User blog comment:Anti-venom x/What are the greatest Hero deaths/@comment-61022-20120805015548

In my opinion, it's the heroes who actually stay dead. Nothing cheapens a character sacrificing their life than brining them back to life a few years later. There's a reason the previous writer put them in the dirt. Buuuut that's the hard reality of a commercial property like Marvel Comics. In order to keep those trademarks alive and well they have to keep using the characters...

Now off the top of my head, who in the Marvel Universe hasn't been brought back from the dead? I think it's just Uncle Ben. Obviously that's not true, but he's the only character that "matters" that is still dead. There used to be a time when the were certain Marvel characters that they said would "never" be brought back to life. One of them was Uncle Ben, the other was Bucky, Gwen Stacy is third. Thunderbird was another one. The idea was that bringing them back to life would ultimately take away the tragedy their deaths created and the heroics the inspired later.