Saddest Fictional Death

[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

 

[SuperVegas]

Spoiler

Big Robot Bil and Willy

The Neverhood

 

[scrambledeggs]

If ANYONE knows what I am talking about, I willy be a happy chap,
but Nathaniel from the Bartimaus trilogy. It's such an amazing ending to a trilogy.

 

[Evilsanta]

If ANYONE knows what I am talking about, I willy be a happy chap,
but Nathaniel from the Bartimaus trilogy. It's such an amazing ending to a trilogy.

Oh...You couldnt be more right. I loved the books and that was just epic...Though i wanted my rainbow and sunshine ending where everybody lives happily ever after...

It has already been mentioned but Kamina and crew from Gurren Lagan.

And Kanon (2006 anime) has a really emotional death...

Spoiler

Makoto...After the fake wedding...I have never cried that much in my life.

 

[Nanaki316]

Zack Fair
I mean playing through Crisis Core we all knew he was going to die but it was so heart wrenching the way they did it, I bawled my eyes out.

 

[FrioJenkins]

Lennie from of mice and men

Often times when something really sad happens, my friends and I quote from that book exclaiming out love of 'Da rabbits George!'... Very sad indeed.

 

[spookydom]

The Only ones to ever effect me where.

Dr Ben from X-Bomber/Star Fleet. Can't even remember how it hapened. Think it was poison. Was a very long time ago, think I was only 8-9. Remeber beeing so upset I wrote a comic where he didn't die to make it right.

Eddie Dean from the Drak Tower Books. Feels like I spent my whole Life waiting for King to finnish this series. Bought the first book when I was 14. The last book was released when I was 33. Eddie was my hero second only to Han Solo through most of my life. Reading about him going cold turkey helped me get through rehab and his sense of humour was a constant inspiration. Last book...he dies...I was crushed for weeks.

Wash from Firefly. Gos without saying.

 

[Kingsman]

You asked for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKNRfMyjcVo&feature=related
He waited, Fry. HE WAITED.

AND YOU NEVER CAME. ;_;

 

[Vrik]

Darth Vader : I shed a single manly tear

After reading through the first 3 pages of this topic, I had almost given up hope. Vader's death is the saddest one I've seen. He gets turned, saves his son and then DIES? Ok, it's a classic story, but what the heck?