Saddest Fictional Character Deaths

[jaF0]

On the other hand, there was Phil Esterhouse in Hill Street Blues.


(The actor, Michael Conrad's death was not a happy one however.)

 

[SimonDoom]

The deaths of the priest played by Jeremy Irons, the soldier/mercentary played by Robert De Niro, and the Guarani tribe people, at the hands of soldiers at the end of The Mission. It's about the saddest and most moving death scene I can think of in a movie. And that movie had the most moving movie score of any movie I can think of (Ennio Morriconne).

 

[Thebrowneye]

Elend from Mistborn trilogy, sorry if you are still on book one!

 

[MrDoubleSin]

A few others.

Old Yeller, of course.

Old Dan and Little Ann, the redbone coonhounds, from Where the Red Fern Grows.

Oh man, these are the two I was going to post.

 

[SirNoseDVoidOfFunk]

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That dates you a bit, but I'd go along with that.

 

[WittyUserName]

We know we're watching or reading about fictional characters, we know given the type of movie/TV show we're watching or which book we're reading and know that its not going to be all sunshine and roses, yet when they die it makes us feel really sad. But other times you can watch/read a horror, crime or disaster movie/show/book with a high death toll, or a work involving people dying of cancer or some other incurable illness, and it really doesn't affect you.

So which character deaths in fictional media made you feel saddest, and really hit you where you feel it?

For me, it was Mrs Rosen in 'The Poseidon Adventure'; the twin sister Juliet in the early scenes of 'Haunted' in 1995; Marge and Eddie the two teenagers who are killed by the shark in the climax of Jaws II; Michael's kindly father in Click (although his death wasn't seen on-screen); the Rogue One crew even though I knew what was going to happen; and more recently in disaster movie Twisters Addie, who is one of the girls in the initial college field research team who dies when they are tracking an F1 tornado only for it to escalate in less than a minute to an F5 category storm.

Alternately, have you ever not really been emotionally affected by the sad scenes in a particular movie, TV show or book, but everyone else was? For example you may have seen Titanic back in the day and sat in the cinema not overly moved by Jack's death while around you everyone else was reaching for the tissues; or didn't feel anything watching a movie like 'The Fault In Our Stars'?

Leslie Burke in Bridge to Terabithia.

 

[SimonDoom]

Sauron, of course. To have come so far and gotten so close to ruling, only to be felled by a couple of dirty little hobbits. He died (maybe not technically, but effectively) alone and unloved, without his precious. It gets me every time.

 

[Comshaw]

The killing by her own country's artillery of Emma the girl Noman had sex and bonded with. It is an example of the random and irrational deaths of innocents in war.

Comshaw

 

[Bramblethorn]

Sauron, of course. To have come so far and gotten so close to ruling, only to be felled by a couple of dirty little hobbits. He died (maybe not technically, but effectively) alone and unloved, without his precious. It gets me every time.

"Old, alone, and done for!"

...wait, wrong villain.