A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
we'll phase it out eventually. Don't get so fazed by it.
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What fictional character death phased you the most?
- Thread starter TheDanger
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we'll phase it out eventually. Don't get so fazed by it.
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Transhuman
Unconfirmed Member
Not if you're Kitty Pryde.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
We're done here. Nothing else comes close.
The Eclipse
It hits you in the face like a ton of bricks. I even knew it was coming - and I was still completely shook for days.
Romars202129
Member
Gurren Lagann
What the hell man. I was just bummed out for every ep after. Which was impressive since I was watching its TV run on the scifi channel.
What the hell man. I was just bummed out for every ep after. Which was impressive since I was watching its TV run on the scifi channel.
Version 3.0
Member
It only made me mad, because it was so stupid. Almost as stupid as Rodimus Prime. It really soured an otherwise fun film.
Yeah, that was rough.
That was a tough one, too.
The Red Wedding in Song of Ice & Fire books.
Ned was bad enough, but Robb dying seemed to leave the books without a protagonist, at first.
psychowave
Member
Six Feet Under.
Everyone dies in the end. I was actually crying my eyes out during that ending. It's not even a "sad" ending as you see that most characters lead a normal, fulfilling life... but they still have to die in the end. It made me feel so powerless. Kinda reminds you that no matter what kind of happy ending your favorite characters get in any other media, they still die in the end.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
The Host (2006)
The daughter's death at the end just destroys me every time. The way her family of losers comes together to rescue her and accomplish the impossible is both hilarious and inspiring but as the father keeps trying to wake her up in disbelief at the end... Man. And the grandpa's death was heartbreaking too.
The ending of Six Feet Under and
broke me.
Eh, he had it coming.
Nate's death a few episodes earlier
Eh, he had it coming.
TV show Robb was an idiot. Sure, his death was cruel, but he should've expected that breaking a sacred vow (that he was going to marry one of the Frey girls) and then showing up in their castle with the woman he broke the vow for would have led to some serious reprecussions. Maybe he didn't expect to get killed for it, but he was a massive idiot for not taking precautions.
At least in the book he doesn't bring his new wife along to the Red Wedding.
At least in the book he doesn't bring his new wife along to the Red Wedding.
Subpar Scrub
Banned
Persona 4 Golden:
Danganronpa 2:
RWBY:
Jojo stardust crusaders:
Kill la kill:
There's definitely more but I can't remember right now. Partly in books and shows, but moreso in games. You know a character did their job in pissing you off when you don't utilise a forgiveness based option if you're offered it.
For the short while before it's fixed, nanako.
Danganronpa 2:
Chiaki
RWBY:
Pyrrha. I figured penny might have uploaded her mind or something to back it up but Pyrrha wasn't coming back from that.
Jojo stardust crusaders:
Iggy you were a selfish motherfuker but you didn't deserve to go 
killing dogs is just not okay. Seeing Ice get wrecked was so good.
killing dogs is just not okay. Seeing Ice get wrecked was so good.Kill la kill:
Okay, senketsu didn't wreck me, but it's a shame he had to be disintegrated. I thought he was likable enough, but he didn't really fit into a world without other life fiber based beings.
There's definitely more but I can't remember right now. Partly in books and shows, but moreso in games. You know a character did their job in pissing you off when you don't utilise a forgiveness based option if you're offered it.
Spladam
Member
You caught me off guard right in the feels man. Also,
Bodie
Omar
Bodie.
Came to post Logan:
My childhood died again with the two deaths in that movie. It all ended on film. So many memories died with them.
And last, Witcher 3,
Vesemir
Witcher
My friend told me about it before I got a chance to watch the movie. I was crushed for weeks. It would be another decade before I could get over my anger enough to watch the movie.
Red Dead Redemption,
.
In hindsight it was to be expected given the character arc and the scenes building up to it. But I was so caught in the moment and it was rather unexpected, especially as to my knowledge
. It was a moment that had me place down the controller and contemplate what had happened for a few minutes.
