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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yeah, that's a better way to explain it.
There was a really great moment in Amazing Spider-Man #500 by JMS where Peter saves pretty much everything on his own birthday by reliving key moments in his own life(like trying a different way to save Gwen since he knows the first one doesn't work, beating Electro and Sandman the same way he did the first time they fought etc)to get to a certain moment in time where he can tell a bunch of heroes to wait for Doctor Strange to show up before making a mistake that unleashes Dormammu.
At the end of the day his good friend Strange gives him a small trinket he found in his cloak and departs. The trinket opens and tells Peter "You have 5 minutes. Spend them as you will."
http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/05/24/frank-grillo-wraps-captain-america-civil-war-shoot
Grillo is done shooting his role in Civil War already apprently (or so he says on Instagram)
That's sad as I would of assumed he had a bigger part in the movie (unless he turns up filming in other countries later) as it seems his role was reduced to size Of Batroc or Von Stucker's
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I think Atlanta and the surrounding area is going to be a stand-in for a couple different locations, potentially with none of them actually being Atlanta. Because of favorable tax laws, a lot of movies will shoot in Atlanta even if they aren't technically set there to save money. Marvel can afford to do a lot of international shooting, but even they aren't going to go out to Africa if the only scene set there is a 2-minute scene to help establish Black Panther.
1) Die in the process of someone becoming a superhero
2) Die to make Spider-Man sad
3) Be a B-lister or lower, or a supporting character in general. Even if you're a major character, or an important supporter. As long as you're not super iconic (or your death doesn't make you super-iconic) you can die permanently.
Seriously, characters die for good in comics all the time as long as they're not the biggest names. Though the constant resurrection of A-Listers and the Discard and Draw-esque manner in which supporting characters and characters who are popular-but-not-as-popular-as-others are killed are related.
edited 24th May '15 5:24:23 PM by KnownUnknown
In Secret Invasion, it was established that the Skrulls underwent brainwashing meant to make them truly believe they were the heroes they had kidnapped and replaced, which is why they were able to infiltrate the superhero community for years without someone like Charles Xavier or Emma Frost ever noticing they were impostors.
They never addressed the ghost Mockingbird from the X-Statix mini, but I'd assumed the implication was that the impostor who kidnapped and replaced her went on believing she was the real deal even after her death.
...Which is actually kind of sad, if you think about it.
edited 24th May '15 7:11:31 PM by comicwriter

I'd say it depends on how permanently the character is brought back? If it's only for a short "what if" type of story, like that Flashpoint miniseries where the robber killed Bruce Wayne instead of Thomas and Martha, and Thomas then became Batman, I wouldn't call it a proper revival. But if an alternate universe version gets an ongoing series of her own, or permanently joins the team her dead counterpart belonged to, to me that is pretty much the same as resurrecting a dead character. They writers are just trying to circumvent Death Is Cheap, so it wouldn't feel like the effect of a dramatic character death is diminished.
edited 24th May '15 11:24:32 AM by Tuomas