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

Sam Kade · 24-09-2017 10:36PM

John Wayne

in the cowboys, John Wayne dying in a film, shocking, fcuk you Bruce Dern.

Cmar-Ireland · 25-09-2017 01:58AM

Gage, in Pet Sematary.

Thephantomsmask · 25-09-2017 08:50AM

My two would be the book versions rather than film; Hazel in Watership Down, as mentioned by others. I still read it every few years and get upset when he sees El-ahrairah's shining ears. The second is Erik, the phantom of the opera, when Christine returns to bury him and gives him back his gold band. None of the films or shows do the book justice IMHO.

Archeron · 25-09-2017 09:06AM

Edna Krabappel, I always thought she was brilliant and she was the first character dying that made me feel like someone I knew all my life through TV was gone.

razorblunt · 25-09-2017 09:11AM

Archeron wrote: »

Edna Krabappel, I always thought she was brilliant and she was the first character dying that made me feel like someone I knew all my life through TV was gone.

Great shout.
Lovely tribute to her too, first with Bart writing the "punishment" on the board in the intro and again a thruway gag where Nelson laughs at Flanders for missing her, then announces he misses her too. I think it was one of those additional scenes they're now fond of.

In a similar theme, Phil Hartman, you might remember him from voices such as Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure!!
I remember as a kid wondering why they didn't use those characters anymore, they're characters you only appreciate as you get older. Horrible circumstances around that death too.

Lollipops23 · 25-09-2017 09:15AM

Wombatman wrote: »

Toss up between The Little Match Girl and Bambi's mom.

Life's a bitch kiddo.

Oh my god I was only thinking of this recently, after forgetting it for 25 years!! I remember finding it quite distressing even as a small child reading it.

skylight1987 · 25-09-2017 09:28AM

Hercule Poirot I had followed him through all his cases and was heartbroken when he finally went
Also does anyone know is nana mama still alive from the Alex Cross novels. I gave up reading them. if she is she must be 110 by now

5rtytry56 · 25-09-2017 09:34AM

the original kidnap goon in The Juror movie, who helps out the captive in the end.

DivingDuck · 25-09-2017 09:06PM

Thephantomsmask wrote: »

The second is Erik, the phantom of the opera, when Christine returns to bury him and gives him back his gold band. None of the films or shows do the book justice IMHO.

Seems like maybe you might be slightly biased... :P

Stand outs for me: Spock (original flavour). Fry's damn dog. The robot in Short Circuit. The Terminator.

Pretty much any stoic character, an AI, or a loyal pet and I'm in ribbons.

RobbingBandit · 25-09-2017 09:27PM

Fry's dog a bit of a paradox in Benders Big Score a time duplicate of Fry goes back to the year 2000 lives there for 13 years with Seymour he is up in the Arctic chasing the Narwhal Leelu for a few years but Seymour does get to die with this version of Fry inside the building being transformed into Lars. Paradoxes are confusing but the dog died happy knowing Fry loved him till the end.

The real Fry of course never experienced any of this and the fossilised remains of Seymour found could have been cloned allowing real Fry to have another chance with his dog but Seymour did die with a Fry and to him this was enough.

tedpan · 25-09-2017 09:45PM

McMurphy - One Flew over the cuckoo's nest

TheZenMonkey · 25-09-2017 10:19PM

osarusan wrote: »

Sydney Carton: It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

One of those things where it's so well known I figured I'd be jaded by the time I got to it but nope, it ruined me. (Same with Casablanca.)

Cmar-Ireland wrote: »

Gage, in Pet Sematary.

Forgot about that. That whole book is so difficult because it's all about grief at the death of loved ones, human or animal. One of my favorites.

tedpan wrote: »

McMurphy - One Flew over the cuckoo's nest

Yes!! Even though Chief is (to my mind) doing him a favor, it's incredibly difficult to read or especially watch.

And everyone who's mentioned Up -- I've seen that movie exactly once, in theatres. My 3D glasses were falling down my face for the entire time because I don't think I ever stopped crying. I'm choking up again now thinking of that book at the end (no spoilers). I haven't yet got past that opener to watch it again. It actually overtook Dumbo in my pantheon of traumatic Disney cartoons.

And now I need to go hug my kitties, jeez.

