12 Ridiculous Ways TV Characters Were Brought Back From The Dead

8. My Wife Was Killed In An Explosion and I Flat-Lined On The Operating Table...Now'm Back And I'm Kind Of Evil €“ Tony Almeida (24)

Season five of 24 may have had the most traumatic season opening to a show in TV history. Former president David Palmer is shot dead, Michelle Dessler is killed in a car bomb and fellow protagonist (and Michelle's husband) Tony Almeida is critically injured and dies himself a few hours later on the operating table at CTU. These deaths mark a shocking progression in the show and made season five one of the best. Sure it was a tragic end for these characters, and Tony in particular, but as audiences had witnessed with Teri's senseless murder in the closing moment of season one, the show wasn't afraid to make brutal choices. In fact, season five's massacre showed audiences that no one, except maybe Jack Bauer himself, was safe from the chopping block. Yet those tragic moments were undone with the resurrection of Tony Almeida in season seven. What's more, the manner of his return was ridiculous. Season five villain Christopher Henderson faked Tony's death in order to turn him to the dark side and entering season seven, it appears to have worked. Tony was reworked as a villain, working for a terrorist group whose goal was to kill President Allison Taylor. It didn't quite sit right with audiences and even his 'reveal' as a member of former Head of CTU Bill Buchanan's black ops unit, didn't quite satisfy us, because his return felt fake and unnecessary and because season seven, as great as it was, ended with Tony succumbing to revenge and being dragged into FBI custody. Dying in the midst of season five would have been a far more tragic and noble ending for Jack's former CTU ally.