What Fictional Death Gutted You?

[XCashier]

Our teacher, 5th or 6th grade if memory serves, read where the red fern grows during class. The embarrassment of being the only boy to cry in class just about did me in. I'd like to go back and read it again someday but dog deaths are my Achilles heal.

I know when my teacher read it, there were a lot of sad faces, and I'm sure I heard a sniffle or two, even from the boys.

[ApolloSZ]

Morgana - You also have to scream "KAHHHHHHHHHN". its obligatory I'm sure.
As for me, mainly since I was re-reading it, Hopper in the second to last Wheel of Time Book. Gets me right in the feels man.

One of Matthew Reilly's "Scarecrow" novels, I can't remember the title right now, shocked me the most with Scarecrow's girlfriend/love interest being killed. Guillotine no less. :| Was all expecting a heroic last minute save... and... had to put the book down for a bit.

As for games... Spec Ops The Line, its the only one I've watched a scene, and just stopped the game. Nope. cant go past it. nooooooooooooope. Don't... really want to describe it. As much for me as you guys. but yeah. Never gone back.

[firecat88]

The death of Beth from Little Women still makes me tear up.

Me too. Every single time. Also, I cannot read Death Masks without getting teary over Shiro's death (whited-out in case anyone is currently reading the Dresden Files series and hasn't gotten to this bit yet). Also: Rue and Finnick from Hunger Games (though I was weirdly unbothered by Prim's death. Probably because of how fast it happened), Boromir (moreso in the Fellowship movie than in the actual books)...

[prjkt]

Morgana - You also have to scream "KAHHHHHHHHHN". its obligatory I'm sure.
As for me, mainly since I was re-reading it, Hopper in the second to last Wheel of Time Book. Gets me right in the feels man.

One of Matthew Reilly's "Scarecrow" novels, I can't remember the title right now, shocked me the most with Scarecrow's girlfriend/love interest being killed. Guillotine no less. :| Was all expecting a heroic last minute save... and... had to put the book down for a bit.

That one was titled "Scarecrow"

Yeah got me too considering the whole relationship build up from the earlier two books.

A more recent one for me would be from the Sword of Truth series, second last book... The way the scene is described... Yeah that got myself AND the other half...

[El Pollo Guerrera]

When I was young, the teachers at school showed the whole school a movie called "Bless the Beasts and Children". I found a copy of it (somewhere, don't ask because it was never released on DVD) a few years ago and watched it again, and the death at the end still gets to me.

(Side note: incredibly f-ed up movie, can't believe that teachers thought that would be a good movie to show to pre-teens...)

More recently, I would say the death of the Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) during "Countdown to Infinite Crisis", the Flash and Supergirl during "Crisis on Infinite Earths", and Skurge the Executioner in Thor #362 ("He stood alone at Gjallerbru. And that answer is enough.").

[BlaqueKatt]

several in the Benny Imura series, both main characters and allies. There were A LOT, because zombies* and bad humans.


*books take place 15 years post zombie apocalypse, the zombies are less a direct threat and more a part of nature in the books, they could almost be replaced by bears(what I'm saying is it's NOT a zombie focused series of books).

[Lurking Sockpuppet]

Flint Fireforge, dragonlance

[AnaKhouri]

Cold Mountain/The Last Dog


I just remembered that I bawled at the end of Charles Frazer's Cold Mountain. And one time I heard Mike Resnick read The Last Dog, and I cried like a little girl in the last row. I hope he doesn't remember me.

[AccountingDrone]

Aral Vorkosigan in Cryoburn [well the whole Vorkosigan series, really] Not that he really played a huge part in the series, he wasn't in most of the books, it is just the main character is his son, and his father is so important to him that he is mentioned in passing a fair amount and you can see how hard the death hits him it is heart wrenching.

And a second on Firefly/Serenity, both Wash and Preacher.

[jedimaster91]

where the Red Fern Grows

I can't watch that movie without crying. Every frikin time.

And how has no one mentioned Bing Bong?! I was pregnant the first time I saw Inside Out. There were lots of ugly tears and sobbing right there in the theater.

Chewie in Vector Prime. Anakin Solo in Star by Star. Nate Westen and Maddie Westen in Burn Notice. Kyle in The Pretender. Aerith in FVII. All the Harry Potter deaths, but Snape's was particularly heart-wrenching.

[aqutalion]

Rhys Thurin in Katherine Kurtz's Deryni books. I put the book down and could not pick it up for three days.

When I met Kurtz at a con a few years later, I asked her Why??

She said, "Because that's the way it happened."

I get it now.

Aw, man, you had to remind me of that.

Although Estpolis 2 (Lufia 2 in the US) is one of my favorite games, ever, and I've played it more times than I can count, the ending still makes me tear up. I already knew what would happen, thanks to the flashback in Lufia 1, but still….

Also Gabnidos from Lennus (Paladin's Quest in the US). Again, you already know part of the story, but then you find out the rest...
Has anyone else played Lennus 2? There's a side quest I absolutely refuse to do, any more, because a certain character dies a completely unnecessary and tragic death, and WHYYYYYYYY?

Carter on Person of Interest, especially after the misleading previews of that episode. I was screaming "You lying bastards!" at the TV….

[Greenday]

where the Red Fern Grows

That was going to be my choice. Can't really recall getting choked up over any other fictional characters.

[MoonCat]

Aw, man, you had to remind me of that.

Somebody else remembers!

[Kogarashi]

And how has no one mentioned Bing Bong?! I was pregnant the first time I saw Inside Out. There were lots of ugly tears and sobbing right there in the theater.

I can't believe I forgot that one. That was the most recent.

I don't cry at fictional stuff that often, but there was sniffling involved (and my husband laughing, because he finds it funny the rare times I do actually tear up, and then I poke him for it).

[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.