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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."

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.

Final score:

298points

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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".

102points

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

FindingBeemo , sinemabed Report

Final score:

213points

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Lakota Wolf 1 year ago

Her name was Sam, short for Samantha.

59points

Possible_Industry816 , Solid-Technician-301 Report

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."

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

Final score:

198points

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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??

62points

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

thatbitch8008 , R. Kurmann Report

Final score:

196points

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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.

45points

"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.

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

DietCokeDude13 , Tadashi Hamada Report

Final score:

195points

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boredatwork 1 year ago

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

58points

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

Dragon_Queen79 Report

Final score:

195points

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Minnie Not Mouse 1 year ago

SAME!! Black was amazing!

42points

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."

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 :(

Kross516 , Screen Themes Report

Final score:

193points

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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.

51points

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.

ChuckZombie , Movieclips Report

Final score:

193points

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DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago

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

35points

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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

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

Final score:

193points

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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!

82points

#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

crooksndragons , Shumy miles Report

Final score:

190points

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Natalie Bohrteller 1 year ago

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

48points

#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."

dietrich94 , Harry Potter Fans Report

Final score:

190points

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Fembot 1 year ago

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

39points

Honest-Ad-2169 , Harry Potter World Report

#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

Final score:

188points

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Sapna Sarfare 1 year ago

her death hurt me the most....

30points

Exciting_Pepper_69 , Fox Family Entertainment Report

#14

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

Final score:

184points

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Serial pacifist 1 year ago

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

48points

QuitComplaing , Professor Severus Snape Report

#15

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

Final score:

183points

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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.

96points

peeshermanfortytwo Report

#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.

Final score:

179points

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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.

34points

#17

Artax. Time has not healed that wound yet.

Donkeywad Report

Final score:

161points

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Ches Yamada 1 year ago

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

32points

#18

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

ozinou , WeCanTry Report

Final score:

156points

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Sarah Kathrin Matsoukis 1 year ago

I was sobbing into my emotional support sandwich after that

65points

#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!

bananafish_8 , imgflip.com Report

Final score:

155points

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Phoenix(or nix)they/them 1 year ago

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

18points

#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.

hodges2 , Zach Tirrell Report

Final score:

154points

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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

38points

#21

Fred Weasley.

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

FlysaMinelly Report

Final score:

153points

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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.

32points

#22

Yondu, gardians of the galaxy

nobodysama Report

Final score:

153points

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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

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

76points

#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.

GaussfaceKilla Report

Final score:

146points

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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.

48points

#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.

pwrightPT Report

Final score:

143points

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Minnie Not Mouse 1 year ago

Same

31points

#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."

😭😭😭

nerph_herder Report

Final score:

138points

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Kat Hoth 1 year ago

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

31points

#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.

ThrowRagoo , Kekker Report

Final score:

133points

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Jojo 1 year ago

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

50points

Senior_Atmosphere303 Report

#27

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

Final score:

130points

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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

Watch how I soar...

34points

#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.

24Nitro-gamer , xAndrzej42 Report

Final score:

128points

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Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Broke. My. Heart.

20points

#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.

SuvenPan , FilmTeaser Report

Final score:

122points

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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

Smurfeyyy , Wilson from Cast Away Report

#30

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

Final score:

120points

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Joroches 1 year ago

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

51points

#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

bgb8987 , crizzl Report

Final score:

118points

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tuzdayschild 1 year ago

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

35points

#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."

Lisa_Anns_Ass Report

Final score:

117points

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Lakota Wolf 1 year ago

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

45points

#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.

2-DMan Report

Final score:

108points

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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.

18points

#34

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

muhfckinuhhh Report

Final score:

102points

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Tom Hardeveld 1 year ago

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

22points

#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

Anything-Live , Movie Mania Report

Final score:

99points

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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!

14points

#36

Beth in Little Women

agirl1313 Report

Final score:

95points

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tuzdayschild 1 year ago

Every time, every version.

30points

Tuna-No-Crust , Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers Report

#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

Final score:

91points

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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.

10points

#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.

johnnycumseed Report

Final score:

89points

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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.

29points

Klickyknees , Konietzko, Bryan & DiMartino, Michael Report

#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.

Final score:

86points

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DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago

Uncle Iroh is the uncle we all deserve.

24points

#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."

__BigBoi__ , eazyone83 Report

Final score:

69points

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Myst Edenflower 1 year ago

Pops died?! Of f that mess.

13points

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#41

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

FrequentFlyer_JP Report

Final score:

51points

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lauralett50 1 year ago

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

8points

#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.

EMTMommy9498 , Rotten Tomatoe Report

Final score:

45points

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lauralett50 1 year ago

I cry every time.

4points

Fantastic_Love_9451 Report

#43

Those little shoes in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Final score:

42points

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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

22points

#44

Brandon Fraser’s characters in Scrubs

aqualad213 Report

Final score:

40points

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DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago

Yesssssssssssssss.

10points

Mysterious_Lemon_204 Report

#45

Matthew Cuthbert - Anne of Green Gables

Final score:

40points

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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." 😭😭😭

25points

#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.

strwbrrybrie Report

Final score:

39points

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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.

15points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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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.

stardusthotel83 , theasc.com Report

Final score:

38points

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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.

