Source: syfy.com

3. The Comedian

(Watchmen, DC Comics)

(SPOILERS: A DUMB, BAD COMIC BOOK)

To be fair with this one, he might not actually have been back. If not, I’ll retract this entry in its entirety.

However, the closing pages of DC's Doomsday Clock revealed a newly alive Comedian, and that was the wrongest of wrong decisions. I was optimistic about Doomsday Clock when it was announced, but the result was blisteringly atrocious. It was like watching an Olympic-level gymnast prepare for a routine and then proceed to eat it on every single obstacle, in order. The Comedian's death opened Watchmen, and having him be an exclusively posthumous character was a brilliant decision.

If he returned to life, and this wasn't some kind of trick, it showed the deepest possible misunderstanding of the source material. I didn't mind the use of the Watchmen characters in the DC universe, as long as the context was right, but having this book be 90 percent fan-fiction Watchmen sequel and 10 percent fan-fiction Watchmen sequel with Lex Luthor was a bad idea.