User blog comment:JoePlay/The Avengers Battle Royale - The Smack Down/@comment-5038445-20120421034044/@comment-4651179-20120421041044

A flashback is a scene shown in the comic which features an action or event happened hours, days, weeks, months, years ago... So if a character appears only in flashback it means he/she only appears in a scene from the past and not in the actual time of the comic.

In one of the first rounds where he was shown I complained about him being dead, but in this polls many Avengers shown are dead :/