User blog comment:The Dreamer/Chekhov's Guns Yet To Be Fired/@comment-5962458-20130908115821/@comment-9022101-20130908120505

Bellamy had a bit of a following and was thought by practically everyone to be dead, so I think his return was just a way for Oda to say, "Well you thought that person was dead but you can never count on it unless you see it."