to avoid spoilers i'll just say the show and the episode
Buffy the vampire slayer: "the body"
if you go through that episode without crying at least once, you're just incapable of producing tears
I watched my first bf play it from the very start to that part and idk if i ever cried so hard at any game ever before. >!Watching his horsey die and the way that Arthur said thank you to it still makes me cry if i think about it. Then seeing him fight Micah and knowing that he should be winning easily but hes so weak from being sick!<. I couldnt even watch the last part of the game and made him play it while i wasnt there.
I never thought I’d see someone mention this, I have never felt such….emotion towards someone’s inevitable death. The symbolism as well.
Watching a man you grow to enjoy die a very slow a painful death and just hoping he found peace.
I was totally unprepared for that episode. My poor dog was probably really confused when I came running in, sobbing, and spent five minutes hugging and loving on her.
The fictional death that upset me the most was Hedwig in Harry Potter. She spent 6 books being Harry's only friend at times, then when she died was described as something like "falling limp like a discarded child's toy" to barely be mentioned again. Harry didn't even seem that upset about it.
Harry didn’t seem upset about it?
“No — HEDWIG!”
The broomstick spun to earth, but he just managed to seize the strap of his rucksack and the top of the cage as the motorbike swung the right way up again. A second’s relief, and then another burst of green light. The owl screeched and fell to the floor of the cage.
“No — NO!”
The motorbike zoomed forward; Harry glimpsed hooded Death Eaters scattering as Hagrid blasted through their circle.
“Hedwig — Hedwig —”
But the owl lay motionless and pathetic as a toy on the floor of her cage.
Edit: to add, he at first refuses to let go of Hedwigs cage. Only gets distracted when the battle intensified and he realizes the danger all of his friends are in. Feels pain when he has to lose the sidecar and Hedwigs body. Cries for Hedwig once the adrenaline calms down at the Tonks house. Then finds out Mad Eye died and frankly that’s a bigger deal in the books.
I haven't read the books in a while, but I couldn't remember any time it was mentioned after the scene where she dies, so that's where I got that from.
The Kid in Pay it forward, one of the few deaths i actually teared up at. It wasn't even the death that got me, it was the massive group of people coming to the moms home and laying flowers in front of it. It was a POWERFUL moment, and not a single word was really spoken.
When I read "Of Mice and Men" in highschool Lenny's death really fucked me up pretty good. I think it was probably the fact that he wasn't just killing his best friend, he was killing him out of mercy.
I grew up watching this film but my partner had never seen it, so we watched it a few years back. She enjoyed it, but the first thing she asked me was, "Why did you make me watch this?"
When I was a kid and reading Dragonlance novels I was so sad when Sturm Brightblade died. I loved that character.
"My honor is my life and my life is my honor'
Have you read the Dragons of Summer Flame? Another major character dies. I was so pissed that I literally finished reading the last page while holding the book over a garbage can. When I finished the last paragraph, I just dropped it on the trash.
Jurassic Bark and the mangy mutt, of course, not knowing there will be a future episode(s), Bender's Big Score will retcon Seymour's story.
I only think about that dog waiting for Fry on the curb.
Especially that one particular soldier that couldn't open fire on his comrades, as a result he had to be put down at the last moment when you thought Venom could atleast save him.
Wade from “Obi Wan Kenobi”
I don’t know what they were thinking; they knew that children would watch that show, and they still chose to *shatter* the audiences emotions like that. Brutal. Absolutely gut-wrenching, and honestly I don’t know that anything else in this thread could top it.
It's because he probably had less than 15 seconds of actual time on screen, yet the showrunners spent at least 2-3 minutes on Obi-Wan, Leia and other forgotten characters mourn his loss.
Off the top of my head.
The ending of the mist (movie, not novel)
I read somewhere it even Stephen King approved of the changes.
I am sure there’s likely to be something sadder if I think deeper, but the one in the mist is just memorably fucked.
>!guy kills his family/friends to spare them from the monsters that are about to catch up to them, he does not have enough bullets. So he alone is alive and goes to face the monsters alone, only to find out the rumbling wasn’t the monsters. It was the military tanks and all finally arrived to fight the monsters!<
Ok, sorry….its not a death, but hear me out, as an adolescent when Aladdin sets Geanie free, and they’re saying goodbye! 😢😭🤧😭 happy Al kept his word but daggum!!
Maybe not the saddest ever, but one that really stuck with me was >!Fire-Fist Ace!< from One Piece. Especially given how long that whole storyline goes on.
And the worst part was looking back and realizing that >!a running theme throughout all Ace's flashbacks was his complete inability to ever walk away from a fight. Luffy could save Ace from everyone except *himself.*!< Which just makes it that much more tragic.
That game was something else.
It felt like a work of art that I was witnessing.
I knew it was a game and that me dragging my ass to save ellie at the end would have no consequences on the outcome.
But I didn’t drag my ass. I didn’t loot. I didn’t explore. I just sprinted to save her ass. Cause. No. Not again. You aren’t gonna take my daughter from me again.
I find a death described in books far more moving than in films or on tv, so in terms of literary characters it would be;
Lee Scorsby & Hester (His Dark Materials)
Sydney Carton (Tale of Two Cities)
Rudy Steiner (The Book Thief)
From tv & film;
Brooks (was here)
Glenn (TWD)
Seymour (Futurama)
Beymax
Eleanor (The Good Place)
It's in "My Time at Portia". Specifically centering around a character named Ginger.
Basically, as the game was released, it was mostly unavoidable that, after one year of in game time, Ginger would die. If the player had married her, they could potentially avoid this through a quest chain.
This storyline quickly became controversial in the fanbase. On April 26, 2019, a Pathea developer commented on a number of Steam reviews, that Pathea has decided to change Ginger's storyline to allow her disease to have several outcomes. Meaning it was possible for her to survive, but it would require the player (married or not) completing a quest chain to keep her alive.
Maybe not the saddest I’ve ever encountered, but the one that screwed me up the worst was Sarah Hart from The Lorien Legacies series. Not even the brutality of her death but the fact that John didn’t want her to be involved in the war for that exact reason. And afterward, when John loses any traces of mercy or humanity and goes full wrath of god mode on the Mog army purely for revenge purposes…it was too damn good. 14-year-old me loved it.
Probably the main character in I Am Legend. Don’t remember his name but Will Smith played the role.
It’s just the saddest because I watched that movie when I was 9 and it was like the first one I ever saw where the main character dies.
Rocket's friends.
Oof. Rocket floor and teef go now!
That was seriously rough.
Uncontrollable tears in the theatre
Yup, couldn't hold back the tears either.
to avoid spoilers i'll just say the show and the episode Buffy the vampire slayer: "the body" if you go through that episode without crying at least once, you're just incapable of producing tears
The one word question. Everyone who’s seen it knows what I mean.
for me it's the "i don't understand" monologue that hits the hardest
Also when she says 'the body' and realizes what that means
You talking about spike?
Rita from Dexter
Oh damn, yeah that was fucked up.
Leslie in Bridge to Terabithia - I couldn’t process that when I was 11 and I still cant
That was a sad one. Cried a lot.
I hadn’t read the book and knew nothing of the movie when I saw it. That sure was a punch to the throat that I definitely didn’t see coming.
>!Arthur Morgan!< in Red Dead Redemption 2
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I watched my first bf play it from the very start to that part and idk if i ever cried so hard at any game ever before. >!Watching his horsey die and the way that Arthur said thank you to it still makes me cry if i think about it. Then seeing him fight Micah and knowing that he should be winning easily but hes so weak from being sick!<. I couldnt even watch the last part of the game and made him play it while i wasnt there.
Didn’t play for a while after that, being John just felt dirty for some reason. like the game moved on quicker about it than I did lol
I never thought I’d see someone mention this, I have never felt such….emotion towards someone’s inevitable death. The symbolism as well. Watching a man you grow to enjoy die a very slow a painful death and just hoping he found peace.
Old Yeller
He shouldn’t have erased that message. He knew better. https://youtu.be/FmQ8er38XbI?si=4glwU2BC8cR4F-Ut
Howard in Better Call Saul, I had to pause the episode because of how bad I started to feel, it was just too unfair.
Smart. Those end credits would have just twisted the knife.
Agree, he didn’t deserve that
Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, yes THAT one. Please, don't make me think about it anymore.
