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Rick Whiting
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Posted: 25 January 2026 at 2:20am | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Lately I have been wondering (no pun intended) should Wonder Man have stayed dead instead of resurrecting him years later. I think that it might have been better to let him stay dead since resurrecting him kind of undid a really good one in done story and made it less impactful on the lives of the Avengers in the long run. Also, when he was resurrected he seemed like a completely different character from his first appearance that he could have just been an all new character. At the most, his resurrection should have proceeded no further than the Vision having Simon's brain ingrams. What do you all think? Should Wonder Man have stayed dead or do you think that it was the right decision to bring him back?
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Craig Earl
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Posted: 25 January 2026 at 11:25am | IP Logged | 2 post reply
I was never a fan of the character per se, although he featured in Avengers issues that I really liked. If the choice were mine, I'd probably have given him a glorious death after the Grim Reaper storyline.
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Petter Myhr Ness
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Posted: 25 January 2026 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Comic book deaths never take, they always go for the fake-out in the end. Like the "Death of Superman" - what were the chances of The Man of Steel being gone forever? Zero. But the story is still hailed as classic (I don't know why, in spite of the talent involved), so they keep doing it.
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 25 January 2026 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
But you have to admit that Wonder Man's death "took" for much longer than most. Maybe second only to Bucky!

Granted, it is worth noting that Wonder Man was solely created to die in the first place.
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Rick Whiting
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Posted: 25 January 2026 at 10:51pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
Comic book deaths never take, they always go for the fake-out in the end. Like the "Death of Superman" - what were the chances of The Man of Steel being gone forever? Zero. But the story is still hailed as classic (I don't know why, in spite of the talent involved), so they keep doing it.

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The thing about the death of Wonder Man in Avengers #9 is that he died in the same issue that he first appeared in. So the character didn't have a long history in the comics and he wasn't (I'm assuming, but I could be wrong) meant to stick around and or brought back. Like I said, at the most, his resurrection shouldn't have went any further than the Vision having his brainwave patterns/personality which would have been made possible as a result of his ionic energy.
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