11points

#48

Goose in Top Gun

421A Report

Final score:

35points

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Lil Potato 1 year ago

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

8points

#49

Ned Stark from Game of thrones

AbdoShaibany Report

Final score:

33points

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Lakota Wolf 1 year ago

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

23points

#50

Buffy at the end of season 5 of BTVS

Undertakeress Report

Final score:

32points

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Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

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

11points

#51

John Krazinksi’s character in “A Quiet Place”

Fyeone Report

Final score:

32points

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AutisticTurtle 1 year ago

God that f*****g wrecked me

3points

#52

Grave of the fireflies.. both siblings

eli_ana35 Report

Final score:

30points

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Minnie Not Mouse 1 year ago

OMG!! THIS MOVIE WAS SO SAD!!!

13points

#53

Poussey from Orange is the New Black

catfight04 Report

Final score:

29points

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Jojo 1 year ago

Yep, another one that made me bawl...

4points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#54

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

pternationalCity871 Report

Final score:

29points

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Horst 1 year ago

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

8points

#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."

lightGiver42 Report

Final score:

28points

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Caro Caro 1 year ago

RIP Rutger Hauer. He was a great actor.

21points

Electronic-Pen-2444 Report

#56

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

Final score:

27points

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Hobby Hopper 1 year ago

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

3points

#57

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

Drawma_Nations Report

Final score:

26points

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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.

6points

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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.

Final score:

25points

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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.

According-Bad4238 Report

Final score:

23points

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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

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

4points

Responsible-Yak1058 Report

#60

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

Final score:

23points

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago

Walder Frey got the revenge for that served hot though

4points

#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

toastfordays673 Report

Final score:

23points

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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

#62

Shireen Baratheon from Game of Thrones

Shhzb Report

Final score:

19points

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Kate Jones 1 year ago

Poor kid.

2points

#63

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

Krogoth22 Report

Final score:

18points

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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

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

#64

Fives.

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

MaximusGrassimus Report

Final score:

17points

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DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago

RIP Fives

11points

#65

Opie from Sons of Anarchy

Drug_Ninja Report

Final score:

16points

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Monica A. M. 1 year ago

Destroyed me. Cried.

0points

#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.

xandra_enaj Report

Final score:

16points

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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.

8points

#67

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

Starlettohara23 Report

Final score:

16points

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Kel Jones 1 year ago (edited)

Absolutely. Augustus' death had me incapacitated for hours.

3points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

#68

Gwen Stacy hitting the floor

Educational_Ad_2270 Report

Final score:

15points

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Damon 1 year ago

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

5points

#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.!<

NidheyShah Report

Final score:

15points

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LeeAnne B 1 year ago

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

0points

#70

Nina Tucker - Full Metal Alchemist

brshimp Report

Final score:

15points

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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

Some-Programmer-7585 Report

#71

Satine Moulin Rouge

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.

mtgtfo Report

Final score:

14points

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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

#73

Marshall's dad and how I met your mother

Business-Ad-1779 Report

Final score:

14points

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Daniel Atkins 1 year ago

The numbers counting down in the background with every scene.

2points

#74

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

columbasTyrant Report

Final score:

14points

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#75

Surprised no one's mentioned Mike Ehrmantraut yet.

branana06 Report

Final score:

13points

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Ches Yamada 1 year ago

...who?

11points

Electronic-Pen-2444 Report

#76

Every character from train to busan

Final score:

13points

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago

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

2points

“All Three Shot Out Pink”: Triplets' Baby Shower Turns Sour, Pregnant Wife Wants A Divorce

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College Student Does Exactly As Told After Roommates Demand They Keep Their Stuff In Their Room

#77

Hank from Breaking Bad

Blood_Bath__Bae Report

Final score:

12points

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heather7d@yahoo.com 1 year ago

Oh, that was chilling!!

0points

#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.

InsaneRabbitDaddy Report

Final score:

12points

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Artsy Bookworm 1 year ago

Ali🤌 I mean that totally killed me.

0points

#79

Zabuza and haku

SnooOpinions2673 Report

Final score:

11points

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Minnie Not Mouse 1 year ago

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

2points

#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.

No_Jaguar_8828 Report

Final score:

11points

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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

#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

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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

#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.

logdeg Report

Final score:

10points

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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

Due_Butterscotch1614 Report

#83

Rengoku “set your heart ablaze” 😓

Final score:

10points

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Ephemeral Mochi 1 year ago

This needs to be higher.

2points

#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

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Marion 1 year ago

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

1point

#85

Sarah Lynn bojack horseman

elixmangos Report

Final score:

8points

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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

"I wanna be an architect..."

4points

#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.

glorfindak Report

Final score:

6points

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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.

BossRoss1912 Report

Final score:

6points

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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.

Dandelion_Jones Report

Final score:

5points

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Nicholas L 1 year ago

That episode was ridiculously hilarious!

1point

#89

BT, Titanfall. Legit tears

AfosSavage Report

Final score:

3points

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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.

0points

#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

anon Report

Final score:

2points

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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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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!!!

16points

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

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*

9points

Caro Caro 1 year ago

Who TF is downvoting ????

16points

Lisa H 1 year ago

Trolls are everywhere

4points

Will Cable 1 year ago

Chris Chambers in Stand By Me when we are told how he died trying to stop an argument.

14points

Hales M 1 year ago

Pay It Forward-- died trying to stand up to the bullies.

7points

Enlee Jones 1 year ago

Maximus in “Gladiator”

11points

Emma S 1 year 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.

10points

patricia patricia 1 year 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.

