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40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can’t Get Over Them
As readers and viewers, we often become deeply invested in the lives of fictional characters. We follow their stories, rooting for their success, and feeling their pain. So it's no surprise that we're sobbing over their death, too.
In a recent Reddit thread, users were asked to share the saddest fictional character death they had experienced, and the responses are like a testament to one of the biggest signs of being human — empathy. So grab a tissue and continue scrolling to relive some powerful emotions.
Also, don't miss the conversation we had on the topic with game writer and published author from Seattle, WA, Pierre Demery. You'll find it in between the entries.
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#1
Ellie from UP gets me everytime
cycloptian_tit replied:
Sometimes I wonder how movies ever took off when the first ones were short with no sound.
Then I remember the time a 10 minute animation with no dialogue absolutely wrecked me. It's a god-damned masterpiece and I hate it.
araT Backwards 3 years ago
My friends took me to this movie to cheer me up after the death of…my grandma. I’ll never forget it!
Monday 3 years ago
Perfect example of how we can tell stories without using words.
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glowworm2 3 years ago
That entire sequence is beautiful and heart wrenching. There's also a really well done but sad transition where Ellie wants children but we then cut to the doctor's office where there most likely was a miscarriage or the possibility that she couldn't ever have children. The feels!
Undercooked Potato 3 years ago
I can't post on this article so I'll do it here: TANGERINE FROM BULLET TRAIN
Adenilson Garcia 3 years ago
I cried, I was at my friends' house, and they made Fun of It during a week or so. But, it touched me, and I putted myself in his position. I cant imagine losing my wife in that way or anyway.
Meghan Turnis 3 years ago
I wanted wedding cake toppers that are Carl and Ellie's chairs. Just a pair of his and hers chairs, symbolizing that we'll grow old together. Almost no one got it though, so we went with a wooden cursive "HOORAY!"
To better understand this literary device, Pierre Demery suggests looking at it from two angles.
"From a narrative perspective, I would define a sad character death as an event that emotionally alters how the affected characters (usually the protagonist) view and navigate the world in which the narrative takes place in," he told Bored Panda.
"From an audience perspective, a sad character death is exactly what it is: a heart-breaking, tear-jerking, tragic ending for a (usually beloved or fan-favorite) character."
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#2
John Coffey in the Green Mile.
There's a passage in the book (around the time Paul and Brutal and Harry take John to see Melinda Moores) when they pass through the room that houses the electric chair and John remarks about Old Sparky and how he can hear voices coming from it, screaming.
colddeaddrummer replied:
After religiously watching the film and reading the book a handful of times, it hurts so much to know John has to ride the lightning in that same chair, despite being a being of pure light and magic. He's one of King's all-time great characters: a simple, unassuming creature of mythical power, tender wisdom, and infinite generosity.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I love that little speech Paul gives about how he doesn't want to stand before God one day and tell him that "I killed one of his greatest miracles", and John gently tells him he's okay with dying because he's so tired of roaming the country all alone, "but most of all I'm tired of people bein' ugly to each other".
Sam Juan 3 years ago
It hurt just as much when the actor who played John, Michael Clarke Duncan, passed away as well.
lauralett50 3 years ago
I still cry about his death. He was such a sweet person. I got to meet him once, such a kind man .
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Nat of Clan P 3 years ago
Have read the book 3 times (cried every time) and watched the film about a hundred times. Guess what? Cry EVERY time! Poor John Coffey :(
Michael Sanders 3 years ago
His death is definitely tragic, but the scene when he visits the wardens wife and she does the speech about finding each other in the dark is when the onions really get chopped.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Stephen King is my lifelong favorite author. He has the ability to make us love a character so much and so deeply that we feel genuine IRL loss when they die. I knew towards the end of the book that there was no way Coffey could live, not in the world and the time period that he lived in. But even knowing that logically, it still broke me when he accepted death and was GLAD for it. Urrf. I first read Green Mile when it was published as a serial (in 1996! holy hell I'm old) and Coffey's death STILL affects me when I think about it.
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I’ll put this comment in this post because the scene I mention below makes me cry, but how on earth is Shelby from Steel Magnolias not on here?! If I missed it let me know, but dude. If only for the funeral scene. The green mile wardens wife scene makes me cry, but Shelby’s funeral makes me cry like a kid with a skinned knee EVERY SINGLE TIME. I’m 44 years old and still lose a quarter of my water weight when I watch that scene.
Ashtray 3 years ago
Yes same I read the book and cried like a baby when Mr. Jingles dies. Animal deaths always hit me harder
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The dog in I Am Legend.
Ericthedead 3 years ago
Yep was a sad one. I think it’s worse when animals in films are killed. Human characters don’t really pull at my heart strings the same way.
Tiffi 3 years ago
It's Old Yeller for me. I'm 60 and still haven't gotten over that. Travis had to kill his own dog with a shotgun. 🥺
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
His daughter is the one who gave her the name/nickname, that's why he referred to her as Sam :( it's even more gut-wrenching.
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Ozymandias73 3 years ago
I was hoping she was going to make it. But the anguish in Will's face was heart wrenching.
Candy Cane 3 years ago
She's in another list on here. As of 2022 she was 13 years old I think. And still a very good girl.
We asked Demery how he would answer the post's question himself, and the writer said that, again, two losses come to mind. Executed differently, but both are very poignant.
"One is the death of Mufasa from The Lion King. Those of us who've seen the movie as kids will forever be scarred by it (pun intended)," he recalled. "Mufasa, Simba's father and the king of Pride Rock, is portrayed as a kind, nurturing, strong, and loving figure in his son Simba's life, and only wanted him to feel safe and prepared for when he becomes the new king. Unfortunately, his jealous and sadistic brother Scar pushes Mufasa off a cliff into a stampeding herd of wildebeest, then places the blame on Simba."
"But that's not the end. We have to watch Simba confront his father's body, trying to wake him up. Absolutely devastating to have the protected find the protector in this way."
#4
Fry’s dog Seymour from Futurama.
xfalinex replied:
“I will wait for you, ‘till you’re back beside me.”
rocks back and forth in a pool of tears
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
The episode was originally going to centre around Fry's mother, but for some reason they decided that would be too sad and went with the dog instead because... that's LESS sad?! What the Sam Hill were they smoking??
Monday 3 years ago
No idea....I thought everyone agreed that animal deaths in movies/shows are much sadder than human deaths.
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Ericthedead 3 years ago (edited)
I hated that. Love futurama. Seen every episode many times but I remember thinking I could have done without his dog dying like that. Waiting on him.
Ericthedead 3 years ago
Yes they did. I had forgotten. I remember now. Thank you for reminding us.
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Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Best episode of one of my favorite shows. I ugly cry every single time.
#5
Mufasa's death gets me every time
assdog 3 years ago
I haven't read the whole list yet but what about Watership Down with the rabbits. That film messed up with loads of our minds.
Lisa H 3 years ago
I have yet to watch the movie, but I read the book. The ending had me in quiet tears.
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Olive Harper 3 years ago (edited)
I know it's not a death but the ending of Fox and the Hound was sooooo sad.
A. Starhawk Hunt 3 years ago
the first time that Disney animation showed the death of a character on the screen. don't like Disney, but was impressed that they had done so.
BenMaharaj 3 years ago
Not me. His brother was evil trash and he was fool not to see that. I’m not saying he deserved it but how couldn’t he see it coming?
Hakuna Matata 3 years ago
When the realistic lion king came out in the movie theaters I went to wacht with my cousin and nana and it was so sad when mufasa was dead cause the animals where real and everything but did happen in real life but it gets me every time but in the animation I didn’t get upset but the realistic one gets me every time
"These examples stand out to me because, in the first one, you have the loss of someone who represents a compass or a guiding light taken from a character who needs them but is instead left with an emptiness inside them and no one to give them direction," Demery explained. "The second example shows that you can lose someone and be the person wishing you could have done more for them by being better or different in some way."
The writer believes we empathize with certain characters more than others because "we attach ourselves to them, treat them like mirrors of ourselves, or see qualities of ourselves in them."
"Sometimes these characters remind us of other people in our lives who we have a close connection with. When we see these characters die or they lose someone important to them, our empathy feels real because in some capacity we've experienced it too and it brings up those emotions," he added.
