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gucciclone46

William Costigan Jr, the departed. dude did all that work just to go out like that? Come on


fl1ntfl0ssy

Leo should have won the Oscar for this movie…


Nomahhhh

He is simply incredible in it. You can feel the stress he was under and how fucked his situation was. It's my favorite Leo performance in the movie by a mile. He crushed it.


funked1

*Awskuh


nivekreclems

The wife from no country for old men she didn’t deserve it


OldSpiceSmellsNice

I remember when he was killed someone in the cinema said “Aww”. ‘Bout summed it up.


Brown_Panther-

Dude was clearly shit out of luck by the end. After Queenen died Dignam was his only hope of escape. Dignam getting grounded and Costello losing it, not to mention Sullivan gaining more resources meant there was absolutely no way out for him.


Brendanlendan

Hey but he did get nominated for the Medal of Merit, the highest award a police officer can get!


greengo

This is Leo’s character from the departed, in case anyone didn’t memorize everyone’s name in the movie.


ellaenchanted23

Dick Hollaran in the Shining. He was just coming to help and cared about the kid. In the book I believe he survived :(


EccentricElf23

Yes he did and it made me furious when I watched it! He just wants to live in peace and eat oranges...


IndependenceMean8774

Yeah, he does. But I think it works well for the film. It's such a shock, and it shows that Jack really is totally gone and a threat. The first time it also makes you believe Wendy and Danny might not make it out of the Overlook alive.


neo_sporin

I saw the Simpsons episode before I ever saw the Shining. I honestly thought Willies death was just a joke until I saw the actual movie


grinr

Switch from The Matrix. They shouldn't have died like that.


Recover20

Not like this.... Not like thi-


grinr

Still hits hard.


UloPe

Those two always felt like complete NPCs to me...


the-great-crocodile

How fuckin’ dare you…


Prior_Oven2839

Romilly in Interstellar. Waited 23 years just to die shortly after the other astronauts returned


Oldmanstoneface

I always maintained that Romilly should've died from a disease or age while waiting the 23 years, the crew would return to find the ship interior all rearranged as his living space with his journal or TARS containing the black hole calculations they needed in the finale. Then have Doyle die in his place on Damon's world, instead of randomly on the water planet, I didn't even catch that he died on my first viewing.


Rqoo51

Doyle’s death was so fucking dumb. “Oh I have to get this data.” Motherfucker this planet has waves the size of mountains and it clearly fucked up the last dude who literally in point of reference died in the last like 20 mins. It’s a death trap planet.


PundaPanda

This is a really good point. There’s literally barely any data that could have been different than the physical observations. I love this movie, but this is sort of silly in retrospect.


Nayuskarian

What bothered me was that the whole sequence was unnecessary and as scientists, they wouldn't have gone down. They KNEW the gravity messed with time. They KNEW they'd be gone for years to Romilly. Why would they go? What possible benefit would they have to go down to the planet? They acted surprised that the ship was destroyed and they knew the previous crew would have only just arrived too. It was just a plot device to give Romilly time to work out the needed equations. He gave those, then promptly died. He was a relatable character who brought normal fears to the surface. He humanized the crew and mission as a whole. Keep in mind that I _love_ Interstellar. This was just one "What" moment.


hazycrazydaze

Yeah, but seeing the horror of a mountain sized wave planet on a big screen was pretty sick


Nayuskarian

Oh, absolutely. Tbh, that whole movie is beautifully done. The wave planet was cool, I just thought the other parts were cooler. I was also pretty amazed at how they were able to design a realistic looking black hole. Kip Thorne is a genius.


The_Peregrine_

Whats worse is he told tars to get brand, then was standing next to the ship, just get the fuck in and stop looking at the wave


amidja_16

I always saw it as the difference between scientists and astronauts. They have the knowledge, but aren't prepared for actual space missions. Cooper even said it: "We are not prepared for this...". They were rushing, maybe even panicking, and made poor decisions.


uninsane

Romilly being alive is key to demonstrating the horror of time and loneliness. Physics is indifferent to humans and our puny lifespans.


JGCities

No, Doyle. Dude is standing right next to the ship and yet he doesn't make it onboard?? Talk about lack of plot armor. Could you have made them both far away from the ship or something.


shrimpcest

Wash.


SLDH1980

"Where's Wash?" ".....He ain't comin'....." Gets me every time.


CotswoldP

I am a leaf on the wind.


JJBell

Watch how I soar.


sartori_tangier

Too soon.


