You’re gonna hate me for bringing this up, but it’s another Star Wars-related story. The strangest thing is I’ve waned interest in the franchise since the new films, which is terrible considering my love for the originals. But I don’t understand why I’ve gotten more upset with every change George Lucas has made. For those who absolutely HATE Star Wars, read on as well.

When a character is killed off in a TV show, film, video game, whatever the medium, usually that means that character is…dead, right?

Well not for the Jedi Sith that was cut in half in Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace. According to the trailer below for the Clone Wars cartoon, Darth Maul is still alive.

How he’s alive, I don’t know. But if you can throw things with your mind and shoot electricity from your fingertips, something tells me not to take Star Wars as a physics lesson.

The idea of resurrecting a foe for the sake of continuing the story lessens the effect of the original death. For example, if Sigourney Weaver’s character in Alien 3 died, you would think that it would be the final end to the kick-ass woman that couldn’t be beat.

Well why would you kill off a character that could potentially make more money? Another would be looked at as a carbon copy, and because of it, they made a clone of her in the fourth film (with ‘resurrection’ in the title, finny enough).

Samples of this resurrection process include Jason Statham’s character in Crank 2, or Crank: High Voltage, where the main character falling out of a helicopter on to a car, then rock hard cement that killed him, didn’t. The kind of movie that Crank is doesn’t really need to be used as a continuation. Creating a new film where a similar man with a raspy voice and no-bullcrap attitude is brought back to life would’ve worked even better.

What character do you remember being alive suddenly in the sequel, with little-to-no explanation as to how?

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