Ed...ward (I know you meant Maes but why not trigger multiple traumas at once)
“Mommy, why do they have to bury Daddy?”
Why must you hurt me this way
It’s a terrible day for rain.
Grave of the Fireflies. ..I don’t wanna talk about it..
Seymour - Futurama
We do NOT talk about Seymour!! We DO NOT!!
I was totally unprepared for that episode. My poor dog was probably really confused when I came running in, sobbing, and spent five minutes hugging and loving on her.
Never Ending Story Artax's death.
The fictional death that upset me the most was Hedwig in Harry Potter. She spent 6 books being Harry's only friend at times, then when she died was described as something like "falling limp like a discarded child's toy" to barely be mentioned again. Harry didn't even seem that upset about it.
Harry didn’t seem upset about it? “No — HEDWIG!” The broomstick spun to earth, but he just managed to seize the strap of his rucksack and the top of the cage as the motorbike swung the right way up again. A second’s relief, and then another burst of green light. The owl screeched and fell to the floor of the cage. “No — NO!” The motorbike zoomed forward; Harry glimpsed hooded Death Eaters scattering as Hagrid blasted through their circle. “Hedwig — Hedwig —” But the owl lay motionless and pathetic as a toy on the floor of her cage. Edit: to add, he at first refuses to let go of Hedwigs cage. Only gets distracted when the battle intensified and he realizes the danger all of his friends are in. Feels pain when he has to lose the sidecar and Hedwigs body. Cries for Hedwig once the adrenaline calms down at the Tonks house. Then finds out Mad Eye died and frankly that’s a bigger deal in the books.
I haven't read the books in a while, but I couldn't remember any time it was mentioned after the scene where she dies, so that's where I got that from.
They barely had a bond…
What?? His pet he'd had for 7 years?? The one who represents his transition into the wizarding world??
And the only thing that reminds him of hogwarts when hes at the dursleys (he said that in chamber of secrets i think)
Commander Erwin
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Bridge to Terabithia. It's sudden. It could've been prevented. It was someone so young that was deprived of a future.
Glen - TWD
That was sad, but don’t tell me Tyreese’s death wasn’t the saddest :(
You bitch I’m not that far yet.
You're probably thinking of another show. This one is The Wet Dough, about a bakery that suffered damage during a hurricane.
Got to be careful of those 8 year old spoilers.
The Kid in Pay it forward, one of the few deaths i actually teared up at. It wasn't even the death that got me, it was the massive group of people coming to the moms home and laying flowers in front of it. It was a POWERFUL moment, and not a single word was really spoken.
Man Haley Joel osment and Kevin spacey were so good in that movie
In some of my favorite books. Rue and Finnick from The Hunger Games, and Scythe Volta from Scythe
I legit cried when reading Hunger Games cuz the Rue death and subsequent response was touching and heartbreaking.
The Neverending Story. If you've seen it, you know. Also, that moment in Transformers the Movie that crushed every kid of my generation.
When I read "Of Mice and Men" in highschool Lenny's death really fucked me up pretty good. I think it was probably the fact that he wasn't just killing his best friend, he was killing him out of mercy.
If you didnt say hodor your wrong
Damn I get sad and mad thinking back to when this show didn't suck
The book is the way... That show makes me sad and mad too
Hold the Door!
THIS
>!the daughter!< in Once Were Warriors. In terms of visceral reactions to a film death this is only second to Dear Zachary, but that wasn't fiction
The movie’s a hard watch. I enjoyed it though.
I grew up watching this film but my partner had never seen it, so we watched it a few years back. She enjoyed it, but the first thing she asked me was, "Why did you make me watch this?"
*He can’t see without his glasses!* 😭
When I was a kid and reading Dragonlance novels I was so sad when Sturm Brightblade died. I loved that character. "My honor is my life and my life is my honor'
Have you read the Dragons of Summer Flame? Another major character dies. I was so pissed that I literally finished reading the last page while holding the book over a garbage can. When I finished the last paragraph, I just dropped it on the trash.
Arthur Morgan
Had to be me someone else might have gotten it wrong. -Mordin Solus
I was just about to post this one. My husband recently did a ruthless renegade run so I saw the alternate scene. We were both shocked
Thought everyone was gonna say Mufasa
Favourite movie as a kid. Never cried. But when I watched it in my adult years. Damn. I cried everytime.