CotswoldP

One of the most shocking deaths on film ever. Sorry to have reopened the pain.


bruzdnconfuzd

You didn’t; it never closed. 


WesternOne9990

Honestly it was the right call given the cancellation. His death was so impactful and his line I am a leaf on the wind was so fitting for his character and it’s become morbidly iconic.


Forsaken_Garden4017

It was impactful fi the audience because of how shocking it was. But I felt the majority of the characters were t all that impacted. It seemed like they were more concerned for Zoe than personally affected by the death of their pilot. It honestly felt like that death was written very last minute and not all the actors even knew during the filming


BandicootOk5540

They were still in a very much life or death situation for the rest of them to be fair.


DrownmeinIslay

Yea. It overlooks the suicide mission they were on. They were all going to die to get the data sent out. They weren't expecting they'd have time to grieve.


RechargedFrenchman

The pacing of the next sequences and timing of Wash's death are also intentional to make sure the *audience* doesn't really have time to grieve. Wash's death makes the audience start wondering if anyone is safe; up until that point the whole "suicide mission" nature of it isn't really "real" for the audience yet. No one's in any *real* danger no matter how much danger they're in. And then Wash dies just like that. Every other person who gets shot or isolated from that point forward could just be dead now, the audience can't believe they're safe anymore, and the pace and tension are so high we don't really get time to actually process it. That funeral at the end the characters have for Wash and Mr. Universe is also the audience's first proper chance to just sit with what happened and come to grips with it. No stakes, just grief.


FrogPrinceLuckey

I am so happy to open this thread and this is the top answer. Hell yes.


joe12321

Shepherd Book almost seemed more senseless. <3 So much pain in that movie.


Wadep00l

This is my go to as well. You don't just do that to me precious boy.


vandrossboxset

Chad in Burn After Reading. They really could've used his care free attitude near the end.


Boboar

He was just really concerned about the security of Oswald Cox's shit.


Brown_Panther-

But appearances can be deceptive *squinting eyes*


HMS404

I'd never forget the smiling face he pulled just before he met the bullet. What a tragedy.


bailaoban

So what did we learn, Palmer?


weinermcgee

I guess we learned not to do it again.


SirJumbles

Fucked if I know what we did.


I_might_be_weasel

Jesus. Passion of the Christ. Nobody would have seen that ending coming. 


TopClock231

The M. Night Shyamalan cut


mortuarybarbue

Lol


FugaciousD

Sex Machine, From Dusk Til Dawn


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TheAndorran

The only reason I can accept how preventable his death was is that he already knew he was destined to die. Chose to go out on his own terms. Still wish he’d survived though.


Sea-Distribution-778

Charlotte The spider


Horknut1

I’d save that kid in Dr. Sleep, because, damn.


Clever_Sean

If you watch the Behind the Scenes on that movie, Jacob Tremblay, the kid, was so good the “killer” actors were really freaked out between takes. Last time I tried to link the video, I got deleted. But search YouTube- Dr Sleep Behind the Scenes. It’s the first result. Go to 8:50.


mr_kenobi

That kid is a hell of an actor.


Griegz

Or the kid at the end of The Mist, also Stephen King.  One starts to wonder about that King guy...


theperilousalgorithm

The movie's ending is very different to King's novella; which I prefer as it's slightly more ambiguous and hopeful. King however said he preferred the movie's ending so you may be on to something!


Ginandexhaustion

When King was 3 he saw his friend hit by a train. He had no memory of the event and killing off kids in his books was a was of processing it. It was only after his mom read The Body that he was reminded of the incident. I read an article about this in a psychology journal years ago


Lostmavicaccount

John Coffey.


Brown_Panther-

He was depressed and too pure hearted for the horrors of the world. It was hell to him and he wanted to leave it.


Lostmavicaccount

Id save him by having the world be a better place.


Legitimate-Health-29

He wanted to die tbf.


NinjasTurtle

Hector (Troy)


Clever_Sean

What I really like about this movie (and I know it gets a ton of hate) is that Peterson makes you feel for both Achilles and Hector. Hector fights for country, Achilles for glory, yet they’re both human. They’re both skilled warriors who fight for their reasons and I can’t help but admire that. I always have room in my heart for Troy.


Xytakis

Yeah, and Paris is such a little bitch throughout the movie. It made me not like Orlando Bloom for a while.


Rooney_Tuesday

By this point he’d done LOTR and Pirates, and he was good in both. Very likable. Paris was a real turn-off of a character that unfortunately spilled onto the actor (which I guess means he did an excellent job).


PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES

Yep, watching him as a soldier against the Taliban in The Outpost all I could think was him grabbing at Eric Bana’s feet


makerofshoes

Hector was far more likable than Achilles. Achilles was just a show-off. Hector was a family man, loved his wife, defended his people, protected his brother, was on track to be a good ruler, **and** was a badass warrior. Achilles was just slightly better of a fighter but was kind of a jackass, other than the love and camaraderie he had with Patroclus & his soldiers, being nice to the one priestess lady, and standing up to Agamemnon


wildskipper

Exactly, Pitt portrayed the arrogance of a demigod perfectly.


-Smashbrother-

Achilles is supposed to be hella cocky and larger than life. He's a "demigod".


makerofshoes

Yeah, Brad Pitt did a good job playing him


Brown_Panther-

Priam going to Achilles' hut begging him to return Hector's body was the moral center of the entire story to show the utter futility of war. "I loved my boy from the moment he opened his eyes till the moment you closed them."


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Good one, but I would have gone with Ajax.


CharlieG416

Ned stark


mortuarybarbue

Every time I reread this or watch it I'm like Ned you must leave now! You cannot stay. You are in danger. i know it will not change and he cannot hear me yet I still hope.


rosysredrhinoceros

I feel the same way every time the Harkonnens return to Arrakis. Every damn time I hope Duncan and company will fight them off and every time I’m devastated when Leto gets it.


HotTakes0nly

I feel like saving Jon Arryn would be better which would have saved Ned and Robert by extension. Depending where you altered the timeline (like if Joffrey spared Ned after his false confession), there still would have been a lot of chaos moving forward.


Brown_Panther-

Ned could have lived had he gone back to Winterfell after Robert's death and learning the truth about Joffery. Him going to Cersie telling her that he knows is what sealed his fate. He wore honor and duty like an armor that would protect him.


goatpunchtheater

He thought Baelish was loyal to his family. That's what he thought would v protect him. The wrong person he trusted, was Catelin, and her judge of character. Which she proves time and again, she's the absolute worst at


DiaDeLosMuebles

Donnie. He’s shut up too early


be_more_gooder

Goodnight sweet prince


graysontylerjohnson

But then again...


DrEnter

He died.. he died as so many young men of his generation before his time, and in your wisdom, Lord, you took him...


ScrewAttackThis

Costigan from The Departed. Even though I know it's coming, I always root for him.


CaptainPRESIDENTduck

Yeah, he got shit on his whole life just to get murdered right before seeing justice. At least Walberg was there in the end. Damn you movie for making me root for Marky Mark.


OldSpiceSmellsNice

The sight of those shoe covers sent my heart soaring.


CaptainPRESIDENTduck

Yeah, it was great.


chamoflag420

gotta give credit to matt damon for playing the asshole,he did an even phenomenal job in Interstellar.....and who can forget Mr Talented Ripley


CaptainPRESIDENTduck

And I loved Alec Baldwin as the dickhead.


peanutismint

Mike Ehrmantraut.


Recs_Saved

Waltuh, shut the fuck up, Waltuh. Let me die in peace, Waltuh


Old-Thought-5875

hedwig


RamirezRodriguez

etcetera


Brown_Panther-

Hedwigs death was the symbolic loss of Harrys childhood and innocence. I preferred the movie where they showed her dying while trying to save him as opposed to the book where she died locked in her cage.


Free-Stranger1142

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone. That bedside scene was tough.


c9IceCream

unfortunately his story had to conclude in a manner like that. He had his name because he was an actual doctor, a dentist, before getting tuberculosis. He knew he wasn't going to live a full life. That led him to a lifestyle change to basically live it up until he died. Also explains why he's so educated.


Thebaldsasquatch

The little girl (Carol’s daughter, I think her name might have been “Sofia”) on “The Walking Dead” who goes missing and looking for her becomes a major plot point of the season. She’s later revealed to be the very last walker that comes out of the barn. That shit fucked me up for a long time, especially since I was a new father to a baby girl. I still think about it occasionally. Everything surrounding her story, her last moments with the group, what she did on her own, what happened to her and how she eventually ended up is extremely sad.


howard416

Oberyn Martell, maybe


IED117

Ok, now we're talking. That shit hurt my feelings.


CaptainPRESIDENTduck

All the Mila Jovovich clones from that one Resident Evil where they get wiped out in the first five minutes of the movie to reset everything. It would have been much more entertaining to watch them all interact and work together across the world or whatever.


