Let's face it, some characters are crafted so horribly, it's impossible not to laugh at their ridiculous lines and actions. Storytellers mess up too and when they do, we get imaginary people who are just that — not real. Even worse, their unconvincing behavior can break the suspension of disbelief and ruin an otherwise totally sound book, TV show, or movie.
Luckily, that's not always the case and every once in a while, we relate to make-believe folks so much, we can even learn from them and grow as human beings. In fact, we can develop such a strong bond with them that their joys and sorrows start affecting us on a personal level. So we at Bored Panda decided to explore these beautiful connections.

Researching the topic, we came across a couple of Reddit threads (one and two) that we think you'd be interested to go through as well. They both essentially ask the same question: which characters' passing away have scarred you the most? And people's answers along with their explanations provide an interesting insight into our relationship with fiction.
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John Coffey from The Green Mile. I’m a grown man, and his death makes me ugly-cry every damn time. Too much time thinking about it makes me tear up
This is my favorite movie and I cry every single time.
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yes, especialliy when he comments about how he will be okay with hit so he won't have to feel things anymore.
Poor John Coffey (like the drink but spelt differently). Him and Mr Jingles...(the way the book dealt with poor Mr J!)
AND...to make it worse,this lovely man died in real life much too young..😢
I miss him. He was a gifted actor who should have given us many more memorable performances.
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Ellie from Up. Up's intro sequence was so beautiful: It told the story of a couple's life together. Real life with all of the difficulty and broken dreams along with it. And it shows the deep and incredible loss Carl felt with her death. This short sequence imbues the film with a deeper sense of meaning, using almost no words at all, and gives Carl a profound gravitas you cannot find in many other films
I cry at this every time, but either way I have no soul
Load More Replies...This is gotta to be the most beautiful scene in Pixar history.
They made me go through more emotions in a short, wordless sequence than entire blockbusters do. Also shows hiw important a great musical score is.
When I watched this movie as an adult before the film started all children in the audience were still loud. But the first minutes of the film everybody went silence.
A guy at work once said there was an easy test for Antisocial Personality Disorder: "If you don't cry when watching UP, diagnosis is confirmed." I watched this a couple of months after my Dad died. It upset me so much I got really sick. My parents were married for 58 years. My Dad was just broken after my Mom died. He just became a shell. The only reason he held on another 2 years was that he had tamed two feral neighborhood cats and they gave him something to look after.
Sam(the dog) in, I am legend. Because he was Will smiths friend and he had to put her down.
First thing I taught my 80 lb Shepard dog was to stay, no matter what is going on, just because of that movie.
I had only started watching it right before it happened because my mom was watching it and I still cried!
I wanted to see a dog movie where the dog didn't die and someone said to watch Hatch. Um no.
Fred Weasley from Harry Potter. The twins may have annoyed some people with their pranks, but their ultimate goal in life was to have fun and bring joy to their friends. They were generous and brave and clever and pure. To kill Fred and permanently tear them apart was the WORST! Especially when George had already been injured! You didn’t think they could be at risk anymore now that one of them had gotten hurt. They weren’t on my radar during the Battle of Hogwarts. I remember the moment I read it the first time. I was inconsolable
WHY DID THEY NEED TO DO IT THE TWINS WERE MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS!!! 😭😭😭😭
Load More Replies...There were too many deaths in the Deathly Hallows. I used a lot of hankies reading it. Remus and Tonks was another heartbreaker.
I'm sorry to say this, but the final battle wouldn't have been believable, if people we cared about hadn't died. The more plot armor there is in evidence, the less the story means. Still... FRED???
Load More Replies...We all expected a Weasley death. We feared it would be Arthur and hoped it would be Percy...nobody was ready for it to be Fred.
Why couldn't it have been Percy the Prat if a Weasley really had to die? /s (would have been insanely bittersweet tbh, Percy was a prat for so long, has a change of heart and ends up being a sacrifice/death in the final battle... would actually end up being just as sad tbh ;-; )
Out of all the deaths in Harry Potter, Fred’s was by far the saddest 😭
I cry so hard every time!! Like, come on! This was the thing that first made me realise just how sad the books are!!
I read about when they were filming it and they had to stop because "George" got so upset as he kept thinking about if it was real :'(
Rue from The Hunger Games. Rue getting speared and having Katniss sing to her. The 12-year-old me couldn’t handle that trauma
I just watched this movie for the 4 time last night and it makes me so sad every time even though I know it happens
I was older when this movie released, I can't imagine kids watching it and seeing someone their own age be killed by someone around their age/not that much older than them.. o.O it's really brutal when you think about it.
i was crying during this scene...The song after is just beautiful, and she was younger than me...and im 11
I was rooting for her so much in the books it was devastating when she died. Same when I watched the movie.
That horse in the Never Ending Story
Everything about that scene is depressing. Atmosphere, music, Atreyu´s desperation, dark swamp setting...this one was difficult to swallow.
Whenever I think of watching it at a sleepover with my niece and nephew I think about that scene and nope out.
OMG you got me tearing up... I lt took me a second to realize. My actualy riding participation horse is named Artax. (And as I said, thats the horse from the never ending story they told me I was the first one to recognize). He's damn shy and anxious, the owner thinks he got abused from his previous owners.
Seymour the dog from Futurama. I normally skip 'Jurassic Bark' as I know I can't handle it. But upon a recent rewatch from beginning to end, I decided to put on a brave face, knew what I was getting into, braced myself, and watched it along with all the other episodes. I had to stop watching because I couldn't see the TV through my tears.
This episode absolutely destroyed me. Couldn't stop bawling my face off. My boyfriend at the time thought I was an idiot.
I always skip that episode when I rewatch Futurama. The montage and song just breaks me every time...
Dobby. I've read the books before and knew he would die but when i saw him dying in the movie.... it just broke my heart. so i cried my eyes out in the cinema (i was ten)
I feel like the only person who didn't really care as much about Dobby... in all brutal honesty, I kind of found him annoying, especially in the movies, because his voice was grating to me. Still, now I'm more mature to recognize he was a hero and deserved better, but I just didn't really cry.
You're not the only one. For me Dobby was the biggest mistake in HP. Not likeable, not relatable, not funny.
Load More Replies...I was seriously heartbroken when Dobby died... Numb. I hate Rowling for this.
I hate her for her racism and transphobia tbh
Load More Replies...I know I did. Remember when Harry made sure he got the sock, I even cried at that.
Bobby Singer....
The closest thing they had to a father. I still think some things would've worked out differently if Bobby would've still been there to shake some sense into Dean especially. There are deaths that make me incredibly angry (Charlie, Ellen and Jo, Kevin and DEAN) but Bobby's is just sad. That we get to know ow so much about him in his death episode makes it worse.
It's Bobby, Charlie, Ellen and Jo for me. Kevin, I never quite connected to. (Dean is obvious, duh)
Load More Replies...Omg yes. Definitely teared up here. And also later during the final episode..
That one just made me incredibly angry. A show that prides itself for doing so much in regard of mental health and suicide prevention and then they show us that death is the true happy ending, throwing a decade of found family out of the window. A rusty freaking nail.
Load More Replies...Brooks from Shawshank Redemption. It was so sad seeing that old man just trying to be normal but realizing his normal was within the cell walls and prison halls. It really bothered me when he was working at the grocery store, and everyone was b*tching at him while he was bagging people’s groceries. It truly goes to show that society will f*ck you if you don’t keep up. RIP.
Setting him free really turned out to be the ultimate cruelty. It really speaks to Red's later statement when he ended up in the same room. " I just want to go back to the way things were..... and I didn't have to be afraid all the time." The walls are strange. First you hate them, then you get used to them and then you come to depend on them. Freedom was behind the walls?🤔 Now I need to watch it.
Little Foot's mom in The Land Before Time. When I first saw it as a kid it was the first time that I realized that my parents could die. That thought had never even really occured to me at that point. Even now as an adult that scene where he thinks he sees her but it's just his shadow and the narrator says, "Then Little Foot knew for certain he was alone." still gets to me.
I remember watching this in first grade in the 80s. Three teachers gathered about 60 kids for a fun movie and popcorn Friday. Lights off, movie on, excited kernel-smacking ensued. When Little Foot' s mom died, the room became quiet, then one kid's agonized moan became a crescendo of 60 screaming kids. Like totally inconsolable ugly crying. The teachers were frantically hugging groups of kids. The lights came on and therapy sessions were held. We finished the movie. Good times. My kids watch The Land Before Time to this day and love it.
I'm an adult and I still ugly cry. I can't handle rewatching that one
Yes I saw this with my son and was so upset because it was the first film when he realised I could die. At the time I wished I hadn’t take him to see it.
The brachiosaurus on the dock in Jurassic World 2. 😭😭😭😭😭 Me and my youngest son. EVERY TIME!!!
That girl from the bridge to terabithia. That hit me so hard as an 8 year old
I felt rather betrayed by the whole movie! I'd wanted some nice escapist fantasy, and what I got was a gut-wrenching reminder of my own childhood.
Load More Replies...Add to it the awful marketing and promotion they did that made it seem like your typical magical fantasy movie and I'll bet there was a lot of crying from people who weren't expecting a dead child in the movie.
My mum put this movie on when I was really young as a fun family movie to watch for an afternoon. It wasn't fun. Childhood trauma, right there.
Yeah, this one was BS and caught us by surprise. I thought I had rented a nice family fantastical movie, my kids were young-ish at the time. Put in the movie and this happens. All of us on the couch balling.
Saddest death in any movie ever by far. This and tony stark in avengers
I read the book and cried. I mean...if you felt "betrayed" by the movie, had you read the book, you kinda know what to expect...
I was older but loved the book...that literally made me cry...im not crying your crying!!
This takes up like a thirs of my childhood trauma
Henry Blake from MASH
In Cher's variety show in 1975 he showed up on a life raft, waving and shouting "I'm fine!" lol. Legend also has it that they didn't tell the cast about it and when they hear the message the upset silence and dropping of instruments we hear was a genuine reaction.
Yup, true. The cast wasn't informed - they thought the helicopter lifting off was the final scene of that episode. Then the writers handed out one more page of the script, containing Henry's death. The reactions by the cast were genuine - they didn't know he was being killed off.
Load More Replies...That show is just so ridiculously great. Even with Henry dying. Damn... I really need to take the time and watch it again.
I was 12 when i watch MASH for the first time to me it was just a comic show. Until that episode.....then it hit me as a grenate shock. And the end of that whole serie did the last to me. It made it so real. I saw a documentary 10 years later that explained that those american soldiers that fought WW2, did not get send back home when the war was over, they got send to japan and chorea and then later vietnam. So they fought in three wars before finally going home. Some even 4 or 5 wars (kuwait and ww1) after learning that the tired looks in the people ( especially cornell potter) made so much more meaning... I have hated war ever since. It is the most stupid thing that excist. So because rich old politicians is mad OTHER people have to fight for them? Hell no. Lets just shoot the politicians the minute they mention war, or let them fight their own battles alone. Better one poltician dead, than mio of people and soldiers.
That's ny dad. WW2, Korea and Vietnam. Gulf war was in 1990 and he was told he was too old to go.
Load More Replies...I will not watch that episode ever again. I'm blurry eye just typing this.
yup, every time I watch it, I cry, then I text my daughter, "Henry's dead."
Thomas J from My Girl. When Vada is crying at his funeral, screaming about his glasses... that hits different. Gets me every time.
God, this one was the worst. I couldn’t believe they killed a kid in a movie.
They will do it again, I assure you...not that...that makes you feel any better but, things are changing. They were scared to kill kids in movies before, but not this time.
Load More Replies...I was waiting for this one. This list cannot be complete without this.
Wait is this the boy who's allergic to everything? With the bees and stuff? I remember bits of it I think. The girls mom died in childbirth?
Yes - the movie was My Girl. As a mother, I just couldn’t deal.
Load More Replies...If I say the sentence "Where's his glasses? He can't see without his glasses." My sister starts crying.
Allergic to bees and was a 80s kid...this broke my heart and made me have a real fear of death
Yondu. sh*t was sad asf and i actually cried a lil in the theater
Especially when everyone showed up to give him a proper ravager funeral.
And how it says that he went back to Earth to get more songs for Quill. 😢 He really cared under his hard exterior
Just watched this yesterday (for like the 4th time). Excruciating.
It was so impactful cuz no one expects his redemption or to feel bad for him, it was a perfectly pulled of twist which just sent the emotional high into friggin orbit.
Hedwig. Idk, hedwig was there from the start. Ken Miles in Ford v. Ferrari. He never got his full recognition. Although, the nod from Enzo was huge.
Yes! It was awful. Though jkr said it was a metaphor for Harry's childhood being over. Still, why?!
Jkr has said a lot of things... Retconning is one of the least abysmal.
Load More Replies...I was devestated about Ken Miles, I loved the movie but I dont think I can cope watching that scene again. :(
Ok I usually don’t ever cry. I’m one of those people who laughs when people die in movies. But I watched Harry Potter with my friend the other day and when Hedwig died I burst into tears, but then I didn’t cry when Dobby died later in the movie. 🤷🏼♀️
Marley from Marley and Me
I won't watch movies anymore if they have the word "dog" in the title or a dog's name. I can't take it.
Load More Replies...There's a great website called "doesthedogdie.com", it also lists other triggers in pretty much every movie and TV show, like gun violence, rape or mutilation. Recommend it when you at least don't want to get caught in the feels unprepared or have ptsd.
I never even watched, knowing it would be bad for the dog. I can't even watch animal movies when they end happily - cuz I know they had to go through some stuff before they got there! =/
I wouldn't watch the movie, the book was heartrending enough. My SIL got the book for Christmas, recommended that I read it. I was a frigging mess when he died.
I saw this on a plane and had to cry in front of the stranger sitting next to me.
Stupid me never read the book and no one ever told me the whole deal. Thought I was watching a fun little movie and ended up crying like a baby in front of my BF. I was 34.
Mufasa in “The Lion King”.
Oh boy, yes! This one is a "classic" death scene. Simba trying to curl up to dad and telling him to get up and that they have to go home tugs so damn hard on the heartstrings.
Why does Disney have an obsession with killing off the parents?! :(
Parents die. My father died when I was a child. Plus, it's great drama to kill off someone beloved.
Load More Replies...This is exactly why I watch comedies only. There already is enough sadness in the world. Why create more?
Just watched two nights ago. You'd think after literally dozens of views I could keep the tears away at Simba's grief but nope.
Bob from Stranger things !!
HE SHOULD HAVE RAN TO THE DOOR INSTEAD OF STANDING THERE LOOKING AT JOYCE FOR 10 MINUTES
IT WAS KINDA HIS FAULT BUT STILL IT MADE ME SAD
Load More Replies...You have no idea how unhappy that death made me. I already knew about it beforehand, but it still didn’t help.
Load More Replies...Sean Astin played a character in one of the seasons of 24 that had a pretty heroic death too. You wanna hate him right up to that moment, then you feel terrible for disliking him.
Yes, it was heartbreaking. But Eddie's death hit me more. Him dying and the dying scene itself made me cry while watching TV for the very first time ever.
Tadashi Hamada in big hero 6
Ok. Ok. Yeah I cant even watch big hero 6 without bawling my eyes out.
Try watching it for the first time after the visitation for your mom's funeral. I was NOT okay!
You’re right, it didn’t have thousands of guns and dying soldiers in it. So boring! /s
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Shireen Baratheon from Game of Thrones. It will all be over soon, Princess' and the music. F*ck, it makes me want to barf. The series is full of scenes that are truly painful to watch, but the burning of Shireen is the worst.
That was also just infuriating because book!Stannis would NEVER. He wanted his army to put Shireen on the Iron Throne if he died. She was his only heir and since she’d almost died as a baby he loved her more than anything, including wanting to be king. It was one of those moments where the show just threw away character development for the sake of shock value and thinning the cast.
I disagree that book-Stannis wouldn't have done it, he was an incredibly rigid person who thought that black-and-white thinking was the same thing as morality. If some waste of oxygen had been able to convince him that burning Shireen was the right thing to do, he'd have done it regardless of his own grief and guilt. Because he really did stifle his own feelings in service of doing what he believed to be right, and had damn poor judgement about what actually *was* right.
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Boromir from The Lord of the Rings. First time I ever cried during a movie.
Mit anymore. Iirc he now rejects roles where his character dies ;)
Load More Replies...Gutted me. When I read the books, I didn't shed a tear, but Sean Bean's death scene (yes, we know, he's had all that practice)?
And the SIZE of those arrows he was taking to the chest! Tried his best to redeem himself.
Honestly... I was annoyed by his dying scene. I just thought "Ok, can he just die already?!"
