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

999 replies

WellThisWentWell · 06/09/2020 11:30

Just in case, spoiler alert!

Sirius Black.

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AftonGlen · 06/09/2020 15:01

@zukiecat

AftonGlen

I have never seen a fellow River City fan on here!

Yes Raymond was sad, so many sad deaths,

Raymond
Malcolm
Liz
Deek

I think the worst one for me was Kelly Marie's baby boy. It was so heartbreakingly portrayed.

No me neither!! I actually stopped watching it shortly after Raymondo was murdered. It was so unjust and I hate an injustice!!
TheFallenMadonna · 06/09/2020 15:03

Oh God, Jude the Obscure. My English teacher made me read that when I was 15 and I never forgave him.

merryhouse · 06/09/2020 15:04

Henriette doesn't count either!

Piggy yes obviously, but actually Simon

The Pevensies' deaths never really bothered me that much - partly because I was totally bought into the whole This Is So Much Better ethos of the book, partly because the whole series was so wide-ranging that large swathes of the major characters were naturally dead anyway.

I did feel quite sorry for Susan...

Mac in Green Wing would be one for me, but the only way I can cope with Series 2 at all is by treating the entire thing as Mac's coma-dream, so my brain is convinced he woke up after a week or so.

I'm fine with Granny Weatherwax. It was the right time (both from the world point of view and from the author's). And I cry every single time I read Lords and Ladies instead.

The one that pissed me off is Tommy from Arrow. That was the final straw on the "do we watch series 2" question...

I'm still not entirely convinced that Black Widow is completely gone. The almost total ignoring of her death compared to Tony's is bolstering me in this.

I had already been horrified by Phil Coulson's original death, and was decidedly peeved when it happened again. Series 6 was weird, and obviously I haven't seen 7 yet...

Slightly off-tangent, but I'm kind of hoping that Alternative Companion whose name I can't remember from the last series of Dr Who is not completely glossed over if we see "Ruth" again.

MotherGlasgow1 · 06/09/2020 15:06

Matthew in Anne of Green Gables, every single time. I used to read it every year and cry when I knew it was getting nearer.

ScribblyGum · 06/09/2020 15:06

Ned and Catelyn Stark (don’t talk to me of Lady Stoneheart).

Rob Stark was shocking but he wasn’t a pov character. Ned’s death was WTF! but Catelyn’s really made me miserable for days afterwards. The injustice of it. Arya was so close...

I tell you if George even thinks about dicking about with Tyrion or Ser Davos I’m going to be really quite cross.

FastFood · 06/09/2020 15:07
  • Seymour in Futurama 😭
  • Macauley Culkin in My Girl
  • Wallace in The Wire ("Where's Wallace, String? WHERE'S WALLACE???")
SittingontheSidelines · 06/09/2020 15:08

"
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."

Never seen this film but I cried just reading the above.

Daphne Jewel in the crown.

And in the last book of The Mortal Engines Quartet. Strike not dying, but outliving everyone by thousands of years, so distraught I've never been able to revisit it and I loved these books.

MotherGlasgow1 · 06/09/2020 15:08

@BrandyandBabycham

What happened to Ruby Gillis?
Galloping consumption. Yeah that was really sad as well.
manybirdsnests · 06/09/2020 15:09

Hazel in Watership Down:

"It seemed to Hazel that he would not be needing his body any more, so he left it lying on the edge of the ditch"
Sad Sad Sad

Also Zach from Goodnight Mr Tom.
And Mog Sad

LostaraYil · 06/09/2020 15:11

Martin Septim and Lucien Lachance in Oblivion Sad

Yumyumicedbuns · 06/09/2020 15:11

Thelma and Louise.

RedRiverHog · 06/09/2020 15:13

Brooks from The Shawshank Redemption
Bold the fox from The Animal's of Farthing Wood.
Poussey from Orange is the New Black
Jason Todd, Batman's 2nd Robin. I know he came back years later but...

MotherGlasgow1 · 06/09/2020 15:14

@user1487194234

Walter in Rilla of Ingleside I don't think it was Ruby with the preacher Think it was another friend Philippa? Who didn't die Well she will be dead now of course And Anne's first baby Joy Not that I am an Anne fanatic .......... 😄
Oh my god, Walter. I cried and cried over Walter.
Maddison12 · 06/09/2020 15:17

@zaphodbeeble beat me to it!
John Shelby😭
Peaky blinders just wasn't the same after that

Northernexile · 06/09/2020 15:18

@cardibach Thought of Bilborough immediately too! I was about 14 when I watched that episode and I've never got over it!

Ughmaybenot · 06/09/2020 15:18

Oh!! I just remembered a couple more;
Topthorn in war horse (the book!). He was too fucking good for all of it 😭

And a slightly more obscure one, the young policewoman in happy valley, the one who was run over and killed by that absolute bastard, tommy lee. I physically flinched as the car lurched over her.

tearsandtiaras · 06/09/2020 15:20

Roxy and Ronnie mitchell

Iamtooknackeredtorun · 06/09/2020 15:21

Jason, Chidi and Eleanor. Doesn't really make sense because they're dead the whole way through but the finality of the last episode made me sob.

VeniceQueen2004 · 06/09/2020 15:22

But of an obscure one but Gina Hope's death by euthanasia in Holby City. Just heartbreaking.

zukiecat · 06/09/2020 15:22

@AftonGlen

I often say I'm going to stop watching it, I hate it when it becomes The Murdoch Family Show,

Lenny does have a softer side, but he controls everyone's life in the show and I find that so boring,

I once commented on the RC Facebook page saying this, and I got told I was naive, must have had a sheltered upbringings, and this is just how life is in Glasgow Grin

I'm Aberdonian but I'm sure communities all over Glasgow live like that!

Ughmaybenot · 06/09/2020 15:23

Oh and when Bradley Cooper kills himself in A star is born. My husbands grandfather killed himself in the exact same way and it was impossible to watch. Shame as I love that film but will never watch it again.

Lansonmaid · 06/09/2020 15:24

Bruno and Shmuel in the Boy in the Striped pyjamas. Devastating final scene.

Archie in Gallipoli- always have tears in my eyes watching that. Patrick Bold in Covenant with Death - feel so angry at the waste of life on the Somme (it’s a must read book imho).
Ianto Jones in Torchwood

LampGenie · 06/09/2020 15:25

I am another one voting for Rue in Hunger Games. In a school drama performance I was watching, one of the girls read the bit from the book where she dies and this girl did it so well I was almost in tears by the end. Pathetic I know. True nonetheless.

VeniceQueen2004 · 06/09/2020 15:25

Oh god yes Joyce in Buffy. Not her particularly (she got on my nerves) but the grief and left behind. Same with most TV deaths really, I don't feel what I should feel (pity for the dying) but just hugely overempathise with the grieving ones left behind. Buffy was so believably traumatised.

VeniceQueen2004 · 06/09/2020 15:27

And on that note Jenny in Love Story. I was in absolute bits after watching that as a teen, genuinely hysterical crying. I put it down to hormones. But I still well up just thinking about it.