What Fictional Death Gutted You?

[Ironclad Alibi]

Lt. Tasha Yar in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Ellie in Up.

The black dog killed by a car in The Dam Busters. A true event.

[Bright_Star]

Aeris from Final Fantasy 7.

[Rodimal]

I forgot one: Dinobot for Transformers: Beast Wars. Code of Hero is classic television in any medium.

[Antisocial_Worker]

I'm not sure if you could call it death per se, but it tore me up at the end of Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening when it turned out that the island and everyone and everything on it were just a dream. When you beat the game, it showed all these characters you'd gotten to know and love just fading away.

[firecat88]

I just remembered a few more. When I finally saw the subbed version of Sailor Moon for the first time, I was left in tears at the end of every season because of the death scenes. The first and last seasons were the worst, though.

Also, I'm still not over Maes Hughes. Or the girl from Bridge to Terabithia, Ka D'Argo from Farscape, Littlefoot's mom (was anyone else traumatized by that?), Mufasa (I recently saw the stage version of Lion King. I still got teary even knowing it was coming)...

[Ironclad Alibi]

A relevent picture for this discussion.

[Rodimal]

Susan Rodriguez from The Dresden Files. Intrepid reporter for the supernatural who became one herself and the mother of Harry's child....

Oh and two quotes from Mass Effect 3 that get me every time: "Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong." and "That was for Thane, you son of a bitch!"

[justhere]

Remembered another one:

We first visited New York City in 1999, and saw Les Misérables on Broadway. I was blown away. And during Eponine's death scene, I was crying. I glanced beside me and saw tears running down my husband's cheeks, as well.

Also, when her little brother was killed was heart-breaking.

The main one for me is Pig from Pat Conroy's "The Lords of Discipline" (the book - I understand in the movie that he doesn't kill himself, and I've considered watching the movie just so that ending is changed, but I really dislike other changes they've made in the movie). That death hits me so hard that I first read this book 20 years ago and even now, when I get to the pages just before it happens I put the book down and don't finish it. I just cannot do it.

[Sunshine]

In books, Dumbledore from Harry Potter. I'm rereading the series because lil Ray has finally shown more of an interest in it and I just cried...especially when Fawkes cried his lament. Bing Bing got me too, but I'm a weenie and cry in just about every Pixar movie at some point.

[MoonCat]

Does Grizabella going to the Heaviside Layer count? Does me in every time I see it.

[Aragarthiel]

Nina from FMA. Just horrifying.

Don't remind me

I had to stop watching for a few weeks after that, and I was watching it on DVD so that was quite a break.

A more recent one I (somehow) forgot about was Lockon from Mobile Suit Gundam. A fried was having me watch it, and while the show didn't interest me that much, his death was completely unexpected and out of nowhere.

[jedimaster91]

Nina from FMA. Just horrifying.

[Tama]

It's probably going to sound silly, and he came back later, but Vegeta in Dragonballz. This guy, a prince, was all but taken hostage, his planet was destroyed, and he had to work for the man responsible for it all. He had to kiss ass for ages and betrayed his "master" when he felt he had a shot at beating him. He gambled and lost. He had the shit beaten out of him, (at least several dozen kidney punches) was still alive after that, and lived long enough to see the last remaining full blooded member (at the time) of his race arrive to continue the fight. So yeah, as a kid, that was gut-wrenching. He was brought low and then killed.

[morgana]

Morgana - You also have to scream "KAHHHHHHHHHN". its obligatory I'm sure.

Uh, no. Not even close.

[XCashier]

Remembered another one:

We first visited New York City in 1999, and saw Les Misérables on Broadway. I was blown away. And during Eponine's death scene, I was crying. I glanced beside me and saw tears running down my husband's cheeks, as well.