10 Best Fakeout Endings In Comics

Death is famously far from a permanent arrangement in the world of comics, and few characters have had as many encounters with the Grim Reaper as the X-Men's Jean Grey.

Jean has died, been resurrected, died again, had fakeout deaths, had fakeout resurrections, had alternative versions of herself surface, and a whole lot more since she debuted in September 1963 as part of the original X-Men line-up created by the legendary duo of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

At the times that Jean was dead in the main 616 Marvel canon, it always felt like yet another return from the grave was only an issue or two away. So, when Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's run on Astonishing X-Men began with a mutant cure being tested out on unwilling subjects, it seemed as if Jean was back from the dead when Beast pondered, "Why does nothing ever stay buried... ?" in the third issue of the inaugural Gifted arc.

In response to Beast's troubled comment, even Cyclops believed that Jean had returned.

Skip ahead to the end of Astonishing X-Men #4, and it was actually Colossus - who died four years prior - who was back from the grave. And thank f**k for that, for another return of Jean Grey was so not needed at this point.