What are some great unexpected good guy deaths in movies? [SPOLERS]

JackieChang

DiCaprio's death in the Departed was pretty shocking. Also Martin Sheen's death in the same movie, while not as shocking, was still very sudden. I was like no please not Martin Sheen!

Maybe doesn't have to be a good guy exactly, but perhaps a likeable character you're rooting for.

LambshankRedemption

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I agree on both of them!

Di Caprio related - Dr Shultz in Django Unchained.

Capt'n Midnight

The raft was big enough for Rose and Jack.

fluke

I would say the son's death in The King's Man. Sort of comes out of left field.

silverharp

Neil Perry in the Dead Poet's Society

dominatinMC

Ricky (Boyz n the Hood). Maybe a bit expected, as there was some foreshadowing, but he's definitely a good guy.

micar

Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black ...... does that one count?

Moghead

Samuel L Jackson in Deep Blue Sea

Electric Nitwit

For subverting a cliche and spending a load of time setting up a joke, the X-Force parachute jump in Deadpool 2 is hard to beat 🤣

dastardly00

Steven Segal's character dying so early in Executive Decision

nullzero

Saved the movie from too much Segal.

rednik

William Petersen's character Richard Chance in To Live and Die in LA.

Lemming

Transformers: The Movie: the deaths of so many transformers in the first thirty minutes, not to mention Optimus Prime. As a kid in the 1980s that was shocking.

Robotech: The Macross Saga: Roy Fokkers death, and towards the end of the series, almost the entirety of the bridge crew of the SDF-1 being killed off in one go.

Serenity: Wash & Shepard Book

Pulp Fiction: the black kid, Marvin, shot in the back of the car. Inconsequential character but it is so abrupt and without warning.

If it counts, Sam, Will Smith's german shepard in "I Am Legend".

The character of Finnick Odair in the final Hunger Games movie. (Mockingjay Pt.2). Played by Sam Claflin. Eaten by lizard mutants.

Both movies coincidentally directed by Francis Lawrence.

tesla_newbie

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Mr Kinny in Robocop

guy did what he was told and seemed a solid citizen

Conall Cernach

Not sure if Newt and Hicks in Alien 3 count as they didn't even get a chance to appear.

Kyle Reese in The Terminator.

Duckworth_Luas

Highsmith and Danson in The Other Guys!

When Gandalf falls & that epic solo starts.

Lemming

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Writing off those two characters - who were so integral to the success of the second film - really hurt the franchise imo. Felt like such a lazy, writer hack way to remove characters.

mobby

Paul Newman in Hombre is, IMHO one of the great westerns.

MfMan

LDC can never die soon enough in any movie for me - as someone said above, saves us from having to watch too much of him.

Frank Sinatra in Von Ryan's Express,

Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles ("I was home. What happened? What the hell happened?")

or, more abruptly, Mark Ruffalo in Collateral

StevenToast

Sean Connery in the Untouchables....

2smiggy

Another vote for The Rock and Samuel L Jackson in The Other Guys !! Was not expecting that, and makes me laugh every time I see it

Aim for the bushes !!!

https://youtu.be/MvkN3003iU4

Edit - Samuel L Jackson, not Ice T !!

El Gato De Negocios

Drew Barrymore in Scream has to be up there with unexpected deaths, certainly the timing of it anyway.

RobbingBandit

The Illuminati scene in Dr Strange and the Multiverse ok not good guys but damn epic death scenes

BruteStock

Charlie Sheen - Young Guns

Lightfoot - Thunderbolt And Lightfoot

DiCaprio - The Quick And The Dead

Christian Bale - 3/10 To Yuma

Hemsworth - Cabin In The Woods

King Tommen - 1917

Donnie - The Big Lebowski

Walken - The Deer Hunter

Josh Brolin - NCFOM

dominatinMC

Goose in Top Gun

Slydice

Platoon - Willem Dafoe as Sgt. Elias

thegame983

Kevin spacey in LA Confidential

buried

Dick Halloran in The Shining

Tony EH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120509364#Comment_120509364

On the contrary, I think it added to Ripley's tragic arc. Just as Ripley had gained another chance at being a mum, it was ripped from her due to the nemesis she faces in the trilogy. In a way it strengthened her character.

In any case, there was nowhere to go with regards to Newt and Hicks. We already saw that story in 'Aliens'.

DeepBlue

Carolyn Fry - Pitch Black

Dizzy Flores - Starship Troopers 

Ofelia - Pan's Labyrinth     

Padraig Mor

Amazed noone has mentioned Janet Leigh in Psycho - I'd imagine that was quite the shocker back in 1960!

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That’s the first thing I thought of 😂😂😂