2points

Hales M 1 year ago

I'm surprised no one said Baymax (the... one who did the things not the one he recreated at the end)

10points

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

The Little Prince

10points

Caro Caro 1 year ago

Sybil ... Downton Abbey.

10points

lauralett50 1 year ago

I wanted to reach through the telly and b***h slap her father,!!

5points

tuzdayschild 1 year ago

Ofelia from Pan's Labyrith. I felt damaged after watching that movie.

8points

Auntriarch 1 year ago

I don't know why, but Granny Weatherwax's death was a bolt

8points

A P 1 year ago (edited)

I'll back this play. Granny always had a special place in my heart, and you could always tell she was one of Pratchett's favorites as well. I ate'nt dead yet :(

0points

Sonja 1 year ago (edited)

The whole movie Titanic left me cold like a fish. Except the scene where this old couple lies on the bed, him holding her in his arms while the water rushes in... That scene has me in tears just thinking about it

6points

Shelby McNew 1 year ago

Hi, I’m here to make it worse! Those two were real people, Ida and Isidor Strauss. Ida refused to get in a lifeboat without her husband and when Isidor was offered a place he refused to go before the other men, so they stayed behind and died together.

3points

PeridotPlatypus377 1 year ago

Does Darth Vader from Return of the Jedi count?

6points

Puppy prints ️ 1 year ago

yes.

4points

Splašená sardel 1 year ago

Artax in Neverending Story... noone? Oh and also Godric in True Blood

6points

Snorky The Pig 1 year ago

For me, it's every animal death in every movie ever, and also Gu Seung-Jun in Crash Landing On You. I never cry in movies but I kind of fell for him and his death hit me pretty hard.

6points

Marion 1 year ago

SNORKY!! 😂 The coolest name for a pig EVEEER ❤️❤️❤️❤️

1point

Renae Dougherty 1 year ago

John Ritter - 8 simple rules for dating my daughter. He actually died and the characters in the show, you can tell, are devastated

5points

Biliegh they/them 1 year ago

Hachi

5points

Minnie Not Mouse 1 year ago

Someone mentioned this, but Setsuko's death gets me everytime! I was crying!

5points

Fraxinus excelsior 1 year ago

The Plague Dogs, and Watership down. Blubbed like a toddler.

4points

karen snyder 1 year ago

The Black Rabbit of Inlé... That whole book/movie is an emotional experience. I feel like there's a divide in my generation, (X,) between who was exposed to Watership Down as a child and who wasn't. It's actually really weird

3points

Annik Perrot 1 year ago

Catherine in Beauty and the Beast the TV show. Linda Hamilton wanted out so they just killed her character and did a third season with a new love interest for Vincent. Just like that. Well, it resulted in the canceling of the show... and a lot of very good "she never died" fanfiction.

4points

Damon 1 year ago

When Optimus Prime died in the 1986 Transformers movie I was very upset.

4points

Jill Pulcifer 1 year ago

I cant do What Dreams May Come, I am sobbing after the first couple mins and I have to turn it off. I don't think I have ever made more than an hour or so in, something about that movie just gets me. Even beyond the deaths, just the depiction of heaven makes me cry.

3points

Jill Bussey 1 year ago

I have two that I haven't seen here, so far. Bel Ria by Sheila Burnford, and The Snowman (original). My then four year old son absolutely dissolved when the snowman melted.

3points

OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago

Ooh the Snowman I completely forgot about it!

1point

lauralett50 1 year ago

Alvin Olinski in Chicago P D. Still have issues., keep looking for him .

3points

Frances Pitchounetta 1 year ago

Ginger in Black Beauty, movie or book 😭

3points

Where’s The Shovel? 1 year ago

The fire and Merryweather

0points

Panda For Scale 1 year ago

CHAMP!!! 😭😭😭

3points

Harper MacKenzie 1 year ago

Jack Twist!

3points

Enlee Jones 1 year ago (edited)

When Ennis found the shirt I was bawling like a baby.

2points

VonBlade 1 year ago (edited)

Two that nobody has mentioned : 1) Bill Nighy in About Time. That film destroys me every time. 2) Michael Keaton in My Life. A film that is apparently a fever dream as nobody I've ever met online has heard of it, much less seen it.

3points

Hales M 1 year ago

Absolutely about time was a great movie. I would also add Henry from The Time Traveller's Wife. Also now that I think about it-- Rachel McAdams is very into marrying time travellers.

3points

Natalia Shoemark 1 year ago

All dogs go to heaven! Charlie xoxox

2points

A P 1 year ago (edited)

I always feel lists like this should include Del Griffith's (John Candy) wife in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. It just instantly makes everything about his character suddenly make sense and it's sad af. Steve Martin plays it exceptionally well in the end. Also, Optimus Prime in the transformers movie from the 80s (90s?). - that was ice cold and scarred a whole generation. Also, Piggy in the Lord of the Flies movie looked like my brother, and him getting his head smashed by a rock left me inconsolable for a week. We watched it in 7/8 grade social studies.

2points

Ariom Dahl 1 year ago

Yes, Piggy's death was a shock. I read that in high school many years back.

1point

cb !!! 1 year ago

When Bonnie died in Gone With the Wind. I was so in shock that I had to pause it and just sit for a while. And the way Rhett just lost himself, had me absolutely ruined.

2points

patricia patricia 1 year ago

The two boys at the end of "the boy in the stripped pyjamas". And the little girl in the red coat in "Schindler's list". Made me feel really sad for weeks.

