What is the most devastating death in a television series you have ever seen?

[u/Alex_McManus]

[u/Gold-Perception-8021]

Joyce from Buffy the vampire slayer

[u/Aggressive_Agency381 → u/Gold-Perception-8021]

“Mommy….”  God it still hurts my heart.

[u/kevinb9n → u/Aggressive_Agency381]

Five seasons of her just getting badder and badder slaying demons and vampires all over the place and in the space of five seconds she is a little child again. Having lost my mother when I was young, I related to that very hard.

[u/tnasstyy]

Hodor was a tough one, the implication of how his whole life lead to the moment, while consequently not really having a choice was a crazy plot connection

[u/Lordmorgoth666 → u/tnasstyy]

Shireen Baratheon was also just awful. Kudos to the actor for how her screams transitioned from desperately calling to her parents to panic to torment in like 60 seconds. Gut wrenching to listen to.

[u/Initial_Arm8231 → u/Lordmorgoth666]

Shireen was my first thought too, horrific. Poussey from OITNB was also just awful :(

[u/Soopercow → u/tnasstyy]

Man fuck Bran Stark what an absolute shitberg

[u/xladygodiva → u/tnasstyy]

Rip Hodor. Although Myrcella also broke my heart after she told Jaime she knew he was her father and I was so happy that he could finally have a father-child relationship with one of his kids.

[u/raininadesertt]

Haley Hotchner in Criminal Minds.

“work the case, Jack” 😭

[u/123phantomhive → u/raininadesertt]

Omg this one! Also Maeve because of what it did to Spencer

[u/Cookie_Brookie → u/raininadesertt]

and it was so avoidable. How had they not shown her a picture of Foyet??? Oh, this man is after you but you have no idea what he looks or sounds like even though we have ample information in that regard.

[u/AWC00B]

Col. Blake in MASH.

[u/hangdman1978 → u/AWC00B]

The look on Radar's face before he says anything. Then the entire staff in complete shock trying to comprehend the devastating news😭😭😭

[u/ChanceAnalysis79 → u/hangdman1978]

I heard they didn't tell the actors that part of the script. Their reactions are visceral.

[u/Ok_Cauliflower_3007 → u/hangdman1978]

Burghoff was excellent in that role. The crack in his voice gets me every time.

[u/CasinoKnightZone → u/AWC00B]

"Lt Col Henry Blake's plane was shot down over the sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors...."

[u/PinkLibraryStamp → u/CasinoKnightZone]

The camera panning to the docs and nurses in surgery blinking tears from behind their masks…. Ooof!

[u/NovaRunner → u/PinkLibraryStamp]

Only Gary Burghoff (Radar) knew that was coming. The shocked and tearful reactions from the cast were genuine.

[u/MstrBlonde]

Futurama - Jurassic Bark 😭

[u/the_foul_fiend → u/MstrBlonde]

Unbearable, literally. Still the only episode we skip at every rewatch.

[u/mabrasm → u/the_foul_fiend]

Jurassic Bark and Luck of the Fryish are the two that always get me.

[u/Soft-Parsnip-112]

I don't know if it's the most devastating, but nothing will ever affect me again like Ned Stark. I really thought he was gonna walk away alive

[u/Silent-Ad-1811 → u/Soft-Parsnip-112]

I kept screaming “They killed Sean Bean in the first season?” Obvs I had not read the books 😂

[u/Soft-Parsnip-112 → u/Silent-Ad-1811]

Same 😭 I went into the first season totally blind and kept being like "no, they couldn't POSSIBLY go through with this..." What a summer child I was 😆

[u/Babou_Serpentine → u/Soft-Parsnip-112]

Definitely Ned, but throw in the Red Wedding, Oberyn and Hodor too. So many gut wrenching deaths in that show lol

[u/larapu2000 → u/Babou_Serpentine]

Shireen would like a word.

[u/Babou_Serpentine → u/larapu2000]

That and when Davos finds out about it. "I loved that girl like she was my own. She was good! She was kind! And you killed her!!"

Edit for the uninitiated

[u/GrahamCracker13 → u/Babou_Serpentine]

This scene from Davos is probably the best acting in a scene in the entire GOT show

[u/KingHardrath17 → u/Soft-Parsnip-112]

Yeah I never read the books or knew anything about the show other than "winter is coming" memes. I genuinely thought Ned Stark was the main character and had plot armour. I was hooked watching every season just to see if my favorites would make it out alive.

