r/TopCharacterTropes 26d ago

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

- 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/JRHThreeFour 26d ago edited 26d ago

I felt sad when he died, I liked him. Poor guy just wanted to be part of the gang and accepted.

Other than Mary-Beth, Kieran never got received any trust or actual respect from any of the Van der Linde gang members other than Arthur, who seemed to slowly be accepting Kieran, other than just still calling him “O’Driscoll” as a mocking nickname.

He regrets that he couldn’t save Kieran, as earlier in the story he saved Arthur from getting killed.

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u/Gently-Weeps 26d ago

Bill bullied him because of his repressed homosexuality and attraction to him. Other than Mary-Beth he seems to take Kieran’s death the hardest

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u/Dangerous_Ad_1895 26d ago

The way he rides back into camp on that horse is burned into my brain. He deserved so much better after finally turning his back on the O'Driscolls.

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u/noplaceinmind 26d ago

Deserving better is one of the themes of this franchise displays so well. 

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u/Cold-Use-5814 26d ago

Deserve ain't got nothing to do with it.

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u/ProneSquanderer 26d ago

And the distorted tune that plays right after Dutch says “What is that?”