Sean Bean really needs a movie or show where he constantly dies and is revived the next day or something to that end. He just makes his characters so alive that their deaths are heart breaking
Was shocked when.It happened, and it redeemed his character which made it harder to watch.
After GOT, he got another job where the character was killed off. He had a show called Legend, and made them put it in his contract that he couldn't be killed off. I would love to kill him right now on Snowpiercer.
Prim from The Hunger Games. Unlike most character deaths, hers wasn't in the midst of the action/excitement. It was after they'd won. It felt so spiteful and unnecessary. Fu*ck Coin
We thought it was over, that she had made it out alive and then BOOM!! 😭
You know what else messed me up? Finnick's death. The guy had just been reunited with Annie and bam, no more Finnick. The fact that Annie was pregnant made it so much worse. (Note: this is from the books, I don't know if the movie is the same.)
I think so not sure Abt the pregnancy. (I've read books and seen movies)
Load More Replies...Because Coin was as bad as President Snow. She wanted to punish Katniss hard (and in fact, anyone who dare to challenge her, or even disagree with her) for going on solo without her approval.
Load More Replies...Y'all should read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. It's a real eye-opener to Snow and how he got his start in the first place (not on a sympathetic level either). But also yes, f**k Coin right in the ear!
Wait, PRIM DIES???!!!!!!! I HAVEN'T SEEN ALL THE HUNGER GAME MOVIES!!!!
Read the books instead. The movies were good but like just about always, the books were better.
Load More Replies...I've seen the entire film series like 4 times and don't even remember that she died... That's how boring I found her character and how little I cared.
LITERALLY I DIDNT EXPECT IT AND 11 YEAR OLD ME CRIED AND HAD TO DOUBLE-TRIPLE TAKE AT THAT
Loki in Infinity War. Not because of some great affinity for the character but because I was absolutely certain that he was the ONE person who was safe from being offed. Of course, he not only died but he died FIRST.
Yeah but as we all predicted, Loki didnt die. He can't just lay down and die for some reason.
loki's death in infinity war was hard not just because he had 'died' before and then came back but because it was most definitely a final death after he had re-bonded with his brother and started being decent.
I hated that scene. Not because Loki died, but because he died like an idiot! Loki wouldn't try something as stupid as trying to hide a knife behind his back, Loki would do something like illusioning his face onto someone brave and stupid, and telling him that playing Loki would give him a much better chance of killing Thanos. Well, we'll see how the upcoming retcon goes...
The Loki tv show hinted what actually happened. (Spoiler) Classic Loki said that he illusioned himself as dust and drifted out into the cosmos while fake Loki died.
Load More Replies...And it was extra horrible because him and Thor had just started to reconnect and build a brotherly bond
It's because he chose to die. He knew Thanos would only take 1/2. 1 of 2 Princes of Asgard. He chose death because it was the only thing he could think to do in order to save his brother.
Ah, but Loki never really dies, does he? Made me smile when I learned he lived since he's my favorite character lol
Rosie from Jojo Rabbit. It took me a while to realize why Jojo was crying about the hanging victim he'd bumped into...and then it f*cking hit me. That one was absolutely brutal.
Really good film. The little boy is excellent in it. This particular scene is heartbreaking.
Never forget. We risk a return to "that time" unless we remain vigilant and fight against racism and toxic nationalism in all its guises.
Load More Replies...This hit me like a ton of bricks when I watched it. I didn't expect it at all.
Totally cried. They kept showing her shoes, biking. Walking on the wall. Dancing. She was so animated.. Then to see her she's in mid air...my heart sank
Cedric Diggory from Harry Potter. This one gets me more now than when I first saw it. Then, as probably a lot of people do on their first read/watch, I looked at it from the perspective of Harry. His friend died needlessly, and it hurt.
Now, older and a father, I can’t help but look at it from Cedric’s dad’s perspective: proud and supportive of the man his son is growing into. And it’s all taken away in that horrid moment that they Apparate back
This one really broke my heart. It's that moment when everyone goes from cheering to absolute horror as they realize Cedric's dead. Then Amos Diggory wailing over his dead son. I was bawling.
It was so well done. It really was a turning point to show "oh, they really aren't kidding around"
Load More Replies...Cedric would have grown into a fine young man. He was honest, caring, kind and humble. He didn't need to die, and that pathetic fanfiction, Cursed Child, didn't need to s**t on his legacy the way it did. Like hell would Cedric m**********n Diggory, of all people, become a death eater just because he lost the triwizard cup. I mean ffs, he urged Harry to go get the cup in the first place!
It happened so quickly, and then Harry had to bring Cedric's body back. Real life sh*t really started then.
This one. I stopped reading Harry Potter books for a long time because I was so angry Cedric died.
Lady Sybil from Downton Abbey. That was absolutely traumatizing.
Aaaw spoiler alert. I'm (binge)watching this and haven't reached that part. Sh!t, she is the sweetest of them all. Maaaan
The actress wanted to leave the show so she could focus on a film career. Probably doesn't help to know that but there you go.
Load More Replies...The actor wanted to try other things. IIRC he played the Beast in Beauty and the Beast with Emma Watson.
Load More Replies...And Matthew Crawley's death too..Too bad Dan Stevens also wanted to leave Downton Abbey.
It was horrible! She was so sweet and hadn't hey had JUST had a baby?
She died from eclampsia, a condition that comes in pregnancy. Having a baby killed her.
Load More Replies...If they had known Dan Stevens (Matthew) was also leaving at 3 years, they may have died together in the car accident
No, they would not have done. There were years between the two actor's departures.
Load More Replies...The actress wanted to try other things. The only thing I saw her in was an updated version of "Brave New World" a few years ago.
