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[Baron Aloha]

I don't even remember this death.

There's a reason you don't. Its because they never showed it.

 

[Switch Back 9]

The guys going over the top at the end of Blackadder Goes Forth.

Makes me cry every. single. time.

 

[DrForester]

Basically

Spoiler

Letting one of them live

was the most evil thing Rowling ever wrote.

Really was the only character she could kill from the family.

Spoiler

She wasn't going to kill off any of the Trio, so Ron is safe

She decided not to kill off Arthur in the 5th book, reasoning that the books needed one good father figure around. I don't think she ever would have considered killing Molly. So that just leaves the kids.

Not going to kill Ginny, she's with Harry, and he's been through enough

Not going to kill Charlie or Bill. The readers never really got to know them and probably wouldn't care much if they died.

Everyone would cheer if Percy had died.

So it was Fred or George.

 

[weepy]

Person of Interest

Spoiler

John Reese, The Machine, and Carter

Yup

Also Angel

Spoiler

***Fred's***

death shook me when I first saw it happen on tv. If was probably the first fictional death since The Lion King that had me going

Spoiler

"that can't happen to good guys..."

 

[jdstorm]

The most? Thats hard.

Probably

Spoiler

Bastilla

in KOTOR. Its so much harder when you have to be the one that pulls the trigger.

There was also an Episode of Cold Case that i wont be able to unsee.

 

[PSqueak]

Spoiler

So it was Fred or George.

The right thing to do was

Spoiler

Killing BOTH of them.

 

[Robdraggoo]

Yup

Also Angel

Spoiler

***Fred's***

death shook me when I first saw it happen on tv. If was probably the first fictional death since The Lion King that had me going

Spoiler

"that can't happen to good guys..."

And it was a slow burner too. The whole time you expect the hero to save the day like always. But not this time. Devastating

 

[DrForester]

24 Fans.

Who shed a tear when

Spoiler

Edgar

died?

 

[Deleted member 22576]

Can't say it really phased me too much in anyway but I guess

Spoiler

Charlie

on Lost?

 

[Jinfash]

RIP Tasha Yar. I still feel like that was the first funeral I attended.

Buried in a Win 95 wallpaper. RIP.

 

[Takyon]

Grave of the fireflies

Spoiler

Setsuko

The Member of the Wedding

Spoiler

John Henry, what the fuck

 

[ibyea]

24 Fans.

Who shed a tear when

Spoiler

Edgar

died?

Man, that season was just relentless.

 

[Xero]

jesus people dont hide the name under a spoiler tag

 

[Volimar]

jesus people dont hide the name under a spoiler tag

The OP asked us to.

 

[RobertRaviolli]

The Wire S5 spoilers-

Spoiler

when Omar got shot in the fucking head, I had to pause the episode for twenty minutes because I couldnt believe wtf just happened

 

[Xero]

The OP asked us to.

I meant of the show or movie or game.

 

[proto]

A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara

Spoiler

Won't say. I see you trying to spoiler yourself, and I won't abet it!

Oh my god.

Spoiler

It happened so fast! had to reread it to make sure I wasn't projecting :<

 

[13ruce]

It's still the Ash Ketchum moment in the first pokemon movie as a child sure it does not really coun't but i can't come up with another....

 

[Secret Fawful]

Spoiler

Everyone

in End of Evangelion. That movie fucked me up as a kid.

Danganronpa 2

Spoiler

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

 

[TheDanger]

I meant of the show or movie or game.

I thought it was clear that you shouldn't spoiler tag the title.

 

[BrightLightLava]

Oh my god.

Spoiler

It happened so fast! had to reread it to make sure I wasn't projecting :<

I cried through roughly 40% of that book.

Sometimes it was happy tears though. Like when

Spoiler

Jude got adult adopted

.

 

[The One and Done™]

Spoiler

Als death in FMA was devastating.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

Those

Spoiler

dogs

in "where the red fern grows"

Spoiler

Everyone

dying around forest gump was sad

The

Spoiler

dad

dying in Big Fish

 

[BrightLightLava]

Spoiler

Als death in FMA was devastating.

This is a Full Metal Alchemist spoiler (I think).

 

[styl3s]

Game of Thrones Spoilers (TV show, specifically)

Spoiler

Oberyn Martell

His scream still haunts me

Also:

The Shield.

You know the two.

Shield spoilers below

Spoiler

Everything leading up to Shane's death even though he was a piece of shit was gut wrenching. The phone call begging Vic, the bathroom scene seeing him in that state while he writes the letter, the suicide AND THEN his kid and wife on the bed? Jesus christ it was a roller coaster of fucking emotions. The Lem death still shakes me to the core.

 

[Woo-Fu]

Vikings

Spoiler

Ragnar, the show is deader than he is now that he's gone.

 

[woodland]

probably my favorite send off of a character in fiction.

To me the killer was the 2 years and then nothing. No afterlife, etc. Just Raul, his daughter, and her memory, which is a killer.

 

[Jive Turkey]

James Clavell's Shogun

Spoiler

Mariko

caught me totally off guard. A majorly important character and kind of a badass but then BOOM gone and I didn't see it coming. It was one of those "nobody's safe" moments for me.

 

[Fast Forward]

No contest. Lion King:

Spoiler

Mufusa

 

[Wood Man]

I got a stomach ache after reading Walking Dead #100.

