23 TV Characters Who Came Back from the Dead

23 TV Characters Who Came Back from the Dead (continued):

9. Carson Beckett (Stargate: Atlantis)

Stargate: Atlantis Season 3 Episode 17, “Sunday,” is a heartbreaker.

The beloved Scottish doctor, Carson Beckett was killed after handing over an exploding tumor to the bomb squad on Atlantis. His death was heartbreaking, but Carson did eventually return to Atlantis when Colonel Shepherd and his team discovered a clone.

Building off of the shows’ previous mythologies, including the Wraith-turned-human Michael Kenmore, Carson was reintroduced to the show on Stargate: Atlantis Season 4 Episode 18, “The Kindred Part 1.”

After a storyline involving the dissemination of a biological weapon meant to destroy the Wraith, and six months on Earth, the cloned Dr. Beckett would become a traveling doctor in the Pegasus Galaxy and appear in several episodes including the series finale.

10. Mr. Gold/Rumplestiltskin (Once Upon a Time)

Anything can happen when magic is involved, especially if it involves the snake in the grass Mr. Gold.

On Once Upon a Time Season 3 Episode 11, “Going Home,” Rumplestiltskin, aka Mr. Gold, locked horns with his father Peter Pan. Realizing that the only way to kill Pan was to kill himself, Rumple stabbed his father with the Dark One dagger and they disappeared into a cloud of smoke. As Pan pleaded for his life Rumple said:

But I’m a villain, and villains don’t get happy endings.

But of course, Once Upon a Time wasn’t going to kill the all-powerful Dark One off. Once Upon a Time Season 3 Episode 13, “Witch Hunt,” reveals that Wicked Witch of the West is holding him captive in a farmhouse and that Mr. Gold was saved when his son Neil was tricked into opening The Vault of the Dark One.

11. Kara Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)

What were the odds that Kara “Starbuck” Thrace would meet her end in Battlestar Galactica’s third season?

On Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Episode 17, “Maelstrom,” Starbuck flew her viper into a gas giant, and after a trippy dream about her mother and the Cylon Leoban, she continued her descent into the gas giant, until her Viper exploded.

Three episodes later, in Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Episode 20, “Crossroads Part II,” she appears to Apollo as he pursues a ship through a nebula. A voice comes over the radio revealing that it’s Starbuck, telling him that she’s been to Earth and that she’ll take the Colonial fleet there.

12. Victoria Grayson (Revenge)

Victoria Grayson has never been one to take herself out of the game, which made her death all the more shocking on Revenge Season 4 Episode 20, “Burn.” During the episode, Victoria is attacked in a parking garage, the latest in a series of events that leads the former Queen of the Hamptons to exact revenge on Emily Thorne.

Victoria has an associate Kurt Renner deliver the iconic chair she used to sit in when and she and Conrad used to live in “Grayson Manor” and proceeded to set the scene for her exit. She lets gas fill the room before lighting a match and sending the house up in flames.

In the final three episodes of the series, Victoria taunts Emily through a video, announcing that Emily will go down for her murder. In Revenge Season 4 Episode 22, “Plea,” Emily discovers that Victoria faked her death and the body in the house was really Victoria’s mother.

13. Elizabeth Keen (The Blacklist)

You have to be pretty sly to get your death past the likes of Raymond Reddington, but with the help of Mr. Kaplan, Elizabeth Keene was able to do it. Things were fishy when Elizabeth died during a commercial break while giving birth to her and Tom’s daughter Agnes, during The Blacklist Season 3 Episode 18, “Mr. Solomon: Conclusion.”

A month later, it was revealed that she was alive and well in Cuba on The Blacklist Season 3 Episode 23, “Alexander Kirk: Conclusion.” And as expected, when Raymond Reddington found out, he was a little sore, to say the least. (Also, a little betrayed.)

14. Zoe Graystone (Caprica)

Science fiction has so many ways to cheat death, including virtual avatars. Viewers barely got the chance to get to know the privileged seventeen-year-old Zoe Graystone in Caprica Season 1 Episodes 1 & 2, “Pilot,” before her boyfriend blew up a train in a suicide bombing.

However, Zoe’s created an avatar of herself that exists in the virtual world. The program acts and behaves exactly like Zoe and survived because it’s a separate “being” constructed from a list of records Zoe left throughout her life. When Zoe’s father finds the avatar with the help of Zoe’s friend Lacey, the avatar says:

The human brain contains roughly 300 megabytes of information. Not much when you get right down to it. The question isn’t how to store it. It’s how to access it. You can’t download a personality. There’s no way to translate the data. But the information being held in our heads is available in other databases. People leave more than footprints as they travel through life…. medical scans, DNA profiles, psych evaluations, school records, emails, recording, video, audio, CAT scans, genetic typing, synaptic records, security cameras, test results, shopping records, talent shows, ball games, traffic tickets, restaurant bills, phone records, music lists, movie tickets, tv shows… even prescriptions for birth control.

15. Helen Magnus (Sanctuary)

Helen Magnus ties with Buffy Summers for how many times she’s died, but she pulls ahead if you include her actions in the series finale.

Helen died once on Sanctuary Season 1 Episode 9, “Requiem,” while she and her protégé Will were exploring the Bermuda Triangle in her submarine and she got infected with a parasite that was causing her to make irrational decisions. Will had to vent the oxygen from a room on the submarine and revive her in order to save her life and rid her of the parasite.

Two seasons later, the entire Sanctuary team would be killed off during their sojourn into Hollow Earth on Sanctuary Season 3 Episode 10 “The Hollow Men.” Helen, Will, Kate, and Henry would be revived by the Praxian counsel to help them solve a magma build-up problem in Sanctuary Season 3 Episode 11, “Pax Romana.”

But neither of these brushes with death compares to Sanctuary Season 4 Episode 13, “Sanctuary for None: Part II.” During this episode, Helen Magnus blows up her Old City Sanctuary only to start it anew underground in the destroyed infrastructure in the center of the earth.

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