Every. Damned. Time. Hit too close to home for me, being told, “Of course you don’t feel well. You’re having a baby!” when things are going horribly wrong and no one believes you.
Bing Bong.
I find that film so sad, all those memories drifting away, lost forever.
Christ, that destroyed me more than just about any other death in Disney stuff over the last few years.
I can't even watch this; I literally have to leave the room. I didn't cry at Loki's death, or Dobby, or really even Ellie, but Bing Bong broke my heart.
I can’t even THINK about Bing Bong’s death —shoot, I’m already crying
Load More Replies...It was for this reason I never forgot my childhood imaginary friend
I went to this movie with a group of friends and their kids. 3 women, 1 man, 3 kids. I had Kleenex with me because I had a cold, for which I was very grateful in that particular moment. The friend beside me knew and asked for a Kleenex. Then the other woman noticed and asked for one too. Then I just hear the guy say "well, someone give me one too! I'm sobbing here!" All 4 of us were a total mess!
That movie runs you through all the emotions. I laughed. I cried. I related. But. When Riley starts crying, explaining to her parents about her sadness..i was done. Waterworks.
I cried my eyes out because it made me realised that I forgot my imaginary friend. I can recall his name, but I have no idea what he looked like. 😭
George O’Malley from Grey's Anatomy. I gotta mentally prepare myself to rewatch that episode
It was a time before major character deaths were common. They set everything up so well that we were so focused on the idea that Izzy might die that the thought of another main cast member dying was inconceivable. Now it's a game: "oh who do you think they'll kill off next?".
Reminds me of Anthony Edward's characte, Dr. Green on ER. First time a character death on a TV show affected me. You knew it was coming, just the way they wrote his death was sad, but something people deal with everyday.
I literally quit watching it for almost a year after that happened. George was my favorite character ): how they revealed it was him absolutely killed me. I was crying for hours
Me too. I stopped watching GA ever since. Poor George.
Load More Replies...Well, she had to go off and be Supergirl's foster sister.
Load More Replies...That was awful. I know the actress wanted to leave the show but her dying like that and then Mark Sloan? Utterly heartbreaking
Load More Replies...I dont eveb watch that show but my mom had this episode on one day & i lost it. Not even knowing who this man was
Rob stark. The whole episode was a mind f*ck and I’m sure all GofT fans will agree it’s by far one of the best episodes if not the best.
I read the books before the show came out and that scene was so traumatic. It was 2AM, and I'd been reading non-stop since the early morning, when I got to the Red Wedding. I felt so numb and I just put the book down. it took me a while to go to sleep.
I thought the show was way worse. I read the books years before and was kind of expecting it. But on the show, the music, the whole build up leading up to it... It was hard to watch. I remember when it ended and the credits rolled in silence. It was haunting. Cat's death on the books, on the other hand... Awful! And I don't like her, but wow. That was hard to read.
Load More Replies...Game of Thrones tends to have a lot of characters dying when it's largely unexpected..
But the deaths were largely believable, the sort of thing that happened in the Medieval world, where life was short and politics were brutal. At least, until the last season or two, when things just got silly.
Load More Replies...I skip past that part even when I’m reading or listening to the audiobooks. I feel like if Ned lived we’d get a somewhat similar story just with different outcomes
Load More Replies...My housemate in college got me into those books - he was about three books ahead of me, and I distinctly remember when he got to that chapter - it was late at night, and I heard him exclaim “F*CK!” And then a loud thump against the wall. Turns out he’d literally thrown the book across the room after reading that bit, and he refused to get back into it for a week or so.
My worst was when Samuel died in legends of the fall. Doesn’t matter how many times I watch that movie , I ugly cry every time 😭
Joyce Summers (Buffy's mom) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This was the most traumatic and saddest. When she says, 'Mommy?' Ugh. And it wasn’t supernatural, just super sad
The story is that Joss Whedon had lost his mother himself. And wrote this very episode with that 'trauma' in mind. Making it feel so very realistic and sad when you see the episode (The body, S5, E16). Truly one of the best episodes of this great series.
Load More Replies...When Buffy imagines a whole scenario where paramedics turn up and save Mum, and you want to believe it might be true, but then No, she's dead.
And then when Dawn tries to resurrect her and she breaks the talisman right as Buffy opens the door...
Ben Sullivan from Scrubs. When JD says, 'Where do you think we are?' That was one of their best episodes, but I have to be in the right frame of mind to watch it, or I get all blubbery.
I'll take this episode, and raise your Dr C*x's patient from "My Lunch". No viewer cares about the death, but to see Dr C*x like that...
Glenn from The Walking Dead. Such a genuinely good guy, too. Even to the very end, he was keeping an eye out for Maggie.
I still cannot watch that episode. I always just skip right over it, him AND Abraham killed me!
That's where I stopped reading the comics and knew I couldn't watch the show.
Boxer, from animal farm. He worked so hard his whole life and to be sent to a glue farm while his best friend screams and runs behind him, chills man.
It was a hell of a thing when Spock died. hell of a thing. live long and prosper
The tenth Doctor. "I don't want to go." Only second to Donna Noble's fate when it comes to sad endings on Doctor Who. "I was going to be with you, forever."
I agree, 9 and 10 were the two I felt saddest about.
Load More Replies...Stoick from How to Train Your Dragon 2. Not so much the way he died, but the funeral scene, the music and the recital by Gobber.
And when Hiccup screamed at Toothless it made me cry even harder. It wasnt his fault.
Knife in the wound! He was so hurt and confused and seeing him yelling at Toothless, who didn’t understand what had just happened and was just worried about Stoick… Masterful writing and storytelling.
