10 Superheroes Who Have NEVER Been Killed

5. Jay Garrick

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The history of The Flash is a convoluted and confusing one. First up, there are several different people to have taken on the moniker of The Flash. Then there’s the fact that there are so many different timelines and alternate futures in play, meaning that Flash canon is a tough thing to make sense of.

Now, while many famously remember Barry Allen sacrificing himself to save reality itself – a death that would actually last for 24 years! – the history of Jay Garrick is a little less well-known. Garrick was the original Flash and one of the main heroes of the Golden Age of comics. Unlike Barry, though, Jay has yet to be killed off at any point in a history that goes all the way back to 1940.

Rather than getting the same treatment as Barry Allen or even Bart Allen (who was beaten to death), instead Jay Garrick was given a far more welcoming exit as he simply stopped being included in the stories of the day once the Golden Age drew to a close.

In subsequent decades, Garrick has reappeared at certain times – yet each and every time, he’s managed to get away unscathed to fight another day.

 
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