of issue 38. Di and Black Canary cart their bodies to Paula von Gunther who then revives them so that they can track down their murderer. Black Canary's help leads to her becoming the second woman to officially join the JSA.
** ''ComicBook/JSAClassified'' plays with the idea. Vandal Savage seemingly brings back Wesley Dodds ([[ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre Sandman]]) only for it to turn out to be a shapeshifter posing as Alan Scott's deceased friend to throw Sentinel off his game.
* ''Comicbook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'':
** Despite being somewhat famous for averting this trope more often than not, the eventual return of the first-ever Legionnaire to die (Lightning Lad) was telegraphed before his corpse was even cold.
** A brilliant quote from Fabian Nicieza after fans attacked him for apparently killing off two members of the ''Comicbook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'': "In that case, I want to take this opportunity to formally apologize to all the readers for having killed off a '''shapeshifter''' and a '''teleporter''' in a '''superhero comic book'''."
** ''ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics'': Vril Dox (Brainiac 2) is raped and murdered by the otherwise nameless alien "Stealth". His memories are revealed to have been preserved by [[NoNeedForNames the Durlan]] and they are quickly transplanted into a clone body.
* In ''ComicBook/MartianManhunter'', a government agent discussing the Martian's "death" with the ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} is openly skeptical about superheroes really dying, much to the annoyance of Franchise/TheFlash, whose predecessor and former partner ''did'' stay dead... for an unusually long time by superhero standards, at least. (And of course, we the readers already knew J'onn had faked his death as part of a plan.)
* When ComicBook/MartianManhunter was killed in ''Comicbook/FinalCrisis'', Superman gave a eulogy that amounted to "Let us honor his memory. And pray for a resurrection." Then ''Comicbook/BlackestNight'' came along and the Manhunter became a zombie Black Lantern. Perhaps Supes should have been more specific. (Don't worry, he got better.)
* ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'': Aquaman, Steel, Guy Gardner, Hippolyta, Sam Lane, and Jonathan and Martha Kent all die, but not really. In Steel's case, he was resurrected during ''OWAW''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': In issue #23 of [[ComicBook/Supergirl2011 her Post-Flashpoint series]], Supergirl gets killed and her soul thrown into a HiveMind. Later her soul is reattached to her rebuilt body.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': Hank Henshaw, the Cyborg Superman, survives death enough to become a DeathSeeker. After trying to save his crew from the effects of radiation that lead to a space shuttle crash, Hank's body dies and his consciousness goes to [=LexCorp=], then Superman's birthing matrix. After Hank tried to frame and kill the Eradicator, and convert Metropolis into an Engine City, Hank's body was destroyed in a fight with Superman in ''Superman'' #82. Hank transfers his consciousness to a device he had planted on Doomsday, travels to Apokolips, transfers his consciousness to an Apokolips trooper, and is destroyed by Darkseid. But Hank's consciousness was really transferred in an orb by Darkseid and was set free. After being convicted of genocide by an intergalactic tribunal, Hank's consciousness is transported into a black hole. But the black hole really sent him to the Marvel Universe, where he had a crossover with the Silver Surfer, and then returned to the DC Universe, where he was attacked by Parallax and dispersed into the Godwave by Hal Jordan. Hank survived by constructing a world from part of the Godwave, and was defeated by Superman on New Genesis, and transferred his consciousness to Superman's containment suit and constructed a new body on Earth. His new body was destroyed by Superman, and Hank's consciousness transferred to a toy, and a machine that could destroy Superman, but Hank was defeated by Superman Red. Then, Hank had another crossover, this time with Galactus, who turned him into a metal slab. But he survived, was defeated by Superman, and sent to the Phantom Zone. He returned and was destroyed on the Manhunters homeworld, then returned and joined the Sinestro Corps, with a promise to be destroyed once and for all. Hank is mostly destroyed after ComicBook/PowerGirl and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} throw him at Superboy-Prime, then in an explosion meant to destroy the Anti-Monitor. But Hank survives, resurrected by the Manhunters, and works with the Alpha Lanterns to become mortal again and be destroyed, but is destroyed by the Green Lantern Corps. Hank transfers his consciousness to Boodikka, who destroys his essence, but his consciousness survives, motivated to destroy Doomsday. Hank destroys Doomsday, who survives.
* ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'':
** A scene in the '90s ''Titans'' had a couple of junior members being shown around the Hall of Deceased Former Titans to show them the stakes being played for. [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVLJm9IHkZk/THqjF8TuTII/AAAAAAAACV8/Zl-1jQgdbn0/s1600/the+titans+010+08.jpg The lesson didn't really take, as they had been hanging around other superheroes long enough that the senior member had to explain "You realize when people die, they don't usually come back... right?]]" The former Titan in question eventually came back (as did Jason Todd, an honorary Titan who's partly shown in the same panel).
** A dead character appeared to be resurrected in the "New Titans" series. Although Marv Wolfman intended both characters to be separate, there was Terra II, a heroic doppelganger of the villainous Terra. Towards the end of the series, the editor Pat Garrahy ordered Wolfman to link the two characters closer together, and a story showed that the original Terra's grave was ''empty''. Geoff Johns and Ben Raab wanted to head in the direction of both characters being the same, with Geo-Force discovering that both girls had identical DNA. Before Terra II could be made aware of this, she died [[DyingToBeReplaced to be replaced with a "Terra III"]]. Though it has since been [[AssPull explained away that Terra II was indeed a separate character who was given surgery and DNA alteration to resemble the original]] (similar to Wolfman's original intent. Here's [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2012/04/28/the-abandoned-an%E2%80%99-forsaked-who-was-the-second-terra-anyways/ an article explaining the retcons behind Terra II.]])
** Raven underwent some death and resurrection throughout the series. In the "ComicBook/TheTerrorOfTrigon", the Titans had to temporarily kill her body in order to drive out the evil influence and have her possessed by the goddess Azar. After the battle, Raven vanished and it was assumed that she [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence had either died or ascended to another dimension]]. She was brought back, purified, although it didn't last and she became corrupted ''again'', with her body disintegrating at the end of "Titans Hunt". ''Then'' it was revealed that the evil in Raven's soul had survived and possessed an unknown woman's body to do her bidding as "Dark Raven", while the soul of the good Raven was implanted in Starfire for safekeeping. Dark Raven was then destroyed at the end of the series, while the purified Raven became a golden SpiritAdvisor. Unfortunately for her, she was then resurrected and placed back in a (younger) corporeal form, causing her to have to fear Trigon's influence yet again.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Paula modified the Amazon's Purple Healing Ray to the point where any time someone was killed without being disintegrated or having their brain badly damaged Diana just chucked them in her plane and flew them to Paradise Island or Paula's lab in Washington DC to be revived.
** In the gods traditionally could only be truly killed by other gods or special weapons, meaning Wonder Woman was free to kill them at will without feeling like she'd broken the Amazon's technical pacifist code as they'd pop back up somewhere eventually unless they chose not to or were already fading away.
** ComicBook/{{Artemis}} was killed after she replaced Wonder Woman for a time in [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Volume 2]], she ended up dragging herself out of hell and crawling out of her coffin as she'd been far more popular with fans than editorial initially expected.
** ComicBook/SteveTrevor was resurrected twice during [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 the Bronze age]]. Specifically, he was killed by Doctor Cyber, causing Wonder Woman to relinquish her powers. Seeing her grief, the god Eros inhabited the lifeless body with his spirit and operated as Steve Howard, until his spirit was extracted from the body and Steve "died" again. Several years later, Aphrodite extracted Steve's essence from her son's memory and implanted it in the body of a Steve from another universe, overriding that Steve's (already altered) personality.
* ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'':
** Empress' parents are both killed by her grandfather, and then resurrected as infants forcing her to all but retire from super-heroics to raise them.
** Secret was murdered by her brother before the team ever found and rescued her ghostly {{Psychopomp}} form from the D.E.O., she's brought back as fully human by Darkseid who thinks that taking her powers from her is a horrific punishment when instead of getting to live out her life is what she wants most.
** Slobo spends pretty much the entire run slowly dying of CloneDegeneration. In the end, his HeroicSacrifice to save Secret from Darkseid gets him [[AndIMustScream trapped frozen and statue-like]] in the far future where the locals eventually figure out what he is and have the technology to save him from Darkseid's cruelty and his own body slowly failing.
* ''ComicBook/ZeroHour'' saw pretty much everyone in the DC Universe die at some point during the event outside of Parallax and Damage and--outside of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica--they came back to life at the end of the story.