EMPunk · 25-09-2017 10:59PM

As a kid , Mufassa - Lion King - God how i wanted revenge on scar!!! not to mention it was pretty heavy **** for a kid to take in!

As a teen , Frank Castles Family (wife Maria , 2 kids Lisa & frank jr. ) in the Marvel Knights Punisher series

As an adult , Dom Santiago in Gears Of War 3 - only time in my life i teared up playing a computer game

5rtytry56 · 26-09-2017 10:19AM

May Day's death in View to a Kill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwy-3Qm3xfI

AidanadiA · 26-09-2017 11:25AM

I had to stop reading and compose myself after Dobby. I was sat on the bus tears streaming down my face, and a lovely lady across from me handed me a tissue and told me how she cried after reading that scene too.

valoren · 26-09-2017 11:46AM

Lorelli! wrote: »

Tommy in Trainspotting

The scene where Allison's baby is discovered to have died. It's her guttural screaming that registers.

I recall people at the time criticising the film for glamourizing drug use. It does use film making techniques to show through fast-cut-editing the 'rush' received from a drug like heroin but those very same clowns who lambasted the film clearly hadn't seen it at all.

A dead baby, who has died resumably from neglect due to drug abuse, certainly does not glamourize drug use to any one.

maudgonner · 26-09-2017 11:50AM

Ginger in Black Beauty.

Poor Ginger, she had a rotten time for most of her life. The scene where Beauty sees the body of a horse that looks like Ginger, and he hopes it is her because she would have been put out of her misery - heartbreaking stuff

Anna Sewell really knew how to haul on the heartstrings.

Lorelli! · 26-09-2017 02:39PM

valoren wrote: »

I recall people at the time criticising the film for glamourizing drug use. It does use film making techniques to show through fast-cut-editing the 'rush' received from a drug like heroin but those very same clowns who lambasted the film clearly hadn't seen it at all.

And especially with Tommy's death because originally, he was the one who was well balanced and adamant that he would never touch heroin. And then at a low point in his life and a moment of weakness, he had the worst outcome. The life he was living when he died was very tragic and that scene with the empty room and the cat really stuck with me.

RubyGlee · 26-09-2017 03:15PM

Buffy’s Mum
I mean why??

topper75 · 26-09-2017 03:24PM

Icarus. Always be gutted about that one.

Had he succeeded, none of us would give a monkeys about pilot strikes or excess luggage charges ever again.

major bill · 26-09-2017 03:34PM

Setsuko in Graves of the Fireflies

still hurts thinking about that scene

TheZenMonkey · 28-09-2017 12:38AM

RubyGlee wrote: »

Buffy’s Mum
I mean why??

Although the episode was amazing, I kind of agree. The show was moving into overkill at that point anyway, I think. The piling on was sort of ridiculous.

I can still see her on that couch. Devastating.

The Princess Bride · 28-09-2017 01:00AM

Biddy from Glenroe.
I'm extra careful changing the CD or radio while I'm driving in case I end up losing control of the car.

Love/Hate when Siobhán died in the final episode. I did not see that coming and was very upset.

Cold Feet - when Rachel died, having to listen to Adam''s "I love you Rachel" on repeat was very traumatic.

It was better back in the days when you watched TV and didn't know the outcome of the programme until you saw it on the screen.

Jim Bob Scratcher · 28-09-2017 01:22AM

Kareem Said in OZ

IvyTheTerrible · 28-09-2017 05:25AM

Sybil in Downtown Abbey.

matt-dublin · 28-09-2017 03:16PM

Marley in Marley and Me

The Diddakoi · 28-09-2017 03:46PM

Wash in Serenity

Witchie · 28-09-2017 04:13PM

Clara in Doctor Who....bawled my eyes out for days over it. Every time I thought of it I cried. Silly me.

Cried when Billy died this year too but she hadn't been around as long so it wasn't as big a deal.

Billy86 · 28-09-2017 05:10PM

Witchie wrote: »

Cried when Billy died this year too but she hadn't been around as long so it wasn't as big a deal.

Don't worry I'm still here! I've just made a few... umm... changes.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 28-09-2017 05:28PM

John Marston of Red Dead Redemption.

To me RDR is the jewel in Rockstar's crown. The greatest story I ever played.

I became heavily invested in the character over hours of gameplay and didn't see the tragic ending coming.

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

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