Undead superhero character question

[TheBadElf]

One of the early (ie very, very bad) Image superhero comics was about a team of "superheroes" (more like government black-ops killers) who were all scientifically created undead. The title was Blood(something), if I recall.

 

[Banshee16]

I'm not sure if it counts, but Ezekiel Stone, the hero of the really cool show "Brimstone", which was on TV for two seasons a few years back was really neat. I'm pretty sure he was undead, having been killed, and returning to Earth to capture escaped souls and return them to the afterlife.

I think in D&D terms, he would have been a revenant.

Banshee

 

[Villano]

The Grim Ghost I

http://www.atlasarchives.com/comics/grimghost01.html

The Grim Ghost II

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/7393/wwgrimghost.html

There was also an Ultraverse character called The Ghoul, but I think he just looked like a rotting corpse as opposed to actually being one.

Also, the Wachowski Brothers apparently did a comic called Doc Frankenstein. It's supposed to be a pulp-like adventure where Frankenstein's Monster becomes a Doc Savage-type hero.

There was an independent comic about a woman named Cadavera, who was sewn together, Frankenstein-like from the bodies of famous women (Carole Lombard, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Sharon Tate, Claudia Jennings, and Eva Braun). I don't have any more information on it, like who did it or published it. She did crossover with Apple Comics' Blood Of Dracula series in a one-shot called Big, Bad Blood Of Dracula (late 80s/early 90s).

Lastly, there's Marshall Law: Super Babylon. Marshall Law, the hero killer, has to re-kill a bunch of revived, Golden Age heroes (a take off of the JSA).

 

[Steverooo]

Deathlock: The Demolisher was certainly an undead, but of an unusual kind... He was a future General, killed in battle, and revived via cybernetics. He had his own comic, for a while (Marvel/Kirby, I believe?) In his dark-future world, there were many cannibals, and in one scene, he is "talking" to the computer tied into his brain, asking it why they're always following him. The computer replies that they're following the smell of rotting meat...

Deathlock ("A Man locked in death!") somehow got brought back to the present, at some point, and all organic matter removed. After a brief stint as a robotic villian, he was destroyed. As far as I know, nothing ever told what happened to his "organic parts", so perhaps the good General is still around, minus his precious "'puter" and cybernetic components.

 

[DarkSoldier]

"Undead," as a classification, means a corpse, clinically dead, that is animated by either the lingering consciousness of the person, necromantic magic, or the force of a higher power.

Spawn and Deadman are the only "good guys" who have their deaths as part of their origin. They fit the undead classification perfectly: both are animate corpses inhabited by their living consciousness.

Solomon Grundy and Swamp Thing are plant elementals animated by the consciousness of dead men (Cyrus Gold and Alec Holland); the Spectre is the Wrath of God, bound to a deceased human soul (first Jim Corrigan, then Hal Jordan); Ghost Rider is a living human bound to a demon; Jean Grey was never dead, just indisposed.

Vampirella is an alien (in at least one origin story), and Lady Death is a demon.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Spoilers for Astro City here

Spoiler

The Confessor is a Vampire

 

[hero4hire]

Deathlock: The Demolisher was certainly an undead, but of an unusual kind... He was a future General, killed in battle, and revived via cybernetics. He had his own comic, for a while (Marvel/Kirby, I believe?) In his dark-future world, there were many cannibals, and in one scene, he is "talking" to the computer tied into his brain, asking it why they're always following him. The computer replies that they're following the smell of rotting meat...

Deathlock ("A Man locked in death!") somehow got brought back to the present, at some point, and all organic matter removed. After a brief stint as a robotic villian, he was destroyed. As far as I know, nothing ever told what happened to his "organic parts", so perhaps the good General is still around, minus his precious "'puter" and cybernetic components.

It's actually Deathlok (no 'c') I am not certain he qualifies as he was a Cyborg...his human parts did look somewhat ghoulish however....

 

[hero4hire]

Let's see...off the top o' my head

Spawn (Image)
Zombie (marvel)
I...Vampire (DC)
Dracula (marvel,various)
Frankenstein (Marvel, various)
The Crow (Kitchen Sink)
Battlestone and others from Project: Born Again (Image)
Hannibal King (marvel)
Grim Reaper (marvel)
Deadman (DC)
Phantom Stranger (only if you believe some of his origins DC)
The Spectre (DC)
Grim Ghost (Atlas)
Phantom Eagle (Marvel)
The Ghoul (Ultraverse)
Haunted Tank (DC)
Kid Eternity (DC)
Shazam (DC)
Nabu (DC)
Spirit King (DC)
Xombi (milestone)
Gentleman Ghost (DC)
Patchwork Man (DC)
The Shade (DC)

I am not sure, but I thought Wil Eisner's the Spirit was undead.

Guys who look or was thought to be Undead but weren't;
Ghost Rider ( Marvel, One was a Demon, Zarathos, the other a Force of Vengeance)
Death-Stalker (Marvel, mutated intangible guy)
Mr. Bones (DC, mutant)
Morbius (Marvel, living vampire)
Blade (Marvel, half-vampire)
Wonder Man (Marvel, thought to be a zombie)
Swamp-thing (DC, he's an elemental)
Immortal Man (DC, had power of Reincarnation)
Mr. Immortal (Marvel, he just Resurrects)

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Morbius started as a scientifically created vampire, not a real one. He had some vampire-like abilties, but wasn't undead...he ended up with demon blood or something, so I'm not sure what he is now.

Once he got the demon blood he started heading in the direction of a vampire a lot more, and got new abilities. Still, I think he wasn't an actual vampire though.

Hannibal King's one.

 

[Villano]

What about Ghost from Dark Horse and the new Crimson Avenger from DC (I read somewhere that she was undead)?

From DC, there's also The Weird (a corpse animated by an alien entity) and a team of ghosts whose name I can't remember. I think they wore brown jumpsuits with a skull on the chest. Ghost Patrol, maybe?

From Marvel, there's Brother Voodoo. One of his powers is to summon the spirit of his dead brother. The ghost could possess people and control them or merge with Brother Voodoo and double his strength.

There was also a DC hero whose power was to summon and merge with the ghost of his dead brother, too.

I also remember there was a story years ago from Marvel about Nick Fury's brother, Scorpio, being returned to life. I'm thinking he came back as an undead, but I'm honestly not sure since half the time the members of Zodiac were androids at one point or another. :\

Terror, Inc. (Marvel) might also be an undead. He certainly looked like one. He had the power to rip off other people's body parts and gain their skills.