* The skepticism has reached a point where comic writers need to keep it in mind when they really ''are'' faking a character's death since they know that everybody will guess exactly right that they were just trying to fool the readers. In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', ComicBook/BoosterGold is apparently killed in a grand display of heroism. This was not meant to be a permanent (or even semi-permanent) death, as it was an in-universe scheme to trick the villain, but the writers still wanted it to ''look'' like he was ''really'' dead, and they could think of no way to actually do this, since '''every''' reader would automatically know he was not dead. They went through several sketches of [[ChunkySalsaRule having his dismembered body fall to the ground in several different places]] (since that way readers would say "Well, with that kind of damage he can't just be 'in a coma,' he might actually be dead"), but it ended up just looking ridiculous. Surprisingly, their eventual decision--to have his burned, blasted body fall to the ground--actually ''did'' fool the readers in a way, since many of them thought he was at least out of ''this'' story completely, even if they expected him to come back sooner or later.
** It didn't help that ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' was a prequel to the "One Year Later" books, i.e., other stories taking place after it but released before it had already shown ComicBook/BoosterGold. It was still possible to justify those sightings since he was a time traveler.
* ''ComicBook/ActionComics'': In issue #687-690, it turns out Superman never died in ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman''. Superman's body, still showing signs of life, was inhabited by The Eradicator, placed in a regeneration matrix, and left to recover at the Fortress of Solitude.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}:''
** While the Lazarus Pits could not originally bring the dead back to life (only working in such a capacity for ComicBook/RasAlGhul because the madman marinates himself in the poisonous but physically healing things) these days the Pits are a go-to simple fix for bringing a character back from the dead, even if they're usually left with a bit of Pit Madness to work through.
** ''Comicbook/Batgirl2009'': [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Stephanie Brown]] spends a lot of time thinking about what would happen if Bruce Wayne ever returned as {{Franchise/Batman}}. "I've just been worried that if you ever popped up again - and I mean, who really stays dead nowadays anyway, right? [[Comicbook/BlackestNight You missed the zombies, by the way]]." When he ''does'' reappear, she ''slaps'' him. And then freaks out and runs away.
** ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'': In ''Batman and Son'', The Joker is shot in the forehead by a cop dressed as Batman, and survives. In the final issue of ''Batman Incorporated'', Damian Wayne was killed by his brainwashed evil clone-brother. Even though Bruce grieved, the comic went out of its way to lampshade that people from the al-Ghul family '''never stay dead'''. It took just over a year in real-world publishing chronology.
** Remember how devastating it was for [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] when ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, ComicBook/{{Impulse}} and Spoiler died? Well now the first two are both back thanks to [[Comicbook/FinalCrisis Legion of Three Worlds]] and Steph's death has been revealed via retcon to have been faked without her consent. At one point Tim was desperate and unstable enough to try resurrect Stephanie Brown, Kon-El, Bart Allen and his father using a Lazarus Pit. In a FridgeLogic moment, imagine if Tim did put Steph's DNA into the pit liquid, seeing that she was actually alive...
** In ''ComicBook/RedRobin'', Tim's assertions that Bruce isn't actually dead is brushed off as him being in denial and losing it due to how many of his loved ones had died in the previous two years. He's not wrong and manages to find Batman lost in the timestream even though Dick and Cassie don't believe him. (Superboy does believe him after his own return).
* The entire ''Comicbook/BlackestNight'' event of 2009 seems to be this trope played out in the [[ZombieApocalypse grandest, darkest way imaginable.]]
** Additionally, it does some LampshadeHanging on death being cheap; the whole reason it seemed to have started is that Nekron was pissed at having been cheated so often. But then in issue #5, it's revealed that this was all bullshit; Nekron was ''responsible'' (or at least allowed) for all of the resurrections in the DCU so far. Thanks to their previous deceased status ''everyone'' whoever "cheated" Death is vulnerable to Black Lantern ring possession.
** The ending is essentially one giant burst of Death Is Cheap bringing back most of the characters DC killed over the last several years, but also some characters whose resurrections will cause problems. In spite of this, the series ends with one of the characters saying "I think death is death from now on" since Nekron was defeated.
*** On that very same page, though, they observe that another character who had been presumed dead ({{Franchise/Batman}}) probably wasn't. So DC superheroes will still have to deal with Comic Book Death in the form of deliberately faked deaths, {{Disney Villain Death}}s, [[ExpendableClone deaths of clones]], deaths of AlternateUniverse copies, death followed by being cloned with memory implants in the clone, being saved at the last second by TimeTravel... just not ''true'' resurrection. Meaning they'll wait two or three months before they start bringing people back to life for real again.
