What Fictional Death Gutted You?

[CloserToSane]

Sam in Ghost, only the musical though. I've bawled my way through that more than once. I cry at musicals all the time though, Blood Brother's - I'm gone by Easy Terms.

Well, Evita was the exception, I was making all kinds of promises if someone would off her. Then she came back! It was a bloody awful performance.

I couldn't think of any books, but I know there are plenty, I'm a big cry baby.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I watch RWBY.

The major death at the end of Volume 3 shocked the hell out of me.

[Pyrrha Nikos tries to fight Cinder Fall, who basically just stole the power of a goddess, and although she makes Cinder work for it, she gets shot in the heart with an arrow, then incinerated.]

[Aragarthiel]

I thought of another.

Theresa at the end of Fable: The Journey was one that really got me, though it was more bittersweet. I guess it was watching her grow up from a little girl who has bad dreams and then seeing her legacy being passed on after she died. That was probably one of my favorite endings to a game ever, despite the Kinect being pretty hated.

[Fire_on_High]

The first one I remember hitting me was ages and ages ago, when I was reading the Dragonriders of Pern books. When Robinton passes on, it hit me hard at that age and as one of the first major character deaths I've encountered in fiction.

The other one was in the Young Wizards series; in The Wizard's Dilemma when Nita's mother is fighting cancer, that entire story hit me hard, in a good way. It was an emotional wringer for me to read regardless.

Both of the 'verses I was going to mention. Robinton for me also, and then Ponch from Young Wizards (whited for spoiler).

Dr. Greene on ER...

Anveena from the Sunwell in WoW. And then there was this WoW fanfic that eventually took it til the sun goes nova, with the mortal races long since gone, and dragonkind dwindling over time to just Alexstrasza...

[AnaKhouri]

Oh, I just remembered the glorious Lust, Caution. A lot of people know Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but Lust, Caution is his masterpiece IMO. The end just killed me. Tony Leung is such a fine actor.

[Aragarthiel]

I mentioned the Fable series once before but now that Fable III is available on Xbox One, I started playing again. Hands-down Walter's death was the saddest video game death I've ever encountered. I dread re-starting the game because I know there will be nothing I can do to save him later on.

[KatherineB]

I just finished playing Valiant Hearts: The Great War. Crying like a small child now. (And at one point, when I thought the dog was going to die, I nearly had to give up on it before the end.

[PrplPplEater]

"What Fictional Death Gutted You?"

Oy, from The Dark Tower series.

Despite it being a valiant death, it still felt painful and wholly unnecessary at the time (though, in hindsight, I now understand since finishing the series).

[Sliceanddice]

In written fiction, Doc Webster's death left me crying. In video, Wash dying came as a horrible shock, though that one enraged me as much as saddened me. There was no damn SENSE to it.

Wash!!!!!! Noooooo!!!!!! Also Spock, Kirk in the new movies even though he was only dead for a few minutes it still ripped me in half, Dumbledore and Snape and Sirius...

Ohhhh Warren west from after the golden age (a book taking a look at the superhero genre with a focus on the hero's faults and flaws following Warren's non-powered but intelligent daughter. ) I won't spoil it cause it's a Carrie Vaughn book but his death made me cry all night.

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).

Are those the books that contain Rot and Ruin? Cause I liked Rot and RUin and want to read more

[Ellf]

Mordin Solus.

He was the very model of a Scientist Salarian.

[Ceir]

As a young'n, Spock's death in Wrath of Khan hit me hard - then again, so did Enterprise herself in the next movie. Those were jawdroppers for kid me.

[FormerCallingCardRep]

Les Misérables on Broadway. I was blown away. And during Eponine's death scene, I was crying.

Little Bits played Eponine in our local theatre's performance the summer before her Senior year of High School. When I was with her the first time they ran through the music all of the cast had tears running down their face

[FormerCallingCardRep]

I do not know if any of you watch Black Sails, but Charles Vane's death this season

[Jack T. Chance]

Here's my very short list...

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1. Han Solo in The Force Awakens! Growing up, I wanted to BE Han! I know that Harrison Ford wanted him to die in either Empire or Jedi, but still. Han should have been doing the killing, not getting killed. He was always the character that did what had to be done, shooting first and asking questions later. Leia told him to bring their son home, and that's exactly what he should've done... IN A BODY BAG!
2. Buffy Summers' mother in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode where Buffy's mother suddenly dies is the most realistic portrayal of death and how it affects those touched by it that I've ever seen in a TV series. Sinceriously the most powerful, most depressing, most gut-wrenching hour of television ever filmed, In My Opinion.
3. Without spoiling who (the film does that well enough on its own,) the main character deaths in the anime film Grave of the Fireflies will have you bawling your eyes out unless you're completely heartless. This is also the movie to show to the disbelievers that refuse to see animated films as being anything other than Disney crap for kids. Sit them down with this movie, the most powerful film ever made about World War II and its consequences for the littlest of victims. Watch them cry like a baby unless they're a complete and total sociopath.

[Sliceanddice]

Here's my very short list...
Han Solo in The Force Awakens! Growing up, I wanted to BE Han! I know that Harrison Ford wanted him to die in either Empire or Jedi, but still. Han should have been doing the killing, not getting killed. He was always the character that did what had to be done, shooting first and asking questions later. Leia told him to bring their son home, and that's exactly what he should've done... IN A BODY BAG!

this death was my J.J Abrams actually understands story telling and character growth and development, maybe he can teach Lucas moment.

Hans character should not have lived that long. thematically and story wise he should have died at the end of the second movie. It would have been a fitting end, a catalyst for character development and actually would have saved a flat story for me.

The fact that he was allowed to live on ruined any character development or affection i could have had. He had had a classic character arch until then, scoundrel turned unlikely hero with a nobel streak he had kept hidden before (X). him sacrificing himself in hopes of giving Leia and Chewy a chance for escape would have been a fitting and thematic end for him! Lucas robbed his character of his nobility and kind of made him a useless side mission and had come of as a tool in the third and last movie.

His death in the force awakens totally vindicated the character for his uselessness in the third movie