Load More Replies..."May the Valkyries welcome you and lead you through Odin's great battlefield. May they sing your name with love and fury, so that we might hear it rise from the depths of Valhalla and know that you've taken your rightful place at the table of kings. For a great man has fallen: A warrior. A chieftain. A father. A friend."
That was BRUTAL. I did not go into that movie expecting to sob my eyes out, but I did.
I'm going to have to come clean on this one. Due to other Dreamworks movies, such as Kung Fu Panda where a death scene is parodied near the end of the film with Master Shifu, I actually didn't think he was going to die. It wasn't until the funeral scene that I actually realized "Oh, we are going with the father death sequence." Yet I still couldn't find myself crying afterwards.
Washburn in Serenity. He was my favourite character from Firefly, and I just wasn't expecting it at that point in the movie.
Wash was my favorite too. As good as Serenity was, I can't watch again because of this.
I always expect him to make it this time. :-(
Load More Replies...In my opinion Book's death was sad, but did add some plot value. Wash's death just felt 100% unnecessary.
Load More Replies...Wash had such a rubbish death as well (rubbishly handled). Should've gone down in a blaze of glory with the ship on fire not just impaled by a random bit of cockpit junk
While maybe true, I feel that his death was "realer" this way. People don't always die in a blaze of glory, no matter how amazing they are. Some people just die from sheer bad luck . So I ain't mad at the death. Sad - hell yes!
Load More Replies...Lennie in Of Mice and Men.
Report or ignore that sh!thead, but no death threats, just brings you down to his low life level.
Load More Replies...ali from squid game. they did my man dirty
Dang that episode was doubly brutal until you got to the end of the series and realised...
I actually screamed at my tv. I knew most characters weren’t gonna make it out alive, but the WAY he died, the utter betrayal he experienced right before he died. He was a pure soul and deserved so much better.
omg this broke me... the whole thing with Sae-Byeok and Ji-Yeong too, in the same damn episode!
Any main character death from squid game really. What got me really harshly is when Seong Gi-Hun went home and wasnt able to cry for his mother because he was already so emotionally broken
Poussey Washington from Orange Is the New Black. I cried for days. I love the character and the actor, and I wanted Poussey to get out of there so much. She really didn't deserve to be in prison. It breaks my heart that she died trying to help her friend. Really shows how many people get lost in the system
OMG yes. When her bestie got on the FLOOR beside her just sobbing her soul out...whew, that scene is incredibly intense. Instant ugly cry.
This scene broke me, but it broke me even more a few years later with the whole george floyd thing.. like geez, same s**t still going on, officers f*****g kneeling on people, cutting off their air supply.. the f**k is wrong with them!? At least with Poussey's case it was accidental, the officer was new to the job and he showed remorse... but in real life, that wasn't even the case.
Interesting how the series changed so much from that memoir. I didn't watch it (no Netflix), but my niece did. When she was talking about a scene from the first year, I was going, "Um, that never happened...." Nobody dies in the book, y'all.
I watched this late at night, after my kid had gone to bed, and I remember being afraid that I would wake her up because I was crying so loudly
This was a difficult scene. So much so that I stopped watching the show not long after. I just couldn't finish it.
Uncle Iroh's son from Avatar the Last Airbender: Tales of Ba Sing Se (the real Avatar- Last Airbender, not the hack version from M. Night Shamalan). You're never introduced to him, but you can convey from the deep sorrow Iroh pours out how his death affected his personal purview and moral edict. It made me cherish the worlds, friendships and lives you build with people because you are an influence to many, and pouring poison into a vessel is a quick way to make you regret how you passed along what you said and did.
Hodor in GoT!
Finnick Odair from The Hunger Games. I remember being a junior in highschool, reading Mockingjay in class and then suddenly... Finnick dies. I was so taken aback and shocked, I had to look up from my book and glance around because I thought I had made a noise. Turns out, I didn’t but I had to read his death scene a few times to really understand what just happened. Needless to say I started to tear up and had to go to the bathroom to calm down, lol.
I was waiting for someone to say this! Especially because Annie had a child after he died.
Finnick was so well written. I really wanted him and Annie to have a happy ending.
Ah, here it is. Probably should've read the whole list before I commented on the other hunger games one above.
Ragnar, from vikings. He was the one aspect that balanced everything. After he went, their community went to sh*t. Also, he used is head to lead. Hvitserk and Ivar were stupid leaders concerned with superficial things. Ubbe and Bjorn were still much better and wiser. But anyway, after Ragnar left, i kinda got depressed man. What a character
Logan. Cause I literally grew up with those movies and that character. When I went to bed after seeing it for a second time, I just...cried. Probably cried to sleep. It was as if my childhood ended there
That polar bear in the Planet Earth (2?). Can’t watch it again, absolutely devastating seeing it just give up and die next to the walruses because it has no energy to hunt anymore.
Any of those nature movie with animals dying trying to get food for babies make me cry.
There’s a specific episode of Doctor Who, ‘Father’s Day’, where Rose goes back in time and saves her dad from getting killed in a car accident. Her dad gets to meet her but because the timeline change caused complete chaos and destruction, he figures out he was supposed to get hit by the very car she saved him from. He then steps onto the road and … fixes the timeline. I never bawled so hard. It was such a well-written episode. It was tragic and upsetting. At the same time it was haunting watching Rose’s dad accept his fate. I still cry hard every time I watch his death scene.
The life they might have lived is always a sad storyline in a series if done well
Adriana La Cerva from The Sopranos. It’s one of the most heartbreaking, cruel death scenes I’ve ever seen on a TV show. Just brutal and sad and shocking
Blackadders Squad when they needed to get out of the trenches ... A british top comedy series starring many comedians with A tragic end....
