It's common for horror franchises to bring back original characters who have passed away. Maybe they appear as ghosts haunting the living or stories are rewritten to make it seem like they never died in the first place. Since Patrick Dempsey's Scream 3 character Mark Kincaid is very much alive, at least as far as fans know, everyone thought he would come back for Scream 7. Then, when it became clear that Joel McHale would play Mark Evans, Sidney Prescott's (Neve Campbell) husband, it seemed like fans had to say goodbye to the other Mark.