But I genuinely cried at the end of Graveyard of the Fireflies. I was a little drunk too so I was a pile of emotions.

 

[timetokill]

ASOIAF:

Spoiler

Oberynnnnnnnnnn NOOOOOOO

Easily the most frustrating one in the book as well as the show for me. Fuck you GRRM.

From Game of Thrones/ASOIAF:

Spoiler

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:

Spoiler

-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.

The character in question was flawed in the same way

Spoiler

Ned Stark

was. That was the whole thrust of their character arc.

 

[Figgles]

Game of Thrones

Spoiler

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.

Wtf. Learn how to use spoiler tags.

 

[Kirye]

Hunter x Hunter

Spoiler

Kite. It's not that his death was that impactful personally, you barely got to know the guy. Rather that how Gon took his death was probably one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever seen. For a while, he believed that Kite would be fine, and then he found that puppet Kite and got hopeful that he could be restored. It wasn't until Pitou revealed that there really wasn't anything she could do to fix him that Gon went into his deepest depression, and into one of the greatest scenes in anime history.

Persona 3

Spoiler

Shinjiro's death destroyed me. You had just started getting attached to him and saw his soft side with Koromaru, only for it to be revealed that he was responsible for the death of Ken's mother. What transpired afterward with his sacrificing himself to save Ken was awe inspiring. Main character's death was saddening as well, but I felt that Shinjiro got me the most.

 

[Grazzt]

Hyperion series

Spoiler

Aenea

Don't even get me fucking started
I took a 2 month break from reading

This...

And

Spoiler

Sturm Brightblade

in Dragon Lance, destroyed me when I was a kid.

Of course,

Spoiler

Maes Hughes

in FMA

 

[Pagusas]

I was so glad they killed Tara off in Buffy, she's probably the worst character ever added to the show.

I felt her death was almost Josh saying " sorry about this horrible character, here I'll kill her off in the most crazy unexpected way possible,just to get this awful period of the show over".


My answere for the OP: the death of the 10th doctor affected me more than any other fictional character. It felt like the show had ended (and given how bad it's turned out sinse, it basically did, BBC wishes they could return to the 10th.

 

[proto]

I cried through roughly 40% of that book.

Sometimes it was happy tears though. Like when

Spoiler

Jude got adult adopted

.

MY BOI

Spoiler

HAROLD! Also, Willem Ragnarsson Listening to Jude S.
Francis Tell a Story

 

[Elandyll]

X-Men

Spoiler

Jean Grey at the end of the Dark Phoenix saga.

Then they had to transform it all into a sad joke by making her come back in various forms, bring in a daughter from the future and other stupid shenanigans. This being said X-Men/ Teen Titans was legit.

Edit: this is also where the doucherie started for Scott, throwing him in the arms of a blond bimbo right during his grieving escape AND then making him marry fucking Madelyne Pryor. Yeah, I'm still salty.

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Spoiler

Optimus Prime

I learned what death was from his passing. Fitting since he taught me so much. :'(

 

[Dongs Macabre]

I was definitely not expecting

Spoiler

Optimus Prime

to die when I watched The Transformers: The Movie as a kid.

EDIT:

Spoiler

Starscream

in Armada, too.

 

[Daingurse]

Spoiler

Godzilla

- Godzilla vs Destoroyah

Spoiler

The ending scene of Godzilla's meltdown really stuck with me as a kid. It had me all fucked up.

 

[Despera]

Spoiler

Setsuko

- Grave of The Fireflies

Spoiler

I'm trying to bring myself to rewatch this movie (haven't seen it in ~15 years now I think) but it aint easy. The only film that makes me feel this way.

I also wrote a bunch of paragraphs regarding another character, but decided against it. I'd rather not spoil that show for anyone in any way. It also has something to do with children and war, and it's one of the best shows to ever tackle that subject.

 

[MisterHero]

Peter Parker's daughter (which may or may not have been Mayday?)

No matter how good or heroic a comic book character is, they are the playthings of writers putting them through the wringer infinitely.

 

[poppabk]

All of the Game of Thrones ones listed but also

Spoiler

Wash

in Serenity. I really wasn't ready to let any of the characters go, but he was so supremely nice and jovial.

 

[shandy706]

Mufasa

Went to see Lion King on release night at 12 years old.

My own father had just died....yeah..that was rough.

 

[Thaedolus]

Aeris.

 

[DocSeuss]

Spoiler

Brendan Fraser's character, Dr. Cox's best friend, in Scrubs

 

[ThLunarian]

LOST

Spoiler

John Locke. I was also upset that his Resurrection was a fake out

 

[Eric the Red]

Claymore

Spoiler

Theresa. It was kind of on my mind all night.

 

[Hippo_PRIME]

Dark Tower spoilers.

Spoiler

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.

Spoiler

Detta Walker

pleasing for him not to die just gets me every time.

I re-read the series about once a year. Cry like a broken child over this. Every. Damn. Time.

Also from The Dark Tower:

Spoiler

Jake's death.
More specifically, Oy after the death.

Breaks my heart every time. That last book is catharsis for me. It unclogs all the stuff I couldn't work through during the year.

 

[Lum1n3s]

Naruto Shippuden

Spoiler

Jiraiya's death was devastating, even more so in the anime. That part hit me with all the feels I never thought I had.