15 Comic Book Characters Who Should've Stayed Dead
7. Colossus
What is it with comic books and retconning meaningful deaths and noble sacrifices?
Colossus, the man with the metal skin who sounded constipated in the X-Men arcade game when unleashing his energy blast, never felt like a top-tier X-Man. Sure, he was good for deflecting bullets or taking a beating, but he was never the star. This was particularly true when his sister died of the Legacy Virus and a despairing Colossus joined Magneto's Acolytes.
But that all changed when he volunteered to give up his life to activate a cure for the Legacy Virus, ensuring that no one, human or mutant, would suffer the same fate as his sister. The cure quickly goes airborne, wiping the plague out and saving humanity.
That is one of those moments that makes the X-Men comics great, a moment where a mutant -- so maligned by "regular" humans -- proves himself the most human.
And then it's undone years later because blah blah aliens blah blah experiments.
Sure, Joss Whedon might've an award for this run, but he still ruined one of the great heroic sacrifices in all of comics.