10 MORE Movie Characters You Didn't Realise Actually Survived
Believe it or not, these characters are all still alive and kicking.
Death can serve many functions in a film, from tugging at your heartstrings to leaving you pumping your fist in delight at seeing a scumbag villain finally get their well-earned comeuppance.
But just because it looks like a character dies without any ambiguity whatsoever, that doesn't mean it's what the filmmakers or the studio actually had in mind.
And so, following up our previous article on the subject, we come to another 10 movie characters whose apparent deaths weren't quite as concrete as they first seemed.
By way of deleted scenes, post-credits stingers, and even word from the filmmakers themselves, it turns out that these believed-dead characters all lived to fight another day.
In some cases the survival leaves fans with a bevy of unanswered questions, while in other, less-serious cases, it's simply worth chuckling sensibly at and moving on with the rest of your day.
All the same, though, you definitely - and understandably! - assumed these characters to have taken cinematic dirt naps, only for the evidence to actually confirm otherwise.
The lesson here? Studios and filmmakers alike won't fully commit to a character's death unless they're 100% sure about it - and even then...
10. Zod, Ursa & Non - Superman II
In the original theatrical release of Superman II, Kryptonian villains General Zod (Terence Stamp), Ursa (Sarah Douglas), and Non (Jack O'Halloran) are apparently killed off when Superman throws Zod down a crevice in the Fortress of Solitude, Lois (Margot Kidder) punches Ursa and sends her there too, and Non just... trips and falls with them.
We never see the trio again in the film or in the rest of the Christopher Reeve-starring Superman series, which in conjunction with the crevice's perilous drop, makes it fair to conclude that they died.
However, the ABC TV version of Superman II actually contains additional sequences shot by original director Richard Donner before he was fired from the shoot, including an extended ending which shows Zod, Ursa, and Non being arrested, very much alive, by the Arctic Police.
The Richard Donner Cut of the film, finally released in 2006, also remedies this ambiguity, by having Superman go back in time to rebuild the destroyed Fortress of Solitude, and in turn placing the Kryptonians back into the Phantom Zone.