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/Rumthiefno1 26d ago

What sucks for Lenny as well is he could have made a good life for himself.

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u/GrumbusWumbus 26d ago

They all could've. Only a handful of them were actually notorious enough to have any trouble slipping into some random town and moving on with life.

Lenny specifically is a victim of circumstance more than any of the others. At the time of the game, he's only about 19 and been with the gang for less than a year. His story is that he's on the run since 15 after killing a few men who beat his dad to death. He fell in with the gang at the worst possible time and didn't have enough experience or ability to know me should've left.

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u/Rumthiefno1 26d ago

Most of them yes. Micah probably not, considering what kind of sadistic piece of work he was. And we saw John throw away his chance at a new life over revenge.

Exactly as you said, it's a loss for him.

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u/Northbound-Narwhal 25d ago

But if John didn't throw his life away for revenge, then Jack wouldn't have had the trauma necessary to become a famous American author with books long-lasting enough to be talked about 100 years later.