#6
Tadashi Hamada from Big Hero 6. Dude was working on a robot to help others and died in an attempt to help others. What a guy
The Phantomvessel 3 years ago
The worst thing was he went in to save the (not known at the time) villain but the villain already was safe. Gets me every time
Paola Martz 3 years ago
As someone whose personal hero and role model is her older brother, this one hurt deep tho
Passerby 3 years ago
Oof, I really feel this one. I still get mad about his death every time. Maybe I would have felt better if his death was able to save people. But his sacrifice ultimately became pointless, as the man he tried to save wasn't in danger in the first place. We barely get to know him, but his death still shook me the most out of every death in an animated movie. Seeing the aftermath of his death was also very painful.
#7
Sirius Black from Harry Potter. He was my favorite character.
Sapna Sarfare 3 years ago
The death of Hedwig and Dobby hurt me more... They were the two pure souls in Harry's life and his family in the truest sense, esp. Hedwig. I sobbed inside when Hedwig died...
PlatinumTheCat 2 years ago
I don’t know about the movie but in the book her death is tragic, especially because she just gets hit while in her cage and harry can’t even retrieve her body to give her a proper funeral
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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 3 years ago
I still think deathly hallows was the saddest book. Hedwig, Dobby, Lupin, Snape, Tonks, and all the people who died in the battle of Hogwarts was damn traumatizing
PlatinumTheCat 2 years ago
I know this is a minor character, but Colin Creevey’s death broke my heart as well
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Mary Jeffries 3 years ago
The part where he says “good shot James!” to Harry and then gets killed. Also, no more Gary Oldman. Boo
A Really Bored Panda 3 years ago
When exactly did he say that? I can’t claim to know all seven books by heart, but I’m sure I’d remember a line like that.
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Ruth Harper 2 years ago
I loved Sirius when I was into the Potter books. And I always hated his death. He never really got to live.
John Skelton, Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham, had been working with applied linguistics, and in his paper Death and dying in literature, he said that one of the central tasks of literature is to impose a structure on life and death, giving meaning to both. According to him, literature as a discipline aims just as certainly as science does to understand the world in which we live and to interpret our own role as participants in the human condition.
He too thinks we can approach the topic from two sides. "At one end of the scale is one of the most common types of death in all fiction, the discovery of the body in the 'whodunnit' or murder mystery," Skelton wrote. The other is often called a 'whydunnit', in which the identity of the killer is not as important as his or her motivation.
"Bear in mind here that the greatest of all constraints on the writers of whodunnits is that they cannot describe the motivations of their characters well, or it will be at once clear who is the killer," Skelton pointed out. "The complete blandness of Agatha Christie's characters is necessary, in this respect, to fulfill the genre's requirements – or at least it is a happy accident. Contrast this with Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which is, among other things, a whodunnit. Famously, Dickens died before revealing the identity of the killer, but it can be determined with near certainty from the imagery and symbolism with which Dickens surrounds him throughout the book."
#8
Brooks, Shawshank Redemption.
It was just so damn sad to see someone so heavily institutionalized. And honestly, I didn’t even realize what was happening in that scene until after he had already carved “Brooks was here” into the beam. It gets me every time. Poor Jake :(
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Another Stephen King masterpiece. It was a short story originally, not a novel-length piece, and the movie adaptation was beautiful. James Whitmore was a phenomenal actor. His slightly daffy but truly loving interactions with Jake made us fall in love with Brooks as a character. I love this movie.
Leeza Martinez 3 years ago
Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redepmtion is actually a novella not a short story. But 100% on the rest of it.
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Ericthedead 3 years ago (edited)
I don’t feel sorry for the old piece of s**t. It’s not in the movie but but in the novella you learn he was in prison for killing his wife and daughter after he lost in a poker game. Edit: look it up
tara 3 years ago
Oh GREAT! Now I can't feel bad for the fictional person anymore! *Slams door*
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Sam 3 years ago
his whole character arch and watching him try to assimilate with life outside prison made me cry so much. He was such a good soul and he was trying his best
Michael P. 3 years ago
Brooks death was depressing as he couldn't cope with the outside world and wanted to return to prison. When Red gets paroled, he too stays at the same halfway house and works at the same job that Brooks had. Like Brooks, he too felt institutionalized but was given a sense of hope and another chance at life. That's how poignant The Shawshank Redemption really is.
Carole Moore 2 years ago
Aw, goodness, I've been re-watching Shawshank, and have reached this part, am debating whether or not I can bear to watch it . . .
#9
Bubba in Forrest Gump.
That whole scene had me wrecked. From Bubba's weak, "I wanna go home," to Forrest's narration saying he died by that river in Vietnam while showing him holding Bubba.....God damn, I'm crying just thinking about it.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I really wanted him to live but happy that Forest gave his family his share.
Injun Joe 3 years ago
I can't watch this movie anymore. I had a friend, John, who loved this movie and did the Lt.Dan so perfectly. He called me that, due to my position, a lt. We made plans to go to the beach and surf fish and crab for my birthday. He was killed in a car accident a few weeks before. Took me a while to get the urge to go back to the beach. When I did, I drank a beer and toasted a shot to him. He was one of those people that made a positive impact on someone. And unfortunately, taken much too soon.
AliJanx 3 years ago
Injun Joe, I'm so sorry for your loss, but what a special gift he gave you by being such a good friend.
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But why bother going through all of this emotional distress? Well, as Skelton beautifully put it, "literature, if we trust its strength and accept that to become its student is to undertake something always rich and often difficult, is a way of understanding what it is to be human." And I think that applies to other forms of storytelling, too.
So sob away folks, you should come out stronger.
#10
Daisy, John Wick's dog.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
bro the RIGHTEOUS ANGER I felt in the theater when this happened. I was FURIOUS. I was right there emotionally with John! Vengeance for Daisy!
Monday 3 years ago
I think that's why John Wick became so popular so quickly. We could all relate with his reaction. As soon as they killed that dog the audience wanted their blood.
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Michelle C 3 years ago
He did EVERYTHING I would do if some a*****e killed my dog! Had someone say "how is he going to kill a bunch of people over a dog??" Now we all know that there was a bunch of stuff that led to that murder spree...but I was like "If you stepped on my dogs paw and not apologize I'd maim you"
TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago (edited)
I just love the "You did WHAT to him?!" reactions from the people when the guy told what he did. And yes, Iosef had it comming
Katy Cattoni 3 years ago
This was gut wrenching to my very core. That she found a way to get near him with her broken little body...still makes me cry.
Vicki Cunningham 3 years ago
This was so unnecessary to even be in the script.. I almost turned off the whole movie when that happened. I still have never watched the sequels.
I’ve Seen Things 3 years ago
No more animals die in the sequels, so keep watching and see Daisy avenged. The next two are just continuing the first story and it helps with the healing.
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#11
Bing Bong :((( the whole “take her to the moon for me” got me in SHAMBLES
Hales M 3 years ago (edited)
I want a bingbong return-- like she sees an old picture she drew and vaguely remembers him as an adult. A little end credit nugget in the sequel.
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Giles McArdell 3 years ago
For me, the saddest part of this film was all the old memories gradually fading away. All those wonderful parts of her life lost forever.
Ericthedead 3 years ago
Why is it I only feel bad when the character is a cartoon or an animal?
Shalimar Ollar 3 years ago (edited)
saw this in the theater, and my entire body hurt from trying not to burst out sobbing in public.
#12
Dobby the house elf. I sobbed reading it and watching it.
primeprover replied:
"Such a beautiful place, to be with friends. Dobby is happy to be with his friend, Harry Potter."
Yali-girl with weird name 3 years ago
I cried in the book but in the movies they did dobby dirty and made him so bad lol.
Jelena Putinja 3 years ago
shame that in movies there is so little of house elves and their role in all parts
Hakuna Matata 3 years ago
When I first watched it it made me sad when he died by the ocean and everything he did serve right he shouldn’t have died
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
Hedwig anyone? The most faithful and loyal companion in Harry's life?
#13
Hedwig. Such a small death, but it really helped to show the pointlessness of war
RoanTheMad 3 years ago
A seemingly small death of a seemingly non-important character. But in reality, it's massive, it shows the loss of childhood innocence, that Harry is no longer a child, and whilst that's not exactly the saddest thing, it also shows the loss of innocence due to war, and how pointless but tragic war truly is. Also. HEDWIIIIGGG ;-;
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
Small death? No way. Hedwig was a fantastic companion and truly cared about Harry.
