10 Upcoming Movies That Have Ignored Major Mistakes

6. Undoing A Meaningful Character Death - Wonder Woman 1984

The Mistake

By far the emotional high-point of the first Wonder Woman was Steve Trevor's (Chris Pine) climactic sacrificial death, where he laid down his life in order to prevent a bomber distributing poison gas across London.

So eyebrows were immediately raised, then, when it was confirmed that Trevor would be returning for the sequel, Wonder Woman 1984.

Though it's pretty much confirmed at this point that Trevor will be resurrected courtesy of a pact Diana (Gal Gadot) makes with mysterious antagonist Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal), bringing Steve back, even temporarily, feels like it will probably undermine the weight of his initial demise.

Yes, it's likely that Trevor will return to the void when Lord is defeated at the end of the movie, but won't that just result in a roundabout rehash of his affecting death in the first film?

The Lesson

Perhaps the most infamous instance of a great character death being undone in the sequel is Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in Alien: Resurrection.

Regardless of what you make of Alien 3, Ripley's sacrificial death at the end felt like a fitting demise for the character, seemingly taking the franchise with her.

But Resurrection brought her back with a laughable clone plot that couldn't feel more like a fanfic if it actually tried, and perfectly surmises why reversing iconic death scenes is so often such an awful idea.

On the more villainous side, we've got Star Wars' Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), who was given a head-scratcher of a revival in the recent The Rise of Skywalker, effectively undermining all the weight that his death in Return of the Jedi brought with it.