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40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can’t Get Over Them

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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

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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.

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Final score:

320points

Lakota Wolf 1 year ago

NO NO NO don't make me remember this :::goes to cry in a corner::

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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."

#2

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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.

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Final score:

298points

Katie Lutesinger 1 year 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".

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#3

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them The dog in I Am Legend.

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213points

Lakota Wolf 1 year ago

Her name was Sam, short for Samantha.

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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

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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

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Final score:

198points

Katie Lutesinger 1 year 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??

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#5

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Mufasa's death gets me every time

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Final score:

196points

assdog 1 year 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.

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"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

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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

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Final score:

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boredatwork 1 year ago

As if losing your parents was not enough. WTF Disney this was brutal

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#7

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Sirius Black from Harry Potter. He was my favorite character.

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Minnie Not Mouse 1 year ago

SAME!! Black was amazing!

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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."

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#8

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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 :(

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Final score:

193points

Lakota Wolf 1 year 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.

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#9

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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.

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Final score:

193points

DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago

I really wanted him to live but happy that Forest gave his family his share.

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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.

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So sob away folks, you should come out stronger.

#10

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Daisy, John Wick's dog.

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Final score:

193points

Lakota Wolf 1 year 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!

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#11

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Bing Bong :((( the whole “take her to the moon for me” got me in SHAMBLES

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Final score:

190points

Natalie Bohrteller 1 year ago

This list is like swimming in a pool of onion ninjas.

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#12

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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."

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Final score:

190points

Fembot 1 year ago

Nope. Not an onion in sight. Like someone else said (here?), Dobby is the Jar Jar Binks of the potterverse

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#13

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Hedwig. Such a small death, but it really helped to show the pointlessness of war

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Final score:

188points

Sapna Sarfare 1 year ago

her death hurt me the most....

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#14

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Marley in Marley and me 😢

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Final score:

184points

Serial pacifist 1 year ago

Oh, this one, onion ninjas got me on this one

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#15

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them So cliché, but Severus Snape

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Final score:

183points

Lakota Wolf 1 year 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.

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#16

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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.

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Final score:

179points

Lakota Wolf 1 year 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.

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#17

Artax. Time has not healed that wound yet.

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Ches Yamada 1 year ago

Poor horse. That served up some ugly crying for me as a kid.

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#18

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Eddie in Stranger Things

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Final score:

156points

Sarah Kathrin Matsoukis 1 year ago

I was sobbing into my emotional support sandwich after that

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#19

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Boromir! My brother, my captain, my king.

TheLonelySnail replied:

They took the little ones!

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Final score:

155points

Phoenix(or nix)they/them 1 year ago

I can hear this. Imma go cry in a dark recording studio across the hall.

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#20

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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.

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Final score:

154points

Lakota Wolf 1 year 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

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#21

Fred Weasley.

someone replied:
Tonks and Lupin in the same scene too. Brutal

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Final score:

153points

𝔙𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔢 𝔊𝔦𝔯𝔩 1 year ago

Lupin hit so hard, he was one of my favorite characters, really everyone in that scene was one of my favorites.

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#22

Yondu, gardians of the galaxy

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Final score:

153points

Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

"He mighta been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy!"

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#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.

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Final score:

146points

Lakota Wolf 1 year 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.

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#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.

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Minnie Not Mouse 1 year ago

Same

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#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."

😭😭😭

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Final score:

138points

Kat Hoth 1 year ago

That book wrecked me as a kid and can still make me cry.

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#26

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Glen from the walking dead. Him looking over at Maggie as he was dying, destroyed me.

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Final score:

133points

Jojo 1 year ago

THIS! Made me stop watching the walking dead right there and then.

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#27

Wash, pilot of the firefly class serenity. He's a leaf on the wind.

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Final score:

130points

Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

Watch how I soar...

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#28

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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.

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Final score:

128points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Broke. My. Heart.

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#29

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Leslie Burke, Bridge to Terabithia

I didn't expect it at all, It said Family/Fantasy and was made by Disney.

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Final score:

122points

Katie Lutesinger 1 year 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. >:(

38points

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#30

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Wilson from cast away

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Final score:

120points

Joroches 1 year ago

He didn't pass away he just drifted off. Probably living his best life on a tropical island somewhere.

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#31

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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

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Final score:

118points

tuzdayschild 1 year ago

When you finally realize Hodor is not his name but his destiny.

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#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."

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Final score:

117points

Lakota Wolf 1 year ago

I cried at this, and I cried when I learned that Leonard Nimoy died. What a masterful actor.

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#33

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.

Final score:

108points

Katie Lutesinger 1 year 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.

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#34

The Iron Giant will ALWAYS have me ugly crying when he goes up to stop the missle

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Final score:

102points

Tom Hardeveld 1 year ago

"You are what you choose to be." "SUPERMAN!"

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#35

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Wolverine in Logan, that was such a great ending to his story but damn if it wasn't sad

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Final score:

99points

Lakota Wolf 1 year 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!

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#36

Beth in Little Women

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Final score:

95points

tuzdayschild 1 year ago

Every time, every version.