Steve Kenney 3 years ago
Read the book first, had to put it down for a couple of days after that. It really hit me hard.
I-am-bubbles!(she/her/cat) 3 years ago
I think hedwig’s death was meant to symbolize Harry moving from childhood to becoming an adult, but her death still hurt the most…
Monday 3 years ago
I don't think it was about inconvenience, or at least that's not how I read into it. Hedwig dying was a sign that things weren't going to just "work out" for Harry this time. There wasn't going to be some amazing streak of luck [even though there totally was later on] and he was going to lose some of the things he cared about. In the movie they screwed it up by making it a heroic sacrifice on Hedwig's part rather than her just being an unfortunate casualty.
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Marley in Marley and me 😢
Ivo H 3 years ago
The only other movie I cried more than during Marley and me was Hachiko: A Dog's Story. Both were SO good and SO, SO sad :(
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Literally saw this the day after we put our family dog down. I was a quiet kid, bullied alot, not many friends-- he was my best friend. I was devastated. My dad had read a review talking about how funny it was so thought it would be a good, cathartic movie. He had no idea Marley died at the end. Bawled the whole rest of the day.
Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
I wouldn’t watch the movie because I’d read the book and knew how it ended. Cried my eyes out at the book.
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Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
None of us want to think that our beloved pets won't be with us forever. So we always feel empathic pain and loss when we watch someone else lose their doggo or kitty :(
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I was fool enough to re-watch this one right after my own dog died. Babies don't cry that hard.
Dee Pierce 3 years ago
I will always ask if any animals get hurt/die. If so I will not watch.
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Jessica Tolar 3 years ago
I sobbed at this and at a dogs purpose. Any animal movie has me wrecked!
#15
So cliché, but Severus Snape
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
RIP Alan Rickman. One of my favorite actors ever. From Hans Gruber to the Sherriff of Nottingham to Marvin the Paranoid Android, he brought life to so many characters.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
He was PERFECT as Marvin! He captured the combination of miserable gloom and condescending disdain that is Marvin to an absolute tee.
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DrBronxx 3 years ago (edited)
Nah, that was fine with me. Bye Bye Snape. Awful person. Caused the death of the object of his obsession and her husband, then treated her son like s**t under the guise of “protection” or some s**t, and he’s regarded as heroic somehow.
Doctor Strange 3 years ago
Snape was a proud neo-nazi, and would have gone right on being a neo-nazi if they hadn't killed the girl he was stalking. And then he used his position of authority to abuse kids. Nothing heroic about him. Dying doesn't wipe out all the horrible things he did.
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Catte West 3 years ago
The duet with Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd - I was a puddle.
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#16
Thomas J. Sennett in My Girl.
“He can’t see without his glasses”
BCouto replied: I totally forgot about that movie. That was traumatic for a child.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Seeing this as a young child (before I had experienced any real loss of family/friends) really made me realize "oh wow, MY friends could die too!" I was 9. It was rough. But it was such a good, well-made movie that really presented Vada's point of view and her emotions and reactions, that I think it actually helped me accept that sometimes death DOES happen to children, even your friends or family members.
Sonja 3 years ago
I personally are convinced it is better for children if they're confronted with death in movies and books surrounded by their families for comfort before someone they really love dies. That way they can learn about death without dealing with grief on top of the difficult topic. I grew up with classical fairy tales and saw lots of death in them and in children's movies too. So when my beloved aunt died while I was still very young I already knew what that meant and while grieving was still hard, it was much easier for me than for my nephew who grew up without any mention that death exists and then had to experience his grandpa's death without any preparation and had to sort out what death is and on top of that dealing with his pain while surrounded by also grieving adults who didn't have the time or emotional capacity to explain things to him. When eventually everything calmed down a bit he was devastated and didn't talk anymore. It was horrible and took a long time to heal.
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Monday 3 years ago
Spoiler alert of course. The movie centers around a little girl whose father is a mortician...or something like that, their house is a mortuary. She's a total hypochondriac and has a best friend who is allergic to everything. They play together, they talk, they share a first (totally innocent) kiss, super wholesome stuff. Then she loses her moodring near a beehive and the best friend goes to get it....he's allergic to bees. The quote above is what she said at his wake :(
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Natalie Bohrteller 3 years ago
I remember crying all evening after having watched it as a kid. Never watched it again😥
Natalia Shoemark 3 years ago
Love it.. inbedded in my heart, this movie came out a few months after my best friend who was also the same age died in a car accident. It probably helped me long term, but man that pain is real. Even 30 years on it always holds a special meaning. Weirdest thing was we became blood brothers in the same way a year earlier xx RIP 🙏
The voice of reason 3 years ago
I cried like a baby when I saw this movie. Loved the name Macaulay so much named my son because of this movie.
MouseyMouse 3 years ago (edited)
Came to the article to make sure this was on the list! Edit: This movie came out when I was 10. Just a few short months after my grandmother died. This movie hit home way too close to home!
#17
Artax. Time has not healed that wound yet.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Every time. I'm 40 and I still ugly cry when I re-watch Neverending Story.
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Whitney-Blair Beals 3 years ago
Omgggggg I just read it and heard Atreyu screaming his name. Ugh
Lisa Monzon 3 years ago
Just made me mad. What was the point? If it was to rip my heart out, then, job done.
Myst Edenflower 3 years ago (edited)
I memorized how the mud looked right before he gets stuck and I'd skip that whole part
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
Oh my goodness! I watched this with my three young children, and we all ended up hugging each other and sobbing over that horse. Painful to watch.
MaggieMay85 3 years ago
Gosh darn you, who is chopping onions?! It will never heal. Why did they do it to us?! The stripper statues did not make up for it.
Rebecca Trinkner 3 years ago
YES! I wondered why no one would mention Never Ending Story. For this reason, I won't let my 10 year old watch it. I know it'd ruin her.
#18
Eddie in Stranger Things
Sarah Kathrin Matsoukis 3 years ago
I was sobbing into my emotional support sandwich after that
RoanTheMad 3 years ago
The ending in which most the town still believes Eddie was some kind of satanist etc hurts. He died a hero, and that scene with Dustin and Eddie's uncle just... it got me so bad. Eddie was a hero. ;-;
Giles McArdell 3 years ago
Eddie deserved to live, him shredding it while the upside down demons attack is one of my all time great TV moments.
Yuddhisthira 3 years ago
I'm not convinced we've seen the last of Eddie, the show is drenched in D&D lore, he might just become Kas.
Ueda 3 years ago
I'm sure he's not really dead. He has created the real Hellfire Club, that's all.
Ruby 3 years ago
I was originally sad but I'm happy he's dead now I got over it. I did like him but the obsessive fans made me change my mind.
XRaine 3 years ago
honestly, i feel like it was less the obsessiveness, but rather the "cringe culture vultures" who would relentlessly make fun of people for liking him
Load More Replies... foofoofloofy 3 years ago
I'm definitely in the minority here, but I never liked his character at all. They love to introduce characters at the beginning of a season just to kill them, and Eddy was the least likable of these slaughter-bound characters yet.
bibbitybobbityboop 3 years ago
Yeah agreed.and his death was pretty meaningless and his character wasn’t needed. Just my opinion though not trying to be rude to any Eddie fans. He was just useless honestly, he didn’t do much.
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#19
Boromir! My brother, my captain, my king.
TheLonelySnail replied:
They took the little ones!
Phoenix(or nix)they/them 3 years ago
I can hear this. Imma go cry in a dark recording studio across the hall.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Still one of the most heroic, wrenching, devastating redemptoin deaths in film *ever*
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Every time I watch or think about that scene, all I can see are how thick round those damn arrows were and how Boromir was taking shot after shot. STILL fighting until that last one. Ugh.
Saniyya Sullivan 8 months ago
This was the only death I’ve ever watched or read that made me genuinely cry 😭 Boromir was so underrated and his death made me so sad. Every time i rewatch it i cry more and more - also thanks now I'm crying
Ruth Harper 2 years ago
Every time. My favorite movies, and his death gets me every single time.
VonBlade 3 years ago
Only because of the rings corruption. So technically yes for an hour or so, and neither before nor after.
