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What fictional character death phased you the most?

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Akuun

Looking for meaning in GAF
Valkyria Chronicles 1 -
Isara. Partly because I really liked the character, and partly because I didn't see it coming.

Danganronpa 2 -
Chiaki. You could kind of see it coming but it was still pretty crushing to watch it happen. Being forced to watch that trainwreck was... well, awful.
 
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stephen08

Member
From Game of Thrones/ASOIAF:

Robb Stark

His death was sad enough regardless but it was everything surrounding it:

-He appeared to be one of the few players who wanted to do right by the people and was entrusted with the power to rule by his people
-He wasn't power hungry, just wanted to bring his father's murderers to justice
-Killed by treachery in a very underhanded way

and then the part that really gets me:
-Once he was killed they mutilate his corpse and his wolf, proceed to parade it around as a final insult.

And then the show added the gut punch of him seeing his wife and unborn child murdered right before it happened.

The series is generally pretty good about showing everyone as flawed to some degree but Robb was a legitimately good dude and had one of the cruelest, most disrespectful deaths.
 
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farisr

Member
Buffy:
Her mom.
I didn't even care for the character honestly, but how/when it happened, and the whole episode dedicated to it, man...
 
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Curt Baboon

Member
The real MVP of the LotR Trilogy and straight up coolest dude in Middle Earth:

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Lights and Waves

Member
Beth Cyra said:
Rei Hino - Sailor Moon

having finally accepted Usagi as her future Queen and friend (and in this shippers kind love interest) only to walk to her own death so Moon had time to save the day crushed me so fucking hard. Love Mars so much in the anime.
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This. ALL of this.

Their friendship that first season culminated in that incredible death scene. When Mars takes down that finally monsters by setting herself on fire...chills.

Also Sailor Moon's death after defeating Beryl. When she's narrating as her attack starts to eat through the planet and vaporizes all their bodies. The part about her not wanting to be Sailor Moon anymore just really touched me as a kid. I never considered superheroes wanting to be normal people.

It had great follow up when Luna is forced to return Usagi's memories and she sheads a tear, realizing she'll never have a normal life, but that the world needs her to be Sailor Moon.

Incredible character growth and writing.
 
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Kthulhu

Member
h0tp0ck3t said:
Danganronpa 2
Chiaki Nanami
Namely because I was playing the game during a real rough time in my life and it kinda sent me over the edge. It's what made me realize I needed to get help
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They were my favorite character too. Sucks that they died, but it was one hell of a way to end the game.

Violence Jack said:
Cowboy Bebop

You know who....
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If it's who I think it is, they went out like a cool guy, so it didn't really phase me.
 
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Permanently A

Junior Member
Messi said:
Y the last man

355 , killed me. I was stunned.
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h0tp0ck3t said:
Danganronpa 2
Chiaki Nanami
Namely because I was playing the game during a real rough time in my life and it kinda sent me over the edge. It's what made me realize I needed to get help
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Yeah both of these fucked me up good. Danganronpa 2... I was so invested in the world and the characters... it really hurt badly when things started falling apart.
 
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Varna

Member
Dark Tower spoilers.

Eddie Dean
death.

It wasn't until his introduction that the story really clicked with me. He was basically the protagonist for a large portion of the series and when he died it felt like someone punched me in the gut.
Detta Walker
pleasing for him not to die just gets me every time.
 
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Beth Cyra

Member
Lights and Waves said:
This. ALL of this.

Their friendship that first season culminated in that incredible death scene. When Mars takes down that finally monsters by setting herself on fire...chills.

Also Sailor Moon's death after defeating Beryl. When she's narrating as her attack starts to eat through the planet and vaporizes all their bodies. The part about her not wanting to be Sailor Moon anymore just really touched me as a kid. I never considered super heroes wanting to be normal people.

It had great follow up when Luna is forced to return Usagi's memories and she sheafs a tear, realizing she'll never have a normal life, but that the world needs her to be Sailor Moon.

Incredible character growth and writing.
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You are an amazing person and even the stuff you added I'm right there with ya.

As a young woman this both inspired me and crushed my soul. Very few things in writing effected me like those events.
 
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Fuchsdh

Member
The Exploder said:
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RIP Tasha Yar. I still feel like that was the first funeral I attended.
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I've always really liked that death. Since main cast character deaths are normally at the end of seasons and the like, they have a lot more expectant weight, but killing her off on a normal away mission by basically an act of cruel spite is one of the more effective deaths Star Trek has ever had.
 
