Saddest Fictional Death

[Oilerfan92]

Well, I'm such a syndical person and I don't really cry at fictional events. But I was shocked by:

Lee Scorsbee from the "His Dark Materials" series. He was the Han Solo of the series. And what's worst is he stays behind to allow some guy to escape, and the guy gets killed for such a crappy reason literally right before he couod be reunited with his son for the first time in however long it was. U guess thats the 2 characters in essentially one part of the book.

Also the main characters best friend in the first book. They make it through several fights and near death moments. And they finally meet up with the one person they could have trusted the most and he kills the friend. This is what made me mad at the movie. That one moment at the very end is a VITAL moment in the plot and changed a main characters role in the story entirely. But they were content to give it some crappy "off into the onset end".

Lenny from Mice and Men. Lets be honest, he was obviously gonna do something to get himself killed. But the story makes it seem like they're gonna get away and then boom. George has to kill him.

Marston from RDR. I pretty much knew he was gonna die, but when he was in the barn I figured all the people he knew would show up and save you. Nope.

 

[UselessNinjaMan]

A few that come to mind:

Spoiler: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Kamina and Nia

Spoiler: The Song of Ice and Fire

Eddard, Ygritte, a bunch of characters, really, but especially from the Red Wedding

Spoiler: Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen

Tomoe

Spoiler: History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi

Apachai?! D:

Some of those messed me up pretty bad...

Edit: oh, yeah, totally forgot:

Spoiler: Unskippable

Bernie. Man, nobody could surround and Akrid like him...

 

[Andothul]

Theoden in Lord of the Rings and Rorschach from Watchmen

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

ohhh....I give mine to the combined death of Mariko and Kurama from Elfen Lied....it was very sad in its own righ but ad in the Saints (monks) singing Lilium in the backround makes it perfict. Now you may be asking why its not Lucy....well........the gate....

Gratz on the 1k posts btw.

OT... The death of the blind chick in Blade Trinity. Well not so much that its just Abi's reaction to it is beyond awesome.

Gran Torino walt.

William Wallace.

Edit: Big giant cocks I have been waiting on my 1000th post now for ages and I fucking missed it.

my 1000 post? what the...well ill be damned. HURRAY FOR ME.

 

[Svartfalk]

Dobby in Harry Potter 7. I cried over the death of a fictional carater, something that i had neve done before...

 

[Neonic-Ink]

Grave of the Fireflies

Spoiler

The little girl from the anime movie, Grave of the Fireflies, Setsuko. After all they went through, she starts to lose her mind from the starvation and the living conditions her and her big brother brother made in that cave. She had to be cremated. She was only like, 4 years old. And then at the end when the big brother just die homeless in that subway. Oh man. I was crying my eyes out. It was also pretty damn sad when their mother died.

 

[LittleChone]

The death of Dumbledore if HP6 was shocking to say the least.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

Charlie from Lost.

That's one of those I can think of. I was so sad
Also, Gaz.

 

[Aleate]

Spoiler: Major Clannad After Story spoilers

Nagisa and Ushio's deaths were just unbearably sad. I was crying the whole night.

D:< Ninja'd by the second post. If I had to think of another one, I would have to go with Fang from FF13. (Screw Vanielle, I hated her voice and her character)

 

[Nimzar]

I actually cried when reading Where the Red Fern Grows

When the male dog died it was sad; when the female one died too...

...it was just too much.

I think that is the only time I've cried over a fictional death.

EDIT:

Grave of the Fireflies

Spoiler

The little girl from the anime movie, Grave of the Fireflies, Setsuko. After all they went through, she starts to lose her mind from the starvation and the living conditions her and her big brother brother made in that cave. She had to be cremated. She was only like, 4 years old. And then at the end when the big brother just die homeless in that subway. Oh man. I was crying my eyes out. It was also pretty damn sad when their mother died.

Damn. I forgot about that movie being fictional. The way I see it: Grave of the Fireflies is only technically fiction. There is too much truth in that movie for it to be fully classified as fiction in by book. I'd say it falls in the area between fiction and non-fiction because it exists primarily as ART!

 

[Chewster]

-Snip!-

Actually, the fact that I had to choose someone to die at all in the first Mass Effect was rather tragic in and of itself.

Personally, I have to go with the film Mystic River (spoilers, duh) and the character Dave Boyle getting killed by his friends. I was probably never more outraged or upset over a death in a film then in that one. I also think that it is impossible for Sean Penn to play a likable character in anything, ever.

In television though, watch The Wire. There are several tragic, moving deaths per season. (Spoiler alert) Stringer, D'Angelo, Omar, Wallace (probably the harshest), Bodie, Prop Joe, Sherrod, Snoop etc. Anyone who doesn't die ends up either on the streets or in jail for life, for the most part. Tragic, amazing show.

Sadly, most of the deaths are kids from the streets.

 

[LittleChone]

But if I had to select a death that REALLY screwed with me, it has to be Ash from The First Pokemon Movie. Seriously, I don't care if he was brought back, it STILL shuck me up.

 

[the_maestro_sartori]

One of the endings to Dragon Age: Witch Hunt. Had to load back up so that ending didn't happen :s

 

[Nihilism_Is_Bliss]

Hmm, for a game I'd probably say Zack.
For a movie or book... not sure.

 

[charlest92]

5000 yard faceplant.

 

[Zeromaeus]

AREITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Indeed. Her theme song still gives me shivers.
Also Kamina, from Gurren Lagann. I almost cried manly tears when he died.

Kamina died for a reason though. Have you seen Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0? I swear that if you made that scene go frame-by-frame, you can Shinji wearing orange shades. The spirit of Kamina lives on! (Not really, its a spiritual thing)

Kamina was the most shocking death for me. Having gone into Gurren Laggan without ANY word on the plot before-hand, just word of how absolutely awesome it was. It was soul-crushingly shocking when this guy, the lynch-pin of the entire group dies such a horrible honorable death.

Aerith was sad... because I was like, seven. Or something. I'd have to check dates. Playing back over it, it was more bull-shit than anything else. I had 99 freaking Phoenix Downs, c'mon!

The death of the Earthworm Jim franchise is one I mourn almost weekly. If it weren't for Earthworm Jim 3D, it might have made it. If only it had a few more months of development time.

 

[Niatsirc]

Lavitz from Legend of Dragoon!

 

[Tsun Tzu]

Hate myself for reading this. Playing Fable 2 and Red Dead atm and I just can't play them anymore. >.<

On topic! Noble Team, Wash, Church, Red Furn Dogs...and, the only one that's ever made me cry, Draco at the end of Dragonheart. I was 11. :/

 

[Chancie]

Drakengard

Spoiler

Angelus and Caim. That was a totally sucker punch to the face, Cavia!

Shadow Hearts

Spoiler

Yuri's "sacrifice" at the end. Had me in tears.

Those are the two that spring to mind right away for me.

 

[deonte9109]

Spoiler: Fable 2 spoilers

When Lucien kills your dog. I loved my dog so much.

I did too.

Spoiler: How it went in my head

Game: "Your loving family of five are all dead by Lucien"
Me: Eh.....I can always make more
Game: And your dog is dead too
Me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO