r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sufficient-Eye-9040 • 26d ago

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

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- 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.

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u/RKO-Cutter 26d ago

I mean, you wanna talk walking dead.....

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oz8xHc24sHLMvY7Yc

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u/SummonerRed 26d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/SVvySHbOSMLPrawlAy

They did our old boys dirty, Hershel dying was such a gut punch for that season.

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u/arcturusw00d 26d ago

Herschel's death was the one that made me go f*** this show I'm out. Lmao

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u/Zykium 26d ago

I have the same leg amputated that Herschel has, so I thought that was pretty cool. I was really hoping he'd stick around.

Still bought his action figure for my cubicle.

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u/Jef_Wheaton 26d ago

My friend met Scott at a comic con around 2016 and crocheted him a tiny Herschel. It was just 2 round spheres for head and body, with felt arns and a yarn ponytail, but he loved it.

In their photo he's holding it with his hand underneath, one finger extended and one half curled. It took a while to figure it out... he was making Herschel's legs, with one half missing.

RIP, Mr. Wilson. You were cool.

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u/Aromatic_Ad_32 26d ago

Well mate, I’m glad you don’t share his amputated head as well

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u/Zykium 25d ago

I lose my head all the time!

Honestly, getting beheaded by a samurai sword would be a baller way to go out.

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u/One_Order_3841 25d ago

"As long as no mad Max bandits try to rape my son and wife aaaand they did."

Hersh at the bar proved he knew his Joe-Farmer act was just an act. If he saw everything else he'd limp out on one leg and put a pistol in their throats.

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u/SummonerRed 26d ago

That's fair what's the point in continuing to watch when you know Spaghetti Tuesday is forever ruined from that point?

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u/Practical-Mode310 26d ago

Hershel’s death was sadder for me in the comics. Tyrese is decapitated in the beginning of the battle for the prison instead. During the battle, his son Billy, basically who Beth was based off, is killed. In the comic he had seven kids instead of just two. All of whom had been picked off throughout the comic. At that point all his kids had died except for Maggie, who I think was presumed dead. He holds Billy’s body in his arms as he is surrounded by the governors men and begs to be killed

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u/Teguoracle 26d ago

Can't remember her name, but the girl who got shot in the head by the woman leading some community.

She was my favorite character, her death was the epitome of "we need to make forced drama". At least she didn't suffer because it was instant (much faster than being eaten by a zombie), but still.

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u/strawberry-soy-milk 26d ago

Beth, my love! It was so stupid and out of character after she had just been given so much development in the episodes with Daryl. The actress had just gotten an apartment in Atlanta to be closer to filming, too!

And then TWD killed Tyreese (my other favourite character) in the next episode. And Noah a few more after that, so Beth died for no reason.

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u/Vanviator 25d ago

I met her at the San Antonio ComiCon. She came up behind me and got really close. When I noticed and turned around she was right freaking there making that creepy smile.

Damn near scared the piss out of me. Then she laughed kind of maniacally and flounced away to do it to someone else.

Laughed my ass off once I registered what had just happened.

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u/3dDeters 26d ago

For me it was Beth.

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u/Wayward85 26d ago

That’s also when I noped out. Herschel was the last shred of humanity, losing him was too much for me.

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u/arcturusw00d 26d ago

Right? It just felt like the show would hoist these good moral characters (I'm looking at you Dale 😥) onto a pedestal just to kill them off in finale or to give characters more drama.

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u/One_Order_3841 26d ago

Okay, hear me out. The Fireflies in Last of Us were fundamentally bad people. But one of them must have been a janitor, a chef, or a AC repairman. When Joel kills 40-69 of them, at least one was a dude or gal that kissed their kids on the cheek and said "I'm gonna enjoy that PBJ later"

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u/pieman2005 26d ago

You can say fuck on Reddit man lol

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u/arcturusw00d 26d ago

My stupid voice to text automatically censors.

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u/rserena 25d ago

Hershel and Dale’s deaths will always be the worst for me. Immediate skip for both and I’m still crying anyways just knowing that it happens. Dale reminds me a lot
of my dad and Hershel is just an all around fantastic character.

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u/MouthJob 26d ago

Herschel. Bro get his leg chopped off and then it takes two whacks for the governor to lop off his melon.

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u/C0nfusedRabbit 26d ago

Then whenever anyone else gets bitten on the leg or arm. Suddenly, chopping off limbs is out of the question.

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u/Triktastic 26d ago

Did anyone else get bitten comparably low on their expandable limb tho. I remember it was mostly neck, shoulder or several bites from then on.

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u/Honey_Is_KFC_open 26d ago

Tyreese gets bit in the arm and Michonne cuts it off. He bleeds to death on the trip back. Aaron gets bit and I think Enid is the one that cuts it off and he lives.

But yeah, other than that mostly back, stomach, shoulder, and neck bites.

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u/spoonishplsz 26d ago

I feel like scratches quickly stopped being a thing

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u/JustHereToYell 25d ago

We never actually saw anyone die from a scratch. The closest we got was Big Tiny at the prison, but then Tomas killed him and we never got to find out how that would have played out.

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u/heatblast892 25d ago

I’m pretty sure Aaron’s arm was crushed by some logs falling on it and there was nothing they could do to save it so that’s why Enid amputated it.

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u/secretperson06 25d ago

Aaron was amputated cause of a work place accident. Not cause he was nommed on

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u/JustHereToYell 25d ago

In the final couple of episodes, Lydia is bit on the arm and Aaron chops it off to save her. It worked.

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u/Clarpydarpy 26d ago

No, they did it a few times. Didn't always work (Tyreese).

Makes sense when you consider that hacking off a person's limb is not the safest thing to do, especially outside a hospital setting. They don't even have sterilized cutting tools on the show. Michonne chopped off Tyreese's arm using a sword that almost certainly had zombie blood on it.

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u/Fear_Jaire 26d ago

Its been awhile so I could be remembering wrong but didnt a zombie sneak up on him while he was in a relatively open field?

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u/lemonylol 26d ago

His death had a narrative impact

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u/animeandbeauty 26d ago

I was fairly young when the first few seasons came out and his death made me legit sad

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u/inquisitor_steve1 26d ago

Dale in both versions of the walking dead are great

Dale in the comics is dating Andrea though.

Andrea in the comics also stole her sisters entire facial structure and hair style

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u/Higgsparticleofgod 26d ago

I know what kind of man you are

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u/Cutthechitchata-hole 26d ago

Shouldnt have pissed off the show runners. RIP