An internet user recently asked, “What is a character death that really upset you?” From heartbreaking dog deaths to traumatic final words and tear-jerking goodbyes, we compiled the top 22 suggestions.
Merlin (Kingsman: The Golden Circle, 2017)
“It was just…objectively unnecessary and stupid. They had loads of options. If they felt the need to kill him for some narrative purpose, at least make the death plausible.”
“What they did was an insult to our intelligence and treated a solid character like a throwaway.”
Littlefoot’s Mother (The Land Before Time, 1988)
“I’m still not over it. I made the mistake of watching it for the first time on a 14-hour flight.”
“My big brother still isn’t over that one. I was mad at Cera as a kid for being rude to Littlefoot after, but she’s just a “kid,” too. We all process complicated stuff the only way you can.”
John Coffey (The Green Mile, 1999)
“I’m tired, boss. Most of all, I’m tired of people being ugly to each other. It’s like pieces of glass in my head…all the time.”
“I totally agree, but also the little mouse guy who literally got burned to death because of Percy.”
“I just watched this movie for the first time. It absolutely destroyed me.”
Colonel Henry Blake (M*A*S*H, 1975)
“Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake’s plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors.”
“The only person who knew about this was Radar. The reactions you see from everyone are genuine reactions of shock.”
Leslie (Bridge to Terabithia, 2007)
“I read that the rest of the cast weren’t happy about that and felt like they’d been blindsided.”
“The rest of the cast were not aware of the scene as their scripts left that scene out; the producers did not want that info to color their performance in the rest of the episode.”
Old Dan & Little Ann (Where The Red Fern Grows, 1974)
“Our elementary school played both this movie in the gymnasium for everyone. It was miserable. I now feel like they must have been trying to identify the psychopaths.”
“I remember being in the backseat of the car, trying not to cry in front of my brother. I failed.”
Thomas (My Girl, 1991)
“Ok, first of all, how dare you make me relive that childhood trauma.”
“This movie killed me as a kid. Also, it made me terrified of bees because I’d never been stung before and was convinced I’d end up dying the first time I got stung because I’d be allergic.”
Charlotte (Charlotte’s Web, 1952)
“I was so invested, but then she suddenly died. I remember being so upset.”
“My teacher read Charlotte’s Web to the class every afternoon, and when we got to the part where Charlotte died, I kept it together until I got off the bus, then I ran into the house, wailing.”
Wilson (Cast Away, 2000)
“It came out when I was an awkward teenager who often felt left behind and without many close friends. When Wilson was lost at sea, I cried so hard I had to leave the theater to compose myself. I felt that loss deep in my lonely little bones.”
Artax (The Neverending Story, 1984)
“This is a collective Gen X traumatic moment. EVERYONE who has seen Neverending Story can tell you about this scene. It’s practically the only thing I remember from the movie.”
Wallace (The Wire, 2002)
“Considering he was a kid when it was filmed, Michael B. Jordan was fantastic in that scene.”
“I feel I ought to explain my feelings over Wallace. But I can’t. Wallace’s death, like a real-life death, just has so many meanings. Yet is a death with no true reason, no true meaning.”
Lenny (Of Mice and Men, 1937)
“I read that book nearly 30 years ago, and it still bothers me today.”
“The ending where George is talking to him but can hear the police coming and knows what he has to do hurts me.”
“I never knew I could grow so attached to those characters. The ending was heartbreaking.”
Mufasa (The Lion King, 1994)
“I watched the movie as an adult and cried my eyeballs out. It hits harder when you’re older.”
“They had a movie night once a month in college. One month, it was The Lion King. That scene prompted sniffling from the whole room. That scene really messed with a whole generation.”
Brooks (The Shawshank Redemption, 1994)
“Just the look on his face when he’s walking through town after being released. He’s narrating a letter he wrote about the world moving too fast. He looked so lost.”
“I showed this movie to my friends, and they were so sad we had to pause the movie for a bit.”
Yondu (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, 2017)
“Then the Ravager funeral that he got sent me over again. In theaters and at home, every time I watch that movie, I end up sobbing.”
“I feel like his death hit so hard because everyone seemed so invincible the whole movie, and I was just starting to like his character.”
Tara (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 2003)
“Plus the way it happened. Not some demon or vampire. She is a jerk with a gun who can’t aim, and she was finally put on the main cast in the title cards in that episode. Absolutely brutal.”
“Tara died a human death rather than a vampire attack. We saw real grief – it hit much harder.”
Rufio (Hook, 1991)
“His death was such a shocker because the whole “fight scene” was pretty mild.”
“It just looked like the pirates and the lost boys were play-fighting throughout the whole thing. And then all of a sudden, Rufio gets stabbed, and it’s like, wait, what is going on in this movie?”
Tadashi (Big Hero 6, 2014)
“His death came as a shock and went against our (trained) belief that the good guys live to tell the tale of their heroic deeds. Such sadness for those who live on as well.”
“But it is a Disney movie. Disney movies love killing a family member early on in the story.”
Finnick Odair (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1, 2014)
“His death felt awful to me when I first read it as a teenager. He was my favorite character.” “When it’s revealed at the end that his death and everything in the book was all for nothing. They were just a diversion. Made the ending much more satisfying.”
Sam (I Am Legend, 2007)
“All these years later, I still get misty-eyed about that German Shepherd. Hearing her whimpers turn into monster snarls and then fade out as Will Smith strangles her broke me.”
“For some reason, animal deaths hit me harder in movies than human ones.”
Wash (Firefly, 2002)
“My husband bought a hoodie that shows a large gaping wound on the front and the back that says “I’m a leaf on the wind!” I have yet to forgive him, and it’s been nearly a decade.”
“He wrote that line as an autograph once. The fan read it and cried. He never did that again.”
Bobby Singer (Supernatural, 2005)
“I just binge-watched it for the 1st time, and after Bobby died, it took a long time before I could watch another episode…I cried for so long after the episode ended.”
“Having him show up in “The Boys,” I was like, I don’t want to see him die again.”
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