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

New Home · 17-10-2017 01:36PM

Nate in Six Feet Under.

DrPhilG · 17-10-2017 01:41PM

On a more unusual note, I remember being gutted when Daphne in Neighbours died. Killed in a car crash I think. Poor Des left alone! I was probably only 7 or 8 at the time.

More recently, Marley & Me got me too. Although technically not a fictional character as the film was based on a book which was based on true life.

When the credits rolled in the cinema, not a single person left their seat for a good 3-4 minutes while everyone composed themselves.

It was all the more harrowing for us as we had recently lost a dog who followed almost exactly the same path as Marley, similar path and progress of deterioration etc. It brought it all back.

Mollyb60 · 17-10-2017 02:01PM

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'm worse, I was a gibbering mess when the Tenth Doctor regenerated. He was my first. And he didn't want to go.

Tigger99 wrote: »

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

My favourite show ever. I'm still not over this.

Other notable mentions:
Dobby in HP,
Denny and George in Greys Anatomy. My husband calls it my misery porn coz I usually cry at every episode
Buffy's mother
Jack in Titanic. I was 16ish, it was a very traumatic movie to watch. I was a mess leaving the cinema.

Ah stop. It's very dusty in here isn't it?

tayto lover · 17-10-2017 02:07PM

I enjoyed the demise of Joffrey, Ramsey and Waldo in GOT.

Lady Spangles · 17-10-2017 02:14PM

Ned Stark (A Song of Ice and Fire and the TV adaptation).

17-10-2017 02:53PM

When Derek had to get his little dog put down in Ricky Gervais's Derek - I had lost a pet around that time, so it had me in bits really. Very well done piece of TV.

RubyGlee · 17-10-2017 03:01PM

Just started watching the wire

Wallace... hey didn’t deserve that

StinkyMunkey · 18-10-2017 12:40AM

For some reason the most notable ones for me were war movies:

Franks Sinatra's character in Von Ryan's express.

Tom hanks in saving private Ryan.

Steve McQueen in the great escape.

Mel Gibson in Braveheart.

William Defoe in platoon.

James Coburns squad at the end of Cross of Iron.

Even Brad Pitt in Fury.

I suppose most of them die doing a selfless act or for the good of their comrades.

I understand in certain films that people will inevitably die, it fits in with the softy and makes it all the more poignant, but certain films and TV shows seem to kill off lovable characters as an after thought.

Life isn't all happy endings, I watch films as an escape from reality and the horrors of what happens is modern day. I'm perfectly fine with happy endings

mikemac2 · 18-10-2017 06:50AM

Bambi’s mother *sob*

Tsipras · 18-10-2017 07:03AM

StinkyMunkey wrote: »

For some reason the most notable ones for me were war movies:

Franks Sinatra's character in Von Ryan's express.

Tom hanks in saving private Ryan.

Steve McQueen in the great escape.

Mel Gibson in Braveheart.

William Defoe in platoon.

James Coburns squad at the end of Cross of Iron.

Even Brad Pitt in Fury.

I suppose most of them die doing a selfless act or for the good of their comrades.

I understand in certain films that people will inevitably die, it fits in with the softy and makes it all the more poignant, but certain films and TV shows seem to kill off lovable characters as an after thought.

Life isn't all happy endings, I watch films as an escape from reality and the horrors of what happens is modern day. I'm perfectly fine with happy endings

Steve Mcqueen doesn't die in The Great escape!

Frowzy · 18-10-2017 07:08AM

Every single episode of “Highway to Heaven” scarred me for life. Nobody ever cried like Michael Landon.

Donal55 · 18-10-2017 07:13AM

Dickens 'Sydney Carton'

nice_guy80 · 18-10-2017 08:06AM

the death of the mother from The Land Before Time always brings my oh to tears

Ms Doubtfire1 · 18-10-2017 10:10AM

Jax Teller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKXFJIB3YQM
Breaks my heart every time I see it again.
Nighteyes.

Conall Cernach · 18-10-2017 10:31AM

Ms Doubtfire1 wrote: »

Jax Teller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKXFJIB3YQM
Breaks my heart every time I see it again.
Nighteyes.

That's just a rip off of Ed Harris's death in Knightriders.

I agree with you on Nighteyes, one of the best deaths in recent literature.

Ms Doubtfire1 · 18-10-2017 10:35AM

forgot one more - it killed me in my young years.
Mickey in ' Rocky 3'.Cried for weeks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REmLV4vMwlg

Fox Hound · 18-10-2017 10:52AM

The Hulk in the TV series back in the 80s,

I cried all day, Ill never forget it

beans · 18-10-2017 03:24PM

Oy!

diomed · 18-10-2017 03:52PM

Radio Raheem in Do The Right Thing

Buying batteries for his portable music system in the Korean owned store

Radio Raheem: Give me 20 D Energizers.
Sonny: 20 C Energizers?
Radio Raheem: Not C, D.
Sonny: C Energizers?
Radio Raheem: D, m***********, D. Learn to speak English first, all right?
Kim: How many you say?
Radio Raheem: 20, m***********, 20.
Sonny: M********* you.
Radio Raheem: M******** you? You, you all right, man.

Reputable Rog · 18-10-2017 03:56PM

The Hamburglar when announced by Kent Brockman on The Simpsons.

Reputable Rog · 18-10-2017 03:57PM

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;

He wasn't fictional.

Comic Book Guy · 18-10-2017 03:57PM

The kid on the dirt bike in Breaking Bad.

optogirl · 18-10-2017 03:58PM

Matthew in Anne of Green Gables - wept my little heart out

wakka12 · 27-10-2017 03:56PM

The school shooting scene and the ensuing raid of tate langden's home in american horror story season one was some of the most disturbing television Ive seen in a while

Heart was racing throughout the scene

storker · 27-10-2017 04:01PM

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Jimmy in quadrophenia.

He didn't die. You seem him at the beginning of the film walking away from the cliff. He just sent the scooter over the edge.

storker · 27-10-2017 04:27PM

The worst for me would have to be Lee, in The Walking Dead (Telltale Game). One of the most heartbreaking scenes I've ever experienced. It hit me like a personal loss.

Honourable mentions...

The medic in Saving Private Ryan. Nothing outright horrific about it except for the bleeding that just won't stop, but it's so undignified, pointless and pathetic that it's almost unwatchable.

Jack Torrance in the Shining (the novel, that is - Kubrick's movie missed the whole point about who Jack Torrance was). "Run Dan...and never forget how much I love you."

The French soldier in the shellhole in All Quiet on the Western Front. "I have killed Gerard Duval, the printer..." The most anti-war moment long drawn out minutes in this anti-war movie.

gerrybbadd · 27-10-2017 04:30PM

Hannah in 13 Reasons Why - that one hit hard

Apollo Creed in Rocky 4. "If he dies, he dies" That cold hearted Russian Basta*d:(

Nana in The Royle Family. Cried like a child for that one.

Oh, and Billy in The Champ

27-10-2017 05:58PM

Johnny Cade's death in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton/

As Johnny lies dying in his hospital bed, after saving Ponyboy from the fire, we read...

"Johnny's eyes glowed. Dally was proud of him. That was all Johnny had ever
wanted.

"Ponyboy."

I barely heard him. I came closer and leaned over to hear what he was going to
say.

"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold..." The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny
died."

[tearful emoji]

SimonTemplar · 27-10-2017 06:25PM

Murphy's death in Robocop. Even though it happens early in the movie, the script is good enough so that the audience gets a sense that he's a pretty good guy, and that murder is so brutal and completely sadistic.

waterfordgirl · 29-10-2017 12:29AM

Cedric Diggory

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

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