Winx Club: The Resurrection of Nabu

Winx Club: The Resurrection of Nabu is an upcoming 90-minute special based on the Italian cartoon, Winx Club. It will be produced by Rainbow and will release on Netflix sometime in the 2020’s.

Synopsis
Years after Nabu sacrificed himself to save the Earth Fairies, the Winx must finally manage to save him from a dead sleep but the Trix and the Wizards of the Black Circle (who return to plot their revenge) try to thwart their plans.

This special has examples of:

 * A Day in the Limelight: The special centers on Aisha and her friends finally actually finding ways and managing to bring her dead fiancé back to life by using their special powers after 9 seasons.
 * Aspect Ratio Switch: The flashbacks to Nabu’s infamous sacrifice and the Winx mourning over his death are done in the original 4:3 aspect ratio.
 * Art Evolution: Here, the character designs starting from this special are based very closely upon the Winx Club’s original designs from seasons 1-4. For example, Bloom retains her signature hairstyle she had in seasons 1-4 and Sky retains his original hairstyle he had in the first four seasons.
 * Back from the Dead: Nabu and to a less extent, Duman.
 * Character Development: Aisha proves her bravery by finally overcoming her back luck.
 * The Bus Came Back:
 * After being completely absent since season 4 and playing a cameo as an illusion in Aisha's dream in the episode, "The Shimmering Shells", Nabu finally makes his first onscreen physical appearance.
 * The Wizards of the Black Circle, the main antagonists of season 4, also make their grand return here plotting their revenge on the Winx Club.
 * Continuity Reboot: This special is completely separate from the Nickelodeon and season 8 continuities.
 * Killed Off For Real: The Wizards of the Black Circle actually die for real this time. The Trix, not so much.
 * Villain Team-Up: The Wizards of the Black Circle form a team-up with the Trix.
 * You Are Better Than You Think You Are: As Aisha breaks down in tears, believing she and the other members of the Winx Club and the Specialists failed their special mission and thinking she might never get the chance to see Nabu again, Faragonda reminds her that she still has enough time to save him and Aisha's parents, her cousins, Tressa and Nereus, and the people of Magix support her for this.

YMMV

 * Author's Saving Throw: The 24th episode of season 4 was so controversial for getting rid of Nabu in favor of two divisive replacements. In response, after so many years of fan petitions, fanarts, fanfics, and fan videos, this episode was announced to be a hour-long special in the form of a Continuity Reboot that would finally actually manage to bring back Nabu, a fan-favorite who was killed in season 4 and replaced by Roy, introduced in season 5, and Nex, introduced in season 6. It was considered to be a "deliberate apology from Iginio Straffi and the team at Rainbow SpA."
 * Broken Base: Whether or not Nabu’s comeback to the show was a good idea can be this. Some believe he only came back to pander to the older audience and ruins any chance of Aisha’s character since she now has Nex and think her potential with him was wasted and could’ve done more instead of breaking up with him, others were pleased with Nabu’s comeback since his plot arc with Aisha was left unfinished in the Nickelodeon dub and this gives him more time to flesh out his personality, interests, and backstory.