10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About Elektra
10. They Brought Her Back Without Frank Miller's Permission
Marvel Comics
One of the more, shall we say, notorious urban legends to have made its way through the industry, was that Marvel refused to seek Frank Miller's permission to resurrect Elektra despite having reached an agreement with the writer years prior. The character was, as Miller has often joked, meant to stay dead. And while Elektra has received some killer treatment since she came back from the grave, there is a lot that can be said about messing with the creative vision that Miller initially had in mind.
Indeed, Natchios' resurrection in 1994 would never have happened, if the Born Again scribe had gotten his way, and that would've been fine, really. While Elektra has gotten some good treatment since returning from the grave, most if it has really been rather bad, and there was nothing to stop creators from exploring the character's years before her death at the hands of Bullseye either.
Of course, Elektra hasn't been the only comic book character to get a resurrection over the years, but she's had so many. Like, at least four at this stage. Just cut it out.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