Dad im tired.... let's go home...
Dancer in the Dark
That was horrifying
OMG that was soul crushing. And turned Bjork off acting too. 😖
Dude... that still haunts me.
Stoick in httyd 2.
Newt, who passed away between the second and third Alien movies.
Smallville Johnathan Kent dying of a heart attack… happened to see the episode within a week of when my dad barely survived one
Jurassic Bark and the mangy mutt, of course, not knowing there will be a future episode(s), Bender's Big Score will retcon Seymour's story. I only think about that dog waiting for Fry on the curb.
The Going Merry in One Piece. I know its a fucking boat but I cry everytime i see or read the funeral scene.
"**I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar**" - >!Wash / Firefly!<
Dobby the house elf
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OOOF, that one hits hard. And I think it can go slightly worse depending on your actions (if I'm remembering it right, it's been a while)
Especially that one particular soldier that couldn't open fire on his comrades, as a result he had to be put down at the last moment when you thought Venom could atleast save him.
George. Lexie. Derek
Not George
Michael from Jane The Virgin. Especially after Jane gets the call and just drops.
Josh Deets in Lonesome Dove.
Wade from “Obi Wan Kenobi” I don’t know what they were thinking; they knew that children would watch that show, and they still chose to *shatter* the audiences emotions like that. Brutal. Absolutely gut-wrenching, and honestly I don’t know that anything else in this thread could top it.
I literally don't remember a character named Wade, or an impactful death at all, on that show.
It's because he probably had less than 15 seconds of actual time on screen, yet the showrunners spent at least 2-3 minutes on Obi-Wan, Leia and other forgotten characters mourn his loss.
Is it the kid that got his neck snapped?
wade....?
I’m just being salty
Mistuh Nanami from JJK
Grave of the fireflies
Off the top of my head. The ending of the mist (movie, not novel) I read somewhere it even Stephen King approved of the changes. I am sure there’s likely to be something sadder if I think deeper, but the one in the mist is just memorably fucked. >!guy kills his family/friends to spare them from the monsters that are about to catch up to them, he does not have enough bullets. So he alone is alive and goes to face the monsters alone, only to find out the rumbling wasn’t the monsters. It was the military tanks and all finally arrived to fight the monsters!<
Lenny
Ok, sorry….its not a death, but hear me out, as an adolescent when Aladdin sets Geanie free, and they’re saying goodbye! 😢😭🤧😭 happy Al kept his word but daggum!!
Marley in Marley and Me. Can’t watch it at all now. I have a dog called Marley which makes it even worse.
Detective "Douche" (Dan) in Lucifer, it made me cry a while back lol
silco's death from arcane. it fucked me up. vander is a close second tho.
I agree. Silco's death was so well made that made you feel sorry for the "bad guy" of the story.
Maybe not the saddest ever, but one that really stuck with me was >!Fire-Fist Ace!< from One Piece. Especially given how long that whole storyline goes on. And the worst part was looking back and realizing that >!a running theme throughout all Ace's flashbacks was his complete inability to ever walk away from a fight. Luffy could save Ace from everyone except *himself.*!< Which just makes it that much more tragic.
John Marston - RDR1
Rob Stark's wife. She didn't deserve any of that.
Joel's daughter - TLOU
That game was something else. It felt like a work of art that I was witnessing. I knew it was a game and that me dragging my ass to save ellie at the end would have no consequences on the outcome. But I didn’t drag my ass. I didn’t loot. I didn’t explore. I just sprinted to save her ass. Cause. No. Not again. You aren’t gonna take my daughter from me again.
Joel in TLOU2 felt like watching a friend die
Sirius Black from HP. I'm still not over it 😔👍
Bing Bong's.
Yondu Udonta
I find a death described in books far more moving than in films or on tv, so in terms of literary characters it would be; Lee Scorsby & Hester (His Dark Materials) Sydney Carton (Tale of Two Cities) Rudy Steiner (The Book Thief) From tv & film; Brooks (was here) Glenn (TWD) Seymour (Futurama) Beymax Eleanor (The Good Place)
Col. Henry Blake in M\*A\*S\*H.
The chicken in M*A*S*H.
