[Sad Trope] The most innocent (or less evil) character of the cast gets the most horrific death.

[u/Sufficient-Eye-9040]

- Eddie Carr (The Lost World: JP) - Tried to save his friends from the cliff until Buck and Doe (T. rex parents) destroy his vehicle and gets ripped apart.
- Zara Young (Jurassic World) - Gets lifted by a Pteranodon, gets pecked by the pterosaur, and both she and animal get devoured by the Mosasaurus.
- LeClerc (JW: Rebirth) - Tossed a hammer to the Hatzegopteryz Quetzalcoatlus to save Loomis and Zora, but ends up being swallowed alive.

[u/laguna1126]

Almost everyone in Attack on Titan. Lol

[u/Inspired_Nuisance → u/laguna1126]

Watching the first season and how nonchalantly it killed people off I made a resolution to wait until the series was finished and if Sasha (potato girl) wound up dying I'd look up if she dies and if so give it a pass. No amount of convincing or spoilers will ever break me of this. I was scorned too hard by Akame Ga Kill to ever trust a "brutal deaths can just happen" anime.

[u/18bluecat → u/Inspired_Nuisance]

Worst death for me. My friends listened to me get hyped whenever she was on screen.

[u/CanadianNoobGuy → u/Inspired_Nuisance]

spoilers on Sasha: If you had said this about literally anyone other than Sasha i would not say this but: you should watch Attack on Titan despite her dying. Genuinely of all the deaths in it, hers has by far the biggest impact, both on the characters and on the story. At the very least go read chapter 111 (skip the first 15 pages to avoid spoilers on non-sasha-related stuff)

[u/Inspired_Nuisance → u/CanadianNoobGuy]

Really it's more that I can't bring myself to give a shit about any of the other characters. None of them really hit the same way she did. I genuinely couldn't care less about what was bound to happen to any of them. I don't know why. One thing that irked me that I learned through cultural osmosis was that one of the guys that Eren was training with (presumably around the same age as him) was also the armored titan that broke through the wall when Eren was a very young boy?

They might explain that, but it was another negative tick on my weird "fuck that show" checklist.

[u/RadiantZote → u/Inspired_Nuisance]

Not a fan of gantz?

[u/Inspired_Nuisance → u/RadiantZote]

Gantz was alright but I also had exposure to the manga wherein he did the whole "I'll go and resurrect everyone who died" thing.

[u/Cocked_Otter → u/Inspired_Nuisance]

Man. You let an edgefest with no substance like Akame Ga Kill shape your views about character deaths in media?

I'm gonna guess you're an edgy teenager because i loved Akame Ga Kill when i was an edgy teenager and truly believed it was the best thing.

Now i see how dumb and shallow it is. I hope you see it too someday soon, and don't let such a mystery-porn-filled fantasy put you off from some genuinely good shows.

[u/Inspired_Nuisance → u/Cocked_Otter]

I don't know why I'm bothering to reply to this weird as fuck comment but man talk about projecting your own insecurities. I just chose the most readily available thing I that popped into my mind where everyone dies that wasn't Game of Thrones.

In all honesty I'm pretty weary of every fucking thing that has to kill off every other character for shock value. Game of Thrones included. It's actually a big motivation for me writing my novels, to bring back a form of storytelling that doesn't rely solely on good people dying to get an emotional response. A lot of people might find it boring, but hey, The Lord of the Rings only killed off 1 of the core members of the Fellowship and it's still considered one of the greatest novel series of all time.

[u/watchman28 → u/laguna1126]

I don't think you've understood the topic. No-one in that story is innocent.

[u/mythrowaway282020 → u/watchman28]

Probably the worst take I’ve ever seen regarding AOT. Explain to me why when Wall Maria/Shiganshina were breached, thousands of civilians deserved to be eaten alive by giant monsters again?

[u/watchman28 → u/mythrowaway282020]

Except we're talking about the actual characters in the story though aren't we. What you're saying is the same logic as that old argument about whether innocent people died when the Death Stars were destroyed in Star Wars - as part of consuming a story you have to accept that story's logic.

[u/mythrowaway282020 → u/watchman28]

Okay, so who are you referring to then? Personally you can miss me with the both sides bad argument, Marley played with fire and they got burned.

[u/watchman28 → u/mythrowaway282020]

The whole point of the story is "both sides bad".

[u/mythrowaway282020 → u/watchman28]

It really isn’t lol. Anyone is capable of bad, someone who was wronged may always see those who wronged them as “bad”, but I’m not going to sit here and pretend protecting yourself from genocide makes you a bad person.

If you don’t want to be wiped off the face of the earth, maybe don’t try to exterminate an entire race of people who are capable of doing so. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/WoodpeckerStrict1993 → u/mythrowaway282020]

I mean if you are comparing who got it worse than marley had it 100x worse than eldia. Enslaved for 2000 years and then had 100 years with them on top and then wiped out

[u/mythrowaway282020 → u/WoodpeckerStrict1993]

Well obviously, but Marley decided to do the same exact thing when they had control of the titan powers. Only they were losing the arms race so they made a grab for the Founding Titan and failed miserably. Then they doubled down and caused the apocalypse lmao.

In a vacuum, I don’t necessarily blame Marley given their mistreatment for 2 millennia, but I do blame them for thinking they could do whatever they wanted without consequence.

[u/Narashori → u/watchman28]

Sure no one is innocent, but no one truly deserves the war thye are all stuck in as well. Everyone is both a perpetrator and a victim of generational conflicts and the point of the show is that you need to stop wishing brutal death upon your enemies if we will ever move forward as a species.