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Tony Stark
lostmymainprof replied:
Tony Stark had the best goddamn character development through the entire phase 1/ infinity war saga, I will die on this hill.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
RDJ is the best embodiment of Tony Stark I will EVER see. I grew up reading comic books, so these characters were long beloved by me long before people made actual real movies about them. RDJ was the PERFECT Tony Stark, as he's gone through some of the same "bad boy to actual good human being" stuff that Stark does. I am SO SAD that Pepper and Morgan have to go on without him, and they're FICTIONAL CHARACTERS XD
Barbara Forshee 3 years ago
I bawled my eyes out in the theater when Tony died. I had 11 years invested in his character. It was like killing off a good friend.
Ashley Harrold 3 years ago
He really did have the best character development and his death, while incredibly painful, felt like a fitting end to his arc
#21
Fred Weasley. someone replied: Tonks and Lupin in the same scene too. Brutal
𝔙𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔢 𝔊𝔦𝔯𝔩 3 years ago
Lupin hit so hard, he was one of my favorite characters, really everyone in that scene was one of my favorites.
A. Starhawk Hunt 3 years ago
In Harry Potter, are there any major characters we did not love, or at least, love to hate?
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Julie Snelling 3 years ago
JK Rowling said she killed off Lupin and Tonks just after they had Teddy to mirror Harry's life.
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Lazy PANda (she/they) 3 years ago
After Sirius’s death, I clung to the hope that Lupin would at least live to see Harry’s victory and go live a happy life, but noooo
Marco Richter 3 years ago
People seem to forget Lavender Brown and all the other students that died the same day.
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 3 years ago
I think Lavender didn’t die? Or maybe I remembered wrong, because she was injured badly and she might turn into a werewolf because Greyback maimed her? But she didn’t die?
Load More Replies... Lil Potato 3 years ago
yes, i was so not expecting it, and when he died i just closed the book and didn't go back for a while
#22
Yondu, gardians of the galaxy
Lupita Nyong'heaux 3 years ago
the reavers ceremony they gave him still makes me cry every time. it was so beautiful, and he finally got in death what they never gave him in life - acceptance.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Oh yeah, when I watched the movie again at home and that scene began I started crying and texting my dad to tell him how much I love him! *sniffle*
Load More Replies... Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I don't deal well with the deaths of father figures, because I lost mine :( I cried HARD when Yondu died.
#23
Salami_sub said: Henry Blake. MAS*H. The scene in the operating room. The actors weren’t told about it, just called back for one last scene shoot and Radar walks in and tells them. The silence is amplified by the sounds of instruments still working. Haunting GaussfaceKilla added: Piggy backing off this, the guy they tried to keep alive so his kids wouldn't remember Christmas as the day their dad died. That one gets me just thinking about it.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I watched M*A*S*H a lot as a little kid because my mom watched it. I remember watching this episode and just breaking down in tears. I didn't understand war, and I didn't understand why the people were fighting in Korea - I didn't even know where Korea WAS - but I was destroyed when Radar told everyone that Blake's plane had been shot down.
lauralett50 3 years ago
At first ,I didn't like the Col. Blake character. By season 3 I was hooked. Then when the actor died in real life ,I bawled my eyes out
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Hales M 3 years ago
Between that episode and the chicken/ baby episode. I loved watching M*A*S*H with my dad growing up-- but those two just hit me.
Tuna Fish 3 years ago
Came here to say this! The baby/chicken episode hurt me to no end as a kid.
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Can we talk about the chicken? Yay! It's a happy ending, they all get to go home!!! Except that f***ing chicken making it the darkest happy ending ever.
Kiss Army 3 years ago
I love M*A*S*H. It was also one of my FIL's favorites - he and my son watched it together a lot while my FIL was ill. At my FIL's funeral my (14 yo) son played TAPS on his trumpet at the flag ceremony and he played the M*A*S*H theme while everyone exited the pavilion at the VA, I cried my eyes out...
The Veil of Fire 3 years ago
"Abyssinia, Henry" mom & I were avid M*A*S*H It was always hard to watch this one. I recall when it first aired on tv and how folks talked about it afterwards even at school. Then the reruns where hard to watch. Now that mom died a few years ago....it takes on a whole new pain.
Bridgett Blake 3 years ago
I had heard that this ending was not prepped for the actors--that when Radar walks in, none of the actors knew what the line was until it was said. I don't know if this is true or not, but it makes the reaction in silence even more palpable.
#24
Cedric Diggory, not his death per say, but his fathers reaction holding his son screaming “My boy! My boy!” F***s me up every time.
𝔙𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔢 𝔊𝔦𝔯𝔩 3 years ago
“Today we acknowledge a really terrible loss. Cedric Diggory was, as you all know, exceptionally hard working, infinitely fair-minded, and most importantly, a fierce, fierce friend. Therefore, I feel you have the right to know exactly how he died. You see, Cedric Diggory was murdered, by Lord Voldemort. The Ministry of Magic does not wish me to tell you this. But not to do so I feel would be an insult to his memory. Now the pain we all feel at this dreadful loss reminds me, and, reminds us, that though we may come from different countries and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one. In light of the recent events, the bonds of friendship made this year will be more important than ever. Remember that, and Cedric Diggory will not have died in vain. You remember that, and we'll celebrate a boy who was kind, and honest, and brave, and true. Right to the very end.“
Nena Rosebud 3 years ago
Absolutely gutwrenching. Hearing Amos Diggory wailing in grief makes me cry every time. Every parent's worst nightmare.
Yali-girl with weird name 3 years ago
Even though his dad was annoying, that scene messed me up
PiscesInTheWild 3 years ago (edited)
When my sibling was reading the books for the first time, I could tell the precise moment they got to Cedric's death. They turned to me, slowly and fearfully, looked at me dead-on with huge, wobbling eyes, and said, "Is he gonna come back?" I could barely bring myself to respond. 😣
Fat Harry 3 years ago
It sure is, and it really annoys me that people get it wrong. If you don't know Latin, don't use it.
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setsuriseikou 3 years ago
To me, the pain of those left behind is so much more heart-wrenching then the death itself
Halo Kremer 3 years ago
YES! I never cried because Cedric died, it was always the father's reaction that made me cry! I thought I was the only one!
#25
Charlotte. Drakaena added: "You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that." 😭😭😭
Ericthedead 3 years ago
This one got me as a kid. Then was the favorite movie of my first daughter. So I had to watch it over and over and over till I got a little desensitized to it
ObsidianAce_ 3 years ago
We got to see a play of Charlotte’s Web in third grade as a field trip. Absolutely DESTROYED me.
Solange R Olson 3 years ago
When E. B. White was recording it for the audio book, he had to take several breaks because he was weeping so much.
#26
Glen from the walking dead. Him looking over at Maggie as he was dying, destroyed me.
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
We were exactly the same. Stopped watching it right then.
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She-Ra 3 years ago
I see so many comments talking about Glen's death being unnecessary, and cruel and saying they stopped watching because of it. But his death in the comics was famous and the actor who played Glen didn't want his character to survive. He wanted the comic book death. I love that the creators gave us that moment when we thought Glen would survive, when Negan killed Abraham, his death was bad enough but then wham, Glen gets it too. It was brutal and horrific and I didn't want Glen, or Abraham, to die. And it completely sucked because we all loved Glen. But it did give us a very memorable TV moment.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I'd already read the comic book series (which is EXCELLENT, btw) so I knew Glenn was going to die. Still hurt to watch, though :(
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
I'd been told, but I kept hoping the show writers would change it. And then to watch him be killed in one of the most brutal and horrific ways imaginable...
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Injun Joe 3 years ago
Yea, him and Abraham. Is it bad that i was hoping for Carl to get it? Im sorry, but after the prison, he had a serious attitude problem. Those little remarks to Rick about Shane. Yea, he woulda been walker bait.
Diana Pahule 3 years ago
Frickin' Carl had to perform a caesarian with no anesthesia on his mother. I'd have a little attitude after something like that too.
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Princess Jade 3 years ago
I read the comics before I saw the show, I almost stopped reading the books that day.
#27
Wash, pilot of the firefly class serenity. He's a leaf on the wind.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I have never forgotten this. This one HURT. I had a little crush on Wash too - because I think Alan Tudyk is cute XD
The Veil of Fire 3 years ago
Double the sadness when they realized it was a big mistake to kill him off. Basically killed their additional movie options. Fans never accepted that death.
Nena Rosebud 3 years ago
I was not ready for it then and I'm still not ready for it when I watch it now.
#28
Stoick the Vast
How to train your dragon
Dude literally just reunited with his wife after over 15 years of being gone and spends a total of about 15 minutes with her.
