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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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fishonabicycle · 06/09/2020 16:44

Tarka the otter.

LiGlitterBug · 06/09/2020 16:46

Seconding so many on here already- Goodbye Mog had me sobbing in Waterstones.

Ginger in Black Beauty broke me as a child and then again as an adult. I am getting sad thinking about her storyline now.

Billy in Stranger Things. He was a fantastic villain and so easy to hate, but underneath it all he was an abused teenage boy who missed his mother. The fact that it only took one gentle, kind touch from El to bring him out from the Mindflayer’s possession shows how little love he’d had in life, and then he sacrificed himself to save her. I really think he had the potential for some decent redemption (and he was lovely to look at too!)
Mind you, if they kill off Steve next season I will be utterly distraught.

Scautish · 06/09/2020 16:49

@Pertella

Yes Snoop! It was an absolutely astonishing scene and has stayed with me. The acceptance, the absence of anger - she was almost proud that her prodigy had worked out how to play the game. And all the more incredible that she was not a nice character - but I hugely felt for her at that point.

Omar was also a shocker too.

The other one was Jan Meyer from the Killing.

AftonGlen · 06/09/2020 16:49

@zukiecat

Yes it got boring when the Murdochs began controlling everyone's lives. I hate Lenny's moaning faced daughter Grin as well, she really gets on my nerves!

I am not Glaswegian either but I doubt the vast majority of the population there are being held to ransom by gangsters as they are on RC!!!

Graphista · 06/09/2020 16:50

Prue in Charmed..not so much the death but the situation behind it..and her face never being shown again. just what I was coming on to say, the scene that actually really gets me is piper as a fury going to prues ashes and raging at her "how dare you leave me?!" Sad

Dr Greene in ER. omg yes and yes to Lucy too! That single tear when she realised and asked dr Corday..., very similar for Greg Pratt too

Mine is will in the good wife - was such a shock, no buildup or anything.

DCI Bilborough in Cracker. definitely! Especially as no such thing as spoilers back then!

Meg in Home and Away OMG yes I still remember that one!

Sybil in downton was maddening due to that arrogant arse of a dr

My contribution is from bones - first Vincent Nigel-Murray “please don’t make me leave” 😭😭😭😭 and even more heartbreakingly Lance sweets while his beloved daisy was pregnant!

Joe Dubois in the last episode of Medium. Why!!!!!! It added nothing to the story, it wasn’t a continuation of an illness it was a ridiculous accident off screen. Why couldn’t Allison and Joe just have a happy ending!! I can’t get over the unfairness. I’ve just recently finally managed to watch this to the end and totally agree

Amber in House OMG yes! So well done.

Tony in Soldier Soldier I rarely come across anyone that remembers this one. The scene that got me was Annabelle Apsion as his wife, held it together in the immediate aftermath...but then when she came to deal with some of his laundry and she could still smell him on a t-shirt or something and that was when she broke...

Karen in desperate housewives

But the ones I find most upsetting are when they’re written out/killed off in the show because the actor has died.

The most heartbreaking of these for me was detective Barry frost in Rizzoli and isles due to actor lee Thompson young having tragically killed himself.

Also John Ritter in “8 rules...”, Carol Ann Susi on tbbt, Edward Herrmann gilmore girls...

Must be so hard for the cast to play those scenes. I know from looking up online that on Rizzoli and isles they really felt a lot of responsibility to honour the actor and not hurt or offend his family, Angie Harmon apparently was the one that suggested that the eulogy her character read be written in such a way as it could apply to both character and actor

Thurmanmurman · 06/09/2020 16:53

Tommy from Trainspotting
Pat Butcher (pathetic I know but I was really upset)!
Marley from Marley and me

Lemming20 · 06/09/2020 16:55

Brodie in Homeland - ruined an entire Christmas for me replaying in my mind!

The suicide in 13 reasons why season one - it was just SO brutal.

Stephen Graham in Line of Duty. Didn’t see it coming

MiddleClassProblem · 06/09/2020 16:56

I think I’m the only person who didn’t like Derek Shepherd and was glad to see the back of him 😂

SoonToBeDad30 · 06/09/2020 16:57

Sirius Black as well.

DameCelia · 06/09/2020 17:02

@borntobequiet
Me too! Just came back on to say Barrett Bonden.

MartiniDry · 06/09/2020 17:05

Morse. I loved that character.

Bambi's mum and any other animated animal. I don't know why it gets me that way, but it does.

Betteb · 06/09/2020 17:10

@CaveMum

West Wing - Mrs Landingham and then in a later season Simon the Secret Service agent.

Charlie in Supernatural

Yes, Charlie in Supernatural 😭 couldn't believe they did that!
PrivateD00r · 06/09/2020 17:12

Jax, sons of anarchy

CooperLooper · 06/09/2020 17:14

[quote geekone]@CooperLooper she wasn’t my favourite by far but I don’t think she should have died.

Suain Sanche was a bit tragic too. Still Verin that was a good death if sad also. Maybe Bella is the worst death in WOT![/quote]
The one that got me the most was Davram Bashere which might be a weird one. I just assumed he was 'safe' and I was really upset with the really short description of his death! (Which I know was deliberate as a literary shock technique but still)

musicinspring1 · 06/09/2020 17:16

I’ve thought of another one - the big brother in Big Hero 6 - it was such a waste as he was such a good character he created Baymax to help people and he died trying to save the villain when his little brother had already lost his parents !

Daisydoesnt · 06/09/2020 17:17

Robbie Turner in Atonement

stella47 · 06/09/2020 17:17

Doyle, in Angel season 1 (the lovely Glenn Quinn).

Which fictional character's death have you not gotten over?
ListeningQuietly · 06/09/2020 17:18

Gary in Thirtysomething

I so wanted to be Hope

BillywilliamV · 06/09/2020 17:22

Mog!

zukiecat · 06/09/2020 17:24

@AftonGlen

Yeah, Amber really annoyed me too, I believe the actress left to have a baby, don't know if she's coming back. I liked the old Amber, before she went to jail, a much nicer, gentler character.

Although I don't like Alex either, Jordan Young is brilliant in Aberdeen's panto every year, with Alan McHugh, and for the past few years Elaine C Smith. No panto this year Sad

And I can't believe I didn't remember to say Jack and Victor, Isa, Tam, Winston, Navid, Meena.

"They'll know where we went" SadSad

GertiMJN · 06/09/2020 17:28

Buddy and then Ruth in Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle-stop Cafe

Ellie in Up

Dr Greene

kursaalflyer · 06/09/2020 17:33

Honey in the song by Bobby Goldsboro. I went to type in some of the lyrics but got too emotional 😢

MinnieJackson · 06/09/2020 17:36

Frodo
Leonard from the book my friend Leonard had me in tears
Opie was hard watching in SOA

FenellaVelour · 06/09/2020 17:38

Bob from Stranger Things 😭 He was just an ordinary guy who worked in a shop and he died a hero saving everyone.

Oh, Bob. Broke my heart too.

formerbabe · 06/09/2020 17:39

Tiffany in Eastenders Sad