8 Comic Book Characters Who Should Have Stayed Dead

8. Legion Of Super-Heroes

To say that the Legion Of Super-Heroes has a tumultuous history would be something of an understatement. The characters have been through so many incarnations we may not even be picturing the same group of characters when talking about this title.

The Legion Of Super-Heroes is an army of super-powered individuals gathered from all corners of the galaxy, whose goal is to protect all life in the universe. From this premise, there have been at least three slightly different incarnations of the group, and that is before you take into account time-travel, retcons, Crisis on Infinite Earths and the New 52.

The problem comes that no one seems able to leave any particular incarnation alone, and depending upon the whim's of a given editor, any combination of characters, concepts and storylines can be brought back as canon and shoehorned into current continuity - only for this to be undone a couple of years later, with a slightly different permutation presented as canon.

This pattern then ultimately leaves DC with no choice but to suspend publication of the title because even they can't make it work anymore.