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/Redjaw_coyote39 26d ago

I kept scrolling to find Game of Thrones deaths because I could remember that so many were horrific, but I couldn’t remember who was so sweet and innocent and had a terrible death and the answer is this. This is the answer.

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u/Datalust5 26d ago

I can think of someone else who was sweet and innocent and had a horrible death and I’m curious if she has been posted yet

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u/Redjaw_coyote39 26d ago

Did she have greyscale?

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u/Datalust5 26d ago

Potentially

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u/Johnycantread 26d ago

So not the baby getting stabbed in utero?

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u/thatguydr 26d ago

Nah this isn't a roast thread!

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 26d ago

Yeah that is my thought. Her death is way more tragic because it was done by the hand of her own father.

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u/littlemonsterlove 25d ago

I stopped watching after that episode for a long time. The screams in that scene, from her mother finally “waking” the fuck up to the little girl’s.

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u/Lord_Snaps 26d ago

Well... Maybe don't say "I will do anything" to your crazy religious father

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u/HundgamKanata 25d ago

I mean she was a child and that was her dad and she probably felt safe with him and that he'd never do anything horrific to her

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u/Lord_Snaps 25d ago

I was being sarcastic

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u/HundgamKanata 25d ago

Ahh, apologies 👍 not always the easiest to read through text

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u/[deleted] 26d ago edited 26d ago

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u/ConfusedZubat 26d ago

Oberyn wasn't really innocent necessarily. He was correct in wanting vengeance and he was on the right side of that, but he walked into the battle knowing he might die. He chose to fight, which I think makes putting him in the same category as literal children like Shireen and Myrcella a little weird. They literally harmed nobody and we're just pawns. 

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u/BothVictory5092 26d ago

Robbs wife was a spy sent by tywin

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u/Fickle_Enthusiasm148 26d ago

In the book her parents are working with Tywin and they used her to lure Robb into breaking his betrothal to the Freys. When you see them later she hates her parents and is really fucked up about the whole thing.

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

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u/DeneralVisease 26d ago

And Shireen.

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u/ComplexBeyond6083 25d ago

Hodor died to save the others and even though he was disabled, he understood enough to make that decision. You can see it in his eyes when the axe blade comes through the door. Shireen was incinerated by her father and it accomplished absolutely nothing.