Of course then came
and I was left feeling a little disappointed that I hadn't saved earlier and could
John Marston
In hindsight it was to be expected given the character arc and the scenes building up to it. But I was so caught in the moment and it was rather unexpected, especially as to my knowledge
R* had never killed off the main character before
Of course then came
WORK YA DAMN NAG
no longer play as John.
Yep, that fucking sucked.
MisterFalcon
Member
Yeah, it was a devastating episode, especially as this was back when you were not spoiled to hell and back.
SiegfriedFM
Member
I really didn't expect it, but it made sense. In many ways.
stenbumling
Unconfirmed Member
Tommys son killed by a drunk driver
Pankratous
Member
Definitely this. A death has never affected me more in fiction.
Octavianus
Banned
Might not be how its intended, but I always took it as humanity becoming a part of something more, which I think is beautiful
A Huge Battleship
Member
Came in here to post this. Even after all this time,
I still can't bring myself to rewatch her execution. Where as I've watched all the others like 10+ times each.
Also want to give a mention to basically the entire cast of Trillion: GoD, but particularly
Fegor and Elma. All of the main deaths were horrifying, but in their cases the close familial element + writing made them even harder to stomach.
This one is so rough my mind automatically blocks me from thinking about it
Yeah, that was *why* it got me so bad.
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
First post gets it.
That character was almost instantly loveable. Seeing him go so soon was devastating.
True Savior
Member
Berserk and Legend of Galactic Heroes.
Oh, yeah. That was harsh. Show couldn't be the same after that : (
Breaking Bad
Really anybody who didn't deserve it. Just the way the music was handled and the reactions immediately following the deaths (especially reactions by Jesse) had a huge impact on me. Some of these characters weren't even major or even just introduced during that episode. Still had a sinking feeling in my stomach. Can't think of any show before or since that hit me hard that many times.
Sopranos
Really anybody who didn't deserve it. Just the way the music was handled and the reactions immediately following the deaths (especially reactions by Jesse) had a huge impact on me. Some of these characters weren't even major or even just introduced during that episode. Still had a sinking feeling in my stomach. Can't think of any show before or since that hit me hard that many times.
Sopranos
I'm assuming he dies in the end of the finale. Definitely was stunned even though I knew that was the "end" going in. The abruptness of it all caught me off guard. Still my favorite final scene of any show.
The only ones that became something more were creepy children that seemed devoid of any humanity. The real humans (save one) were all dead
Gundam SEED
Nicol's death was pretty brutal, he gets cut in half by an anti-ship beam sword but slowly enough to see it coming and not being fully cut through so he lives a few seconds with the beam inside him.
Also Mwu's death hit me hard because he was the coolest dude on the show. The one natural that makes the impossible possible,
in more ways than one.
in more ways than one.
Kotetsu534
Member
Animals of Farthing Wood:
Probably the first time I ever seriously confronted death. It was avoidable. The male got too scared, panicked and froze on the motorway. The partner chooses to die with her husband rather than go on without him. They curl up as the lorry approaches...
His Dark Materials:
He's not the hero, but he matches Lyra's bravery, and fights with her after being kidnapped. The implicit expectation is that they'll both escape and continue their adventures in the second and third books, only for him to be brutally killed after a struggle for the benefit of the villain's plans. It's the sheer coldness, murder not for revenge or hate, but for simple utilitarian calculation, that lingers.
FFVII:
Well, you know this story. In one sense it's unexpected, but in another entirely inevitable, and there's so much that should be said between her and Cloud that never can.
I don't think deaths strongly affected me after I turned 10 or so. Grave of the Fireflies is tragic, but it's the avoidable nature of it that is most affecting. Same with, say,
in Mad Men.
The Hedgehogs.
His Dark Materials:
Roger.
FFVII:
Aeris.
I don't think deaths strongly affected me after I turned 10 or so. Grave of the Fireflies is tragic, but it's the avoidable nature of it that is most affecting. Same with, say,
Lane Pryce's suicide
Octavianus
Banned
Saving Private Ryan, although maybe not a fictional character, but the death probably was..
. That one seriously messed me up. I think I still have some residual hatred for Orlando Bloom as a result.
the jewish american solider that gets a knife slowly plunged into his chest