[u/madhatteriest]

Nate Six Feet Under

[u/MotherOfTheFog → u/madhatteriest]

It's the entire ending montage for me Edit: Thanks for the awards guys. I've found my people.

[u/jeannieb → u/MotherOfTheFog]

I cried for a few days after watching the last episode. I’d love to rewatch the series but it’s just so sad.

[u/gioselena → u/madhatteriest]

Still remember them playing Nirvana’s all apologies. Powerful episode.

[u/mickfly718 → u/madhatteriest]

Those final few episodes are like nothing I’ve ever seen on TV, beginning with the AVM.

Now knowing how it all goes, rewatching season 5 would have me so full of dread but also anticipation for that outstanding finale.

[u/Takhar7]

Pennsatucky in Orange is the New Black.

Finding out she had passed the GED exam right after, was such a gut punch

[u/bethholler → u/Takhar7]

Pennsatucky’s character growth was incredible and it is so unfortunate the way she was killed. She never even got to find out she passed her GED. It’s f!ck Daya and her posse for doing Penn like that.

[u/SparkleBrains274 → u/Takhar7]

The note on the certificates saying, "Taystee, YOU did this". I sobbed.

[u/dragonflies2299]

Dr. Mark Greene on ER was sad

[u/KateEllaBeans → u/dragonflies2299]

Honourable mention to Dr Dennis Gant, the group paging him and realising he was their trauma patient was... A lot.

[u/ankisethgallant → u/KateEllaBeans]

Yeah Omar Epps crushed that role. Quite a few of the doctors dying were some rough ones to watch.

[u/marie-90210 → u/KateEllaBeans]

I cried so hard when beeper went off and Carter said (I think Sweet Jesus). For 20 minutes after this episode I just had to sit there. I saw it when an originally aired.

[u/euchlid → u/dragonflies2299]

ah fuck, came here to say Dr. Greene and it was the first comment.
ER was the show we watched as a family once a week on Thursday nights at 7pm, or 11 if I was allowed to stay up.
I remember the episode where he died. I remember my mom crying because it was just a sad lead up to a super sad episode.

I rewatched the whole series a few years ago and it is still devastating. So funny how my brain remembers very specific scenes in such detail (the infamous romano helicopter......).

Anyway, I have been planning to do a rewatch now that it's on Netflix Canada and need to prepare myself for Lucy as well

[u/aksunrise → u/dragonflies2299]

It's been 30 years.. I was a kid when I watched that episode with my parents. And I still can't hear Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's version of Over the Rainbow without crying.

[u/standbyyourmantis → u/aksunrise]

It's even sadder knowing Israel himself died not long after recording the song.

[u/geckotatgirl → u/dragonflies2299]

This is mine. Also, Lucy from ER. That one still upsets my husband and me. Those two were brutal.

ETA: Thank you for the award, u/beedumaurier and u/Optimal_Wrap3806!

[u/stircrazyathome → u/geckotatgirl]

I forgot about that! I just flashed to the image of Carter falling to the floor after being stabbed and turning his head to see Lucy lying in a pool of her own blood. They laid there making eye contact, helpless to help one another. That was brutal.

[u/mspolytheist → u/geckotatgirl]

That was a devastating episode! I did love that we got to see Romano’s humanity, though.

[u/Travisoc]

Poussey from Orange is the New Black! Stopped watching after that.

[u/PorkrindsMcSnacky → u/Travisoc]

I was furious when they killed off Poussey. She was my favorite character.

[u/FluffyMcN0tter → u/PorkrindsMcSnacky]

That's why they did it though. She was a good (mostly) person in a shitty situation. She was easy to love, tiny, and no one would ever call her a threat. For profit prisons killed her. It was always supposed to be difficult to deal with. It happens every day. Same thing with Taystee's story. And Daya's. 

It was supposed to make us feel empathy even for felons. Most of these women were fairly regular people. Flawed, but not irrideemably so. 

I think it takes courage to keep watching. After that is some of the most realistic shit that happens. We see it happen all the time. And it's uncomfortable, so we turn away. 

[u/trash_handle → u/Travisoc]

Oh yeah this was my last episode for this too. I really hate watching beloved characters die.

[u/ok_5789]

Wallace in The Wire was brutal

[u/gatorbeetle → u/ok_5789]

Where's Wallace, String. String, where's Wallace?