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#37

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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

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Final score:

91points

Kel Jones 1 year 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.

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#38

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.

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Final score:

89points

Lakota Wolf 1 year 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.

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#39

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Uncle Iroh singing to his dead son, dam now that was sad.

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Final score:

86points

DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago

Uncle Iroh is the uncle we all deserve.

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#40

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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."

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Final score:

69points

Myst Edenflower 1 year ago

Pops died?! Of f that mess.

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#41

Primrose in the hunger games trilogy
As a 12 year-old did not see that coming

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Final score:

51points

lauralett50 1 year ago

That whole series was sad , books and movies. Especially, when Finn dies . I hate that scene.

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#42

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them 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.

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Final score:

45points

lauralett50 1 year ago

I cry every time.

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#43

Those little shoes in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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Final score:

42points

Tom Hardeveld 1 year ago

it didn't do anything, it was rubbing up to Doom like a little kitten, it was just brutally murdered

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#44

Brandon Fraser’s characters in Scrubs

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Final score:

40points

DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago

Yesssssssssssssss.

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#45

Matthew Cuthbert - Anne of Green Gables

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Final score:

40points

Frances Pitchounetta 1 year 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." 😭😭😭

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#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.

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Final score:

39points

DennyS (denzoren) 1 year 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.

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#47

40 Fictional Characters Whose Deaths Were So Devastating, People Can't Get Over Them Arnold in Terminator 2

Every. Single. Time.

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Final score:

38points

Lakota Wolf 1 year 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.

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#48

Goose in Top Gun

Final score:

35points

Lil Potato 1 year ago

omg! don't make me relive that moment in the movie!

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#49

Ned Stark from Game of thrones

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Final score:

33points

Lakota Wolf 1 year ago

Stop killing off Sean Bean's characters in everything he's in! XD

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#50

Buffy at the end of season 5 of BTVS

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Final score:

32points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

This should be higher. Just for the "She saved the world. A lot."

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#51

John Krazinksi’s character in “A Quiet Place”

Final score:

32points

AutisticTurtle 1 year ago

God that f*****g wrecked me

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#52

Grave of the fireflies.. both siblings

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Final score:

30points

Minnie Not Mouse 1 year ago

OMG!! THIS MOVIE WAS SO SAD!!!

13points

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#53

Poussey from Orange is the New Black

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Final score:

29points

Jojo 1 year ago

Yep, another one that made me bawl...

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#54

Johnny on "The Outsiders". Stay gold, Johnnycakes..Johnny cakes... oops, he's dead.

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Final score:

29points

Horst 1 year ago

I watched that movie as a kid. Dallas’ death was pretty sad too, but poor Johnny :(

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#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."

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Final score:

28points

Caro Caro 1 year ago

RIP Rutger Hauer. He was a great actor.

21points

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#56

George Omalley from Grey's Anatomy. I had to stop watching after that my heart literally broke

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Final score:

27points

Hobby Hopper 1 year ago

**SPOILERS** Having them not even recognize him was such a masterful stroke.

3points

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#57

Bailey from a dog's journey. The first movie death I cried to

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Final score:

26points

Olive Harper 1 year 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.

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#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.

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Final score:

25points

Lakota Wolf 1 year ago

And it still happens in pointless wars to this day. We need to learn. We need to stop.

12points

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#59

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.

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Final score:

23points

Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

We watched that one in highschool when we were learning about genetics!

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#60

All the deaths in the red wedding from game of thrones.

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Final score:

23points

TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago

Walder Frey got the revenge for that served hot though

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#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

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Final score:

23points

Ozymandias73 1 year 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)

4points

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#62

Shireen Baratheon from Game of Thrones

Final score:

19points

Kate Jones 1 year ago

Poor kid.

2points

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#63

Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist/Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. His funeral always hits me so damn hard.

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Final score:

18points

SomeoneTookMySweetRoll 1 year 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…”

4points

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#64

Fives.

He was so close to stopping order 66, but nobody would believe him.

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Final score:

17points

DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago

RIP Fives

11points

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#65

Opie from Sons of Anarchy

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Final score:

16points

Monica A. M. 1 year ago

Destroyed me. Cried.

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#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.

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Final score:

16points

Ches Yamada 1 year 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.

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#67

The guy is the Fault in our stars. I cried my eyes out. Like whole box of tissues.

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Final score:

16points

Kel Jones 1 year ago (edited)

Absolutely. Augustus' death had me incapacitated for hours.

3points

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#68

Gwen Stacy hitting the floor

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Final score:

15points

Damon 1 year ago

She didn’t hit the floor, right? Maybe in tbd movie, but the webbing snapped her back in the comic

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#69

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.!<

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Final score:

15points

LeeAnne B 1 year ago

Yes, simply for being slightly inconvenient to Lalo Salamanca.l

0points

#70

Nina Tucker - Full Metal Alchemist

Final score:

15points

Hales M 1 year ago

Screw that show screw her father, screw that episode. Screw everything about it. I have never rage quit a show so fast. I was so angry at my then-bf for telling me to watch the show. I was sobbing. I still have nightmares about that freaky voice. Noped out, so fast.

