10 Awful Movie Death Retcons EVERYONE Hated

Highlander II: The Quickening is admittedly a glorified cluster headache of a movie from start to finish, but left many fans immediately baffled with its hilariously inane retconning of Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez's (Sean Connery) death.

Ramírez is brutally decapitated - is there any other way? - by The Kurgan (Clancy Brown) in the first film, and though he appears throughout the sequel in flashbacks, he's miraculously resurrected later in the story.

After Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) defeats villain General Katana's (Michael Ironside) two lackeys, he uses their quickening powers to both restore his own youth and bring Ramírez back to life.

It's about as lazy as hand-wave retcons get, using hazy fantasy nonsense to bring back a fan favourite character in an attempt to juice the sequel's box office.

But it didn't work, as The Quickening both bombed commercially and was near-universally panned by critics and fans alike. It didn't help that this was only one of several iffy retcons introduced in the film, showing how little respect the movie had for its own established internal logic.