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Bigfooty Legend
I hate to break it to you but almost every franchise with popular characters uses, and has used, that trope for all eternity.I just don't like characters coming back from the 'dead'; that includes the Emperor, Maul and Fett. I know they did it in the EU, I didn't like it then either. And you can see the explanations getting ropier and ropier. Oh, despite being a killing machine, Fett was able to climb out of the Sarlaac. And Maul just replaced his whole lower torso with robot legs. And the Emperor 'transferred his soul'. It's a trope that needs to die. If you kill someone off for dramatic effect, you have to see it through.
I mean, Obi Wan dies in Star wars but is still present in the next two films (not quite the same thing I know).
Spock in the Star Trek films "dies" then comes back.
Gandalf in Lord of the Rings.
Etc. Etc.