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Characters you wish hadn’t been killed off [Spoilers warning added by MNHQ]

352 replies

Sarahandduck18 · 07/09/2018 22:18

Betty in Mad Men - just no need, it was the end of the series and unrealistic for a young woman to die of lung cancer

Cordelia in Angel - think they did this to get back at the actress for getting pregnant, the death was so senseless and ruined the long term story arc

Mark in ER - could he not have had a happy ending on that beach? Also it was such a rare condition.

Meg in Home and Away - this made teenage death seem so real

Chris in Stand By Me - a bad boy made good surely he was due good karma and a long life?

Luke and Han in Star Wars - just done for shock value

No one ever dies of dementia in films or tv!

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JaneJeffer · 07/09/2018 22:22

Robbie Macey in Emmerdale. I was raging they killed him off for no reason.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 07/09/2018 22:22

Dr Digby in Holby ... I don't even watch Holby but poor Arthur Sad

cafenoirbiscuit · 07/09/2018 22:23

Billy Lloyd Foxe from Jilly Cooper. Loved him. 😢

OliviaStabler · 07/09/2018 22:23

Derek Shepherd. No need for it.

Aprilshowersnowastorm · 07/09/2018 22:23

Finn in Emmerdale!!

ILoveAnOwl · 07/09/2018 22:23

Nigel in the Archers. Unnecessary!

Most of the cast of Game of Thrones!

Anasnake · 07/09/2018 22:24

John in Peaky Blinders

Apanicaday · 07/09/2018 22:24

Poussey in OITNB

JaneJeffer · 07/09/2018 22:25

Charlie on Lost Sad

HumphreyCobblers · 07/09/2018 22:26

Anya from Buffy. She was my favourite.

Fred from Angel. This was too much and broke my heart. I sometimes wake up in the night and feel sad about this Blush

Bullnoway · 07/09/2018 22:26

Will in The Good Wife. I've watched it a couple of times and each time I hope that it won't happen. Sad

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 07/09/2018 22:27

Billy Lloyd Foxe from Jilly Cooper. Loved him

Billy Shock Which book was it (I was dipping in and out of Wicked , Pandora and the one with the racehorse but none gripped me . .)

KatharineHilbery · 07/09/2018 22:27

Matthew in Downton.

shutlingsloe · 07/09/2018 22:27

Damon in Brookside.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 07/09/2018 22:27

YY, Poussey!

I really struggled with that one. Lots of the others mentioned on this thread I could shrug and think, ok, but so what, just a TV series. That one just felt so nasty and especially with OITNB being so influential - I just felt they'd silenced one of the voices and characters who was such an important part of the show, and it became one step closer to misery-porn and gratuitous violence.

But, erm, more shallowly, Kara in Battlestar. Noooo!

Justgivemesomepeace · 07/09/2018 22:28

Donna in Mamma Mia 😞

YellowLily · 07/09/2018 22:28

Another one for Derek Shepherd - most traumatic episode of TV ever Sad

snowplop · 07/09/2018 22:28

Danielle in EastEnders. I gave up watching after that. In retrospect the writers did me a favour I suppose but at the time I was incensed.

LadyFairfaxSake · 07/09/2018 22:29

Cayde 6

Gazelda · 07/09/2018 22:30

Just Donna?! Really?! ShockShockShockShockShock

LRDtheFeministDragon · 07/09/2018 22:32

I was quite pleased Derek died TBH. There was nowhere else for the relationship to go and it had got very boring.

3catsandcounting · 07/09/2018 22:34

Wilson, Friday Night Dinner. 🐶

tigercub50 · 07/09/2018 22:37

What is OITNB?

shivbo2014 · 07/09/2018 22:37

Bea Wentworth Prison!

Flashingbeacon · 07/09/2018 22:39

Well I just spoiled a bunch of stuff for myself dammit.
But Lucy in ER, could Carter not just had a series of love? I don’t count all that late nonsense.