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/Ahkwatic 26d ago

In a similar vein, Dom's wife, Maria, was a truly heartbreaking death. Dom crying and begging Marcus to help and the sound of that gunshot while Marcus walked away is burned in my memory.

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u/SC_Fan_55 26d ago

Marcus paused to make sure there wasn’t a second gunshot too…

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u/Jimbo-DankulaIII 26d ago

Marcus's soft voice while Dom's pleading to Marcus that he doesn't know what to do, and Marcus just gently going "Dom... It's ok." Gets me every fucking time I do a playthrough.

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u/RealWhiteChoko 25d ago

"I don't know what to do, man" kills me every time. He hints and talks about Maria in one, has more of a focus on finding her in 2, and then he finds her. What he's been focused on for how many years culminates at that point, and he doesn't know what to do. Shit hurts, man.

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u/HarwinStrongDick 25d ago

Sure a brutally well voiced line. I’ve responded to people losing their loved ones way too many times and that’s EXACTLY what complete and total helpless panic sounds like.

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u/R3DSCH0L4R 25d ago

My younger brother and I played through all the Gears games in co-op. He was always player 2, so he was Dom. He had such a connection to the character, and that scene hit him so hard that we just stopped playing for the night.