10 MORE Movie Characters You Didn't Realise Actually Survived

10. Zod, Ursa & Non - Superman II

In the original theatrical release of Superman II, Kryptonian villains General Zod (Terence Stamp), Ursa (Sarah Douglas), and Non (Jack O'Halloran) are apparently killed off when Superman throws Zod down a crevice in the Fortress of Solitude, Lois (Margot Kidder) punches Ursa and sends her there too, and Non just... trips and falls with them.

We never see the trio again in the film or in the rest of the Christopher Reeve-starring Superman series, which in conjunction with the crevice's perilous drop, makes it fair to conclude that they died.

However, the ABC TV version of Superman II actually contains additional sequences shot by original director Richard Donner before he was fired from the shoot, including an extended ending which shows Zod, Ursa, and Non being arrested, very much alive, by the Arctic Police.

The Richard Donner Cut of the film, finally released in 2006, also remedies this ambiguity, by having Superman go back in time to rebuild the destroyed Fortress of Solitude, and in turn placing the Kryptonians back into the Phantom Zone.