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

bottlebrush · 28-09-2017 07:09PM

Inspector Morse

TheZenMonkey · 29-09-2017 11:14PM

Witchie wrote: »

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

I was the same with Amy and Rory. I mean I know they had a long wonderful life together, but to the Doctor they were just immediately dead and buried and it broke me. Really, a wonderful way to say goodbye to them, though; great use of the Angels to create a happy ending and a sad ending at the same time.

the purple tin · 29-09-2017 11:21PM

Mr Hooper from sesame street.

monkeysnapper · 29-09-2017 11:23PM

bubbles o hara wrote: »

Hank
in Breaking Bad. Gutted.

I was going to say this.... Man that was some scene ...!!!!

Witchie · 30-09-2017 05:27AM

TheZenMonkey wrote: »

I was the same with Amy and Rory. I mean I know they had a long wonderful life together, but to the Doctor they were just immediately dead and buried and it broke me. Really, a wonderful way to say goodbye to them, though; great use of the Angels to create a happy ending and a sad ending at the same time.

DW has left me a gibbering dribbling mess on many occasions. Feckers.

Noodles81 · 30-09-2017 06:01AM

The father and daughter in "We need to talk about Kevin". So many times I had to stop reading that book as it was so distressing.

Lorelli! · 30-09-2017 07:16AM

The little girl in the red coat in Schindlers List.

16-10-2017 09:01PM

Snowden in Catch 22 - Yossarian bandaged his neat leg wound after their plane was hit. Snowden kept complaining 'I'm cold, I'm cold'. Yossarian looked inside his flying suit and found the huge exit wound from the shrapnel resulted in Snowden's insides spilling out.

Rookie mistake for any medic, treating the entrance wound without looking for the exit wound. I did it myself once at a house party, when a drunk walked through a patio door. I was well on, but sobered up enough to bandage up a neat wound on the front of his thigh. Then when the ambulance came and walked him out, I noticed the gaping wound on the back of his thigh that I hadn't even seen!

Hans Bricks · 16-10-2017 09:55PM

I have to say , and I know a number of posters have already mentioned a few deaths so far, but the final season of the Sopranos Season 6 (particularly the final half of six) was just utterly grim. The Winter season, the noirish, dull lighting, lack of sun & color etc. The sheer amount of death and miserable outcomes for a lot of characters.

There came a point in the last two episodes with the ginger cat and Tony and Paulie outside Satriales and its unbearably overcast and windy. You realize it's just Tony & Paulie & Patsy left out of the original family from Season 1.
Whether or not you believe in the semi ambiguous ending, Tony's fate isn't a happy one between the editing of the final scene and the impending federal indictments. Sil in a coma, eugh I hate to think about it.

Also the way that Little Italy and the old neighbourhoods of Italian America is contrasted with it's replacement by corporate America and the Middle class. I walked down Mulberry street in Manhatten in June and was reminded of that scene with Butchie realizing he was in Chinatown.

tayto lover · 16-10-2017 10:06PM

Greyfriars Bobby.

Saw this film when i was a kid. Cried for days.
Very sad film about a little Skye terrier who protected his master's grave for 14 years before dying on it.
A true story.

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Greyfriars-Bobby/

Sorry it's not fictional.

Liam McPoyle · 16-10-2017 10:40PM

Shane and his family in The Shield was a gut punch.

Lemanski, also in The Shield was pretty shocking.

Molly Jones in A Country Practice.

I remember being devastated as a young fella watching it.

Tigger99 · 16-10-2017 10:44PM

Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap. He was my first love. I was 12 and completely inconsolable.

matchthis · 16-10-2017 10:59PM

Grandad and uncle Albert in only fools.

how.gareth · 16-10-2017 11:10PM

Eddie dean in the dark tower

wakka12 · 16-10-2017 11:26PM

Noodles81 wrote: »

The father and daughter in "We need to talk about Kevin". So many times I had to stop reading that book as it was so distressing.

God yeh. That bit left me with a knot in my stomach

Carry · 17-10-2017 12:07AM

I'm going all exotic now and beyond the TV-Generation:

Winnetou.

Google it. Or since you probably are too lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnetou

I think I was about 12 when I read about his death. I cried for years, kind of. Or at least I thought if I had been around I would have taken the bullet for him.
Well, pre-teen fantasies ...
And boy, he was gorgeous and noble and everything I imagined America could have been if not the bloody palefaces had invaded.
It really had a big effect on me and my perception of America.

jk23 · 17-10-2017 12:10AM

Marley the dog in the film Marley and me. Anyone who has watched the scene in the vets surgery at the end knows what I am talking about ðŸ™ˆ

One_Of_Shanks · 17-10-2017 12:12AM

Aslan.

I took the whole Lion Witch Wardrobe thing very personally.

harry Bailey esq · 17-10-2017 01:37AM

Jimmy in quadrophenia.

mrsdewinter · 17-10-2017 01:41AM

Business Cat wrote: »

Shane and his family in The Shield was a gut punch.

Lemanski, also in The Shield was pretty shocking.

Molly Jones in A Country Practice.

I remember being devastated as a young fella watching it.

Molly is where I went to as well!!! I'd love to know what was going on behind the scenes on that show that the actress left in such a rush. Forget about the husband & child she left behind on the show, poor ol me in 1980s Galway was devastated!

StinkyMunkey · 17-10-2017 02:30AM

Business Cat wrote: »

Shane and his family in The Shield was a gut punch.

Lemanski, also in The Shield was pretty shocking.

Molly Jones in A Country Practice.

I remember being devastated as a young fella watching it.

Stopped watching the shield after that episode were lemansky's buddy murders him

Wellyd · 17-10-2017 02:43AM

Dereks death on greys anatomy had me roaring like a baby. Even though I could see it coming throughout the series, I still wasn’t emotionally prepared!

Lorelli! · 17-10-2017 07:20AM

Tigger99 wrote: »

Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap. He was my first love. I was 12 and completely inconsolable.

did he die? I thought in the end that he made a decision to continue leaping or something. If so, good news

scoey · 17-10-2017 07:41AM

Frank Grimes.

razorblunt · 17-10-2017 09:12AM

scoey wrote: »

Frank Grimes.

Grimey, to his friends.

daheff · 17-10-2017 01:31PM

Santa Claus

couldn't believe it when my mam told me she'd shot him and he wouldn't be visiting anymore.

daheff · 17-10-2017 01:33PM

jk23 wrote: »

Marley the dog in the film Marley and me. Anyone who has watched the scene in the vets surgery at the end knows what I am talking about &#55357;&#56904;

try read the book...its much harder. I had to put the book in the freezer every couple of pages.

Boom_Bap · 17-10-2017 01:33PM

StinkyMunkey wrote: »

Stopped watching the shield after that episode were lemansky's buddy murders him

And then he gets cast in Kurt Sutters next show Sons of Anarchy and gets killed in a similar manner, although not by his mate.

padraig.od · 17-10-2017 01:35PM

Det. Shane Vendrell

hairyslug · 17-10-2017 01:36PM

Fry's dog, I know if I watched Marley and me, I'd be in bits.

Was a bit shocked by Omar's death in The Wire

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

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