What fictional character's death had the biggest effect on you?

PopePalpatine · 19-09-2017 10:03PM

TheZenMonkey wrote: »

Catelyn Stark. Couldn't pick the book up again for two weeks.

Agreed. I started reading the books around 2012ish (when the 2nd season of the show came out) but quickly overtook the show, and I was just sitting on my bed just dumbfounded as the Red Wedding unfolded, just hoping the Starks would find some way to escape with their lives, but it never came.

Samsgirl · 19-09-2017 10:04PM

Sweets in Bones. Huge loss to the show.

Vincent Vega · 19-09-2017 10:09PM

Actually, change of mind, definitely

Caden Cotard

in 'Synecdoche, New York'. Especially having seen it

around the time of Philip Seymour Hoffman's death.

chakotha · 19-09-2017 10:13PM

Gandalf the Grey - someone pipped me to it. I still remember reading it in the mid 80's after 3am on a school night. Couldn't believe it could happen. I was shagged all day in school next day.

Rafer Janders in The Wild Geese.

razorblunt · 19-09-2017 10:19PM

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Agreed. I started reading the books around 2012ish (when the 2nd season of the show came out) but quickly overtook the show, and I was just sitting on my bed just dumbfounded as the Red Wedding unfolded, just hoping the Starks would find some way to escape with their lives, but it never came.

I was reading it on holidays, kinda in a daze, read it, then read back over the last 3 pages to be sure. Sent the book for a timeout after that.

My contribution would be Adam Goldberg's character in Saving Private Ryan (as it always is for these kind of threads), the lad stabbed through the heart by the German, being shushed while pleading for his life, will his coward colleague is at the bottom of the stairs too afraid to go up. Took a long while to shake that one off.

19-09-2017 10:20PM

Mark Greene in ER, his cancer storyline was very drawn out, so sad.

Helen in Fair city and Alma in Coronation street

Drumpot · 19-09-2017 10:21PM

End of watership down. That rabbit (hazel or fiver) lies down and then "bright eyes" comes on as his spirit hops away....

tupenny · 19-09-2017 10:25PM

titan18 wrote: »

Easily Mufasa. Broke my heart with Simba crying over him

Mufasa and bambis mam.. its disney ffs!!

!!

meeeeh · 19-09-2017 10:28PM

Ned in the book. Main characters aren't supposed to die. GoT has a few deaths that were hard to watch. Kids deaths are the hardest for me and father sacrificing his daughter was probably the worst for me. (I'm too lazy to do spolier tags).

Bodie in The Wire. Although in The Wire stories of some of the surviving kids are even more heart breaking.

tupenny · 19-09-2017 10:30PM

The mam in stepmom

tedpan · 19-09-2017 10:36PM

T1000 in Terminator 2. Loved that metal freak..

Postgrad10 · 19-09-2017 10:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Mark Greene in ER, his cancer storyline was very drawn out, so sad.

Helen in Fair city and Alma in Coronation street

Lucy the intern getting stabbed with Carter in ER. She almost made it too, except for that pulmonary embolism.

crow_eat_crow · 19-09-2017 10:36PM

As a child, I remember crying when King Kong fell to his death from the Empire State building. I was really upset, as he had done nothing wrong...

Den14 · 19-09-2017 10:44PM

crow_eat_crow wrote:

As a child, I remember crying when King Kong fell to his death from the Empire State building. I was really upset, as he had done nothing wrong...

Crikey I was the exact same. I was hoping he'd whack those fighter planes away and escape. The bit where he hits an outcrop of the building on the way down very much upset me too

osarusan · 19-09-2017 10:45PM

In print:
Randle P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lenny in Of Mice and Men

On screen:
The executed soldiers in Paths of Glory (loosely based on fact)
Grace in Once Were Warriors

Purple Mountain · 19-09-2017 10:52PM

All the tragic deaths in Legends of The Fall.
I was literally a crying hysterical mess from all the trauma.
Luckily I was on my own with no one to witness the spectacul.

blanch152 · 19-09-2017 10:54PM

Ned Stark. I was reading what I thought was a conventional fantasy novel and then wow.

I remember Elvis dying in 1977, while not fictional, he was legendary and that had an emotional effect.

F1fan · 19-09-2017 10:59PM

Will Gardner in The Good Wife

19-09-2017 11:01PM

Mel Gibsons William Wallace in the final scenes of Braveheart.

Arnies final thumbs-up before being smelted in T2.

Rosie Rant · 19-09-2017 11:10PM

Beth in Little Women. I saw the film before I read the book. I was small when I first saw the film and somehow convinced myself she hadn't died. Then when I watched it years later I bawled my eyes out. Then I read the book and that was even more heartbreaking.

Varik · 19-09-2017 11:15PM

From something recent.

Yondu in Guardians of the Galaxy

_Kaiser_ · 19-09-2017 11:15PM

Someone else mentioned Optimus Prime (presume in the original animated Transformers movie rather than the god-awful Bay films).. But actually the reformatting of Megatron to Galvatron and his revenge on Starscream were also the end of the original line of Transformers.. Yes there was a season after this film but it mostly sucked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUE0f7j_T2s

Some of the dialogue in that scene with Unicron (Orson Wells in his last role) is very mature for what was a 80s kids film, not to mention graphically killing off most of the original characters within the first 30 minutes.

Transformers was never the same for me after that.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 19-09-2017 11:19PM

Haley from coronation street. Devastated I was

Autochange · 19-09-2017 11:20PM

When they killed jesus i was so upset. But then he came back again so its all good!!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 19-09-2017 11:20PM

F1fan wrote: »

Will Gardner in The Good Wife

Oh stop

pavb2 · 19-09-2017 11:22PM

Lizzie in

The Walking Dead and

Beth

Mountainsandh · 19-09-2017 11:35PM

I was a child of the seventies, and Bambi's Mum's death opening scene had my heart thumping and probably caused me many a nightmare.
Disney are so good at targeting children's emotions !

Witcher · 19-09-2017 11:37PM

bubbles o hara wrote: »

Hank
in Breaking Bad. Gutted.

'Do what you gotta d....."

annascott · 19-09-2017 11:59PM

Professor Snape.

Philipx · 20-09-2017 12:35AM

In Terry Pratchett's 'The Shepherd's Crown':

Granny Weatherwax

What fictional character's death had the biggest effect on you?

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