Saddest Fictional Death

[JEBWrench]

Also, Satine in Moulin Rouge

Bravo.

Also, the ending of Big Fish. Leaves me in tears every time I watch it, even when I know it's coming.

 

[MetreMaidPlayer]

I would add the end of Tears of the Sun, but mostly the character Kelly Lake. Spends the movie acting like he doesn't care about the refugees, only to die trying to save one. Also, the soundtrack during the end scene is moving

*Edit* I do apologize, I don't know how to do the spoiler tags

 

[Cobbs]

Elaine from the Night Angel Trilogy.
Almost topping that is Gant's death in Scarecrow

 

[Triangulon]

Book: The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

Spoiler: Two great characters Amir Ibn Kharain and Rodrigo Belmonte are both exiled from their respective countries and become great friends. Inevitably they will face each other once their exiles end and their countries go to war.

Rodrigo lets Amir kill him to end the war.

Film: Last of the Mohicans

Spoiler: Apart from the obvious relationship between Hawkeye and Cora, the crux of this film is the love between Uncas and Alice who is captured by Magua

Uncas runs ahead of the others to save her and is killed by Magua. Alice jumps off a cliff after. Every time I watch this I wish Hawkeye and Chingachcook would run faster to save them!.

 

[Kranay]

One letter: L.

 

[VulakAerr]

-Snip!-

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.

Dammit, ninja'd. I'd put D and Bodie up there with the ones that hit me hardest. I was upset about String too because he was so close to getting out but the way he got there... he needed to "get got". Let's not forget Frank Sabotka, too. Without the full social context of the show, I'd say his death/story was the most classically tragic.

Eponine in Les Miserables and Kim in Miss Saigon also hit me hard when I see them, depending on the strength of the performances.

 

[Reetgear]

Donut from RvB...poor Donut...

 

[Knife-28]

"Bridge to Terabithia"

Spoiler

Leslie did nothing to "deserve" the fate, Jesse is left all alone with only emptiness and misplaced guilt. There is no vengeance, no relief, no explanation, just randomness. The sense of loss is tangible and it just seems cruel to a lonely sympathetic character to lose something so dear. The only thing we're left with is sometimes we just endure life.

This, very much this, I shed a tear when I saw that scene.

 

[thevillageidiot13]

"Bridge to Terabithia"

Spoiler

Leslie did nothing to "deserve" the fate, Jesse is left all alone with only emptiness and misplaced guilt. There is no vengeance, no relief, no explanation, just randomness. The sense of loss is tangible and it just seems cruel to a lonely sympathetic character to lose something so dear. The only thing we're left with is sometimes we just endure life.

This, very much this, I shed a tear when I saw that scene.

It was also a book, you know. -_-

 

[Dacfu]

Mine? Sturm Brightblade from the original dragonlance series.
Goodnight sweet prince.

 

[Knife-28]

"Bridge to Terabithia"

Spoiler

Leslie did nothing to "deserve" the fate, Jesse is left all alone with only emptiness and misplaced guilt. There is no vengeance, no relief, no explanation, just randomness. The sense of loss is tangible and it just seems cruel to a lonely sympathetic character to lose something so dear. The only thing we're left with is sometimes we just endure life.

This, very much this, I shed a tear when I saw that scene.

It was also a book, you know. -_-

Yes, I know, I just say the movie first.

 

[voetballeeuw]

Boromir's death. Damn mankind's susceptibility to corruption! Damn it! "Be at peace, son of Gondor."

 

[Angerwing]

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.

What's worse is that he never had a truly happy life. The only 2 people he loved were either murdered in the first book, or were so disgusted by what he became they turned their back on him. All he had left was an untrustworthy demon (who he realises isn't so untrustworthy).

Just as bad is what happens to Bartimaeus. I nearly cried when Ptolemy gets killed. Bartimaeus is fully willing to sacrifice himself to buy Ptolemy, the only human he had any faith in, some time to live. Instead he has to watch impotently as the poor kid is surrounded and killed, as he gets banished back to the demon world.

One of the more powerful and infamous demons in the world is reduced to something so starved of rest and health that he's but a shadow of his former self, but he gives up his own life to aid the person responsible, because he reminds him of his previous master. His previous master who he still feels guilty for, thousands of years later.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Edward Cantor "Eddie" Dean, gods dammit i hated to read that passage every single time.It never got easier

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.

yeah its really hard if a character acompanies you for years of your life like that.

 

[Scarnix]

wrex being shot in the back by that damn ***** I swear I left her in the self explosion mission later, but I reloaded and saved him but I still killed that damn *****.

 

[supermariner]

when vegeta sacrificed himself for the good of the... nah i can't say that with a straight face
was hilarious

i've never really been saddened by a film or game death
but what came close was my beloved doggy-woggy in Fable 2
i loved that dog so much i actually picked it over the limitless cash

 

[savageoblivi0n]

Nick Andross from the Stand, Wash from Firefly/Serenity, and Jake Chambers from The Dark Tower Series (I almost couldnt finish the book after that one)

haven't watched firefly (i know...the horror!!) but definitely agree with Nick...though from the Dark Tower Jake's death hit me hard but not as hard as Eddie's...i mean at least Jake died in a climactic fashion

 

[Red Right Hand]

Donny from the Big Lebowski.

"Fuck it, dude, let's go bowling."

 

[lack of self CTRL]

Marvin the Paranoid Android.

Spoiler: Marvin's death (quote from Wikipedia)

Marvin reappears in the second-to-last chapter of So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. Arthur and Fenchurch find him on the planet where God's Final Message To His Creation is located. He is barely functional, claiming that, due to time travel he is now "thirty-seven times older than the Universe itself." Every part of his body has been replaced, with the exception of "all the diodes down [his] left side," which have been giving him severe pain for the whole of his existence. Arthur and Fenchurch end up carrying him, enduring the robot's constant abuse, to the God's Final Message viewing station, where they lift him up to see the words of the message: "We apologise for the inconvenience." Astonishingly, Marvin responds "'I think... I feel good about it.'" The lights in his eyes go out and his already-worn circuits completely stop working; Marvin is no more. (In the radio dramatisation, his last words are "Goodbye, Arthur." Marvin's 'death' prompts Arthur to say, "Miserable git!" and then, to his own obvious astonishment, to add, "I'll miss him.")

Ninja'd! /Weep D:

Either that or the death of Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

Hinawa and Claus in mother 3.

Even more ,Tazmily village. note that it doesn't die, being a place, nor do its people. why I am posting it here?

Spoiler

It feels dead. the whole game up until that point your like "darn it, this isnt a mother game...

then the village changes and you feel so bad for wanting that, the lovable nature of the village is gone. they killed a place. they KILLED it. it's very... effective too