テレビ界で死から復活したキャラクター、ランキング

A whole season of 31 episodes was wiped away as a dream, and the shower scene reveal still made TV Guide's list at #4 of unexpected moments.

A shower scene erased an entire season's continuity, becoming television's classic example of a divisive reversal.

26.5 rating / 44 share shower return, turned entire 1985-86 season into Pam's dream, show fell from Nielsen #2 to #11 after retcon

Entire season erased as a dream; return episode drew huge curiosity but sparked lasting outrage.

36 million Americans watched Patrick Duffy step out of a shower, wiping out 31 episodes of storytelling as a morning nightmare.

300 million people watched him die; a year later Pam found him in the shower and an entire season was flushed as 'just a dream' — the retcon every later argument is measured against.

A whole season retconned in a shower; Dallas fell from No.1 to No.6, and the twist is still called both best and worst.

A two-hour premiere with 7.7M viewers, the show's second-highest audience, and no tricks: she was truly dead.

Her friends brought her back, but the emotional cost of resurrection became the story's real conflict.

Bargaining Part 1 IMDb 8.2 after 147 days dead, audience 5.2m vs S5 finale 4.5m - return framed as trauma not triumph, critics called earned

Season 6 premiere 'Bargaining' drew 7.7 million – second-highest in the series – after clawing out of her own grave.

The 4.5 million network viewers on UPN saw her resurrected from heaven rather than hell, pivoting an action series into profound clinical trauma.

7.7m for the two-hour premiere vs a 4.6m season average — the resurrection that made Buffy’s heaven a wound, not a stunt.

13.22M viewers were up on the week before, but critics gave it 52% and called the fix 'frustrating'.

The dumpster escape turned an apparent death into a debate about whether suspense had been manufactured unfairly.

13.22m vs a 13.15m season average — the dumpster reveal added almost no audience and ignited a fan argument.

A dumpster hid the truth, but millions argued the fake-out sacrificed emotional trust for a temporary ratings bump.

14 years later, 16.2 million tuned in for 'Ello princess' – the biggest soap resurrection crowd.

16.7 million viewers — the UK's #2 programme of the entire year — for a man who had been shot and dead for 14 years; the press still filed it under 'unrealistic'.

16.2 million and a 62% share after 14 years — the soap return that turned a canal drowning into a national event.

7-year gap between Final Break death 2009 and Ogygia reveal 2017, premiere 3.83m vs S4 average 6.4m - biggest argument-starter retcon

Eight years after dying of an electrocution sacrifice in the 2009 TV movie, 3.83 million viewers discovered him imprisoned in Yemen.

Eight years 'dead,' then 3.83 million watched him come back — and the audience shrank roughly 40% by the finale while critics settled on Metacritic's 48.

12.5 million viewers watched his buried body exhumed and revived in 'Deadalive', sustaining the show's transition to John Doggett.

Buried for three months, then exhumed alive in front of 12.4 million people — an episode that won the show's final Emmy while critics filed it under 'plot holes'.

33.5% of all Korean TV households watched the episode built around burying him — a +4.9 point spike over the series' own 28.6% average on the road to a 38.8% finale.