2points

ClaraDelValle 1 year ago

Shelby -Steel Magnolias

2points

karen snyder 1 year ago

Ruth Jameson, Fried Green Tomatoes.

1point

Angie Chiyoko ( She/they) 1 year ago

I can't believe no one said anything about Newt from The Maze Runner!!!! "Please, Tommy, please!" gets me every single time.

2points

Pix 1 year ago

Nairobi from Money Heist gets me every single time. Of all the characters, I was rooting for her the most.

2points

Barbara Forshee 1 year ago

Dean Winchester & Castiel on Supernatural. Loved both these characters. Hated when they eventually died their last time for good.

2points

Dorthe Schou-Nielsen 1 year ago

I am on season 14, so my answer would be Sam and Dean Winchester but that you get used to it. Might still cry though.

1point

CG 1 year ago

Kamina from Gurren Lagann hit very hard. As well as every major death in the final couple of episodes of Iron Blooded Orphans (except for Iok, that coward had it coming). And this one is also pretty obscure, but Bernie's death from War In The Pocket. Gundam really knows how to make emotional deaths.

2points

Seule Forever 1 year ago

I didn't see it in the list, but Soichiro's death in Death Note got me crying!

2points

VonBlade 1 year ago

If I was allowed "weren't really dead but you thought they were"; Jerry Lee from K9 and Bolt from... Bolt.

2points

zububonsai 1 year ago (edited)

Kylo Ren.

2points

Tomato 1 year ago

Hide from Tokyo ghoul got me bawling. I cryed at like every death in that show. I cried way too much when watching Tokyo ghoul

1point

zena bena 1 year ago

Old yellar ,affected me so much i swore i would never have a dog not vaccinated for rabies in my adult life and stuck to that thru ny sixties years as such a preventable virus but no cure if not vaccinated.

1point

Marco Richter 1 year ago

No Setsuko and Saita from "Grave of the Fireflies"?

1point

Dan Flo 1 year ago

The movie ending of The Mist. It had me in a blank "wtf did I just see"-blank stare all through the end credits.

1point

Ashley Harrold 1 year ago

L and Rem in Death Note

1point

Terry Tobias 1 year ago

I cried so hard during ET's death while watching the movie in a dark theater that I lost a contact lens.

1point

Miki 1 year ago

You could remove half of Harry Potter characters from list and add Wash from firefly...

1point

A P 1 year ago

Wash is on there already

1point

Fabian Bernard 1 year ago

Why didn't they made the whole Friends characters die? Like a good plane crash and then boom! Downvote me maybe but that show was so lame

1point

Princess Eia 1 year ago

Opie, Sons of Anarchy. His last look at Jaz still haunts me.

1point

Mr. Toast 1 year ago

Bambi's Mum....

1point

Indosidius 1 year ago

Soap McTavish in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. Now that was just messed up.

1point

Stacey W. 1 year ago

Quinn from Homeland. Basically tortured to death over 4 seasons.

1point

Fraxinus excelsior 1 year ago

A dogs purpose should be here

1point

Jordi Sharpe 1 year ago

Mary (Emily Watson) in Equilibrium. Claudia and Madeline from Interview with the Vampire.

1point

Java Addict 1 year ago

Ali in Squid Game. The moment he realizes that Sang-woo betrayed him and he's about to die and he'll never see his wife and child again. Then the tear that runs down his face right before the camera pans to show the guard raising his gun to shoot him...

1point

B.Nelson 1 year ago (edited)

-I had to read a story in elementary school called Stone Fox. When W i l l y carries his dog across the finish line after her heart bursts. That was the first time I ever read a story that made me cry. I didn't realize I could connect emotionally with a book character before. -When Alphonse sacrifices himself at the end of Full Metal Alchemist (Brotherhood and the manga) to allow Edward to fight. -the book Two Towers when Sam thinks Frodo is dead.

1point

Susan 1 year ago

How is Atonement not on this list?!

1point

Deanna Crichley 1 year ago

Bobby Simone on NYPD Blue. Decades ago. I had to work, so I had recorded it. ON VHS TAPE. I was watching it while a maintenance guy was in my apartment. He said, "Oh, that was hard to watch.". I said, "Pffft. It's TV.". Then I had the big blubbering ugly cry in front of the same maintenance guy.

1point

that one ace lesbian demigirl 1 year ago

I was gonna say Philip Hamilton, but then I realised that he was a real person... KENRIC FROM KOTLC

1point

Ephemeral Mochi 1 year ago (edited)

Rengoku needs to be way higher up on this list. Edit to add: I also don't think I'll ever recover from Junpei's death in Jujutsu Kaisen.

1point

Henry Russell 1 year ago

im not sure if this was on the list but i dont see Rubin the pig from MIncraft Story Mode. sure it was a choose yourself but when he died i burst out in tears

1point

Jaiden 1 year ago

Not really from a book or movie but Kaito's death really had me- (DRV3)

1point

Jaiden 1 year ago

OH MY GOD AND SAKURA, CHIHIRO, AND TAKA 😭 (All from DR1) I mean, I like Celeste but damn she should have just killed Hifumi or even someone else, just not Taka 😢

0points

Donkey Pandaaaaaaaa 1 year ago

Chuck and Newt from Maze Runner. I can’t watch it without sobbing into a pillow and contemplating my life choices. 😭

1point

George Pryor 1 year ago

Heather in Highlander. Jack in Titanic. Silas in Glory. Neil in Dead Poet's Society. Gabriel and Thomas in The Patriot. Esmail in House of Sand and Fog. Murron in Braveheart. Damn. There are just too many.

