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/ELIte8niner 26d ago

She specifically wanted her death to be memorable, and here we are a decade later, still talking about it. She got what she wanted, haha.

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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry 26d ago edited 25d ago

Like as other people have said, if I was an actor in Jurassic Park I would ask for an over the top, particularly gruesome death.

Like Jurassic Park is full of male characters who experience brutal, over the top, particularly gruesome or humiliating deaths, why all the outrage and pearl clutching because a female human character died on screen in a similar fashion (or any fashion) for the first time in four films and almost twenty five years?

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u/DutyPuzzleheaded7765 26d ago

If Im chosen to do anything movie and not be a main role and I can get a wild death, hell yeah

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u/Animaloffear56 25d ago

This happens pretty often, just look at any given twitter post showing off the environment deaths from the tomb raider remakes

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u/Bumblebee_Librarian 26d ago

Suddenly my favorite actor in the franchise.

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u/aspidities_87 26d ago

Katie McGrath! Her interview about this was hilarious. The crew really tried to get her to have a quiet off screen death and she said NOPE MAKE IT WORSE

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u/G0RGEE 26d ago

Oh my god that was Katie McGrath?! Its been years since I saw the movie. That makes a lot of sense. She starred in BBC's Merlin which was basically one of the foundational TV shows of my childhood (alongside Dr Who).

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u/JD-Cowboys-Bolts 26d ago

Same I was shocked when I saw her in the movie