10 Awful Movie Death Retcons EVERYONE Hated

In the original Blade, Blade's (Wesley Snipes) mentor Abraham Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) is brutally beaten and infected with vampirism by villain Deacon Frost's (Stephen Dorff) men.

Rather than turn, Whistler decides to end his own life, shooting himself in the head as Blade mournfully walks away. While we don't see the bullet enter Whistler's cranium, we do see his arm lifelessly drop to the ground while holding the gun.

Basically, there doesn't seem to be any ambiguity about his demise whatsoever. But in Blade II, it's revealed that Whistler survived a bullet to the head because he'd already begun his vampiric transformation, and has been kept as a prisoner by other vampires for two years.

Blade rescues him and quickly cures him, more-or-less wiping clean everything that happened to him at the end of the first film, which might be forgivable if not for the fact that Whistler then dies again in the third movie, Blade: Trinity.

At the start of the threequel, Whistler's compound is raided by the FBI, resulting in him blowing it up and killing himself in the process. You know what makes a retcon worse? Having it all be for nothing. It makes you wonder why they even bothered resurrecting him at all.