Cause of death: basically took a bullet in the chest to protect his son.
ThePurpleMister replied:
I saw it in theatres and a bunch of kids started to cry. Not like sniffing but out loud wailing. It added to the atmosphere.
Grudge-holding Treefrog 3 years ago
I remember watching this in the theater with my mom and little sister, it kinda stunned me tbh
Silvia John 3 years ago
I also never understood why it should be important to the plot that he dies. Everyone wanted a happy ending. I think some films don't need such sad elements. This movie is one of them.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
It was vital to the trilogy so Hiccup could become chief. A retired chief would remain the go-to guy, and Hiccup's desire to not be a chief is central to his character in the first two films. Then he has to accept it. I'd have preferred seeing a whole other film, myself, such as: Hiccup finds his mother The Feral Dragon Lady and rips her a new one for abandonment, and he and Stoick face her down as the big enemy. But that's just me.
Load More Replies... glowworm2 3 years ago
I'm actually going to disagree on this one only because at the time, I didn't think they were actually going to go through with the death. Kung Fu Panda--the first film, subverted and lamp shaded this trope when Po thought that Master Shifu was dying. I figured, Stoick was going to make it. Then they had a frickin' Viking funeral for him and that's when it sunk in. "Holy c**p, they're really going with it!"
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago (edited)
It's my favourite our if all 3 movies, but admittedly that scene is very hard to watch. It wasn't fair to anyone. Its made even more difficult to watch when you remember that one of his lines on that battlefield was "it takes more than a little fire to kill me." He seemed like he would be tough to kill.
Artsy Bookworm 3 years ago
That too just after he realised his wife was not actually dead and got to be with her! Ugh I can't
#29
Leslie Burke, Bridge to Terabithia
I didn't expect it at all, It said Family/Fantasy and was made by Disney.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I wish I could have liked that movie. And I probably would have if the brazenly dishonest marketing campaign hadn't gotten me so annoyed. I was expecting a Narnia like fantasy adventure, not a serious and sad coming of age story. >:(
Monday 3 years ago
YES. My bestie and I went into it expecting them to actually GO TO Terabithia. We kept waiting and waiting.....and then when Leslie died we were like 'OH! This is where he actually goes to the magical world and finds a way to bring her back!".....nope.
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NJJenn1673 3 years ago
Katherine Paterson wrote the Bridge to Terabithia after her young son's best friend, Lisa. was struck by lightening and killed in 1974. It was a way to help her and David cope with the loss. When I ran a children's book department, I always advised parents and teachers to be cautious with it, and explained that it dealt with the death of a child. If they thought their child wasn't ready, I suggested something else. It's a tough book. Also, David Patterson, whose friend died, wrote the screenplay to the movie.
boredatwork 3 years ago
This book ruined me as a kid. Even knew it was coming in the movie and dam still hits hard
Mylittlecorgi 3 years ago
I took my kids to see this in the theater. They had read the book; I had not. Ended up embarrassing them with my ugly crying over this!
Natasha Tomes 3 years ago
You obviously never had the trauma of reading this book in school. I am still not over it. I refuse to watch the movie.
Adrienne Doyle 3 years ago
Same for me, the book made me ugly cry, so I still haven't seen the movie.
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A Bobcat From Philly 3 years ago
The version they did on Wonderworks was better IMHO. It was just so sad.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
1) I feel like if the author was a true Narnia fan, she would've been shown in Narnia. I don't mean spoilers for those who only ever read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but the whole series is about the afterlife. 2) If you think her death is sad, you're never going to get over the death in Shadowlands. The scene with the wardrobe is like the kick from a ghost pepper: you're like, "that wasn't so bad?" and then it kicks in.
#30
Wilson from cast away
Joroches 3 years ago
He didn't pass away he just drifted off. Probably living his best life on a tropical island somewhere.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
He was Chuck's best and only friend. To Chuck, losing him was real and legitimate.
David Martin 3 years ago
I choose to believe Wilson did not die, and was in fact found by the students in the Top Gun program, becoming something of a mascot as well as an integral part of their team building/bonding experiences by way of shirtless beach competition, a duty he carries out still to this day
#31
Honestly I was really invested in GoT (up to a point) and Hodor's whole story and death were so depressing. Just one of those characters that deserved so much better
lauralett50 3 years ago
Sorry guys, I couldn't get past the first book. I really tried. But , I can't. Don't know why
Ruth Harper 2 years ago
Melisandre's and Jorah's were the two that really got me. Then again, I loathed the final season.
François Carré 3 years ago
Of many GoT's subplots, this one is the best crafted, and yes, the outcome is truly devastating.
#32
Spock, in “Wrath of Khan”. MadMacs77 replied: "'I have been, and always shall be, your friend'.” bozoconnors replied: Arguably, Shatner's finest moment imo. That tremoring 'no...' after he sinks down. F**king devastates me. Every time. Start tearing up again on "Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human."
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I cried at this, and I cried when I learned that Leonard Nimoy died. What a masterful actor.
Xenon 3 years ago
Leonard Nimoy is the only celebrity I ever cried over when he died. Tearing up just thinking about it.
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We saw it in theaters, and it was a bawling bunch of sobbing people. Still gets me...
Maltaros 3 years ago
I saw it on base in Korea surrounded by mostly early-20s guys. (There were other people but mostly other young airmen.) It was uncomfortable for a bit after that considering how many people "suddenly" had something in their eyes. (Onion Ninjas hadn't been invented yet.)
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Shatner's an underrated actor. People laugh at his unusual manner of speaking, but dang, he conveys emotion very well.
GV Martinez-Williams 3 years ago
I was kid and remembered being so angry and so sad. Spock's always been my favorite and I was devastated.
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
Didn't even have to watch it. My eyes are welling just thinking about Leonard Nimoy's delivery.
David 3 years ago
Maybe I'm evil but I kind of laughed. The scene was sad but the foreshadowing was sort of heavy so I was pretty sure they were going to find a way to bring him back. One line I recall was something to the effect of, "It's almost like he is still with us".
Maltaros 3 years ago
Except that they hadn't thought about bringing him back yet. Nimoy really wanted out of Trek at the time.
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Little-foot’s mother’s death isurfnude4foods replied: My son fell in love with this movie when he was 3 or 4, and every time that part would come on I would have to leave the room because no matter what age I am, I will always get emotional. Something about the music and the overall vibe that really just punches me in the gut. fiofo replied: The music plus the quote "Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely". It's so beautiful and tragic.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I remember when I was about six years old and asked if we could rent The Land Before Time on VHS again my mother said "but why? That movie always makes you cry!". But dammit I loved it anyway, and didn't mind that it made me cry. It was the start of a lifelong appreciation for sad stories. In fact now I'm an author I sometimes have to be talked out of making my own stories just a bit *too* tragic and depressing.
ComfyPanda 3 years ago
Dear God. I'm 38 and can't watch this movie. The sobs get uncontrollable!!!!
Kitten’s mom 3 years ago
Is it wrong that I tried to block this one out? I don’t think I watched a movie for 6 months after I watched
devotedtodreams 3 years ago
"I'll be with you. Even if you can't see me." If I haven't been crying already, I am guaranteed to tear up at this line... T______T
What to do with the chair… 3 years ago
This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I watched it everyday and cried every time too.
Sarah Fitzpatrick 3 years ago
This one hits harder watching as an adult since my mom has passed.
Ashley Harrold 3 years ago
I always loved this movie even when i was little. A very good kids movie that shows how to deal with grief
#34
The Iron Giant will ALWAYS have me ugly crying when he goes up to stop the missle
#35
Wolverine in Logan, that was such a great ending to his story but damn if it wasn't sad
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I've read X-Men comics since I was a little girl in the early 90s. Wolvie has always been one of my favorites (I named one of my pet lizards after him in childhood.) It was rough to watch him die, especially since Hugh Jackman is about as close to the 90s comic-book Wolverine as a living human can get!
AffenpinscherMom 3 years ago
That movie was phenomenal. I want to see it keep going with those kid mutants.
🫦08 3 years ago
not my favorite!!!!! I cry like crazy to his death good thing we will see him in the new deadpool though🥰
WindySwede 3 years ago (edited)
WHAT; WHAT DID I READ; AND WHAT DID I MISS. HE IS NOT DEAD! :O edit:spelling is hard
Lara Verne 3 years ago
I didn't like that movie so much. It was sad, but it was pretty obvious he's gonna die from the beginning.