1point

Cath Homer 1 year ago

Neil in Dead Poet's Society never stops getting me...

0points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Not the death of Debra Winger's character in Shadowlands per se so much as seeing Anthony Hopkins *cry* with her son. Oh, that tore me to shreds.

1point

Falcon on Dizzy 1 year ago

one that got me was Cayde-6, from Destiny. "How's your sister?"

1point

RAM31280 1 year ago

The show on Netflix: Human Resources, Episode 9, the Grandma, Yara I never thought this hilariously gross perverted show would twist my heart strings like it did. Maybe it hit too close to home reminding me of my grandma's declining health years prior, but my wife and I both wept so hard at that.

1point

lndn wshburn 1 year ago

Willam Kawambas Dog Khamba in the book It had me and My freinds Crying and talking about other dogs that died and got me emotinal.

0points

Tree P 1 year ago (edited)

I have to add Kyojiro Rengoku from Demon Slayer. Such a great character, gone too soon from the series. I get choked up when he sees his deceased Mother and asks if he fulfilled his duty. His happy smile as he dies is so sad.

0points

(Un)Inspired Aspiring Author 1 year ago

Tris Prior in the third Divergent book. I finished it when I had free time in class, and I was crying so hard but trying not to make any noise because my classmates were all still testing

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Marco Richter 1 year ago (edited)

They said fictional characters, not movie characters. So: Haurchefant, Ysaile, Moenbryda, Papalimo... even Tsuyu... - Final Fantasy 14 Mordin Solus, Admiral Hackett - Mass Effect 3 Aerith - Final Fantasy 7 2B - Nier: Automata ...

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tara 1 year ago

Jason Voorhees. YEAH I SAID IT! I can't even THINK about that poor little friendless boy....having a chance to be 'norma'l and have friends and enjoy his summer and those god damn slutty teenagers should have been watching him!! OF COURSE his mother had to kill them!! This is on my bedroom wall and I tear up when I look at it. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/horrormovies/images/6/6c/Jason_and_Pamela.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140509002258 Needless to say the following Friday the 13th movies just confuse and irritate me.

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kaycee14 1 year ago

Rue's death in the book version of The Hunger Games made me sob! For some reason, books make me more emotional than movies. Probably because I'm projecting my own feelings on the characters rather than watching someone else's.

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Artsy Bookworm 1 year ago (edited)

I recently watched a Thai drama and the mother of the main character dies, she had lung cancer from their dad smoking. I was bawling, cried so hard my eyes hurt.

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LeeAnne B 1 year ago

Glen Carter from Blacklist. The actor, Clarke Middleton passed away and the producers of the show decided to acknowledge his death. When James Spader as RR (or not ;-)) gave a small eulogy when scattering the ashes made me howl. I believe that both the actor and his character shared the some virtues and the monologue was from the heart.

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Pandasizing World Peace 1 year ago

I boo 😭 when Maxwell Kane found out that (Kieran Culkin) Kevin Dillon actually died. Kevin had told Maxwell he was going to have a head transplant to fix his deteriorating body and Maxwell believed him. This was in the movie "Freak the Mighty".

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tiffhoepp 1 year ago

Charlie from Lost. He died for NOTHING!

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Joshua Moore 1 year ago

Black Widow, Avengers Endgame

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Baseball is Life 1 year ago

I am now drowning my sorrows in a pint of Ben and Jerry's after reading this.....

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David 1 year ago

So I read the thread. Many sad scenes. But I feel like "So Devastating, People Can’t Get Over Them" is a bit of an over statement. They are all fiction. My brain knows they are fiction so it does indeed "get over them". True sad for me would be stuff more like Schindler's List where the movie is fiction but it is reminding you of horrific stuff that was very real / very sad.

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Angie the Octopus 1 year ago

How did no one say cruellas mother

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angied4liberty 1 year ago

Ned Stark, GoT and Vanessa in the beginning of Deadpool 2

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LeeAnne B 1 year ago

Vanessa was a huge shock. I was rooting for that character.

0points

Kristy White 1 year ago

Where the hell is Opie??? He's right up there with Glen from The Walking Dead, sobbed my heart out at both of them, and Jax Teller was never the same again after he walked out of that prison

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ispeak catanese 1 year ago (edited)

For me it was the ending of Miss Austen Regrets with Olivia Williams. Such sadness.

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karen snyder 1 year ago

Any fans of NCIS out there? Cause, yeah, to love that show requires a bit of masochism. The first 19 seasons focus on a man who lost his wife and daughter in a cartel hit. I'll list the dead characters that I can remember...Shannon, Kelly, Kate, Director Shepherd, Vance's wife, Jimmy's wife Breena, S.A. Ned Dornaget, Fornell's daughter, Ziva's Dad, MI6 agent Clayton Reeves, ex-wife Dianne....there's more, I'm sure. Deep grief is a constant plot device on that show.

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Sasy 1 year ago

Frosty the Snowman in the claymation movies from the 70s, is the first time I remember having such a meltdown of grief. I can still the TV in my mind, our dining chair scooted forward in front of the tv so I could see everything clearly and then DEVASTATION.

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago (edited)

"Cutie" from "It Takes Two" - it's such a horrible scene, and despite her being a plushie it's still very violent

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Red Ruffensor 1 year ago

Marion in Psycho.

