23 TV Characters Who Came Back from the Dead
23 TV Characters Who Came Back from the Dead (continued):
16. Alice Quinn (The Magicians)
Alice Quinn becomes a niffin on The Magicians Season 2 Episode 3, “Divine Elimination,” and as she turns on her friends, Quentin releases his cacodemon who proceeds to fight Alice, ultimately killing her.
On The Magicians Season 2 Episode 6, “The Cock Barrens,” an apparition of Alice appears to Quentin, and explains that his cacodemon didn’t kill her, but instead placed her in the empty demon trap on his back so that they’d be stuck together.
Niffen-Alice proceeds to pester Quentin to set her free, and he ultimately does, but when Quentin and Julia proceed to the underworld to retrieve Julia’s lost shade and leave with Alice’s, they decide to try to bring Alice back.
On The Magicians Season 2 Episode 12, “Ramifications,” Quentin and Julia, with the help of Mayakovsky merge Niffen-Alice with pre-teen Shade-Alice, bringing her back to this realm.
17. Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
After seven years of chasing the truth, it would almost be blasphemous for The X-Files not to include Mulder in their abduction mythology. Mulder is abducted during The X-Files Season 7 Episode 22, “Requiem,” and returned as a corpse on The X-Files Season 8 Episode 14, “This is Not Happening.”
Three months after his funeral, on The X-Files Season 8 Episode 15, “Deadalive,” Scully renews her hopes for saving Mulder when another abductee wakes up from a similar state. Scully administers some antiviral drugs that cure the alien virus found in her partner.
18. Phil Coulson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Phil Coulson died at the end of The Avengers, so fans were a little stumped as to how the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent was going to come back for the TV series. Coulson was alive and well for the series premiere with a memory of “a beautiful place” called Tahiti.
Coulson’s memories of Tahiti actually referred to Project T.A.H.I.T.I. or Terrestrial Alien Host Integrative Tissue I. The project was overseen by Coulson, and used bodily fluids of a Kree corpse. One of the solutions GH.325 has the ability to regenerate human tissue.
While T.A.H.I.T.I was originally meant to save a fallen Avenger, S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury decided to use the project on Coulson.
Part of the project’s protocol included the use of the Memory Overwrite Machine to remove the genetic memory of the Kree the potion came from. In Coulson’s case, his memory wasn’t completely overwritten, just the memories of his resurrection and overseeing T.A.H.I.T.I.
19. Harry Kim (Star Trek: Voyager)
Let’s not forget Star Trek: Voyager Season 2 Episode 21, “Deadlock,” where the ship was cloned and Harry fell out of a hull breach into open space.
Fortunately, the fact that a duplicate Voyager existed in the same time and space, meant that Harry could go through the rift and live on the other Voyager, without any of that messy two-of-you-can’t-exist-in-the-same-time-and-place paradox.
Of course, after Harry goes through the rift and has a little talk about how weird this is with Captain Janeway, it’s never mentioned again. But, for the rest of the series, Harry Kim is technically from another universe. Just saying.
20. Daniel Jackson (Stargate: SG-1)
Ascension exists in the Stargate universe for one reason: to bring people back from the dead. On Stargate: SG-1 Season 5 Episode 21, “Meridian,” SG-1 returns from a mission where Major Samantha Carter quickly explains that Dr. Daniel Jackson has been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.
Dr. Jackson ascends to another plane of existence at the end of “Meridian,” but along with this narrow escape from death comes with some rules. For one, Dr. Jackson can’t interfere with the course of events on his friends’ plane of existence.
Daniel breaks this rule when he attempted to stop Anubis from attacking and destroying Abydos. This led to his return in Stargate: SG-1 Season 7 Episode 1, “Fallen.”
21. Jessica Logan (Timeless)
From the very first episode of Timeless it was no secret that Wyatt Logan was mourning his wife, but given how the show dealt with time travel—the time team couldn’t go back to anywhere or when they might run into themselves—saving her wasn’t an easy feat to pull off.
Wyatt tries to stop her killer’s parents from meeting Timeless Season 1 Episode 13, “Karma Chameleon,” but is ultimately unsuccessful. Then in Timeless Season 2 Episode 3, “Hollywoodland,” Wyatt finds that Jessica is alive and well, and ready to mess with his new relationship with Lucy. (This had Rittenhouse written all over it!)
22. Jon Snow (Game of Thrones)
If you haven’t seen the meme, Jon Snow is alive and well in the world of Game of Thrones.
After getting stabbed during the Game of Thrones Season 5 Finale, Season 6 opens with Davos finding his dead body and brings her to Melisandre.
Using a combination of leeches and blood magic, Melisandre casts a spell that allows her to revive the rightful Lord Commander. The final seconds of Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 2, “Home,” showed Jon Snow gasping for life.
23. Michael Cordero Jr. (Jane the Virgin)
In another OMG moment, Jane the Virgin revealed that Michael Cordero Jr, Jane’s husband who died in Season 3 after taking the LSAT, is alive! With a beard!
How? We don’t know, but it’s straight out of a telenovela!
As Jane the Virgin heads into its fifth and final season, this is one storyline fans are going to be chomping at the bit to hear more about. What happened? Where’s he been? We have questions!
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Lauren Busser
Lauren Busser is an Associate Editor at Tell-Tale TV. She is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work has appeared in Bitch Media, Popshot Quarterly, Brain Mill Press Voices, and The Hartford Courant.