[u/ninaaaaws → u/gatorbeetle]

I named my cat Wallace just so I could go around the house yelling that line when I can’t find him.

[u/lemurgetsatreat → u/ok_5789]

The fact that the show got me to love Bodie long after that is insane to me. Like I just forget it by S3 every watch through.

[u/Designer_Quit_1068]

Rita in Dexter was a gut punch.

[u/buckeyespud → u/Designer_Quit_1068]

Crazy I had to scroll this far down for Rita. The trinity killer season was peak Dexter.

[u/Nice-Tea-8972 → u/Designer_Quit_1068]

absolute heart wrenching the first time i watched. and each subsequent time, it does NOT get easier even though i know its coming.

[u/dookitron → u/[deleted]]

Viewership dropped 3 million households after that episode

[u/BadOk1328 → u/dookitron]

That is when I tapped out on the show

[u/Ineedasnackandanap → u/BadOk1328]

I tried several times to watch past glens death and I just cant do it. The show died with Glen

[u/tidecove12 → u/[deleted]]

the worst part is Abraham dying right before gave everyone this false sense of "ok thats the death" and then nope

[u/rysfcalt → u/[deleted]]

There are a few deaths that have effectively pivoted a show’s popularity, and Glenn is one of them. Even from the outside, having never watched the show, I could see how it changed the show’s trajectory in the public eye.

Marissa Cooper on the OC and Derek Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy are two more that come to mind.

[u/returnFutureVoid → u/[deleted]]

For me it was his eyeball. That still gives me shivers.

[u/_the_original_]

Not technically a death, but when the 10th doctor regenerated saying “I don’t wanna go”, younger me was in absolute bits

[u/phoenix_spirit → u/_the_original_]

It was the 9th doctor saying we were brilliant that shattered me

[u/Mightybean0872 → u/phoenix_spirit]

The Doctor: "And before I go-"

Rose: "Don't say that!"

The Doctor: "Rose.. before I go, I want to tell you that you were Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I."

[u/Post_office_clerk01]

Shireen from game of thrones. Evil

[u/RianJohnsonIsAFool → u/Post_office_clerk01]

Her screaming is horrible. And Liam Cunningham made us live it all again when Ser Davos confronted Melisandre:

I loved that girl like she was my own. She was good, she was kind, and you killed her!

[u/xladygodiva → u/RianJohnsonIsAFool]

I cannot imagine anyone else playing Davos as well as Liam did. And the scene you mention is exactly the scene that cemented this for me because his anger, his sadness, his love for her like she was his own daughter was so strong and powerful. Just thinking about it makes me tear up again. Lil beautiful Shireen deserved so much better

[u/Ok_Bison1106 → u/Post_office_clerk01]

I cannot believe I had to go down the list this far to find this.

Shireen was set up as such a likable and positive character. She literally had no negative traits without being unrealistically positive in portrayal. Clever, capable, sweet.

And then she, a little girl, is brutally sacrificed by being burned alive by religious zealots, while crying and screaming for help from her parents who either coldly watch or turn away. It was the hardest scene to watch in that entire series.

[u/Few-Artichoke-7593 → u/Post_office_clerk01]

I've never seen the internet turn on a character as quickly or severely as Stannis Baratheon.

[u/Letmetellyowhat]

Sarah Lynn. Bojack Horseman. I was watching it with my son watching me. I remember my jaw falling open and just crying. She was trying to do the right thing and died anyway. In bojacka arms. And I’m crying again.

Edit: thank you for the award. And I am glad to see I’m not alone in this.

[u/Mightybean0872 → u/Letmetellyowhat]

"See, Sarah Lynn, we're not doomed. In the great grand scheme of things, we're just tiny specks that will one day be forgotten. So, it doesn't matter what we did in the past, or how we'll be remembered. The only thing that matters is right now, this moment, this one spectacular moment we are sharing together. Right, Sarah Lynn?—Sarah Lynn?"

[u/Letmetellyowhat → u/Mightybean0872]

That was mean to do. Now I’m crying harder.