Saniyya Sullivan 8 months ago
Wolverine is by far my favourite superhero and him dying was devastating for me
François Carré 3 years ago
There are a lot of sad and beautiful stories in the whole X-Men universe, actually.
#36
Beth in Little Women
Go 🇺🇦!!! 3 years ago
I feel you. Her character is so pure, it makes for such a heart wrenching moment
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Auntriarch 3 years ago
Flashback to me age 9 reading under the bedclothes, sniveling and trying to suppress the sobs because I was supposed to be asleep
Moya Satterwhite 3 years ago
I would read Little women if I had a cold, as a child, then no one could tell I was blowing my nose from crying.
WantsBalsamNCold 3 years ago
The movies, the book..... just can't with that scene. Heartbreaking. 💔
ZombieRedfox 3 years ago
It has taken years, but I can finally watch that scene without crying
#37
Saving Private Ryan has two of the saddest, most brutally gut wrenching deaths I’ve ever seen on screen in Wade and Mellish. Wade trying to talk the guys through his injury that goes from panic and terror to acceptance of his own death as he cries out for his mother and says “I want to go home”? Jesus Christ. Mellish is brutal for all the more uncomfortable and raw reasons you’d imagine. War is horrific. Young men are sent off to die and their lives are cut short for no reason. It’s tragic and heartbreaking and this is one of the only movies to really nail that feeling
Kel Jones 3 years ago
'Cherry' does it too. Would recommend. But also it 's incredibly violent and includes sex, drug use, and about 150 uses of 'f**k', so...it's amazing, but watch at your own risk.
Sam 3 years ago
All quiet on the western front is a good read or watch if you want more reason why war is horrific
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A. Starhawk Hunt 3 years ago
I could not watch these scenes as they were too gory. But that guy that took his helmet off to marvel at the bullet hole in it.....then......um....
Surfing Panda 3 years ago
Yesterday there was an article about the wages in the army, and I couldn't help but think the more dangerous your job is, the less you get payed.
Angie the Octopus 3 years ago
Dan those balls must the size of peas or maybe even smaller
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lauralett50 3 years ago
A lot of veterans,can't watch that D-Day scene . It's too realistic for them , too many triggers.
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The dogs in Where the Red Fern Grows such_sweet_nothing replied: Came here to say this. This book destroyed me in grade five but also really demonstrated grief in such a profound way. snarky_spice replied: Teacher read it to the class in fourth grade. Everyone sitting on the floor crying together, including the teacher, is a core memory for me.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
Old Dan and Little Ann. Let me tell you than I will be 41 years old in a month, and I read this book when I was 10, and I STILL cry when I think about their deaths.
Boots 3 years ago
I'm 42 and leaking tears just remembering that story! :(
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Lazy PANda (she/they) 3 years ago
I refuse to read any old classic about a dog anymore; they’re just too sad. Those kinds of books are probably the author’s coping mechanism to losing their dogs. They’re good, but they're sad. Like All Quiet on the Western Front
Marisa Wildrick 3 years ago
Yes, yes, yes. I will NEVER forget how I felt reading this in fourth grade.
Myst Edenflower 3 years ago
My mom wouldn't read the last chapter to me, regretted reading it myself
Ruth Harper 2 years ago
Oh god. I refused to watch the adaption. The book killed me as a kid. I could only read it once, and it still haunts me.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 3 years ago
Still one of my favorite books, and it's been 25 years since I first read it.
#39
Uncle Iroh singing to his dead son, dam now that was sad.
Thomas Bentley 3 years ago
He is the uncle that no one deserves, but everyone needs.
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago
I just watched Avatar: The last Airbender (series) Last year and finally understood why internet adored Uncle Iroh.
T. 3 years ago (edited)
Leaves from the vine / Falling so slow / Like fragile tiny shells / Drifting in the foam // Little soldier boy / Come marching home / Brave soldier boy / Comes marching home // Those leaves did grow / From branches overgrown / Drifting slowly down / Resting on the loam // Little soldier boy / Taken from home / Forced to fight a war / That's not his own // Leaves from the vine / Falling so slow / Like fragile tiny shells / Drifting in the foam / Little soldier boy says / "Carry me home" / Sleeping soldier boy / Is carried home
doyouwantsomespammail 3 years ago
I wish I had an parent love me as much as Uncle Iroh loved his son.😭 this scene gets me in the feels... eveytime!
PurpleDoople 3 years ago
Wait guys… what if toph’s life changing field trip was the one she took with iroh and not zuko
#40
Pops from Regular Show
He was the literal embodiment of good and he died saving the universe from and with his brother. He was such an innocent and friendly guy who was kind to everyone he met. I still tear up seeing the finale to this day.
Edit: His last words to Mordecai and Rigby especially hurt.
"I know you're sad, but I promise this is a good ending. Take care of each other. Goodbye."
#41
Primrose in the hunger games trilogy As a 12 year-old did not see that coming
lauralett50 3 years ago
That whole series was sad , books and movies. Especially, when Finn dies . I hate that scene.
Artsy Bookworm 3 years ago
Finnick yes! He was such a sweetheart. So many deaths in the last book, I don't even wanna read it again.
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talliloo 3 years ago
yes, this one was hard. especially when you realize that it was heavensbee that basically orchestrated the creation of the mockingjay and the revolution and the real battle was between him and snow with katniss, prim and everyone else were pawns.
Salma Hernández 3 years ago
I watched the movie. I can forget that Hug of the cat with Katniss.
ConstantConstance 3 years ago
I remember crying when I read that bit in the book, but I haven't cried over it while watching the films every I don't think
Ashley Harrold 3 years ago
I was so pissed when she died because Katniss went through hell and back for pretty much nothing. Very realistic of war though
#42
Bruce Willis at the end of “Armageddon” when he’s telling his daughter goodbye. I ugly cry every damn time. Hell, the last “Thor” movie tore me up too at the end.
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
Liv Tyler deserves credit for that scene too. She and Bruce Willis made me believe that they were truly father and daughter. It's such a beautiful, sad scene.
#43
Those little shoes in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Tom Hardeveld 3 years ago
it didn't do anything, it was rubbing up to Doom like a little kitten, it was just brutally murdered
Detroit Citizen 3 years ago
Great. I had forgotten that part. Now its a fresh wound all over again. This is my Monday morning now, mourning those shoes
MyMindWanders 2 years ago
I was totally destroyed by that scene. Felt like I'd been punched in the gut. Little shoe acted like a snuggly kitty cat and screamed in terror. And those big sad eyes. UGH
#44
Brandon Fraser’s characters in Scrubs
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
It took me an embarrassingly long time watching that episode to realize he was dead.
Rahul Pawa 3 years ago (edited)
If we're going to talk about sad scenes in Scrubs, the top for me was the episode with the three patients who all needed organ transplants. **Spoiler alert** There was another patient who died and was an organ donor. So all three patients got the organs they needed....then they found the woman had died from rabies and all three organ recipients died too. They started the episode saying "1 in 3 ER patients die" then introduced each patient. They ended the episode by saying "sometimes the odds are much worse."
#45
Matthew Cuthbert - Anne of Green Gables
Frances Pitchounetta 3 years ago
And when he said to Anne before dying: "I would not have exchanged you for all the boys in the world. You are my daughter." 😭😭😭
Salma Hernández 3 years ago
Aish... I begin the year watching green gables anime and Anne with an E. Really I don't want this happen. Its because of Matthew Anne can stay
#46
Finnick. kokobunnie828 replied: Honestly, Finnick’s entire character broke me. Not only was his death just so quick and brutal but it was the obvious PTSD and him watching Katniss fall into the same broken person he had been and trying to warn her against it. The things all of those characters through were horrifying, but Finnick really just hit me too hard.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I had to read that a few times to really understand what happened. I really thought he'd have his happy ending with Annie.
lauralett50 3 years ago
At least Annie had a son so she has part of Finnick .
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#47
Arnold in Terminator 2
Every. Single. Time.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I will ugly-cry my eyes out every time I see this movie. And I'm old enough to have seen it in theatres when it first came out.
Lupita Nyong'heaux 3 years ago
YASSSS!!!!!! people look at me like i'm crazy when i tell them i bawl my eyes out at that scene every single time! when he gives the thumb up, i lose it.
