Which fictional character's death have you not gotten over?

[WellThisWentWell]

Just in case, spoiler alert!

Sirius Black.

Ginger in black beauty. I have a chestnut horse and I don’t think I would actually be able to read it now

Artex, Bastian’s horse from The Neverending Story. I know he came back at the end...but still.

Many many years ago I watched an old black and white film "captains courageous". Spencer Tracy plays a fisherman who for reasons I don't recall has a little boy on board ship who he teaches to love and trust again. He has a song he sings him "Sing ho! Little fishy, don't cry, don't cry"

In a storm near the end he is caught in a rope and sliced in half, in the water. They are going to pull him back on board but he tells them not to as he doesn't want to traumatise the boy and he realises he's going to die anyway. He sings "Sing ho! Little fishy" one last time to the boy from the water. Broke my heart and I still recall it 40 years later.

Ellie in 'up'

@Piglet89

Artex, Bastian’s horse from The Neverending Story. I know he came back at the end...but still.

Not in the book he didn't!

Charlie Peaceful. It gets me every time I read it with a class because I think about all the other poor lads shot for 'cowardice'.

Wash! Poor Wash. Why? It was so cruel and unnecessary. I’m still not over it all these years later.

Miller in The Expanse. And Ashford, defiantly singing his pirate shanty while getting spaced by Naomi’s dickhead ex.

Lots of characters from The Wire, but mostly Wallace. That was brutal; not just his murder but what it did to Bodie and Poot. DH and I were shouting at the TV “don’t go back to the city!”

@harriethoyle

Morse

And Stringer Bell. He was too handsome to die.

Snoop from The Wire

Ruthless murderer responsible for killing loads of people, but that whole scene was immense.

How my hair look?

@Picklypickles I never read the book!

Seriously?

That scene in the swamp, man. I’m welling up just now even THINKING about it.

Oh, and also not fictional - but all the animals they had to shoot in that episode of “Chernobyl”. God, that was brutal.

Argh I forgot about The Green Mile

Yes! Can’t cope with this at all!

Joel in the Last of Us 2

See I wasn’t too sad about Joel as it was brought about by his own actions. However - Sarah in the first game. Can’t ever get through that first ten minutes without sobbing.

RIP Artex.

Charlotte (the spider)
Mark Greene
Roz in TV version of GoT (she's not in the books)
Conor's Mum in A Monster Calls
Mr Hooper from Sesame Street - my first experience of grief
Matthew Cuthbert
The Iron Giant
Wash in Serenity/Firefly

Freya in Norsemen. What the actual fuck.

Hayley in The Originals.

Barbara in Call the Midwife 😭😭

@Mrsfrumble

Oh Wash!! Yes why wash!

Though it did open up several jokes such as “how do reavers clean their blades? They run them through the wash!”

Hercule Poirot in Curtain.

Rita and Deb in Dexter. Series 4 will always haunt me

@zippityzip I know, I loved jax but that was his own fault lol.
But I can't look at the screen at opie's death scene. It's so violent and he was so sweet!

Snapesnape

Ellie in Up - absolutely sobbed - and I'd been warned the beginning was sad. Amazingly well told so that in a few minutes of just images you could identify so deeply with a cartoon character and be so affected by her death.

I also agree with many others mentioned -
Will Gardner
Holder
Girl from Bridge to Terabithia
Lee & Hester
Derek Shepherd

Snotlout, in the books of How To Train Your Dragon.
After years of being awful to Hiccup and Fishlegs he is just so heroic...

actually welling up genuinely while thinking of it. I can't get over his sacrifice. Cressida Cowell had better not do similar in Wizards of Once!

Mordin Solus in Mass Effect.

“Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.”

[quote Piglet89]@Picklypickles I never read the book!

Seriously?

That scene in the swamp, man. I’m welling up just now even THINKING about it.

Oh, and also not fictional - but all the animals they had to shoot in that episode of “Chernobyl”. God, that was brutal.[/quote]
Yes I'm afraid so! I only read the book myself last year and thought I knew what happened having seen the film so many times, the book is quite different to the movie!!

Mog.

"Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy

Lord of the Flies

And Glenn in The Walking Dead .
We were on holiday when that episode was shown and od course I googled to see the outcome But when we watched it , and he dispatched Abraham then Genn it was still a shock and cruel beyond measure (especially as Abraham had "taken one for the team" )

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