10 Times Movie Franchises Totally Broke Your Trust

Fake-out deaths are nothing new in movies. They can be utilised (to varying success) to get an emotional reaction out of an audience before an immense moment when the character is revealed to be alive. Think Nick Fury in The Winter Soldier, or Commissioner Gordon in The Dark Knight.

However, to do this within the space of a movie is one thing, but to have a character appear to be dead before a retcon in a sequel four years later is something else entirely. This is exactly what happened when Michael Myers was brought back in Halloween: Resurrection.

At the end of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Laurie Strode supposedly killed Michael by decapitation, and that was the end of it. Still, four years later, Resurrection revealed in the most insulting and infuriating way that the iconic villain had miraculously escaped death and that Laurie had instead killed an innocent man.

The comic book movie genre in particular has overused this trope to the point that any character death is immediately greeted with scepticism from the audience, knowing that the character will likely eventually survive. This shouldn't be the case in a movie franchise like Halloween, though. Death all of a sudden becomes redundant if you can't trust that it's real, and subsequent genuine death scenes will risk losing their gravity and impact.