0points

Daniel Marsh 1 year ago

Joy from Shadowlands. Not so much her death, but the scene with the wardrobe.

0points

Jordi Sharpe 1 year ago

In the Star Wars extended universe, the first book in The New Jedi Order series - Vector Prime by R.A. Salvatore - killed Chewbacca by dropping a moon on him. I was like 13. It broke my heart. It was since retconned.

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Tabitha Martel 1 year ago

Bobby Singer in Supernatural. Jimmy and Red Eye on Falling Skies.

0points

trollingergirl 1 year ago

The Shell Seekers (Rosamunde Pilcher). Penelope Keeling. Didn't see that coming. (Yes, it is a book, and yes, they made a movie from it).

0points

Ola Polowczyk 1 year ago

Justin from "13 Reasons why". I'm still mad about it

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Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago (edited)

Enzo in The Art of Racing In the Rain. I had read the book and knew how it ended. I had lost my Lucy not that long ago and I don’t want to go how that ended, but I had trouble holding back audible sobs in the theatre. I mean snot crying. Everyone was crying, even the men.

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Lara Verne 1 year ago

Aida's husband and sons, and pretty much everyone else in Quo Vadia, Aida? It was movie about Srebrenica massacre. Nothing was shown explicitly, but ending was devastating.

0points

No Way 1 year ago

Cotton Hill on King of the Hill.

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Ray Heap 1 year ago

Hemmer in Strange new worlds.

0points

Jonathan Brooks 1 year ago

Ray the Firefly in The Princess and the Frog! Broke my heart.

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B Martin 1 year ago

Can't get through the top 10. Thanks, BP for ruining my otherwise happy day

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Jenn C 1 year ago

You knew it was going to be a sad list, you chose to read it.

4points

R.E.O. Speedwagon 1 year ago

Noble Team Remember Reach. that's all i gotta say

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Kim 1 year ago

Jerry from PS I Love You. Messes me up every. single. time

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Yali-girl with weird name 1 year ago

In Morriz Gleitzman’s last book in the series (Always) when Jumble died. Bro that was sad

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Coolwhip 1 year ago

Selena, when her family is in the hospital and they receive the news. The way they all break down gets me. Rue from Hunger Games, G-Baby from Hardball and Mia from Best Man Holiday 2, the way her husband breaks down at her funeral hits me right in the gut.

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Péter Rózsahegyi 1 year ago

Leonard Lowe in Awakenings. I was 20 when I saw the movie in 1991 but I was crying when he felt back to his catatonic state.

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Appalachian Panda 1 year ago

Spock in Star Trek II, even though he got better.

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Shirleen Holt 1 year ago

People are devastated over deaths in cartoons?

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madbakes 1 year ago

Just because it's animated doesn't mean the storyline is any less emotional

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DrBronxx 1 year ago

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Lupita Nyong'heaux 1 year ago

he didn't really die, tho. he was back that sunday, so...

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Enlee Jones 1 year ago

Jesus gave up a weekend for our sins.

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Indosidius 1 year ago

True, but Jesus isn't fictional

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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!!!

16points

Melody Shanahan-Kluth 1 year ago

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.

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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.

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Hales M 1 year ago

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patricia patricia 1 year ago

4points

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*

9points

Caro Caro 1 year ago

Who TF is downvoting ????

16points

Lisa H 1 year ago

Trolls are everywhere

4points

Will Cable 1 year ago

Chris Chambers in Stand By Me when we are told how he died trying to stop an argument.

14points

Hales M 1 year ago

Pay It Forward-- died trying to stand up to the bullies.

7points

Enlee Jones 1 year ago

Maximus in “Gladiator”

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Emma S 1 year ago (edited)

10points

patricia patricia 1 year ago

2points

Hales M 1 year ago

I'm surprised no one said Baymax (the... one who did the things not the one he recreated at the end)

10points

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

The Little Prince

10points

Caro Caro 1 year ago

Sybil ... Downton Abbey.

10points

lauralett50 1 year ago

I wanted to reach through the telly and b***h slap her father,!!

5points

tuzdayschild 1 year ago

Ofelia from Pan's Labyrith. I felt damaged after watching that movie.

8points

Auntriarch 1 year ago

I don't know why, but Granny Weatherwax's death was a bolt

8points

A P 1 year ago (edited)

I'll back this play. Granny always had a special place in my heart, and you could always tell she was one of Pratchett's favorites as well. I ate'nt dead yet :(

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Sonja 1 year ago (edited)

6points

Shelby McNew 1 year ago

3points

PeridotPlatypus377 1 year ago

Does Darth Vader from Return of the Jedi count?

6points

Puppy prints ️ 1 year ago

yes.

4points

Splašená sardel 1 year ago

Artax in Neverending Story... noone? Oh and also Godric in True Blood

6points

Snorky The Pig 1 year ago

For me, it's every animal death in every movie ever, and also Gu Seung-Jun in Crash Landing On You. I never cry in movies but I kind of fell for him and his death hit me pretty hard.

6points

Marion 1 year ago

SNORKY!! 😂 The coolest name for a pig EVEEER ❤️❤️❤️❤️

1point

Renae Dougherty 1 year ago

John Ritter - 8 simple rules for dating my daughter. He actually died and the characters in the show, you can tell, are devastated

5points

Biliegh they/them 1 year ago

Hachi

5points

Minnie Not Mouse 1 year ago

Someone mentioned this, but Setsuko's death gets me everytime! I was crying!