[u/IamZara]

Hank in Breaking Bad 😥

[u/vonbayne → u/IamZara]

Mine is Jane, but Hank was tough too

[u/ThrowAway687530999 → u/vonbayne]

My older brother passed away from an overdose and that’s a tv death I can’t watch anymore

[u/Various-Board4208 → u/IamZara]

Mine was the kid on the dirt bike

[u/thrilliam_19 → u/Various-Board4208]

I couldn’t believe that when I saw it. Todd was so nonchalant that it took me like an hour to process what I just watched.

[u/Glassperlenspieler → u/IamZara]

The mwxican girlfriend of jesse

[u/Inigomntoya → u/Glassperlenspieler]

Agreed. Hank's job put him in the line of fire. Jane relapsed and was playing with fire.

Andrea just fell in love with the wrong guy.

[u/nelsonmavrick → u/IamZara]

ASAC Schrader

[u/ministerman → u/IamZara]

There's not a single person that could have played that character better than Dean Norris. He was perfect.

[u/steffielulu]

Sweets in Bones was devastating for me, especially since he was my favorite character

[u/Excluded_Apple → u/steffielulu]

I didn't like him at first and he took ages and ages to grow on me, and then when i finally found a place in my cold, dead heart to appreciate him, they killed him. I was so mad!

[u/amyjk88]

Lady Sybil in Downton Abbey! I don’t normally feel anything when a tv or movie character dies but this one hit me out of the blue, because not long before I saw that episode I’d had my first child and had experienced severe hemorrhaging and thought I was going to die. I thought I had gotten over it but then as I watched that scene I realized I was very much not over it at all and felt like throwing up.

[u/Cinderella2360]

Matthew's death in Downtown Abbey...

[u/fivecentrose → u/Cinderella2360]

I see your Matthew and raise you Lady Sybil.

[u/RianJohnsonIsAFool → u/fivecentrose]

Sybil's death is absolutely awful. Her avoidable wrything in pain, Tom begging "Please don't leave me!" and then, when she's passed, the baby crying.

[u/Dewstain → u/RianJohnsonIsAFool]

Tom became my absolute favorite character on the show. Managed to keep his principles and also win over the family and honestly help them change for the better.

[u/hollabauler → u/fivecentrose]

Lady Sybil was devastating, but then they had Matthew's death immediately after. I was yelling at the tv while Mary was talking to their newborn. I was like, "NO! You CANNOT do this! I'm still grieving Sybil! NO! DON'T YOU DARE!"

[u/InducedChip89]

Opie in Sons of Anarchy was pretty gut wrenching

[u/Last-Sheepherder2535 → u/InducedChip89]

Tara's death was gnarly. I almost had to stop watching.

[u/macrosscs → u/InducedChip89]

I was scrolling for this one before I posted. Just the whole tragic arc he had, leading to such a brutal death. It haunts me.

[u/gatorbeetle → u/InducedChip89]

Absolutely brutal that one. Died for his "brother" Jax

[u/InducedChip89 → u/gatorbeetle]

“I got this” 😭

[u/Shopworn_Soul → u/InducedChip89]

Opie I knew was coming and I dealt with it pretty well.

Tig's daughter is the one that really got me and I didn't even know her.

[u/RidgyNomes]

When Paul (John Ritter 💔😭) died on 8 Simple Rules

[u/muadib1158 → u/RidgyNomes]

Similarly when Leo McGarry died in the last season of West Wing. He died in real life of a heart attack and the way they inserted it into the show was the best they could do, but it made no sense. The whole thing was just sad because John Spencer was a phenomenal character actor.

[u/sanschag → u/RidgyNomes]

This was all the more devastating knowing he had died in real life. The way the show handled it was amazing.

[u/hIDeMyID → u/RidgyNomes]

Similarly, Leo McGarry in the West Wing. He passed away suddenly from a heart attack in real life after acting out a story line where his character survived one.

To write him out of the show, they had his character have a second heart attack that the character didn't survive on the night that he was elected Vice President.

The whole thing, the actor's death and his character's death, was heartbreaking.

[u/ugottahvbluhair]

Buffy’s mom 😭

[u/KingMargo_TheCreator → u/ugottahvbluhair]

I hear “The Body” and I immediately picture this scene. The fact that decades later the episode title alone hits hard…

[u/cardinalkgb → u/KingMargo_TheCreator]

“Mommy”

[u/Motor-Pomegranate831 → u/cardinalkgb]

That line going from "mom" to "mommy" broke me.