#48
Goose in Top Gun
Emma London 3 years ago
Without that death, it wouldn't have been half the movie it came to be.
3 years ago (edited)
I love these movies but GOD I was about to cry in front of my dad when I watched it the first time
#49
Ned Stark from Game of thrones
Steve Kenney 3 years ago
Could not watch GOT after that. Too damn angry about killing Sean Bean's character.
#50
Buffy at the end of season 5 of BTVS
MrsFettesVette 3 years ago
The way Spike looked absolutely destroyed...omg
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John Krazinksi’s character in “A Quiet Place”
#52
Grave of the fireflies.. both siblings
#53
Poussey from Orange is the New Black
#54
Johnny on "The Outsiders". Stay gold, Johnnycakes..Johnny cakes... oops, he's dead.
#55
Roy in Blade Runner "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die."
lauralett50 3 years ago
I have never been able to stay awake during that movie. Don't know why
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I love it! I have an old old shirt with the origami unicorn on it. Been worn and washed so many times that the silver is fading :( I suppose that's fitting...
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George Omalley from Grey's Anatomy. I had to stop watching after that my heart literally broke
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
**SPOILERS** Having them not even recognize him was such a masterful stroke.
#57
Bailey from a dog's journey. The first movie death I cried to
Olive Harper 3 years ago
What was the name of the movie where the dog would live out his dog life, die, and then come back as another dog until he eventually made it back to his original owner? You would watch him be a new dog for like 15 minutes, love him, become emotionally attached and then he would die. I remember he was a regular pup at first who I think just died at old age, then he was a dog who died in a fire after he rescued his owner, then at somepoint he was a dog that got abused, and then he was a police dog. That was a good, but sad movie.
Margrete Sonnenberg 3 years ago (edited)
A dog's purpose. Its a book series and there 3 books about all together. A dog's purpose, A dog's Journey and A Dog's Promise
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Naomi Williams 3 years ago
I know! I watched that movie at my friend's b day party. We all cried
ObsidianAce_ 3 years ago
The only movie deaths I’ve cried to have been literally any dog and Spider-Man in Infinity War lmao :,)
#58
Everyone in All Quiet On the Western Front. It’s so tragic to think that was the real fate of millions of young men fooled into fighting a completely pointless war.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
And it still happens in pointless wars to this day. We need to learn. We need to stop.
patricia patricia 3 years ago
I'm afraid we will never learn and will never stop. We are the most stupid and self destructive species in the whole universe.
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Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
The movie was TERRIBLE compared to the book. It made me sad to watch. The book was about Paul coming of age and the interactions and relationships between the men and boys in the war, not about the fighting. They turned the movie into yet another "gruesome war movie with blood and guts" when it was supposed to be about the people fighting, how Paul became disillusioned with the glories of war and the glories of his country and his pride. If you have a chance and are interested, I recommend reading the book. Worlds above the movie.
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Every time Jude law crawls into the goddam oven and f*****g sets himself on fire f*****g kills me (gattaca 1997), but dam I love that movie it's a masterpiece.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
We watched that one in highschool when we were learning about genetics!
Ashley Harrold 3 years ago
I saw it in high school too but for an English Class
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Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Another "oven-esque" death was in Equiibrium. When Bale couldn't get to them in time to stop the execution.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
I just got goosebumps thinking about it. I love this movie. It's heartbreaking on so many levels. If you get a chance to, listen to the song "The Departure" from the soundtrack from the movie.
#60
All the deaths in the red wedding from game of thrones.
François Carré 3 years ago
I've watched countless hours of movies and series but I've rarely had my blood chilled as much as during these few minutes (including the completely silent ending credits afterwards).
#61
Ash in that Pokémon movie.. that scene where Pikachu goes up to him and starts crying HOW THE F**K WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW IF PIKACHU UNDERSTOOD THE CONCEPT OF DEATH F**K IM CRYING AGAIN
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
This was super hard for me. My first wife and I took her younger brothers to watch the movie. We played Pokemon together as a fam. So here I am an older 20-something adult in a dark movie theater trying my hardest not to cry as to make it worse for the kiddos. But a few tears decided to break loose and run away anyway. Every time I describe the scene to someone who's unaware, chokes me up. It's just a cartoon man! (yeah, that's what I keep telling myself)
Thomas Bentley 3 years ago (edited)
he is not a man, he is ten years old. that is much f*****g worse
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Shireen Baratheon from Game of Thrones
Artsy Bookworm 3 years ago
Literally everyone in Game of Thrones. I never watched it but the books were so traumatising in itself, I couldn't finish it. You start to like a character and boom they dead.
#63
Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist/Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. His funeral always hits me so damn hard.
SomeoneTookMySweetRoll 3 years ago (edited)
Maes Hughes was the only major character in the entire series who only motive was “I need to help and protect the people I love”, which made his death just that much more tragic. As if that wasn’t sad enough, at the funeral when Elicia starts yelling “Daddy said he has a lot of work to do and if they bury him he can’t do it when he wakes up…”
Ashley Harrold 3 years ago
Note to self, never watch Fullmetal Alchemist. I don't think I could get through that
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Fives. He was so close to stopping order 66, but nobody would believe him.
#65
Opie from Sons of Anarchy
#66
F*****g Oy cuts fresh and deep every time I reread the Dark Tower. Edit: As many of you have pointed out, Jake and Eddie are equally sob-inducing, and I bawl like a baby every time I go round the Tower again (which has been many and many-a times, Roland would say *delah* and twiddle his fingers at the horizon). Also, I wish I hadn’t posted this because every time someone responds, I get melancholy af all over again. Long days and pleasant nights to all of you.
Ches Yamada 3 years ago
Oy seriously deserved better. He *stayed*. He stayed with Roland. He should have somehow been shown as a puppy or something in that other universe. I hated Eddie's death, but Oy was the second blow that destroyed me. He was nothing but pure Good Boy.
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I believe that Susannah and the Toren brothers - Eddie and Jake - will happen to find an odd stray dog... a dog whose bark sounds suspiciously like human speech. I believe it because I must. That's enough. Say thankya.
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"And may you have twice the number." The Dark Tower series are my favorite books, by my favorite author. These books spanned two decades of my life. They are an integral part of me. It's 4am and I am sitting here crying because now I remember how much I loved all of them, and all of them die. Go, then - there are other worlds than these.
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
My absolutely favourite magnum opus of all time, the deaths have stuck with me but of all, the one that hurt the most was Gabrielle.
#67
The guy is the Fault in our stars. I cried my eyes out. Like whole box of tissues.
Phoenix(or nix)they/them 3 years ago
I couldn't even watch the last 10 minutes of the movie. I had to stop watching I was getting so emotional.
Angie Chiyoko ( She/they) 3 years ago
I read this post just to see if someone would name Gus..... I sobbed reading the book and sobbed watching the movie... I still love both the movie and the book tho.
#68
Gwen Stacy hitting the floor
Damon 3 years ago
She didn’t hit the floor, right? Maybe in tbd movie, but the webbing snapped her back in the comic
CG 3 years ago
I think it was the wiplash from getting caught by Spidey's web that snapped her neck, at least in the comics. I think the back of her head hit the ground in the movie. Been a while since I saw Amazing Spider-Man 2.
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Spoiler for Better Call Saul. >!Howard Hamlin from Better Call Saul.!< >!The guy just doesn't catch any break despite being the kindest yet the most professional guy in the world of BCS.!< >!And what does he get for not just tolerating but also being empathetic and helpful to the worst bunch of people. He does not even get to complete the only nervous breakdown he had. He get killed in the middle of nervous breakdown by the person who just blows his brains out for absolutely no reason.!<
#70
Nina Tucker - Full Metal Alchemist
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I like to think that she is running happily over the Rainbow Bridge with Alexander forever. They don't usually permit humans over there, but they made an exception so she could be with Alexander.
#72
Arthur Morgan. Pop_Smoke replied: I just got to that part about an hour ago. Even though I knew it was coming, it was still a gut punch. What I was completely unready for was his horse dying, and Arthur saying “Thank you”. I bawled.
Dre Mosley 3 years ago
That was quite a scene. Oh, and as far as videogame characters go, I don't think I've ever disliked one as much as I disliked Micah.
#73
Marshall's dad and how I met your mother
lauralett50 3 years ago
I hated this part. But the Marshall character ,the way he dealt with his dad's death. Helped me in my grief for my dad.