** Amusingly {{inverted|Trope}} by the resurrection of Deadman, who has been a ghost since the character was introduced forty years ago. Since StatusQuoIsGod, he was soon killed off and back to normal.
** The Anti-Monitor is resurrected, after being destroyed in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', used as a multiversal tuning fork in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', and being resurrected and killed in ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'', and still hangs around in ''Comicbook/BrightestDay''.
** One of [[ComicBook/TheBlackRing the followup storylines]] saw ComicBook/LexLuthor meet [[Comicbook/TheSandman Death of the Endless]] -- who is supposed to be the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Death, ''period'' -- and ask her about how cheap death is. She answers that [[TimeAbyss a few years or decades isn't much to her]]; everyone will meet her ''eventually''.
--->'''Death:''' You know, people do come back from the dead. It's not a big deal. I am kind of busy.\\\
'''ComicBook/LexLuthor:''' The dead have come back to life! Several of them!\\
'''Death:''' It happens! In the end, they all come back to me.
** Predictably, despite supposedly closing the door on resurrections, the second-to-last ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' storyline and the post-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' reboot brought back several deceased characters.
* ''Comicbook/{{Convergence}}'': Kara Zor-El, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} of Earth-One, made a HeroicSacrifice to stop the Anti-Monitor in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', and she returns. With the crisis prevented and the multiverse restored, an infinite number of people didn't really die. This includes Kal-L, Superman of Earth-Two, who was retrieved from the past timeline, and does not get to experience his death in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''.
* {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} can revive the people he kills with his Omega Beams using those same Omega Beams. This just means that Darkseid can kill underlings that annoy him without any worries, since he can bring them back if he needs them again. He can also kill and revive people over and over again for fun.
* The entire concept of Comic Book Death is explored in ''ComicBook/EternityGirl'', in which a washed-up old superheroine seeks to die but the universe simply won't let her.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'':
** As mentioned below, Barry Allen died in 1985 and for a long time was notable for being one of the character deaths that stuck. He eventually returned 23 years later. Due to both himself and his successor Wally frequently time traveling (along with alternate universe stories and flashbacks), Barry managed to appear in many stories in the intervening time.
** Bart Allen's superhero name was changed from ComicBook/{{Impulse}} to Kid Flash, then he was aged up and called Flash before being beaten to death. He was brought back alongside Kon-El during ''Legion of Three Worlds'' by the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}.
* ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'': Batman and Martian Manhunter die, and both come back later.
* ''ComicBook/Gen13'': The entire team dies in volume 2, and comes back in volume 3.
* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'': In the 'Quiver' story arc Oliver Queen comes back from the dead after being resurrected by Hal Jordan, as Parallax, before Hal's own death. Queen later meets Hal Jordan on a trip to the after-life, although Jordan has since taken on the role of Comicbook/TheSpectre. When later mentioning to Batman of Jordan's involvement, Batman replies, "It seems none of our former allies know how to stay dead."
** In ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', Oliver meets Hal as Spectre and we get this exchange
-->'''Green Arrow:''' So when you are you really coming back?\\
'''Hal Jordan:''' (smiling) I'm working on it.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague'':
** The Justice League has actually enacted a plan that involved the entire team dying with the assumption that they'd come back to life. They did it to deal with being trapped in the distant past and hunted by foes they couldn't defeat by letting the foes kill them after first arranging for an ally to cast a spell that would resurrect their skeletal remains in the present day.
** Lampshaded in an issue of ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA''; after ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}} died in the pages of the first arc, Superman is attending Metamorpho's funeral and notes how there are little people gathered, as opposed to his own. The priest tells him that no one cares about superhero funerals anymore because everyone knows they come back all the time. And history proved the priest right as a few years later, Metamorpho ''did'' come back -- as did Tomorrow Woman, who debuted and ''died'' the same issue. To emphasize the point that death is permanent, the panel also showed off a few statues of superheroes who died and stay dead. ''Every single one of them'' (Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, Oliver Queen, and Ice) ultimately weren't killed off for real. Metamorpho has in fact died and come back at least ''three times,'' depending on how you count. Hell, the same scene featured statues of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica members killed by Extant -- including the original ComicBook/{{Hourman}}, who likewise also didn't stay dead!
* As the first-ever SuperTeam the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica has brushed against this trope time and again.