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TheVampire

Banned
Supernatural -
DEATH

One of the most powerful beings in the universe, maybe even rivals God, and he is killed by his own weapon.

Why not give a fucken broken beer bottle or something for Dean to kill who he needed to kill instead of the one weapon in all of existence that could maybe harm him.
 
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DrForester

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Also, a recent film that kills a father. Combination of the touching death and then the movie playing "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens during the funeral just hit me hard.
 
The Elite

The Elite

BOSS
From Angel -
Fred

Not just dead but soul destroyed. That was some fucked up shit. I still think about it.
 
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jrush64

Banned
Harry Potter

Fred
Lupin and Tonks (Died holding each other's hands. Lupin had a hard life)
Sirius..... (This one was heartbreaking. Harry and Sirius had so little time together)
 
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Septimus Prime

Member
TheVampire said:
Supernatural -
DEATH

One of the most powerful beings in the universe, maybe even rivals God, and he is killed by his own weapon.

Why not give a fucken broken beer bottle or something for Dean to kill who he needed to kill instead of the one weapon in all of existence that could maybe harm him.
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That one disappointed me, but I honestly felt worse about
Gabriel.

He was actually a more fleshed-out character, and his absence is still felt whenever there's an episode that—in earlier seasons—totally would have involved him but now doesn't.
 
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SpaceCadetKeon

Banned
Pyrrha
from RWBY actually broke me emotionally. I legitimately was unable to feel anything a couple of days after that happened, no matter what I tried.

Transistor said:
Game of Thrones Spoilers (TV show, specifically)

Oberyn Martell

His scream still haunts me
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This too. I cannot watch that episode again.
 
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Rad Shadow

Banned
Trigun...

You know who.

And...the single saddest event in anime ever.

Full metal alchemist

(Not who you think)
Nina

That shit still can make this grown man tear up.
 
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Strimei

Member
Fullmetal Alchemist (both '03 and Brotherhood, though '03 hit me harder)

Hughes, of course.

"It's a terrible day for rain." Every time.

Rad Shadow said:
Trigun...

You know who.

And...the single saddest event in anime ever.

Full metal alchemist

(Not who you think)
Nina

That shit still can make this grown man tear up.
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The one problem with it, in the '03 version anyway, is
how the ED song starts playing over Ed crying. You hear Ed bawling his eyes out and then peppy jpop starts playing. Bit of emotional whiplash.
 
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PSqueak

Banned
Messi said:
Y the last man

355 , killed me. I was stunned.
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Oh man, this one is absolutely devastating.

Anyways, the only fictional death that has brought me to tears is from Mother 3
The whole sequence with Claus coming to terms with what he did and ultimately killing himself, reuniting with his mother.
 
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BobNewbert31

Member
Game of Thrones

I was shocked when Oberyn was killed, but I absolutely lost it when Hodor died.

Also, Emile's death at the end of Valiant Hearts: The Great War.
Cried like a baby.
 
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TheDanger

Banned
farisr said:
Buffy:
Her mom.
I didn't even care for the character honestly, but how/when it happened, and the whole episode dedicated to it, man...
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It is definitely by far the saddest one for me too, but I don't wish her back afterwards as much as
Tara
 
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Kthulhu

Member
I keep trying to think of a character death, but I can't. Sure I've seen some that have surprised me, or ones that some emotional impact, but nothing that made me upset or anything.

Maybe it's because I typically handle death in real life pretty well.
 
Laieon

Laieon

Member
Harry Potter:

Fred Weasley. He was never my favorite character, but I always looked at Fred/George as one character. Losing 1/2 of the thing that made them them was depressing as hell.

Breaking Bad:

Andrea. She didn't do anything wrong and that shot was brutal.
 
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PSqueak

Banned
Ryuelli said:
Harry Potter:

Fred Weasley. He was never my favorite character, but I always looked at Fred/George as one character. Losing 1/2 of the thing that made them them was depressing as hell.
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Basically
Letting one of them live
was the most evil thing Rowling ever wrote.
 
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Baron Aloha

A Shining Example
I haven't given it much thought but the first one that came to mind was

True Blood
Tara - hell, her entire arc - its a case study in how to ruin/waste what started off as a fun character - her off-screen death was just adding insult to injury

Also,

24 -
"Tony", Michelle, and Palmer in season 5
 
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