11 Upcoming Movies That Have Ignored Massive Mistakes

9. Needlessly Resurrecting A "Dead" Character - Wonder Woman 1984

The Mistake

Wonder Woman fans were left shocked when director Patty Jenkins revealed that presumed-dead hero Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) would be appearing in Wonder Woman 1984.

Once the fog of confusion cleared, there was disappointment among many that Jenkins and co. would go this route, if only because it further underlines the frustrating lack of stakes in most superhero movies, where death doesn't really have any concrete meaning.

Rumours point to Trevor possibly being resurrected as part of a pact Diana (Gal Gadot) makes with a God, but if Trevor really is back for good, it rather usurps the tragedy of the first film's ending, and also Diana's decision to withdraw from superheroism for decades.

The Lesson(s)

To go-to here is surely the fan fic-esque revival of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in Alien: Resurrection, where the hero is cloned from a convenient DNA sample taken before her dive into the furnace at the end of Alien 3.

More recently, Kingsman: The Golden Circle decided to lazily undo Harry Hart's (Colin Firth) incredible demise in the first film, effectively ret-conning it with a flashback with predictably unsatisfying results.

Unless you've got a really damn good reason to do it, bringing a dead or presumed-dead character back from the grave almost always comes across hokey and desperate.