5 Marvel Resurrections Done Right And 5 That Sucked
3. Elektra
Arguably the greatest creation from Frank Millers initial run on Daredevil, Elektra Natchios was Marvel Comics original and most popular femme fatale. As a former lover of Daredevils alter ego, Matt Murdock, Elektra turns to the side of evil and is a hired assassin for Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of crime. She eventually suffers one of the most iconic deaths in comic book history when she is stabbed with her own sai by the psychotic Bullseye. Miller would go on to tease her resurrection during one of his final issues of Daredevil, but she remains dead. Elektra would eventually be revived for real during the bloated Fall From Grace storyline during the 1990s. Typical of other 90s events, Fall From Grace is jam packed with major game changing ideas like Daredevil getting a new costume, faking his own death, and the return of Elektra. How she was actually resurrected is never thoroughly explained, thought she would go on to star in other questionable storylines from the 90s, such as the feral Wolverine saga. While Elektra is getting her own book as part of the All-New Marvel Now initiative, she is yet to reach the superstar status she once had prior to her original death during the Miller-era. Perhaps it was the fleeting nature of how the character was introduced and killed that made her such a sensation.
Mark is a professional writer living in Brooklyn and is the founder of the Chasing Amazing Blog, which documents his quest to collect every issue of Amazing Spider-Man, and the Superior Spider-Talk podcast. He also pens the "Gimmick or Good?" column at Comics Should Be Good blog.