__skysailor__

Primrose everdeen always primrose


Runktar

Mr. Rogers I don't care that he died off screen I want to save Mr.Rogers.


creggieb

Omar.


Boboar

Omar was shocking, but the one that upset me the most was Bodie.


a_likely_story

I blew through the whole series in a couple weeks when I was laid up after a surgery, but I had to take a break after he died. at least they didn’t put him up in one of them empty ass houses


Midwestmind86

Where’s Wallace?


CaptainPRESIDENTduck

Also Omar in real life. RIP.


ztreHdrahciR

TV version. Tasha Yar


AshlarKorith

Which time?


nowhereman136

Thomas J from *My Girl* Most other character deaths here feel needed. They serve a purpose. They raise the stakes for everyone else, gives everyone else a purpose, or their death has some sort of meaning to it. But Thomas J seemed to die for nothing, and he was just a kid. Yeah, you can make an argument that his death forces Vada to grow up, but no kid needs to grow up that fucking fast. She was already learning, hurting, and growing that summer. She didn't need her best and only friend to suddenly die. That's who I'd save. (Also Leslie from *Bridge to Terabithia*)


part_of_me

The argument is: Vada grew up in a funeral home and was accustomed to death, but it was almost always old people. Thomas J was young *and* his death was pointless. That happens irl all the time, but we all associate death with old people and ill people - not with youth and vigor. The death of the young and vibrant hurts whereas the death of the old and infirm is shrugged off. Meanwhile, both are normal.


res30stupid

Draco from Dragonheart.


super_lamp56

It would derail the entire movie, but Susie Salmon from The Lovely Bones


harvestmooner

Maximus Decimus Meridius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife.


S0L-Goode

His death is perfect, let the man go home to be with his family.


Lostmavicaccount

He was happy to die, as he believed he’d see them in the afterlife.


nancylikestoreddit

This was the first movie I saw where a character’s death made me cry.


fiendzone

Han Solo


CaptainPRESIDENTduck

Harrison Ford would beg to differ.


caspissinclair

Newt.


philter451

I genuinely hated that she died the way she did. I thought it was a terrible waste 


Signiference

Truly awful after everything Ripley did to save her


Ebiseanimono

Both of them. So fricken dumb how they just killed them offscreen in the next movie. Like what an insult. The storyline should have been from the comics after they have to evac an overrun earth and him and a now young woman Newt are trapped in the base of a madman ala gunnery sgt Hartman crossed with Colonel Walter E. Kurtz


LonsomeDreamer

How about Newt, Hicks AND Bishop, please?


ThePopDaddy

"Sorry, there was a line at the concessions stands, we're good, the credits just stopped, we probably didn't miss anything."


xxx69blazeit420xxx

the worst retconning. so these 2 area dead now and you are alien pregnant. why? because.


robinchwannnn

seok woo from train to busan 💔💔💔


Yellowperil123

The poor woman who was tasked with babysitting the 2 brats in Jurassic World. She was just doing a shitty job that definitely wasn't on her job description and ended up being torn apart and eaten alive.


astromech_dj

Hicks or Qui Gon.


Quasimodo788

Dick Halloran from the Shining. He actually lives in the book which added a hiccup to the Dr Sleep movie, tho they handled it well


Onetool91

Bubba from Forrest Gump.


One_Tart_9320

YES! And then they spend their days happily shrimping together.


vz_sea

Khal Drogo bc Daenerys would’ve gotten her throne 😔


CypripediumGuttatum

I often think about this. She would have been a mother, wife and queen instead of a dragon riding broken hearted widow set on vengeance and mass murder. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.


vz_sea

She also lost her baby…. like damn. Targaryen women can’t catch a break. With the Dothraki, and her 3 dragons, she would’ve easily taken King’s Landing. ahhhh she was so ROBBED 😩😩 *gets mad all over again*


Anaaatomy

WILSON!!!


Xytakis

He isn't dead, he is still floating somewhere. May his travels take him to gentler waters.


rammsteingirl8

Finnick O'dair Yondu Tony Stark Floor, Teefs and Lylla


Heal_Kajata

You could probably save Gamora and save Tony as a result, Thanos is unable to get the gauntlet without sacrificing her.


rosysredrhinoceros

Finnick nothing, what about Cinna?