5points

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#71

Satine Moulin Rouge

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Final score:

15points

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#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.

Final score:

14points

Marion 1 year ago

Aaand what rrreeeaaaly pissed me off: it wouldn’t have hurt anyone or any part of the story, when he just rode off into the sunset. Why does everything have to be so bloody sad. It annoyed me. I never play the game to the end, becauce of this. Fück TB and micah!

2points

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#73

Marshall's dad and how I met your mother

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Final score:

14points

Daniel Atkins 1 year ago

The numbers counting down in the background with every scene.

2points

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#74

any optimus prime death. they gotta stop killing him dude let the man breathe

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Final score:

14points

#75

Surprised no one's mentioned Mike Ehrmantraut yet.

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Final score:

13points

Ches Yamada 1 year ago

...who?

11points

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#76

Every character from train to busan

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Final score:

13points

TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago

The arsehole closing doors and pushing others into the zombies excluded, right?

2points

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#77

Hank from Breaking Bad

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Final score:

12points

heather7d@yahoo.com 1 year ago

Oh, that was chilling!!

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#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.

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Final score:

12points

Artsy Bookworm 1 year ago

Ali🤌 I mean that totally killed me.

0points

#79

Zabuza and haku

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Final score:

11points

Minnie Not Mouse 1 year ago

This was so sad! Spoiler: But Neji was worse!!!

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#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.

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Final score:

11points

MrsFettesVette 1 year 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

4points

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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.

Melonmode Report

Final score:

10points

Ches Yamada 1 year 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.

0points

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#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.

Final score:

10points

Kate Jones 1 year 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.

8points

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#83

Rengoku “set your heart ablaze” 😓

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Final score:

10points

Ephemeral Mochi 1 year ago

This needs to be higher.

2points

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#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

Datzookman Report

Final score:

9points

Marion 1 year ago

Also, like arthur, stupid ending. Hate it! Totally unnecessary 😢

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#85

Sarah Lynn bojack horseman

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Final score:

8points

Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

"I wanna be an architect..."

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#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.

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Final score:

6points

TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago

Rebecca's death wasn't really cool either

0points

#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.

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Final score:

6points

Detective Miller's Hat 1 year ago

That one hit me in the gut.

0points

#88

Country Mac.

He was not the kind of guy who could score a point in a black belt tournament.

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Final score:

5points

Nicholas L 1 year ago

That episode was ridiculously hilarious!

1point

#89

BT, Titanfall. Legit tears

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Final score:

3points

Brian Miller 1 year 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.

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#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

Final score:

2points

Fanny Fanackerpan 1 year ago

Shelby in Steel Magnolia's - well actually her Mother's reaction following the burial. Gets me every time.

1point

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I'm a Visual Editor for Bored Panda. I’m also an analog collage artist. My love for images and experience in layering goes well with both creating collages by hand and working with digital images as an Editor. When I’m not using my kitchen area as an art studio I also do various experiments making my own cosmetics or brewing kombucha. When I’m not at home you would most definitely find me attending a concert or walking my dog.

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Valaun 1 year ago

Dumbo's mom, after she was locked up for looking after her kid.

33points

Charlotte Dupre 1 year ago

Bambi's mom!!!

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Melody Shanahan-Kluth 1 year ago

I cannot watch Dumbo - I just can't, when she wraps her trunk around baby Dumbo through the bars on that window and sings to him - I am crying now just remembering the scene. My 5 children grew up NOT watching it because I couldnt have the video (and then DVD) in the house

3points

Jenn C 1 year ago

I alwats cried when she reached through the bars to rock him. I didn't watch the live action Dumbo because it just looked so sad.

1point

I-am-bubbles!(she/her/cat) 1 year ago

That movie broke me emotionally.

0points

Steve Kenney 1 year ago

People who don't cry or feel some deep emotion as she's cradling him while that damn Baby Mine song is playing have no soul.

0points

Hales M 1 year 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.

19points

patricia patricia 1 year 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!

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Lisa H 1 year 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?

18points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

eBeat me to it. Old Yeller. *wah*

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Valaun 1 year ago

Dumbo's mom, after she was locked up for looking after her kid.

33points

Charlotte Dupre 1 year ago

Bambi's mom!!!

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Melody Shanahan-Kluth 1 year ago

I cannot watch Dumbo - I just can't, when she wraps her trunk around baby Dumbo through the bars on that window and sings to him - I am crying now just remembering the scene. My 5 children grew up NOT watching it because I couldnt have the video (and then DVD) in the house

3points

Jenn C 1 year ago

I alwats cried when she reached through the bars to rock him. I didn't watch the live action Dumbo because it just looked so sad.

1point

I-am-bubbles!(she/her/cat) 1 year ago

That movie broke me emotionally.

0points

Steve Kenney 1 year ago

People who don't cry or feel some deep emotion as she's cradling him while that damn Baby Mine song is playing have no soul.

0points

Hales M 1 year 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.

19points

patricia patricia 1 year 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!

4points

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Lisa H 1 year 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?

18points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

eBeat me to it. Old Yeller. *wah*

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