With some of these characters, you can kind of see how they'd battle back from beyond the grave. Superman, for example - was there ever any doubt that he'd return from the dead? Dude can survive in the sun. But Green Arrow's just a rich dude with a bow, so when he took the fall in the 90s by sacrificing his life to destroy a bomb, it seemed like the time was up for Oliver Queen.
But fate hadn't considered the existence of Kevin Smith! The portly filmmaker was given Green Arrow to write in 2000, and he brought back Queen in the dumbest way possible. When Ollie's body was "atomized" by the bomb, tiny particles of him were stuck to Superman's cape. The supernatural entity known as the Spectre took that goop and reformed Green Arrow's body from it. How humiliating.
