Why Heroes Don’t Stay Dead: Resurrection – Troped!
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Have you ever wondered why writers even bother to kill of major characters only to find some magical or convenient way to bring them back to life? Resurrection has been a part of human culture and in our stories from ancient Greece and Egypt, to Jesus, to Superman – it’s everywhere! So why is it so common for characters in movies, tv, comics, and video games to cheat death? Is resurrection a cheap marketing ploy, or a key aspect of the classic Hero’s Journey? Don’t worry, faithful pop culture fanatic – Troped! will answer these questions and more.
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Supernatural is so guilty of this…
Change the thumbnail that will literally spoil got for some people.
Let's not forget Spock (and recently Kirk)…
Peeps, management Anyone hear bigger this result ? wtk
Superman died
#back from the dead tonight
Arrow needs to be here like if you think the same
wait Jason Todd became Arkham Knight
Buffy died twice.
Tell that to Pyrrha Nikos!
WatchMojo sure is lucky I have already seen Jon Snow's resurrection before seeing the thumbnail.
A cool resurrection trope used was at the end of the Naruto vs Pain battle when Nagato revived basically almost every b character in Naruto Shippuden
Wtf fuck this spoiler
Then we have hope that Netflix will bring back to life Hannah Baker?
Jason Todd definitely didn't stay dead. I thought the saying was "No one stays dead in comics except for Uncle Ben and Thomas and Martha Wayne."
groot didn't come back from death, baby groot is his son, his mind was destroyed in the crash, one small branch of him develops a new head because thats what plants does develop and entire new tree from a small branch
HOW WAS NOTHING FROM SUPERNATURAL HERE? That show is the damn master at resurrection
Well being a Christian I definitely love the gospel stories especially the resurrection of Christ and I also love the whole superman death because superman is almost an archetype of Christ he definitely Judick Messiah type…. I especially like when Jean Grey comes back but I think she's been to that now for a couple years I don't think they're bringing her back until Emma frost turns evil again which I think she's getting close to it in the current storylines I'm not really up-to-date on the current comics…. like I tripped out what I heard nightcrawler was killed off at one point but now he's back I think almost every one of the X-Men have at least died once and came back possibly not storm I know she was turned younger by another mutant which technically that could be a metaphoric resurrection…. but thank you for doing this video this is a great video to watch for Easter
He totally left out Buffy, she came back to life fuckin' two times.
"Heroes never die"
-Mercy
Because respawn.
all hail Lelouch
what's dead should stay dead
im glad my man Jon Snow came back to life.. if.. if only it was the same for Hodor.. hold the door.. hold the door.. im crying.. he died right when we learned his horrible backstory..
Jon Snow…..Lord commander….Lord Snow…
Does bringing back jack sparrow from Davy Jones locker count ?
that guy from dp resembles salen kotch of cod:infinite warfare
The resurrections are dark and full of spoilers.
[SPOILERS]
Now that I've started to think about it, can you count Alphonse's resurrection in FMA as an actual resurrection? Can you even count being taken by Truth as an actual death? FMA established that you can't bring a person back to life.
agent Smith cannot physically die until the end of the matrix and gandalf also couldn't die untill his full task was completely done
krillen
gfdsgergesargaer
Robot Chicken Batman: "… You know what? F*** this!"