Six Sequels That Resurrect a Character or Actor Who Died in a Previous Installment

By Matt Prigge
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Bride of Frankenstein (1935): What happens when you’ve killed off the most popular element of your smash hit? Luckily, movies thrive on regurgitation. The great Bride of Frankenstein happily claimed its central beastie didn’t die in the first film. And thus, the path was set for the resurrections of Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers and so on.

A Better Tomorrow II (1987): Ti Lung and Leslie Cheung were the protagonists of John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow, but the breakout star turned out to be Chow Yun-Fat as an ice-cool, shade-sporting criminal. Trouble is, he gets killed in a hail of bullets. Solution: Bring back Chow as the dead criminal’s twin brother. And don’t kill him this time.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991): Having been satisfyingly offed in The Terminator, Ah-nold returned in part two, this time as a goodie doppelganger sent by the futuristic John Connor. Not too confusing for Linda Hamilton, right? And then the producers killed and brought him back again.

Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000): In the end of Takashi Miike’s Dead or Alive, lead characters Riki Takeuchi and Sho Aikawa fight to the death and blow up Earth. And yet, in typically goofy Miike fashion, not only is there a sequel but the whole planetary annihilation thing is never even acknowledged.

Infernal Affairs III (2003): Tony Leung, like Leo DiCaprio in its remake The Departed, is killed at the end of Infernal Affairs. But as with The Godfather Part II, one can always flashback. The first sequel does just that, with a younger actor taking over. By installment three Leung is back.

Crank: High Voltage (2009): At the end of Crank, Jason Statham plummets from a plane. There’s no way this movie isn’t awesome.

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