What's the saddest you've gotten over a fictional character dying? (warning: spoiler city)

[Mark Hoover 330]

Scavion wrote:

I'm a huge sucker for heroic sacrifice so I get misty eyed all the damn time.

This just reminded me of yet another one. You all ever read the Kingdom Come series from DC?

In it, Billy Batson/Captain Marvel is kind of a bad guy through most of the comics. In the end though, as he and Superman are fighting, Superman convinces Billy to do the right thing. In the end, Captain Marvel dies a hero, saving everyone.

"And when he speaks... seven thunders sound..."

Ok, I really gotta stop just dropping into this thread unprepared. I've got the whole McGuire twisted crying face right now and I've got an online meeting in a few minutes!

[Cole Deschain]

Here's one that actually got worse for me over time:

The little boy at the start of Pumpkinhead.

It's funny, because his death is plot-mandated (without his death, you don't have much of a movie, after all), but it's so senseless, and Henriksen's performance as his father in their few scenes together is so on-point that literally every time I watch that movie, I find myself hoping that somehow, this time, the kid won't get run down by that jackass.

[Vidmaster7]

Orthos wrote:

I just finished Brandon Sanderson's newest book, Skyward.

** spoiler omitted **

Oh I forgot about this thread but yes I read it and yes it was sad.

[Rysky]

Got back into World of Warcraft and doing the 8.3 Storyline and this made me cry.

Spoiler:

Ra-Den's sacrifice. After everything he had been through, he was finally starting to regain hope after untold years of torture (and his flirting with MOTHER was adorable), enough that he sacrifices himself to save the Chamber of the Heart (aka the main control and life system for the planet Azeroth connected to all other systems) and you when the armies of N'zoth invade, overloading himself and hurling himself through the portal to stop the invasion.

Magni Bronzebeard: "We're gonna lose the chamber! There's no way tae stop him!"

Ra-den: "There is always a way."

Which leads to him getting corrupted and you have to fight him in the final Raid, broken even more than he had been, which ends in you killing him.

Ra-den: " Perhaps... a glimmer... can repel... the dark...

[Cole Deschain]

'Ere we go, 'ere we go!

One that's kind of elided, but which always gets me when I bother to think about it...

The Rock-Biter in Neverending Story. No, not Artax. I never cared about that useless pile of glue, even as a child. YOU HAD ONE JOB!

But the Rock-Biter... sitting there, waiting for the end, having failed to save his little buddies.

"They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they? I always thought that's what they were."

[Mark Hoover 330]

Just rewatched the series Regular Show on Hulu, made it to the series finale over the weekend. Pops' fate in the end of the show... it was beautiful. This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with... a hug. Jolly good show.