Oh, I Thought You Died...

In video games, movies and television shows characters have a habit of not staying dead. The question today is, who is going to pull an 'Illidan.' By this I am referring to the events at the end of Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne where he is apparently killed by Arthas, who I assume knows a thing or two about death, but I guess Illidan was holding his breath really well because he reappears in WoW. There are quite a few contenders that could potentially make a comeback in Starcraft II.


Tassadar
It has been recorded that this Protoss criminal died at the end of Starcraft trying to cowardly flee from Zerg. In my estimation his chance to come back would have been in Brood War, and since that didn't happen his window of returning is probably gone.


Alexei Stukov
This guy was one of the first characters to eat a bullet from Samir Duran. In the Nintendo 64 version of Starcraft there was apparently a level where you rescue and cure an infested Alexei Stukov. Whether or not this is considered canon I guess we will see but it's hard to go wrong with a Russian accent. This is a good example of how Blizzard could bring someone back from certain death though.


Aldaris
This noble High Templar was wrongly murdered by the vile Zeratul. During this mission Aldaris has convinced the lawful archons to his cause. I can see it being possible that his spirit managed to somehow progress into an archon form. With a heavy does of luck we may see this noble defender of Aiur again.


Edmund Duke
This guy had a great voice and character. I hope he somehow returns, despite being annihilated by Kerrigan's treachery. Perhaps he can come back as some kind of cyborg monstrousity that quips that it doesn't 'have all day.' Or perhaps his stacked battlecruiser simply had escape pods.


Fenix
This Protoss warrior has already come back from the dead once as a Dragoon. You could say that he is the Ultros or Mikhail of Starcraft. They probably threw his rotting corpse into a fridge so that they can just drop it into a Colossus.


Nova
While technically Nova didn't die, her game sure did. *Shakes fist* One of the initial Starcraft: Ghost videos got me so psyched that I bought a Gamecube to prepare the way for its arrival. Blizzard has spent so much money on sculpting perfect buttockses into life sized statues, surely they will want to integrate this character into the Starcraft 2 campaign to earn back their money.


Daggoth
Whatever happened to this guy anyways? I guess he probably became the second Overmind that eventually got enslaved by the UED, and later destroyed. Surely not all the cerebrates are dead though, the zerg campaign would be a little boring if there was no opposition to Kerrigan within all of Zergdom.