10 Movie Characters Brought Back From The Dead In The Worst Way

The likes of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales made absolutely no attempts to explain how exactly their characters returned from the dead, however for the films that do at least offer some sort of reasoning, there is more retconning required for some than others.

In order to explain the return of Ramirez in Highlander II: The Quickening, the sequel that boasts the unwanted record of exactly 0% on the Tomatometer, had to forego much of the lore that was laid out in the original Highlander five years earlier.

Said movie saw the group of Immortals fighting for decades in a bid to be the last one left and be granted eternal life. There can be only one after all, and so when Ramirez (Sean Connery) had his head cut off, it was a pretty concrete death. That is, until The Quickening rewrote everything.

The sequel instead established as canon that the Immortals were in fact aliens that had the ability to resurrect using the titular Quickening energy. It's not surprising that the film was universally panned, and that further instalments in the franchise completely ignored it, refusing to even acknowledge its events or the canon it introduced.