Faked Death Characters in Movies
Emmett Brown 'Doc
Brown' (Back to the Future)
The "killing"
of Doc Brown by Libyan terrorists is one of the greatest fake outs
ever, if only because it stretches across the entire movie (and 30
years, technically). Because there are a lot of moving parts to this,
let's keep it simple. At the start of Back to the Future, Doc Brown
has actually figured out time travel. Right before he's about to send
Marty McFly back to 1955 using the time-traveling DeLorean, pissed
off Libyans (who Doc had double-crossed to get some plutonium) show
up and gun down Doc. But all is well and good, because we know
Marty's about to go back in time and make Doc undead. While back in
1955, Marty finds Doc and explains that he's successfully invented
time travel. He also gives him a note which details the date and time
that Doc will be killed by the Libyans. But Doc tears it up, unread,
so as not to risk altering the future. When Marty later arrives back
in 1985, he does so just in time to see Doc getting shot by the
terrorists again. He kneels down to weep at his side, heartbroken
that he couldn't stop this from happening. Suddenly, Doc sits up and
reveals a bulletproof vest underneath his radiation suit. Then he
pulls out the note Marty gave him, which Doc had taped back together.
When Marty asks why he chose to read the note and risk altering the
events of the future, Doc responds simply: "Well, I figured what
the hell."
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Sherlock
Holmes (Movie)
The Reichenbach Fall has
always been a great deal of poetic license. In the original story by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Final Problem," the design was
that Sherlock Holmes realizes that the only way to defeat James
Moriarty is mutually assured destruction, and Doyle never intended
for Sherlock Holmes to survive the fall. However, there was such an
outcry for more stories that Doyle "resurrected" the sleuth
and created an explanation for how he survived the fall...which
always has seemed a bit forced to me because, well, it was. In
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, they loosely follow the plot of
"The Final Problem" as well as include the hint to the
subsequent stories that Sherlock Holmes actually managed to survive
the fall. They don't explain how he would have been able to survive
falling so far, but Sherlock does take Mycroft's "personal
supply of oxygen" that was featured earlier in the movie in
order to survive underwater. Just as it was in the books, his
survival of the fall was creative license.
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Sherlock
Holmes (TV Series)
In highly-anticipated
scenes, fans waiting for the solution to Sherlock's death plunge
riddle seemed to get their answer at the start of the first episode
of the third series. Cumberbatch's character was seen warning John
on a mobile phone while standing near the roof's edge of St Bart's:
"It's a trick, it's just a magic trick." Insisting that
John - played by Martin Freeman - should not move and keep his eyes
on him, Sherlock then requests, as his voice cracks, that his friend
do one thing for him: continue the phone call. Sherlock calls it his
"note". Moriarty's body is whisked away and as Sherlock
hints ever more strongly that he intends to jump, the shock of
disbelief seems to leave Watson a little stunned. A mask of
Sherlock's face is then unpacked from a medical bag. Contact lenses,
presumably similar to Sherlock's eye colour, are also spied. Both are
applied to the deceased Moriarty, leaving him looking a little like a
snoozing George Osborne. Meanwhile, Sherlock takes a swan dive off
the side of the building.
A distraught Watson
screams out but with his eyes in the sky, he clatters into a cyclist.
And at just that moment his eyes are pointed elsewhere, the harness
attached to Sherlock's back - and the roof - with enough slack to see
him plummet to within a couple of feet of the pavement below is seen.
John continues to writhe in pain - during which time Sherlock is
jerked back into the air as the cord snaps back, leaving him able to
make an almost unbelievable, all-action hero, uninvited appearance
through a window a couple of floors up. Continuing with the gung ho
flourishes, Sherlock even gives a white-coated female member of staff
a thoroughly Hollywood, thoroughly passionate embrace. Meanwhile,
John still hasn't got back up - and by now what is presumed to be
Moriarty's body is placed where Sherlock's might be expected to have
come to rest. And that's where the real sleight-of-hand business
comes in... Derren Brown appears!
Although the illusionist
is not referred to by name, he immediately calms an agitated John
before putting him to sleep and then winding back the minute hand on
his watch by three minutes. And that is how Sherlock cheated
death... ... Or is it? The big reveal turned out to be a big joke
however, with numerous other over the top miracle solutions – at
one point, Sherlock suggested there were at least 13 ways in which he
could have cheated death – hinted at in scenes poking gentle fun
at fan's exhaustive guesswork.
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Harry
Potter (Final Movie/Book) (Temporary Death)
During the first book,
Harry Potter catches a Golden Snitch by swallowing it during his
first Quidditch match. Later, Potter discovers Dumbledore hid the
resurrection stone within that snitch. After Dumbledore’s death,
his will leaves the resurrection stone-containing snitch to Harry.
“To Harry James Potter,
I leave the Snitch he caught in his first Quidditch match at
Hogwarts, as a reminder of the rewards of perseverance and skill,”
his will reads.
For a while, Harry is
unable to open the snitch. A sentence merely appears on the golden
sphere, “I open at the close.”
But at the end of the
final book when Potter is walking to his death match with Lord
Voldemort, he’s finally able to open the snitch by whispering “I
am about to die.” Inside, he finds the resurrection stone, the
stone that was part of the Tale of Three Brothers. Harry is then able
to see all of his deceased family members before what he believes is
to be his final fight with Lord Voldemort.
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Nick
Fury (Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
Nick Fury was brought to
the hospital in Bethesda, Maryland where he apparently died.
Unbeknownst to all present, Fury used a heart-slowing serum created
by Bruce Banner to fake his death. Because of this, Fury was declared
dead by Doctor Fine. Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff discussed the
incident at his apartment and she explained to Rogers who the Winter
Soldier was.
With Fury believed to be
dead, Alexander Pierce called Rogers to his office to find out if
Rogers had been told anything by Fury. Rogers denied that he had, but
Pierce was not convinced and ordered STRIKE to capture him. STRIKE
failed, and Rogers escaped. Knowing that Rogers would be a threat to
Project Insight, he ordered a hit on Rogers and Romanoff. STRIKE and
the Winter Soldier captured them and Falcon, but Maria Hill freed
them and brought them to Fury.
Fury only let a select
few know that he was alive, including Maria Hill, Captain America,
Black Widow, Falcon and Eric Koenig. He sent a signal to Phil Coulson
via his S.H.I.E.L.D. badge with coordinates to the secret facility
named Providence. When confronted by Melinda May, Maria Hill denied
Fury's survival. Fury saved the lives of Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz,
and assisted Coulson's Team against John Garrett in the Battle at
Cybertek. In the aftermath of the battle, Fury appointed Coulson as
the new director.
Still believing Fury was
dead, Robert Gonzales created his own faction of S.H.I.E.L.D. When he
discovered another faction led by Phil Coulson operating in a style
similar to Fury's, he sent Agents Bobbi Morse, Isabelle Hartley, and
Alphonso Mackenzie to infiltrate the faction, report to him, and
deliver the Toolbox. Ultimately, these two factions fought in the
S.H.I.E.L.D. Civil War until Coulson revealed that Nick Fury was
alive and Gonzales accepted Coulson as Director.