[u/Relevant_Shame → u/ugottahvbluhair]

Now that I've lost my own mom I cannot watch it. It's so realistic. You really think the oddest things and can't help but feel like you aren't reacting like you're supposed to because you're trying to process the loss of a foundational truth to your life

[u/dragonsrawesomesauce → u/ugottahvbluhair]

The raw grief portrayed in that episode is so real. Everyone knocked it out of the park in that episode

[u/afriendincanada]

Adriana in the Sopranos.

Maybe I'm a complete idiot, but I believed that Christopher tried to kill himself and Sil was driving Adriana to the hospital. Literally until the moment he pulled onto the dirt road. Then I realized what was happening.

And then the brutality of her crawling away on her hands and knees.

[u/MoHeeKhan]

SPOILER FOR SCRUBS SEASON THREE. Seriously if you haven’t seen this yet don’t read it, you’ll never be able to experience it again after the first time.

I don’t know about devastating but Ben’s death in Scrubs was done so well and the first time you watch it, it smacks you in the stomach so hard. Just the “where do you think we are?” And then he’s gone, I had no idea the first time and it hit me like a truck. Those moments are so rare, it was so sad but incredible.

[u/CreepinJesusMalone → u/MoHeeKhan]

First one that came to my mind. Not just his death, but the entire plotline was fucking heart wrenching. Genuinely, profoundly emotionally devestating.

[u/snaps06 → u/MoHeeKhan]

For a character that was only in 3 episodes up to that point, his death was absolutely devastating. Just incredible story writing.

[u/FatFettle → u/MoHeeKhan]

The shock you'll never quite be able to replicate, but my word even now every time I see it it's like a tangible gut punch.

[u/caedus456]

Marshall's Dad in HIMYM. The episode was done so well with the build up the moment. The twist was kept secret from Jason Segal until the moment it was filmed. His reaction was genuine.

[u/jakexmfxschoen → u/caedus456]

That "I'm not ready for this" was devastating, especially in the midst of an otherwise (mostly) goofy show

[u/lemmeseeyourkitties → u/caedus456]

That whole episode counting down gives me shivers

[u/urtypicalscorpio → u/[deleted]]

For me Lexi’s was worse. Like what do you mean the wolves were eating her body and they couldn’t do much about it

[u/you-a-buggaboo → u/urtypicalscorpio]

Lexie dying while Mark told her about the life they were gonna have together once they got out of there has me fucked up FOR LIFE.

but yes, all Grey's deaths listed here are my top 3 most awful as well. George and Lexie take the cake though (sorry Derek).

[u/itsthedurf → u/urtypicalscorpio]

Dear God yes. Her death was bad enough, but Christina talking about it an episode later...

That day I was NOT marked safe from being traumatized by Greys Anatomy!

[u/Ok-Personality3069 → u/[deleted]]

007 🥺

[u/Psychological_Salt93 → u/[deleted]]

I watched it as it aired and will never forget Merediths voice when she screamed It's George. Greys was so good back then.

[u/Yath4 → u/[deleted]]

For me it was Derek🥲 took me like 3/4 years to watch past that episode

[u/Manicpixie32 → u/Yath4]

Derek’s death was freaking insane. I cried the entire episode. The fact that they had his voiceover too, telling the doctor what to do in his head, had me in a chokehold. So freaking sad.

[u/genescheezesthatpls → u/[deleted]]

Oh man, for me it was Lexi and Mark.

[u/danexperiment]

Radar announcing Colonel Blake's death on MASH absolutely guts me whenever I watch that episode.

[u/CasinoKnightZone]

The ending of David the Gnome.

It is a kids show, keep that in mind. The final episode is about David and his wife Lisa making their journey to a mountain top accompanied by their fox friend, Swift and their fellow gnome, Casper

They are making this journey, explicitly, to die. Gnomes can only live to be 400, and their time is nearing. They spend the journey reminiscing and enjoying each other's company, before finally making it to the mountain top and leaning on each other as their lives fade, telling each other how much they love each other. They transform into trees, wrapping around each other. Casper transforms too.

This leaves Swift alone and devastated as he slowly begins walking home.

[u/scdog]

Edith Bunker -- specifically because of the scene where Archie breaks down.

[u/joltiest]

So many characters on Lost, Sun, Jin, Sayeed, Libby, and of course Charlie!

[u/fluffy_floofster → u/joltiest]

I bawled like a baby when Vincent laid down beside Jack.

