Fictional deaths that hit you the hardest

Kungfu_Teddybear · Jul 10, 2012

Say what you will about Gears of War and it's macho-man-let's-kill-everything-in-the-most gory-way-possible-because-this-game-is-for-real-men, shit. I always thought that

Dom's death was pretty sad, especially after a certain part in the 2nd game (when he mercy kills his wife)

Also there's Mass Effect 3, they've all been mentioned already but I'll mention them again.

Mordins death
Legions death
Andersons death

And from the amazing book, Abhorsen, the last book of The Old Kingdom series:

Kibeth's death (The Disreputable Dog). After they trap Orannis in the hemispheres, only one final thing remains to seal him forever. Lirael has to cut them in half to split it, so that Orannis himself is split in two. Although the sword that has to be used could break Orannis, it does so at the cost of the wielders life, Lirael's life. She accepts this, though not without fear, after Orannis is sealed, she delivers the blow to break the hemispheres Orannis is trapped in.

As she feels life draining from her, fear takes over at that moment and she cries out for Kibeth, suddenly she feels a sharp pain, Kibeth bites off her arm at the forearm and takes the blow herself, sacrificing herself to save Lirael. Lirael and Kibeth have been constant companions since the 2nd book, it's such an emotional moment. I have never cried at any sad moments in any films, games or books, but that was certainly the closest I've ever been.

Meight08 · Jul 10, 2012

Well there's only one i have

CAFFRAN WHY!? Shot by the fucking child he wanted to safe!

karloss01 · Jul 10, 2012

anthony87 said:
Is it really too hard for people to actually MENTION WHAT THEY'RE SPOILING before they put down the spoiler tag?

to be honest the thread is about the deaths of characters so spoilering seems a little redundant to me.

I can't really think of one, i know i've teared up to one but i can't remember which.

so i'll go with Raziel's imprisonment in Legacy of Kain: Defiance
(skip to 5:20)

J3bba · Jul 10, 2012

Serinty

when Wash gets stabbed through like a shish-kabab, twas awful

Dollhouse

when Paul Ballard gets shot in the head in the final ep, it came from nowhere. Also the death of Topher, he was awesome

Buffy

end of season 2 when angel gets run through by buffy to close the portal right after he'd gotten his soul back, MOST DEPRESSING EPISODE EVER

Battlestar Galactica

when starbuck died, even though she came back, it was still depressing

Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog

pennys death, poignant and tragic

It may be apparent from the above that I'm a Whedon fan.

[Kira Must Die] · Jul 10, 2012

For me, probably in Madoka Magica:

Mami's death.

Her death got to me because of how suddenly it happens and how early into the show. The death's that effect me the most are the ones that just happens. No parting words or build-up. While I did sort of expect something bad to happen at the beginning of the fight, I didn't expect her to get her FREAKING HEAD CHOMPED OFF!

It's also the sort of death that happens so fast that it wasn't until the next episode when I realised "Wait... IS SHE REALLY DEAD?!"

Also, in episode 10, the scene after they defeat Sayaka's witch, where Mami goes insane, kills Kyouko, and attempts to kill Homura before getting killed by Madoka, and the fact that all that happened in about 30 seconds.

Other than that I can't think of any others at the moment.

Dafttechno · Jul 10, 2012

Pey'j, you spend all this time trying to find him and rescue him. You find him trapped in what seems to be suspended animation, only for it to all come crashing down when you release him.

Also, just started a new thread http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.381458-Favorite-last-words-real-or-fictional-beware-potential-spoilers I figured it would be a good tie-in to this one.

Aurora Firestorm · Jul 10, 2012

Full Metal Alchemist, to echo *everyone else*: Maes Hughes. WHY.

Metal Gear Solid 3: The Boss. They *make you pull the trigger.*

Nier: Everyone. Popola and Devola, Emil, Kaine if you pick that ending, the King of Facade, Fyra, Old Yonah, the Shadowlord...I mean, this game is a nonstop tearjerker once the plot ball gets rolling. I cried for the entire ending sequence. All of it.

Avatar The Last Airbender: Azula, which wasn't a death, but her spiral into insanity and subsequent being put away was really hard to watch.

Death Note: Naomi. I know it wasn't a major death, but the fact that she turns from determination to quiet despaired suicide really got me. I know what that's like, so it was serious trigger material.

MercurySteam · Jul 10, 2012

I know people have been repeatedly posting Mordin and Legion's death from ME3, but this one hit me the hardest:

He's as much a hero as Shepard is. R.I.P. David Anderson.

AnarchistFish · Jul 10, 2012

Kaidan, especially when playing the other games cos I knew he could've been there too.

Jack was the only one who died for me cos my Paragon and Renegade were too even. I felt pretty pissed off even into ME3.

All the deaths of characters that I'd known for a while and you start to relate with.

This film will become a Bond classic, in part for the last scene. The story is over, they're happy, bad guys are dead, on holiday in Venice. Suddenly, there's an extra scene at the end where all this calm is thrown up into the shit again and Vesper Lynd gets involved in some botched exchange and you watch as she drowns in an elevator. Also hit me hard cos I looooooooove Eva Green.

"Hahahaha it's a comedy. Hahahaha Brad Pitt is such a laugh. Hahahaha he's messing about in someone's house. Hahahahaha the house owner's back, oh no! He has to hide. Hahahaha he hides in the wardrobe, hahaha Clooney's getting close, this is gonna be embarass-WHAT THE FUCK".

Guffe · Jul 10, 2012

Well teh death itself wasn't that sad but the funeral of the Third Hokage in naruto was moving.

CrazyGirl17 · Jul 10, 2012

Movies:

The death of Ray. Goddamnit, I'm not tearing up over the death of a cartoon firefly...!