That's the thing when a comedy does something so serious, it hits different. It has more of an impact because you've been along for the ride with these guys, laughing all the way and then, Bam! Right in the feels.
That episode of Scrubs had the same impact. I know it has been mentioned in this thread.
Load More Replies...Charlie in LOST. NOT PENNYS BOAT.
Ahhhhh why must you remind me *sobs* I don't usually cry but anyone but Charlie, please :(
Criminal Minds - Hotch's ex wife.
I've been rewatching the series and just watched this episode last week. Cried my eyes out. It also ruined C. Thomas Howell for me for life.
Ben from Scrubs. He wasn’t even a major character, but at the time he was Dr. Cox’s only friend, the only one who made him a joyous person, and that gut-punch of a twist was something else. “Where do you think we are?”
Dude......this was heartbreaking. Brendan was already so likable too.
Oberynn. You had him, dude, you f*cking HAD him!
Opie from Sons of Anarchy. Opie's death was the hardest in the show for me to watch. I love that after his funeral, SAMCRO all have an 'In memory of Opie' patch on their cut
I was wondering where he was on this list. I couldn’t watch SOA for like 2 years after that. Opie wasn’t killed/murdered he was sacrificed somehow made it so much worse.
I cried even harder with the behind the scenes video where they're cutting locks off of Ryan Hurst's beard. Right in the feels.
The Iron Giant. Give me a good growling voiced “SuperMan” and I start to tear up.
Technically he didnt die. He "regenerated" at the end while his body parts came together
I love the scene in "Ted Lasso" where he shows the movie to that team of macho footballers and just puts a tissue box on the table.
Chidi wasn’t the saddest but made me cry when he went to the door.
It made me sad but i love the idea that they all hung together and were happy for who knows how long and then they get the chance to finally rest. I dont think thqt the human mind can be happy "for eternity", i agree with the show.
I also got super emotional when they discover that Chidi and her always end up together no matter what they do to them. I am usually not into romance but i really liked that one.
Load More Replies...Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense. I never saw it coming
He was already technically dead, but Ben Hargreeves from Umbrella Academy.
Sokka. But mostly because we don’t know how he died, and it bothers the f*ck out of me.
What is worse is that we don't know what kind of life he lived in Legends of Korra?
Seriously, that's one of the reasons I love to read fan fiction, so many happy endings and full lives for Sokka
Load More Replies...Its believed he died of natural causes. It was in the Legend of Korra but ge would have technically been 74-86 years old. So not that sad ...
Nell in Haunting of Hill House. The whole bent neck lady episode and the funeral episode were absolute TV masterpieces. The realisation of what happened is heartbreaking.
The death of Marvin Ericsson- How I Met Your Mother
Oh and when you watch it again and notice the numbers in the background of each scene count down.
Arthur Morgan. He was a good man who was dealt a bad hand
the most poignant final scene, so hard hitting too..the number of people who replayed the game to see if they could avoid catching "the black lung" disease.
Arthur’s death impacted me more than any other death scenes I’ve ever watched. I wasn’t the same for days after finishing the game.
I had to sit the controller down and just stare for a few minutes. I had played all this time as an honorable cowboy and this happens. This death and Sarah from The Last of Us, really got me.
lil Sebastian
Rewatching parks and Rex right now, only at season 3 so I have not gotten to the saddest moment in film history. I did like ron’s “ive only cried twice in my life” quote (if you know you know)
Jiraiya from Naruto. The kid deserved a f*cking break. Grew up with no parents and in a village that resented him. He worked his tail off and made people respect him and realize he's not a monster through hard work and determination alone. Midway through Part I, Jiraiya enters his life, becomes a strong father figure (though he does have his flaws), and then he's killed in Part II. Watching Naruto break down in the popsicle scene after Jiraiya passed had me bawling my eyes out. I lived a childhood a lot like Naruto's. Didn't really relate well to my parents (they were abusive) and spent a lot of time alone as a result. I was also poor as hell and told I'd never amount to anything. I worked so hard growing up to be where I am now, and to see a character I identified with so much get something stolen from him that he truly deserved sucked. I'mma go cry now.
Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist. FMA was my introduction to anime, and Maes's death shook me a lot. It's such a raw, emotional scene
Hughes was my instant favorite and then I had to deal with his death.
Andrea Cantillo from Breaking Bad. That’s the worst moment in Breaking Bad. It’s one of those moments that’s so awful, you almost resent the writers for putting it in there. In a way, it shows you how Jesse would feel, just wishing it wouldn’t have happened. That show always blows my mind with how they're able to make you feel such strong emotions
The Dad in the book “ The Road “. Maybe because my son was born just a month earlier, but it was incredibly sad.. the father tried so hard to live , to care for his son... who is now alone.. in the cold. Devastated
Hank in Breaking Bad and Walters face afterwards just matched mine
Captain K’s death in Jojo Rabbit, watched it last night expecting the mom to die but the captain’s death made me tear up because it was unexpected
Poussey on Orange Is The New Black. She was one of the few characters I really cared about on the show and her death was just so unnecessary and realistic. Just devastating.
Sarah Lynn from BoJack Horseman. God, just the fact that her last words were 'I wanna be an architect.' Her wish since she was a child, but that her mother took away from her. And that BoJack could've saved her but waited 17 minutes to call an ambulance and tried to set everything up so that he wouldn't get blamed
Vesemirs death in Witcher 3, cried like a baby and I still cry every time I replay the game
Practically everyone who died in Clone Wars. Specially during season 7.