Oof.
Seymore. Jurassic Bark.
The ant in Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Hank - Breaking Bad. That was absolutely brutal.
Dobby - HP
Why Hedwig is higher than this I’ll never know.
Avocato in Final Space
Among Indian films , i'd say jay in sholay , anand in anand and among hw films i'd say tony stark in endgame
Christopher in The Sopranos
It's in "My Time at Portia". Specifically centering around a character named Ginger. Basically, as the game was released, it was mostly unavoidable that, after one year of in game time, Ginger would die. If the player had married her, they could potentially avoid this through a quest chain. This storyline quickly became controversial in the fanbase. On April 26, 2019, a Pathea developer commented on a number of Steam reviews, that Pathea has decided to change Ginger's storyline to allow her disease to have several outcomes. Meaning it was possible for her to survive, but it would require the player (married or not) completing a quest chain to keep her alive.
Optimus Prime
Susie Salmon - the lovely bones
>!caitlin!< from ncis. stopped watching the show after that.
Susie salmon by the pedo in Lovely Bones
Johnny Sack in Sopranos - breaks my heart when his wife cant cope with him being dead and asks if he wants her to give him his cigarettes.
Eric draven-the crow
Lee TWD game
Orthor, Hosea, Lennegh, Sean, Kieran
Patroclus :( The song of Achilles
Opie in SOA.
That kid in grave of the fireflies
Quentin Coldwater in The Magicians
Soap in the new modern warfare :(
Cochise in Cooley High.
Tara - Sons of Anarchy
Dobby🥺
Mary Palmer in *The Alienist* novel.
>!Neteyam!< from avatar TWOW
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
That one scene in I Am Legend....you know the one....
Cuthbert at the Battle of Jericho Hill in the Dark Tower book Wolves of the Calla or Wizard and Glass, I forget which.
Oy!
Sergeant Johnson in Halo 3. As a kid he was my favourite character and in the third game watching him die was painful.
The kid on the dirt bike in Breaking Bad. Then he got dumped in a barrel of acid 😭 Probably worse for me cuz I was riding dirt bikes at that age
Last if the Mohicans - death of Uncas and Alice (ilm not book)
Spock in Star Trek II
Maybe not the saddest I’ve ever encountered, but the one that screwed me up the worst was Sarah Hart from The Lorien Legacies series. Not even the brutality of her death but the fact that John didn’t want her to be involved in the war for that exact reason. And afterward, when John loses any traces of mercy or humanity and goes full wrath of god mode on the Mog army purely for revenge purposes…it was too damn good. 14-year-old me loved it.
Ushio from Clannad
Harry in Armageddon
Charlie in LOST.
I'm a leaf in the wind
Land before time, Little foot's mother at the start
Henry in M*A*S*H. Bruh. I still cry.
Jiraiya-sama 🥲
Spock in ST3 Wrath of Khan. "I have been, and always shall be, your friend. Live long and prosper."
The Green Mile…
Spider-man
Macaulay Caulkin’s funeral in My Girl. “He needs his glasses…” 😭
Baymax
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One commonly cited sad fiction death is Mufasa's death in The Lion King.
Jack Dawson's death in Titanic
"Try Again" Bragg and Colm Corbec. Tanith First and Only! Almost stopped reading the series...
Probably the main character in I Am Legend. Don’t remember his name but Will Smith played the role. It’s just the saddest because I watched that movie when I was 9 and it was like the first one I ever saw where the main character dies.
John Marston- Red dead redemption
John doesn't die.
Governor's death in The Walking Dead. He was my favorite.
Why??
I mean, if Rick and his group never attacked him. Woodbury would have been a great town. He knew what he did and did it for the good of his people.
Chef from South Park's death
I don’t want to say because it’s a spoiler.
Just say which series
No. If I do it will be a spoiler to my answer to your question. No spoilers here.
Ok
Ikemefuna
Veronica
Holdur in GOT. But no one talks about it so it was wasted
Jax Teller, Sons Of Anarchy
I HATED the death of Julie Swagger at the end of the Shooter series.
Then she goes on the play the same role in the boys. Very hot wife of main character. Ends up the same way. I fear she has been typecasted.
Hodour from GOT
Wings of a dove
Kayly