10 Best Times Superheroes Came Back From The Dead

When you're so universally hated that fans are willing to call a premium phone line to decide your fate, then you know you've got problems.

Everyone's least favourite Robin was so despised that, after the Joker had beaten him half to death with a crowbar before blowing him up, nobody shed a tear. Dead for 17 years, it wasn't until Judd Winick started Under The Hood that the impossible happened - Jason Todd came back from the grave.

Now donning a rather fetching scarlet mask and toting two very large pistols, Red Hood was the complete opposite of his old mentor. He may have had all the skills and training he had picked up and then honed as Batman's partner, but he now possessed something the Dark Knight never had - an eager willingness to kill.

Todd applies this new crimefighting mantra when he targets Black Mask's drug empire. Calling a meeting of all the gang leaders now under Mask's control, he makes them an offer they can't refuse - work for him, or die.

Just to prove how serious he is he drops a duffel bag with the severed heads of their lieutenants on the table for them, setting the character on a whole new path where he'd act both as a hero and a villain.