Books:

Dumbledore's death. For a while, I disliked Snape for his involvement in said death... boy did I feel like a jerk when I read the last book... Hell, Snape's eath in the last book was bad too..

TV:

Whenever Leomon dies. Seriously, it's reached the point of being a running gag by now... and sometimes it isn't funny...

Webseries:

The Alpha...Church's death. True, we have Epsilon in his place... but the Church we grew to know and love throughout the Blood Gulch Chronicles is... gone...

Don't taze me bro · Jul 10, 2012

Books: The Dragonlance saga.

The death of Flint Fireforge via heart attack, and Sturm Brightblade being killed by his ex-lover Kitiara

Game : Persona 3

I finished the game, which was fantastic, only for the main character to 'fall asleep'. Upon starting the new missions with Aegis, you learn that your character died. I thought about that death for a long while, especially considering all of the bonds you formed as you played the game.

Anime: Full Metal Alchemist

Nina Tucker. Her father Shou turned his own daughter and wife into Chimaera, to gain accolades as an alchemist. I found this a depressing episode.

purplecactus · Jul 10, 2012

Grouchy Imp said:
Moving away from SoIaF and into The Dark Tower for a moment, I was strangely touched by

Oy's death. Roland's treatment of him beforehand, Oy's foreknowledge of what is to come, Roland's realization of same - it's just got me. What's more, it got me as I was sat at my desk in a busy office at lunchtime. Not a good look.

Yeah, have to go with this one. I got all weepy reading it...

Hawkeye 131 · Jul 10, 2012

Mordin's death in Mass Effect 3. I kind of new it was coming but... Yeah I was almost at tears! One of the best characters of the ME series.

"Had to be me someone else may have gotten it wrong!"

Cheers to Dr. Mordin Solus!

Azuaron · Jul 10, 2012

Dragon Age II

[spoiler title="boo"]Anders. Killed that idiot with my own daggers.[/spoiler]

tsb247 · Jul 10, 2012

The death of a specific character in World in Conflict has always tugged at my hear-strings. Perhaps it's because he spends the entire first portion of the game trying to make up for a past mistake.

NOTE: The cutscene follows some gameplay footage.

The Elf Herself · Jul 10, 2012

There are some I would have posted, but others have talked about them already, like the Firefly and Land Before Time deaths. Here are some I haven't seen talked about yet.

Your funeral in general, but especially if you played a female Human Noble Warden who sacrifices herself and romances/betroths Alistair who was elected king at the Landsmeet. (I know that's super-specific, but it's a kick to the stomach.) He says, "I thought we would be together forever. You will be missed. More than I can say." I cry every goddamn time.

Also, if you play a female Dalish elf and pick certain conversation options in your origin story with your friend Tamlen, it's implied you two had a relationship going on - or were about to. Later, he shows up as a ghoul and tells you not to look at him. Then, when you insist on doing so anyway, he tells you he always loved you and that he's sorry. You have to kill him and have an extremely awkward conversation with Alistair about it.

Oh, and Cailan and Duncan's deaths. That cutscene makes beautiful use of storytelling without words. Duncan knew that he had been betrayed by Loghain and that all the death was senseless, even as he got his head bashed in, and there's not a single line of dialogue to tell us that.

Hawke's mom's death. I don't even want to talk about it. Thanks, game, I really needed to sob today.

The entire last story. Every single character comes to see Edward off to the afterlife, and after fighting the entire movie about how these stories weren't true and were just stupid, Will finally caves and sees his father the way everyone else sees him. If you've seen the movie, you know what I'm talking about, and it's really frigging sad.

Fantine's death, in the operetta and the book, is tragic as all hell. She sacrifices everything to send her child money for an illness that child doesn't have. This is what kills Fantine - it was pointless. She meant nothing to the Thernardiers.

Eponine's death, in my opinion, is more poignant in the book, where her last words are just "I think I was a little bit in love with you," as opposed to the three-minute song she sings in the operetta, but both make me cry.

Gavroche's death, which meant nothing to anyone, Javert's suicide, the massacre of the students on the barricade, and others - Les Miserables is not a happy book, as you might guess.

And then Jean Valjean's death, when he tells Cosette to forbid him to die and Fantine and Eponine come to get him and bring him to heaven. I sob at every one of those deaths every time.

Sean Connery's death.

Lunar Templar · Jul 10, 2012

WitchBlade, Masane Amaha: it was one of those you knew was coming, given her break down in a late Ep, but it still sucked when she did die

Beast Wars, Dinobot: i really didn't see this coming as a kid and even now still makes me tear up

Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggen, Kamina: this was straight out of left field, i cry partly out of sadness, but mostly what a straight up shock it was

ShinobiJedi42 · Jul 10, 2012

Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan spoilers. Do I really need to spoiler tag this?

Spock's death. Possibly the most emotional moment in fiction I have ever seen. It brings me to tears every time. When Kirk says that final "No," softly with such shocked unbelief mixed with despair, I just weep.

Firefly/Serenity

Wash was my favorite character in the show and movie and he should not have gone out like that. Curse you, Joss Whedon!!!

Mass Effect 3

Mordin's Death. Leading up to it after he said he would not be coming back, I was like, "Eh, Mordin is going to die, whatevs." But the closer the moment came, I started realizing how much I didn't want him to die.

LOST

Jack's death. And Jin and Sun's death. So incredibly emotional.

Kizi · Jul 10, 2012

Mordin Solus. I cried for about five to ten minutes.

Eli Vance. I loved that character.

The Boss. How can you get so attached to a person from a single game, not to mention a prequel? I didn't want to kill her.

Ezio Auditore. I thought I was getting tired of playing that character but when he died I just felt like shit.

Nathan Hale. Seriously, killing off the main character and then having us play as the killer in the third game?

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