Saddest Fictional Character Deaths

[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.

 

[AchtungNight]

Some memorable last words from movies in my childhood and college years.

“Luke, help me take this mask off.”

“An old man dies. A young woman lives. Fair trade.”

“I can’t handle this world anymore. I’ve decided not to stay. I doubt they’ll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.”

“I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe. Now they’re all butterflies in the wind.”

All these were sad to me in their own way.

 

[SimonDoom]

The ending of the movie adaptation of The Mist...

Haven't been okay since....

That was awful. Just way too cruel for me.

 

[AG31]

Some memorable last words from movies in my childhood and college years.

“Luke, help me take this mask off.”

“An old man dies. A young woman lives. Fair trade.”

“I can’t handle this world anymore. I’ve decided not to stay. I doubt they’ll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.”

“I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe. Now they’re all butterflies in the wind.”

All these were sad to me in their own way.

I wish you'd told us which movies.

 

[StillStunned]

I wish you'd told us which movies.

The Return of the Jedi, Sin City (at first I thought this was Leon), The Shawshank Redemption (although I think the quote might be confused), Bladerunner (again, I think the quote might be a bit off).

 

[Treeview]

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).

Agree. A fav movie on many levels. The soundtrack was the first I bought Crossroads was second

 

[Bramblethorn]

 

[ppd1107]

The Oracle in Joseph wambaugh’s Hollywood station

 

[ThatNewGuy]

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Too soon.

 

[AchtungNight]

The Return of the Jedi, Sin City (at first I thought this was Leon), The Shawshank Redemption (although I think the quote might be confused), Bladerunner (again, I think the quote might be a bit off).

Correct on all counts. Sorry I didn’t remember the quotes exactly.

 

[StillStunned]

Correct on all counts. Sorry I didn’t remember the quotes exactly.

Close enough that they were recognisable.

 

[jaF0]

Billie Joe McAllister ?

 

[jaF0]

Well, that one sent me down a rabbit hole.

That album knocked Sgt. Pepper out of #1

Bobby drifted out of entertainment sometime in the early 80s and hasn't been seen in public since. Apparently didn't even attend her induction into the Hall of Fame.

 

[cadeauxxx]

Adriana in the Sopranos...

The one character you wish could've got away and lived a normal life away from it all.