Shocking fictional TV deaths (spoiler alert)

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My teenager has turned off Buffy part way through the episode where Joyce dies and has decided he isn't watching it again.

I remember when Will died in the Good Wife feeling quite depressed afterwards.

I've never watched Eastenders since Ronnie and Roxy died. It was shocking.

That’s the one I always think of.

was also very sad about the tiger in Walking Dead.

Ned Stark in Game of Thrones followed by more of his family at the Red wedding. It was very difficult carrying on to watch the rest of the series after that. I hadn't read the books at the time so it was such a shock the system having many of the good guys die.

Mel in Waking The Dead - thrown off the roof of a high rise tower .

Gus and Hank in Breaking Bad 😞

Joyce's death hit hard, and I'm old enough to have had to wait weekly for next episodes. It's still sad when I do re-runs but if he doesn't carry on he gets to miss a beautifully done speech by anya.

Mike in Desperate Housewives - I didn't do social media back then so it came as a huuuge shock! I thought if anyone was going to die it would have been Ben!

Not so much shocking, but one that makes me cry just thinking about it is Nana in The Royal Family.

I was gutted when Lexa from The 100 died. Her and Clarke were finally going somewhere!

Ooo almost forgot

Ellen and Jo in supernatural. That was so sad

DS Barnard in A Touch of Frost

Line of Duty, think it was series 2. Georgia when she went out the window. I really did not expect that to happen, it genuinely shocked me.

This is going back a long, long way. Anne Reid as Ken Barlow's wife in Coronation Street, I think she was electrocuted using a hairdryer. I was really young, my first experience of death on TV.

Dan in Lucifer. It’s such a funny, sweet show that it was all the more shocking - especially when Trixie finds out…

The deep fat fryer incidence happened in the second episode, so not only was the incidence shocking, they also killed off a major character (and well known actress). A double whammy.

Barbara & Sr Evangelina in Call The Midwife
Most of the cast in It’s a Sin
Matthew & Sybil in Downton Abbey
Pray Tell in Pose
Salty & Twisty the clown in AHS Freakshow

Can I also add the final episode of Blackadder when they/all go over the top. Very moving.

Every single death in Greys.

Dereks was tragic, George was unexpected and so sad as he was such a great character, but Marks was absolutely gut wrenching and I cry like a baby every time I rewatch that episode even though I know it's coming!

Joyce and Angel in Buffy
Hank in Breaking Bad
Adriana in Sopranos
Lexi, Mark and Derek in Grey’s Anatomy
Glen in Walking Dead
Sarah Lynn in Bojak Horseman
Amber in House
Ben in Scrubs - more because of its impact on Dr Cox
Poussey in Orange is the New Black
Shireen in Game of Thrones - though tbh I have to fast forward through anything involving kids since I had my own

Some in childhood books were probably more impactful but I still think about all of the above.

Game of Thrones had a habit of killing off popular characters. B*stards.

@playinthedarkness It's 20 years since I last watched Buffy so I have forgotten a lot, I remembered Buffy's "Mom mom ....mommy" but have just had to look up Anya's speech. I don't think he'd survive that!

Fred in Angel 🥺

Honourable mention for Doyle in Angel as well but we’d had less time to get attached.

Dr Patrick Reid in Offspring. 😩

A very long time ago there was a lunchtime drama on ITV (prob called Thames TV) called The Cedar Tree about a family in a big English country house in the 1940s. I used to come home from school and watch it with my Mum and Gran.

They killed off the Mum and sister in a hotel fire - I was traumatised. All this at lunchtime, too.

Mark and Lexi in Greys, so sad that they never got their happy ending together.

Yes to Henry in MASH. Radar's voice...

Am I the only person who thought Derek was an utter dick and cheered when he died?