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Surprised no one's mentioned Mike Ehrmantraut yet.
Red Ruffensor 3 years ago
Even sadder is when you realize all the situations Mike came out of, only to be blindsided by Walt having a hissy fit.
#76
Every character from train to busan
TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
The arsehole closing doors and pushing others into the zombies excluded, right?
Artsy Bookworm 3 years ago
The dad, that last scene when he realises he will turn into one and his daughter is holding onto him. I was ugly crying. And of course the husband. God, he was amazing I loved that man, he deserved to see his kid
#77
Hank from Breaking Bad
Bob La Capra 3 years ago
Hank was at war with the bad guys, that was his job. He was killed in the line of duty whereas Jesse's girlfriend Andrea was gunned down while he was forced to watch. To me that was a sadder death
#78
Ji-Yeong in Squid Game. In the episode Gaanbu the players were in teams of two, given some marbles, and had to play a game (any game). Whoever had all the marbles when the timer ran out was the winner. Ji-Yeong and Kang Sae-byeok spent their time telling each other their stories, investing us in them emotionally.
#79
Zabuza and haku
#80
Harry Potter's walk to death for me, all his character development throughout the series is shown there and all his thoughts made my throat so dry and my eyes so teary.
MrsFettesVette 3 years ago
His loved ones surrounding him and supporting him is what kills me. That only he can see and hear them. I sobbed reading that
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Yes, he does die. Don't deny his character that heroism. Even if Miracle Max would say, "eh, I've seen woise."
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#81
SPOILERS FOR ONE PIECE! You've been warned. The Going Merry. It would have been Ace, but I had his death spoiled for me.
Ches Yamada 3 years ago
I HATED the new ship forever. Really. Still not a fan, I loved the Merry so much I named one of my old cars after it. RIP both, now.
#82
Rita from Dexter. Sorry if this is spoiling anything for anybody but Dexter’s also been out for a long a*s time, so that’s on you.
Kate Jones 3 years ago
I think I was the only person who hated Rita and I wasn't sad when she died. Plus is was truly shocking because she was a major character and it was really surprising they'd kill her off. It was one of the best seasons of the show on top of it.
Juririn 3 years ago
I didn't like Rita, either, found her super annoying.
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Splašená sardel 3 years ago
nope, I popped a champagne when they killed off that annoying b***h
François Carré 3 years ago
And Dexter's mother ? When he finally recalls what happened to her... Awful.
Claire Cotton 3 years ago
I wasn't overly sad at her death, I think it was an obvious it was coming, but super clever/sad/soul destroying for dexter who found Harrison sitting in her blood as a reminder to his childhood :(
Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago
"also been out for a long a*s time, so that’s on you." I agree with this. And this coming from someone who hasn't watched it yet. We really need statute of limitations on spoilers.
#83
Rengoku “set your heart ablaze” 😓
LightYagami 2 years ago
i have watched all the demon slayer seasons and read the entire manga but none of the deaths have hit as hard as this. Rest in peace kyojuro rengoku
#84
John Marston. Red Dead Redemption. Worked hard to escape a life of crime, atone for his sins, become a good man, even worked to bring those who he helped do harm to justice, but in the end, he never could escape his past. His fate was sealed no matter how hard he tried. Just heartbreaking and made me sob when I played the game
#85
Sarah Lynn bojack horseman
#86
Can’t choose one, but for what’s fresh in my mind, David from Edgerunners. Not particularly emotional in the moment but jarring, and seeing the other characters dead around him built it up. What really got me was Lucy on the moon afterwards. Hit me like a truck then.
#87
Teft from the Stormlight Archive is just an absolute punch to the gut. The series as a whole already has so many scenes that can bring tears to anyone and this death was just painful.
#88
Country Mac. He was not the kind of guy who could score a point in a black belt tournament.
#89
BT, Titanfall. Legit tears
Brian Miller 3 years ago (edited)
This got me so bad, every time I play it! "Trust me!". Also E3N from Modern Warfare Advance Warfare around the same time. Ouch, hits me hard man.
#90
Leonard Church in Red vs. Blue, who was my favorite character in the show. For runner-ups, I'd say Kareem Saïd in Oz and Randall P. MacMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Fanny Fanackerpan 3 years ago
Shelby in Steel Magnolia's - well actually her Mother's reaction following the burial. Gets me every time.
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Hales M 3 years ago
Also the girl in the red coat from Schindler's lost. Also also the boys from The Boy in The Striped Pajamas. I saw where it was headed while watching it with my grandmother. I said I wanted a banana and to keep it going-- i don't like bananas. I walked upstairs to the kitchen and cried as I ate a banana. Like to my knees crying. The movie had been in the inspirational section, I expected it to have a happy ending so i was fully not prepared for the ending. Also also hooch from Turner and Hooch-- my dad pick for movie rentals when I was like 7-- NO ONE TOLD ME THE DOG WOULD DIE AT THE END!! I was inconsolable and cried myself to sleep. He was taken off of the blockbuster rotation by my mum for like a year.
patricia patricia 3 years ago
I also expected a "happy" ending in "Schindler's List" and "The boy ...". I remember a sense if relief when the little girl finds a place to hide, and I thought the German boy would somehow manage to help the Jewish boy to escape. When I realised the kids were dead I just couldn't stop crying. Terrible cruelty for millions people, and there are still people who glorify Nazi ideology!
Load More Replies... Lisa H 3 years ago
We ALL cried when Old Yeller died, okay?? I was, like, 5 or 6 and it messed me up. But, yeah, how is Old Yeller not on this list?
Will Cable 3 years ago
Chris Chambers in Stand By Me when we are told how he died trying to stop an argument.
Hales M 3 years ago
Pay It Forward-- died trying to stand up to the bullies.
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Emma S 3 years ago (edited)
Sophie's daughter being carried away by the Nazi guard never fails to have me blubbering. Although you don't see her die, you know that's what is going to happen. The terrified screams of the little girl and the look of pure heartbreak and guilt on Sophie's face because she's been forced to pick a child to be murdered.
patricia patricia 3 years ago
The boy was also taken, so she had to choose to save one but she couldn't save any of them. She kills herself at the end of the film. I honestly think no person could ever get over the guilt and pain of something like this.
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lauralett50 3 years ago
I wanted to reach through the telly and b***h slap her father,!!
Load More Replies... Hales M 3 years ago
Also the girl in the red coat from Schindler's lost. Also also the boys from The Boy in The Striped Pajamas. I saw where it was headed while watching it with my grandmother. I said I wanted a banana and to keep it going-- i don't like bananas. I walked upstairs to the kitchen and cried as I ate a banana. Like to my knees crying. The movie had been in the inspirational section, I expected it to have a happy ending so i was fully not prepared for the ending. Also also hooch from Turner and Hooch-- my dad pick for movie rentals when I was like 7-- NO ONE TOLD ME THE DOG WOULD DIE AT THE END!! I was inconsolable and cried myself to sleep. He was taken off of the blockbuster rotation by my mum for like a year.
patricia patricia 3 years ago
I also expected a "happy" ending in "Schindler's List" and "The boy ...". I remember a sense if relief when the little girl finds a place to hide, and I thought the German boy would somehow manage to help the Jewish boy to escape. When I realised the kids were dead I just couldn't stop crying. Terrible cruelty for millions people, and there are still people who glorify Nazi ideology!
Load More Replies... Lisa H 3 years ago
We ALL cried when Old Yeller died, okay?? I was, like, 5 or 6 and it messed me up. But, yeah, how is Old Yeller not on this list?
Will Cable 3 years ago
Chris Chambers in Stand By Me when we are told how he died trying to stop an argument.
Hales M 3 years ago
Pay It Forward-- died trying to stand up to the bullies.
Load More Replies... Emma S 3 years ago (edited)
Sophie's daughter being carried away by the Nazi guard never fails to have me blubbering. Although you don't see her die, you know that's what is going to happen. The terrified screams of the little girl and the look of pure heartbreak and guilt on Sophie's face because she's been forced to pick a child to be murdered.
patricia patricia 3 years ago
The boy was also taken, so she had to choose to save one but she couldn't save any of them. She kills herself at the end of the film. I honestly think no person could ever get over the guilt and pain of something like this.
Load More Replies... lauralett50 3 years ago
I wanted to reach through the telly and b***h slap her father,!!
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