Day #5 of the 30 Day of Halloween Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #5 of 30 Days of Halloween Challenge

The prompt is Most interesting character brought back from the dead/resurrection(can be the craziest, best, twisted, funniest or worst)

I'm going with the most interesting...and at times aggravating, but definitely different..I don't think anyone else has done it this way. I could be wrong of course.

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[petzipellepingo]

Since you took the good one, I'm going with craziest - vampire gangsters in "Innocent Blood"

[shadowkat]

Yeah, I kind of did, didn't I?

Innocent Blood - is a great movie, though. I love that one, and the vampire gangsters. Hee Hee.

[cjlasky7]

Continuing from my post last night, another classic monster:

"Prince Imhotep" (Boris Karloff), The Mummy (1932)

He's been dead for over three thousand years, but that's not going to stop him! Karloff, in yet another iconic role:

https://youtu.be/1i6xNScZRP4

[atpo_onm]

Sorry, folks, but for re-writing the rules of resurrecting dead characters. the Whedonverse still reigns supreme for me. And of the many possibles therein, this one was the most intense, and the most fascinating in terms of what came after:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd59xmRo-ho

Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof, both at the top of their craft in this series.

[shadowkat]

Well, you're not supposed to use the same television series I did...but yes, I agree that the Whedonverse reigns in the innovative back from the dead department. Whedon felt it had to be earned, and liked to play with television tropes and subvert them.

[wendelah1]

Stargate SG-1 liked to bring back its characters from the dead using alien technology, called a sarcophagus. It looks like an Egyptian sarcophagus, but if you put a newly dead or mortally wounded person inside one, it will revive them within minutes and heal their wounds. It slows down aging, too. Fixes whatever else ails you--myopia, etc. Oh, and it can work as a stasis chamber, keeping someone alive for hundreds of years. Sounds great, right? Unfortunately, if you use it too often, you get addicted to it, and eventually over time, it rots your brain and turns you Evil. This technology is a plot device in a number of episodes during the series and was featured in the source material for the show, the 1994 movie, Stargate, where Daniel Jackson is the first major character we see healed by the contraption.

I looked for a clip of that but couldn't find one.

From the Wiki: Sarcophagus.

This is such a useful plot device that I couldn't resist employing it in an X-Files/SG-1 crossover fic: Of So Divine a Loss.

It's a fun show. I should dig out my DVDs and watch some old episodes.

[shadowkat]

I remember enjoying the movie - mainly because Daniel was played by a young James Spader. (sigh, who I tended to follow around).

So I do remember that scene vaguely. Didn't know that if you use it too many times - it makes you evil - although, wait, maybe that was why the villain was so evil in the first film.

It's a fun adventure series. Also has a lot of spin-offs - Star-Gate Atlantis, and the space one with Robert Carlyle.

[wendelah1]

Young James Spader was very pretty and a damn fine actor, too.

SG-1 was great while Richard Dean Anderson was the star. His character was allowed to have a broader range of emotions which helped, plus Anderson could actually act. The show was not as entertaining without him, although I know there are many fans who disagree.

SG Atlantis had an attractive cast but the writers didn't really know what to do with the City of Atlantis, a technological marvel which should have been the focus. Instead we got endless, monotonous stories about the Wraith, alternating with boring stories about gate travel in the Whatever galaxy. The writing staff ran out of steam pretty fast with that branch of the franchise. On the whole, the fic was better written than the series itself, which I quit watching in the middle of season 3. I can't remember much about the third spinoff. A runaway spaceship with passengers who didn't sign on for space travel plus tech that they couldn't control or something like that? Seemed ridiculous to me--what were all these people doing on board if TPTB didn't even know how the damn thing worked? My son watched it religiously for its brief run.