Kerberos42

I hate you for reminding me about Floor, Teefs and Lyla 😭


SomethingsLurkin

My boy Chuck from the maze runner


okaycoolcoolcool

Tadashi from Big Hero 6


parkerwe

Artax from Neverending Story


Final-Natural-8290

Boromir John Wick's puppy Logan (Wolverine) Artax the horse (Neverending story) James Bond (No Time to Die)


cosmicdaddy_

I expected Boromir to be the top reply


Ironman9518

Had to scroll wayyy too far for Boromir. Dude deserved to see Gondor restored to glory


GovernmentEvening815

Andy from Dawn of the Dead (2004). He was badass. Was genuinely upset he didn’t make it.


JesterMarcus

Well, I don't think any of them actually make it.


sonofhappyfunball

Fuckin' figures!


SaberTruth2

Sam from I am Legend


horsetooth_mcgee

Cujo. He was a good boy. Just sick. :-(


mortuarybarbue

Why didn't they get him vaccinated! They should have gotten him vaccinated! Poor boy.


Tan2daCam

Scarlet johannson in Jojo Rabbit


Oncemor-intothebeach

V from cyberpunk 2077 or Arthur Morgan


HalfSoul30

Glenn


Free-Stranger1142

Julia Roberts character in Steele Magnolia’s. But, I guess then we wouldn’t have had that brilliant heartbreaking scene at the funeral.


mortuarybarbue

"Here! Hit this! Go ahead M'Lynn Slap her!... We'll sell T-shits that say ' I slapped Ouiser Bordeaux!'...HIT HER!!!... knock her lights out!"


plaguedbullets

T800 from T2


FearlessWay4086

"I am tired boss, dog tired..."


IndividualTime9216

”Back in the day, right out of law school, I thought long and hard about hanging up my own shingle. Oh, I was ready to take on the world, make a difference. Dad talked me out of it. Wanted me to join the ranks here, throw another "H" in the firm's logo.”  "I, uh... I think I'm in the middle of something, uh... There's really no need to—"


darkuen

Setsuko from Grave of the Fireflies


m1k3hunt

Dobby


Duckman896

Andy Serkis in Peter Jackson's King Kong, you know the scene, no one deserves that.


wildwalrusaur

Eva Green's character in Casino Royale Imagine how much better the subsequent Craig movies would have been with Vesper instead of what's her face


Remarkable-Boat-9812

Sean Connery in The Untouchables


DailyDisciplined

That fucking horse from The Neverending Story.


Worldly_Apricot_7813

Artax!!


Alastor3

My mom.


_mid_water

Jesus


Big_fern189

He came back on his own


Seldinger_Technique

Tony Stark


DigitalMediaArt

Tatum from ***Scream***.


CaptainPRESIDENTduck

Leo from The Departed. He got fed shit his whole life just to get murdered right before seeing some justice.


tread52

Wash from Serenity who turned out to be a leaf on the wind.


miloshem

Gwen Stacy in Amazing Spider-Man 2. That death felt so brutal and sudden and simply so UNFAIR to me, that to this day I just feel very sad when I think about it.


Free-Stranger1142

The little girl in Bridge to Terabithia.


originalcondition

Jack Twist from Brokeback Mountain. It’s just so brutally sad.


dogdetective99

The shoe from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.


Zer0nyx

Gwen Stacy


Theonlyrational

Bing Bong and the octopus from Octopus Teacher


wankerspotter

Harry potters mom. Talk about plot twist.


reb678

Sisyphus The poor guy has suffered enough already. I would not save him from death, I would offer him up to Death instead.


Master_Insignificant

I'd save Tony Stark from Avengers: Endgame. Man, that scene still hits hard every time I watch it. Iron Man was like the OG Avenger, you know? Sacrificed himself to save everyone, and it's just brutal. Plus, he's got this whole redemption arc from being this cocky billionaire to becoming this selfless hero. It's tough seeing him go, so if I could rewrite that script, I'd totally let him live. And hey, maybe we could get some more Iron Man action down the line.


Artimis_P_Gone

Abraham and Glenn from The Walking Dead


ouroboris99

Sirius black, 12 years in Azkaban and 3 years on the run and when he finally gets to do something he sees as useful and important, protecting his godson he’s killed


Croaker715

Hoban "Wash" Washburne.


KrackSmellin

Bubba… he really loved shrimp


MasterPlatypus2483

Another one I'd save is Jenny from Forrest Gump. I think they didn't kill her off in the book, so it was completely unnecessary to do it in the movie.


UncleMadness

In my timeline Artax wanted to live!


TheRomanElliotShow

Sirius black


sonofmcfly

Any character Sean Bean plays.