** ''ComicBook/AllStarComics'': The ''entire team'' sans Wonder Woman is killed at the start of issue 38. Di and Black Canary cart their bodies to Paula von Gunther who then revives them so that they can track down their murderer. Black Canary's help leads to her becoming the second woman to officially join the JSA.
** ''ComicBook/JSAClassified'' plays with the idea. Vandal Savage seemingly brings back Wesley Dodds ([[ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre Sandman]]) only for it to turn out to be a shapeshifter posing as Alan Scott's deceased friend to throw Sentinel off his game.
* ''Comicbook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'':
** Despite being somewhat famous for averting this trope more often than not, the eventual return of the first-ever Legionnaire to die (Lightning Lad) was telegraphed before his corpse was even cold.
** A brilliant quote from Fabian Nicieza after fans attacked him for apparently killing off two members of the ''Comicbook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'': "In that case, I want to take this opportunity to formally apologize to all the readers for having killed off a '''shapeshifter''' and a '''teleporter''' in a '''superhero comic book'''."
** ''ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics'': Vril Dox (Brainiac 2) is raped and murdered by the otherwise nameless alien "Stealth". His memories are revealed to have been preserved by [[NoNeedForNames the Durlan]] and they are quickly transplanted into a clone body.
* In ''ComicBook/MartianManhunter'', a government agent discussing the Martian's "death" with the ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} is openly skeptical about superheroes really dying, much to the annoyance of Franchise/TheFlash, whose predecessor and former partner ''did'' stay dead... for an unusually long time by superhero standards, at least. (And of course, we the readers already knew J'onn had faked his death as part of a plan.)
* When ComicBook/MartianManhunter was killed in ''Comicbook/FinalCrisis'', Superman gave a eulogy that amounted to "Let us honor his memory. And pray for a resurrection." Then ''Comicbook/BlackestNight'' came along and the Manhunter became a zombie Black Lantern. Perhaps Supes should have been more specific. (Don't worry, he got better.)
* ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'': Aquaman, Steel, Guy Gardner, Hippolyta, Sam Lane, and Jonathan and Martha Kent all die, but not really. In Steel's case, he was resurrected during ''OWAW''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': In issue #23 of [[ComicBook/Supergirl2011 her Post-Flashpoint series]], Supergirl gets killed and her soul thrown into a HiveMind. Later her soul is reattached to her rebuilt body.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': Hank Henshaw, the Cyborg Superman, survives death enough to become a DeathSeeker. After trying to save his crew from the effects of radiation that lead to a space shuttle crash, Hank's body dies and his consciousness goes to [=LexCorp=], then Superman's birthing matrix. After Hank tried to frame and kill the Eradicator, and convert Metropolis into an Engine City, Hank's body was destroyed in a fight with Superman in ''Superman'' #82. Hank transfers his consciousness to a device he had planted on Doomsday, travels to Apokolips, transfers his consciousness to an Apokolips trooper, and is destroyed by Darkseid. But Hank's consciousness was really transferred in an orb by Darkseid and was set free. After being convicted of genocide by an intergalactic tribunal, Hank's consciousness is transported into a black hole. But the black hole really sent him to the Marvel Universe, where he had a crossover with the Silver Surfer, and then returned to the DC Universe, where he was attacked by Parallax and dispersed into the Godwave by Hal Jordan. Hank survived by constructing a world from part of the Godwave, and was defeated by Superman on New Genesis, and transferred his consciousness to Superman's containment suit and constructed a new body on Earth. His new body was destroyed by Superman, and Hank's consciousness transferred to a toy, and a machine that could destroy Superman, but Hank was defeated by Superman Red. Then, Hank had another crossover, this time with Galactus, who turned him into a metal slab. But he survived, was defeated by Superman, and sent to the Phantom Zone. He returned and was destroyed on the Manhunters homeworld, then returned and joined the Sinestro Corps, with a promise to be destroyed once and for all. Hank is mostly destroyed after ComicBook/PowerGirl and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} throw him at Superboy-Prime, then in an explosion meant to destroy the Anti-Monitor. But Hank survives, resurrected by the Manhunters, and works with the Alpha Lanterns to become mortal again and be destroyed, but is destroyed by the Green Lantern Corps. Hank transfers his consciousness to Boodikka, who destroys his essence, but his consciousness survives, motivated to destroy Doomsday. Hank destroys Doomsday, who survives.
* ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'':
** A scene in the '90s ''Titans'' had a couple of junior members being shown around the Hall of Deceased Former Titans to show them the stakes being played for. [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVLJm9IHkZk/THqjF8TuTII/AAAAAAAACV8/Zl-1jQgdbn0/s1600/the+titans+010+08.jpg The lesson didn't really take, as they had been hanging around other superheroes long enough that the senior member had to explain "You realize when people die, they don't usually come back... right?]]" The former Titan in question eventually came back (as did Jason Todd, an honorary Titan who's partly shown in the same panel).
** A dead character appeared to be resurrected in the "New Titans" series. Although Marv Wolfman intended both characters to be separate, there was Terra II, a heroic doppelganger of the villainous Terra. Towards the end of the series, the editor Pat Garrahy ordered Wolfman to link the two characters closer together, and a story showed that the original Terra's grave was ''empty''. Geoff Johns and Ben Raab wanted to head in the direction of both characters being the same, with Geo-Force discovering that both girls had identical DNA. Before Terra II could be made aware of this, she died [[DyingToBeReplaced to be replaced with a "Terra III"]]. Though it has since been [[AssPull explained away that Terra II was indeed a separate character who was given surgery and DNA alteration to resemble the original]] (similar to Wolfman's original intent. Here's [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2012/04/28/the-abandoned-an%E2%80%99-forsaked-who-was-the-second-terra-anyways/ an article explaining the retcons behind Terra II.]])
** Raven underwent some death and resurrection throughout the series. In the "ComicBook/TheTerrorOfTrigon", the Titans had to temporarily kill her body in order to drive out the evil influence and have her possessed by the goddess Azar. After the battle, Raven vanished and it was assumed that she [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence had either died or ascended to another dimension]]. She was brought back, purified, although it didn't last and she became corrupted ''again'', with her body disintegrating at the end of "Titans Hunt". ''Then'' it was revealed that the evil in Raven's soul had survived and possessed an unknown woman's body to do her bidding as "Dark Raven", while the soul of the good Raven was implanted in Starfire for safekeeping. Dark Raven was then destroyed at the end of the series, while the purified Raven became a golden SpiritAdvisor. Unfortunately for her, she was then resurrected and placed back in a (younger) corporeal form, causing her to have to fear Trigon's influence yet again.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Paula modified the Amazon's Purple Healing Ray to the point where any time someone was killed without being disintegrated or having their brain badly damaged Diana just chucked them in her plane and flew them to Paradise Island or Paula's lab in Washington DC to be revived.
** In the gods traditionally could only be truly killed by other gods or special weapons, meaning Wonder Woman was free to kill them at will without feeling like she'd broken the Amazon's technical pacifist code as they'd pop back up somewhere eventually unless they chose not to or were already fading away.
** ComicBook/{{Artemis}} was killed after she replaced Wonder Woman for a time in [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Volume 2]], she ended up dragging herself out of hell and crawling out of her coffin as she'd been far more popular with fans than editorial initially expected.
** ComicBook/SteveTrevor was resurrected twice during [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 the Bronze age]]. Specifically, he was killed by Doctor Cyber, causing Wonder Woman to relinquish her powers. Seeing her grief, the god Eros inhabited the lifeless body with his spirit and operated as Steve Howard, until his spirit was extracted from the body and Steve "died" again. Several years later, Aphrodite extracted Steve's essence from her son's memory and implanted it in the body of a Steve from another universe, overriding that Steve's (already altered) personality.
* ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'':
** Empress' parents are both killed by her grandfather, and then resurrected as infants forcing her to all but retire from super-heroics to raise them.
** Secret was murdered by her brother before the team ever found and rescued her ghostly {{Psychopomp}} form from the D.E.O., she's brought back as fully human by Darkseid who thinks that taking her powers from her is a horrific punishment when instead of getting to live out her life is what she wants most.
** Slobo spends pretty much the entire run slowly dying of CloneDegeneration. In the end, his HeroicSacrifice to save Secret from Darkseid gets him [[AndIMustScream trapped frozen and statue-like]] in the far future where the locals eventually figure out what he is and have the technology to save him from Darkseid's cruelty and his own body slowly failing.
* ''ComicBook/ZeroHour'' saw pretty much everyone in the DC Universe die at some point during the event outside of Parallax and Damage and--outside of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica--they came back to life at the end of the story.