Count Olaf in A series of unfortunate events (the books) Just something about a man so shaped by his own misery becoming a figure of cruelty and greed, relentless in pursuing the misery of others. He believes all people are this way in reality, and cannot see through the darkness use his intelligence and skills for good. Then he just dies, unredeemed on a coastal shelf, and no one has anything to say. That’s also what I liked about the books as a kid. There was an underlying message of : sometimes terrible things happen and there’s not much you can do about it, but try to get out the other side kicking.
That whole thing made me so mad. 13 books and THIS is how you end Count Olaf? Really? Damn you could tell Mr Snicket (Handler) was bored to death of writing 'em by that point!
When Lee died in the walking dead game... That sh*t made me cry
That whole game was a gut-punch. That kid in the attic still gets me in the feels. But yeah, Lee was the best.
Opie. Sons of Anarchy. Just why?
FIVES!
Thing is, I never really watched the show, but I still realised who you meant. Etain Tur-Mukan if we're going Star Wars for me
YES!! I didn’t see it coming, and I’m pretty sure that I cried
Load More Replies...Fives is a clone from Star Wars the clone wars who dies because of the information he found out about the inhibitor chips. He knew too much, so he was shot.
Load More Replies...Rudy, The Book Thief. We read the book in middle school English then watched the movie. The entire class was sobbing because we had studied this book and fallen in love with the characters, and to see it brought to life was just heartbreaking. Great book and movie by the way. Edit: thank you SO much for the awards!
Aaah read that last year, still a tear jerker, Liesels family and friends are gone, having to restart everything for the second time.
The kid from Breaking Bad on the bike
John Marston. He suffered so much in an attempt to move on from his past, killing all of his former comrades in the process. He finally reunited with his wife and kid, gets a small glimpse at a new life, and then he’s shot down in front of a barn like a damn dog. Was painful to watch, doubly so after RDR2 came out.
Greed from Full Metal Alchemist. “Greed may not be good, but it's not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can't have.” Greed had the most selfless death and damn did it hit home.
Legion, on ME3. That is heartbreaking, more if you choose to kill him
Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
Load More Replies...When Stringer Bell died on the Wire I seriously considered not watching the rest of the series. I'm glad I did continue, but later deaths like Omar and Snoop were no easier.
Charles from henry stickmin. You know why
:( this should be the highest one. He had the greatest of plans, just not good enough for him to survive. I cant even play that ending without crying. And the damn sad music, gets me every time.
"You could say it was the best plan." He pushed Henry into the life pod and sacrificed himself. If that isn't a true friend I dont know what is.
Scooter in Tales from the Borderlands. I loved Scooter so much from BL2, and it hurt so much to see him go the way he did. The worst part was knowing exactly what was going to happen just before it did. So long, Space Cowboy.
Maes Hughes - FMA
I stopped watching after Vincent. Such a good character was thrown away for shock value, like Zack was. The show was already starting to go downhill and that was the final nail in the coffin for me. I'm so glad I didn't stick around to see Sweets die too.
Load More Replies...We watched Hachiko in our ELA class in 6th grade and there was not a SINGLE person in the class who was not crying at the end
Omgg I was already crying before he died. Watching him waiting at the station every single day, in the snow and rain - just broke my heart. I can’t even write any more about it right now. 😢
Load More Replies...Bambi's mother dying .. actually I have never seen it but my father told me (who sadly passed away) that he was crying like a little baby ... so I thought to mention it BAMBI-6238...b3f3ee.jpg
I've never watched Bambi in my life. THAT is why.
Load More Replies...I am still bitter about Tony Stark's death. he had a child, he had a wife, he had an entire life to go back to. And then he died. I will defend Tony to the bitter end because he sacrificed himself to stop Thanos and save everyone. That, that was truly incredible.
Not a death, but in the 'fox and the hound' when that lady drove away from tod the fox. For his own good so he could be free but he didn't understand and ran after the car. Jesus the tears. Damn Disney films
Hodor! That hit me deeper than anynother Stark's deaths
Load More Replies...What about the son in "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas". That messed me up.
Abuelo Pedro's death in Encanto. I've seen that movie three times and I genuinely can't get past that scene without bawling my eyes out. It just a combination of the music, the way that Abuela's reaction is animated so realistically and just the whole tragedy of the situation. 😭
I stopped watching after Vincent. Such a good character was thrown away for shock value, like Zack was. The show was already starting to go downhill and that was the final nail in the coffin for me. I'm so glad I didn't stick around to see Sweets die too.
Load More Replies...We watched Hachiko in our ELA class in 6th grade and there was not a SINGLE person in the class who was not crying at the end
Omgg I was already crying before he died. Watching him waiting at the station every single day, in the snow and rain - just broke my heart. I can’t even write any more about it right now. 😢
Load More Replies...Bambi's mother dying .. actually I have never seen it but my father told me (who sadly passed away) that he was crying like a little baby ... so I thought to mention it BAMBI-6238...b3f3ee.jpg
I've never watched Bambi in my life. THAT is why.
Load More Replies...I am still bitter about Tony Stark's death. he had a child, he had a wife, he had an entire life to go back to. And then he died. I will defend Tony to the bitter end because he sacrificed himself to stop Thanos and save everyone. That, that was truly incredible.
Not a death, but in the 'fox and the hound' when that lady drove away from tod the fox. For his own good so he could be free but he didn't understand and ran after the car. Jesus the tears. Damn Disney films
Hodor! That hit me deeper than anynother Stark's deaths
Load More Replies...What about the son in "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas". That messed me up.
Abuelo Pedro's death in Encanto. I've seen that movie three times and I genuinely can't get past that scene without bawling my eyes out. It just a combination of the music, the way that Abuela's reaction is animated so realistically and just the whole tragedy of the situation. 😭