5points

Fraxinus excelsior 1 year ago

The Plague Dogs, and Watership down. Blubbed like a toddler.

4points

karen snyder 1 year ago

3points

Annik Perrot 1 year ago

4points

Damon 1 year ago

When Optimus Prime died in the 1986 Transformers movie I was very upset.

4points

Jill Pulcifer 1 year ago

3points

Jill Bussey 1 year ago

I have two that I haven't seen here, so far. Bel Ria by Sheila Burnford, and The Snowman (original). My then four year old son absolutely dissolved when the snowman melted.

3points

OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago

Ooh the Snowman I completely forgot about it!

1point

lauralett50 1 year ago

Alvin Olinski in Chicago P D. Still have issues., keep looking for him .

3points

Frances Pitchounetta 1 year ago

Ginger in Black Beauty, movie or book 😭

3points

Where’s The Shovel? 1 year ago

The fire and Merryweather

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Panda For Scale 1 year ago

CHAMP!!! 😭😭😭

3points

Harper MacKenzie 1 year ago

Jack Twist!

3points

Enlee Jones 1 year ago (edited)

When Ennis found the shirt I was bawling like a baby.

2points

VonBlade 1 year ago (edited)

3points

Hales M 1 year ago

Absolutely about time was a great movie. I would also add Henry from The Time Traveller's Wife. Also now that I think about it-- Rachel McAdams is very into marrying time travellers.

3points

Natalia Shoemark 1 year ago

All dogs go to heaven! Charlie xoxox

2points

A P 1 year ago (edited)

2points

Ariom Dahl 1 year ago

Yes, Piggy's death was a shock. I read that in high school many years back.

1point

cb !!! 1 year ago

When Bonnie died in Gone With the Wind. I was so in shock that I had to pause it and just sit for a while. And the way Rhett just lost himself, had me absolutely ruined.

2points

patricia patricia 1 year ago

The two boys at the end of "the boy in the stripped pyjamas". And the little girl in the red coat in "Schindler's list". Made me feel really sad for weeks.

2points

ClaraDelValle 1 year ago

Shelby -Steel Magnolias

2points

karen snyder 1 year ago

Ruth Jameson, Fried Green Tomatoes.

1point

Angie Chiyoko ( She/they) 1 year ago

I can't believe no one said anything about Newt from The Maze Runner!!!! "Please, Tommy, please!" gets me every single time.

2points

Pix 1 year ago

Nairobi from Money Heist gets me every single time. Of all the characters, I was rooting for her the most.

2points

Barbara Forshee 1 year ago

Dean Winchester & Castiel on Supernatural. Loved both these characters. Hated when they eventually died their last time for good.

2points

Dorthe Schou-Nielsen 1 year ago

I am on season 14, so my answer would be Sam and Dean Winchester but that you get used to it. Might still cry though.

1point

CG 1 year ago

2points

Seule Forever 1 year ago

I didn't see it in the list, but Soichiro's death in Death Note got me crying!

2points

VonBlade 1 year ago

If I was allowed "weren't really dead but you thought they were"; Jerry Lee from K9 and Bolt from... Bolt.

2points

zububonsai 1 year ago (edited)

Kylo Ren.

2points

Tomato 1 year ago

Hide from Tokyo ghoul got me bawling. I cryed at like every death in that show. I cried way too much when watching Tokyo ghoul

1point

zena bena 1 year ago

1point

Marco Richter 1 year ago

No Setsuko and Saita from "Grave of the Fireflies"?

1point

Dan Flo 1 year ago

The movie ending of The Mist. It had me in a blank "wtf did I just see"-blank stare all through the end credits.

1point

Ashley Harrold 1 year ago

L and Rem in Death Note

1point

Terry Tobias 1 year ago

I cried so hard during ET's death while watching the movie in a dark theater that I lost a contact lens.

1point

Miki 1 year ago

You could remove half of Harry Potter characters from list and add Wash from firefly...

1point

A P 1 year ago

Wash is on there already

1point

Fabian Bernard 1 year ago

Why didn't they made the whole Friends characters die? Like a good plane crash and then boom! Downvote me maybe but that show was so lame

1point

Princess Eia 1 year ago

Opie, Sons of Anarchy. His last look at Jaz still haunts me.

1point

Mr. Toast 1 year ago

Bambi's Mum....

1point

Indosidius 1 year ago

Soap McTavish in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. Now that was just messed up.

1point

Stacey W. 1 year ago

Quinn from Homeland. Basically tortured to death over 4 seasons.

1point

Fraxinus excelsior 1 year ago

A dogs purpose should be here

1point

Jordi Sharpe 1 year ago

Mary (Emily Watson) in Equilibrium. Claudia and Madeline from Interview with the Vampire.

1point

Java Addict 1 year ago

1point

B.Nelson 1 year ago (edited)

1point

Susan 1 year ago

How is Atonement not on this list?!

1point

Deanna Crichley 1 year ago

1point

that one ace lesbian demigirl 1 year ago

I was gonna say Philip Hamilton, but then I realised that he was a real person... KENRIC FROM KOTLC

1point

Ephemeral Mochi 1 year ago (edited)

Rengoku needs to be way higher up on this list. Edit to add: I also don't think I'll ever recover from Junpei's death in Jujutsu Kaisen.

