The Top Ten Most Surprising Resurrections

Death is no match for a Jedi. Obi Wan comes back as a ghost to guide Luke towards his destiny.

Gandalf goes down in a literal blaze of glory and stays out of the picture until his big reveal in the final movie.

What a surprise for Sarah Connor to see that hulking frame eleven years after she destroyed it.

It's heart-wrenching to watch Eliot lose his best friend. Luckily this alien doesn't stay down for long.

Some take a full movie to reappear after their demise; Ash's hand tastes death for mere moments before it's back in action.

After losing his powers of immortality, getting skewered and dying, he's resurrected by an evil cult and returns.

Grey nearly sacrifices Cyclops to bring herself back. Alas, now her alter-ego Phoenix is in control.

Ironically, he was never actually a body -- the dead man everyone thought was Mr. Boddy was really his butler!

As a red herring, Quincannon is falsely pronounced dead, then reappears to confess that he's the real killer.