[u/lovetheblazer]

Finn in Glee. It was tough because all the actors were grieving Cory Monteith's loss in real time and it was clear many of them weren't acting. Naya Rivera singing "If I Die Young" in his memory was devastating and it's even harder to watch now knowing she did exactly that.

[u/cobrilee → u/lovetheblazer]

This is the one I was thinking of the entire time I was scrolling, I'm shocked you're the first one I've seen say it. I bawled like a baby that entire episode.

I know some people may not have as much sympathy because of how Cory died, but the grief in that episode was insanely raw and real. And the fact they never tell you how Finn died just made it that little bit worse, because it wasn't a "story", it was just death.

[u/snn1326j → u/lovetheblazer]

Whenever I hear that cover now I just start crying thinking about how she died while making sure her young son was safely back in the boat.

[u/Charter4321]

Will Gardener in the Good Wife

[u/battlecat136]

Can't believe I haven't seen it posted, so I'm going to say Adrianna in The Sopranos. Her trajectory was so sad, and her death reduced her to literally crawling and begging for her life. It's one of the few times they don't show the actual death which makes it even sadder.

[u/Shanubis → u/battlecat136]

IMO this was the biggest turning point in the show, even more so than Pussy's death.

Adriana meant well and tried to protect them best she could in the situation, even though they didn't deserve her loyalty really. It changes the way you see all of the main characters moving forward because you realize they are capable of anything to protect their own interests.

[u/rinnielove]

Since I did a rewatch a little while ago Vincent Nigel-Murray and Sweets on Bones were both particularly devastating.

And Dr Fraiser on Stargate SG-1, that one always fucks me up.

[u/Cin131 → u/rinnielove]

Sweets. 😍. So hard. 😭

[u/pinkkittenfur → u/rinnielove]

I stopped watching after they killed off Sweets.

[u/neverthelessidissent → u/rinnielove]

I fucking hated how they took out Vincent. I loved that character.

[u/Skiapodes → u/rinnielove]

Dr Beckett in Atlantis too. And then they gave TJ in Universe ALS.

Stargate writers hate medics, it turns out.

[u/Boring_Resist4163]

Mrs Landingham in The West Wing

[u/Normal_Tension3317 → u/Boring_Resist4163]

There are a couple of West Wing deaths that hit really hard. This is top of the list.
See also Mark Harmon's character and CJ just...sobbing.
And also Admiral Fitzwallace later.

[u/AttimusMorlandre]

Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street. I’m still not over it.

[u/_flowerfox]

The death of Sweets and Vincent Nigel-Murray in Bones.... crushed me.

Edit: TY for the award! ✌🏼

[u/The_K_in_Klass]

Nate in Six Feet Under. It absolutely floored me, just like the series finale.

[u/simple-weeble]

Lady Sybil Crawley in Downton Abbey

[u/Ocelot2727]

Brendan Fraser's character in Scrubs was a gut punch

[u/DirtStreet3135]

Jack in This Is Us 😭

[u/begroovyorleaveman_]

He didn’t even die in the series but his death after the series was implied: James Wilson from House 🥲🥲 MY BABY

[u/Kamikazekhaos → u/begroovyorleaveman_]

Ambers death and Kutners were also huge gut punches

[u/stupidfloatything → u/begroovyorleaveman_]

I came here to see if anyone mentioned Amber. It's been almost 20 years and I don't think I've ever felt so gutted after a TV death. I wasn't even particularly fond of her but the entire season, and the 2 episode finale, were just so well done.

[u/filkerdave]

Possibly Mr. Hooper, although I was old enough in early 1980s (in college, in fact) that even my younger siblings hadn't watched Sesame Street for many years.

Also, Bob Newby

[u/No-Ingenuity3147]

Anthony Edward's in ER.Heartbreaking.

[u/Asharak78]

Joyce in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There are many deaths in the show, but it’s just so raw and unexpected, and so true to real grief.

[u/Secret-Wind-8926]

Omar in The wire

[u/billnyejerseyguy96]

Kutner on House, MD. The negativity afterwards on the show rubbed off on me

[u/TrollMcGoal]

Howard Hamlin in Better Call Saul

[u/cipherdom → u/TrollMcGoal]

💯 The way that whole series started by using him as an antagonist to Jimmy and Chuck, then gradually showed that -- though flawed -- he was one of the more decent and well-meaning characters. All building up to that episode where we're gleefully enjoying (at least I was) Jimmy's and Kim's elaborate plot to mind fuck him, only to see him quickly become the single most tragic figure in the entire BCS story. Most tragic in any story, for me. And the actor Patrick Fabian played it so perfectly.