1point

Henry Russell 1 year ago

im not sure if this was on the list but i dont see Rubin the pig from MIncraft Story Mode. sure it was a choose yourself but when he died i burst out in tears

1point

Jaiden 1 year ago

Not really from a book or movie but Kaito's death really had me- (DRV3)

1point

Jaiden 1 year ago

OH MY GOD AND SAKURA, CHIHIRO, AND TAKA 😭 (All from DR1) I mean, I like Celeste but damn she should have just killed Hifumi or even someone else, just not Taka 😢

0points

Donkey Pandaaaaaaaa 1 year ago

Chuck and Newt from Maze Runner. I can’t watch it without sobbing into a pillow and contemplating my life choices. 😭

1point

George Pryor 1 year ago

1point

Cath Homer 1 year ago

Neil in Dead Poet's Society never stops getting me...

0points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Not the death of Debra Winger's character in Shadowlands per se so much as seeing Anthony Hopkins *cry* with her son. Oh, that tore me to shreds.

1point

Falcon on Dizzy 1 year ago

one that got me was Cayde-6, from Destiny. "How's your sister?"

1point

RAM31280 1 year ago

1point

lndn wshburn 1 year ago

Willam Kawambas Dog Khamba in the book It had me and My freinds Crying and talking about other dogs that died and got me emotinal.

0points

Tree P 1 year ago (edited)

0points

(Un)Inspired Aspiring Author 1 year ago

Tris Prior in the third Divergent book. I finished it when I had free time in class, and I was crying so hard but trying not to make any noise because my classmates were all still testing

0points

Marco Richter 1 year ago (edited)

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tara 1 year ago

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kaycee14 1 year ago

0points

Artsy Bookworm 1 year ago (edited)

I recently watched a Thai drama and the mother of the main character dies, she had lung cancer from their dad smoking. I was bawling, cried so hard my eyes hurt.

0points

LeeAnne B 1 year ago

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Pandasizing World Peace 1 year ago

0points

tiffhoepp 1 year ago

Charlie from Lost. He died for NOTHING!

0points

Joshua Moore 1 year ago

Black Widow, Avengers Endgame

0points

Baseball is Life 1 year ago

I am now drowning my sorrows in a pint of Ben and Jerry's after reading this.....

0points

David 1 year ago

0points

Angie the Octopus 1 year ago

How did no one say cruellas mother

0points

angied4liberty 1 year ago

Ned Stark, GoT and Vanessa in the beginning of Deadpool 2

0points

LeeAnne B 1 year ago

Vanessa was a huge shock. I was rooting for that character.

0points

Kristy White 1 year ago

Where the hell is Opie??? He's right up there with Glen from The Walking Dead, sobbed my heart out at both of them, and Jax Teller was never the same again after he walked out of that prison

0points

ispeak catanese 1 year ago (edited)

For me it was the ending of Miss Austen Regrets with Olivia Williams. Such sadness.

0points

karen snyder 1 year ago

0points

Sasy 1 year ago

0points

TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago (edited)

"Cutie" from "It Takes Two" - it's such a horrible scene, and despite her being a plushie it's still very violent

0points

Red Ruffensor 1 year ago

Marion in Psycho.

0points

Daniel Marsh 1 year ago

Joy from Shadowlands. Not so much her death, but the scene with the wardrobe.

0points

Jordi Sharpe 1 year ago

0points

Tabitha Martel 1 year ago

Bobby Singer in Supernatural. Jimmy and Red Eye on Falling Skies.

0points

trollingergirl 1 year ago

The Shell Seekers (Rosamunde Pilcher). Penelope Keeling. Didn't see that coming. (Yes, it is a book, and yes, they made a movie from it).

0points

Ola Polowczyk 1 year ago

Justin from "13 Reasons why". I'm still mad about it

0points

Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago (edited)

0points

Lara Verne 1 year ago

Aida's husband and sons, and pretty much everyone else in Quo Vadia, Aida? It was movie about Srebrenica massacre. Nothing was shown explicitly, but ending was devastating.

0points

No Way 1 year ago

Cotton Hill on King of the Hill.

0points

Ray Heap 1 year ago

Hemmer in Strange new worlds.

0points

Jonathan Brooks 1 year ago

Ray the Firefly in The Princess and the Frog! Broke my heart.

0points

B Martin 1 year ago

Can't get through the top 10. Thanks, BP for ruining my otherwise happy day

0points

Jenn C 1 year ago

You knew it was going to be a sad list, you chose to read it.

4points

R.E.O. Speedwagon 1 year ago

Noble Team Remember Reach. that's all i gotta say

0points

Kim 1 year ago

Jerry from PS I Love You. Messes me up every. single. time

0points

Yali-girl with weird name 1 year ago

In Morriz Gleitzman’s last book in the series (Always) when Jumble died. Bro that was sad

0points

Coolwhip 1 year ago

0points

Péter Rózsahegyi 1 year ago

Leonard Lowe in Awakenings. I was 20 when I saw the movie in 1991 but I was crying when he felt back to his catatonic state.

0points

Appalachian Panda 1 year ago

Spock in Star Trek II, even though he got better.

0points

Shirleen Holt 1 year ago

People are devastated over deaths in cartoons?

-1point

madbakes 1 year ago

Just because it's animated doesn't mean the storyline is any less emotional

5points

DrBronxx 1 year ago

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Lupita Nyong'heaux 1 year ago

he didn't really die, tho. he was back that sunday, so...

9points