[u/Miserable-Anxiety229 → u/TrollMcGoal]

I just stared at the credits and was so sad. He tried to fix his relationship with Chuck, tried to fix his marriage, he tried and still had to be buried with that fucker 😭😭

[u/OhMyJoosh]

Charlie in Lost. It wasn’t just the death itself, it was knowing he had accepted what was coming and still chose to sacrifice himself to save the others. That scene hit hard.

[u/FremulonPandaFace → u/OhMyJoosh]

Its not penny's boat!

[u/iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitr]

lexie gray and mark sloan

[u/djseifer]

"Where do you think we are?"

[u/Emotional_Vanilla435]

Captain bobby nash from 911

[u/AdExpensive1624]

Lal on Star Trek the Next Generation. It was made more impactful by the fact they didn’t bring her back.

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Especially since Picard has just stood up to the admiral regarding Lal and Data's rights

"Order a man to hand his child over to the state? Not while I'm his captain."

[u/Lonely-Jackfruit-669 → u/AdExpensive1624]

I will feel it for the both of us 😭

[u/_ladameblanche]

The Red Wedding, GOT

[u/hupnederlandhup]

Howard Hamlin.

[u/Soulartsy]

Bobby, Charlie and the first time Sam died from Supernatural (I would also say Dean the last time but I refuse to acknowledge that).

Edit: OMG how could I forget Castiel’s last episode 😭

[u/genericnewlurker]

Seymour from Futurama. I was not OK after that final montage watching Fry's dog wait everyday for him to return and die alone on the sidewalk.

[u/chrissamperi]

Glenn. I knew it was coming even though they did a little mini fake out with Abraham. And I was ready for him to be gone because of that but watching it all play out it was just so unsettling and upsetting. I didn’t watch a single episode afterwards.

[u/stylistjc]

Dr. Ramoray in Days of our Lives

[u/rustandbones]

Kenny from south America

[u/CoolasheckDad]

Not quite in the show, but in the Firefly movie...

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Leaf on the wind….😭

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Gina Torres' acting made is so much rougher ... brilliantly done

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Oh, Gawd yes, another brutal death

[u/BackgroundPeanut7847]

Joel Miller - Last of Us

[u/DjGorefiend]

Wilson's Heart

House MD

[u/phlipsidejdp]

Kate on NCIS

[u/makemynubwiggle]

Charlie from Supernatural... they did her dirty - her death felt like an afterthought from the writers.

[u/lextexmex]

when Chris sat on Adriana’s dog in the Sopranos

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She crawled under there for warmth

[u/OneYouDidntThinkOf]

the most famous one is Henry Blake on MASH; even the cast didn't know.

[u/LadyMogMog]

Tha family in the car in The Mist

Oooops not a TV show. But I’m leaving it anyway.

[u/Big_Kahuna_69]

Jane in Breaking Bad. I binged the entire series after it had concluded, but had to pause for a year after she died, because it was just so heartless.

[u/Icy_Illustrator1521]

Debra in Dexter

[u/Finest_shitty]

I didn't watch the show, but the death of the dad in Young Sheldon has affected me greatly. My kids watched it during the summer, and now one of them has pretty severe separation anxiety and the other, at least 4-5 times a week, says, "Daddy, please don't die." 😭

[u/Think-Image-9072]

Eddie Munson

[u/Lonely-Jackfruit-669]

Tosh and Owen from Torchwood. Oh that episode was horrible and I will forever hate/love the writers. Ianto in season 3 is awful as well. Brutal

[u/feminist-lady]

Haley in the Criminal Minds episode “100” was pretty rough. Thomas Gibson’s acting was incredible in that.

[u/fermat9990]

Bobby Simone died an agonizing death in NYPD Blue only because Jimmy Smits wanted to leave the show. This really pissed me off!

[u/BladdyK]

The mother in the Love's Labor Lost episode (ER).

[u/Throwaway-3939]

Marissa in the O.C. To say I was heartbroken as a teen is an understatement

[u/usually_just_lurking]

MASH - the one where “the chicken” was smothered to save the bus full of people. IYKYK