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Characters with unusually cruel fates
- Thread starter GreenMamba
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Is this like intentionally funny? It's like the Helicopter came back to finish the job.
Toki from Hokuto no Ken (or "First of the North Star" if you prefer). Hate it when good guys suffer from a terribly cruel fate, and he was the goodest of them all. Even Raoh, who is the antagonist of the series first season, acknowledges that Toki should have never experienced such cruel fate.
This is a fucked up thing to do, but they do let him out in a later episode.
Family of Blood from Dr Who:
Granted they were pretty shitty but that was a hell of a punishment he dealt out!
Granted they were pretty shitty but that was a hell of a punishment he dealt out!
God damn. Did not think I'd wake up to something like this. Gotta say, love it when heroes go to this level for someone who may deserve it.
Jesse's second girlfriend in Breaking Bad being shot in the head on her front porch with her kid inside just for the sake of making us hate the cartoonish neo nazi villains of the final season and further torturing Jesse, kind of checked me out of the finale of the show too.
The Jurassic World assistant instantly came to mind when I saw the thread title, reassuring to see so many other people mention it.
It's not really unusually cruel, but something from the ending of the Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson Alien-esque movie Life from a few years ago really fucks me up.
After an unkillable jellyfish alien from Mars kills its way through the International Space Station, Gyllenhaal decides to lure the alien into an escape pod and pilot it away from Earth, while Ferguson uses another pod to return home.
Due to other chaos going on, the two pods collide with debri during launch, sending one towards Earth and the other into the black of space. Gyllenhaal crashes with the alien to Earth, and then the shot I can't forget, of Rebecca Ferguson screaming as her pod helplessly hurtles through space in the opposite direction, knowing that she's eventually going to die and they've completely failed their mission. Yikes.
Due to other chaos going on, the two pods collide with debri during launch, sending one towards Earth and the other into the black of space. Gyllenhaal crashes with the alien to Earth, and then the shot I can't forget, of Rebecca Ferguson screaming as her pod helplessly hurtles through space in the opposite direction, knowing that she's eventually going to die and they've completely failed their mission. Yikes.
Susan on Seinfeld.
George trying to weasel out his way of that engagement without success, only to have her die because he was super cheap on the wedding invitations.
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George trying to weasel out his way of that engagement without success, only to have her die because he was super cheap on the wedding invitations.
Seinfeld - Susan's Death
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IIRC, Matt and Trey said that they had held off on targeting Scientology out of respect for Issac Hayes, until they felt they had held off for too long, and then they talked to Hayes about doing a Scientology episode, and Hayes was 100% cool about it.
Then, after the episode aired, Hayes put out a public statement blasting Matt and Trey (he personally was blasting them personally), and he quit the show, without giving them any sort of chance to give the Chef character a graceful exit. Matt and Trey were pissed, so they instead gave Chef a disgraceful exit. If Hayes was offended by the Scientology episode, Matt and Trey intended to show Hayes what they were capable of when they weren't still holding back out of respect. They were mad at Hayes for what he said and did, but they were also mad at the Church of Scientology for it's obvious influence over him.
Hayes's son later claimed that Hayes had suffered a stroke which the Church of Scientology had covered up, and at the time Hayes was unable to quit any shows or make any statements, so the Church of Scientology (being way more upset about the Scientology episode than Hayes was) took advantage of his stroke to "quit the show for him" and to draft false statements in Hayes's name. Matt and Trey's anger with their former friend was actually misplaced, because they underestimated just how shitty the Church of Scientology could be.
I tried on page 1 but hit post right as the site went down, then went to bed and checking now and glad to see someone mention it. He got it worse than anyone, completely fucked.
Also to dog pile on GoW being fucked up with views of women in Ascension they had to rename a trophy after beating a women to death from "Bros Before Hos" to "Bros Before Fos"
But first thing from thread title is Jurassic World it just baffling a side character who barely shown is given a death like that. That's a villain death really
But first thing from thread title is Jurassic World it just baffling a side character who barely shown is given a death like that. That's a villain death really
There's a guy in the first Crank movie (the actor who plays Pedro in Napoleon Dynamite), who is being tortured and then killed that really, to this day, kinda screwed with me in a way I truly didn't expect...
They have him bound to a chair by some thugs, who put a plastic bag over his head THEN a noose around his neck. You hear him shouting "No" in a really desperate and sad way. They're all laughing around him as they pull the rope, basically strangling him and suffocating him at the same time, and the camera lingers on all of this, it's really fucked up
Squealer from Shin Sekai Yori.
An amazing character from a fucking amazing show.
I'd say Griffith came out of it pretty good.
At least until Guts catches up with him in 2030.
Griffith went through hell before the eclipse in that dungeon.
He's a bastard for what happened during the eclipse and after, but he did his share of suffering before it.
Miki from Devilman Crybaby
Everyone from Devilman honestly, considering the whole thing is apparently an infinite time loop orchestrated by YHVH to punish Satan for rebelling.
He got out then got murdered by Rogues because they liked Kid Flash their enemy more than him also made them fugitives
Yeah, it's absolutely this. There's a lot of great answers, but no one's gotten a raw deal like this poor woman did in FGO.
The Jurassic World assistant's death was so needlessly over the top and brutal I checked out of the movie AND the bad taste it left made me totally disinterested in the sequel even before reviews came out.
I forget her name, but in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" a character's girlfriend is kidnapped and held captive for much of the movie.
I forget her name, but in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" a character's girlfriend is kidnapped and held captive for much of the movie.
The Russians bring her out at one point to see if she's important to a different character, but when he doesn't know her they shoot her in the head on screen and you can see her skull break apart and splatter about the wall of the prison cell, all with no warning. No one brings her up again until the ending when her boyfriend says he's still looking. It gave me nightmares for years.
As terrible as Romano's death was, it was pretty cathartic at the time because the character was such a colossal asshole that he basically became the supervillain of ER. I vaguely remember they tried to write a bit of sympathy into the character once but the plot twist actually made him even less likeable? So he was basically Poochy and they decided to destroy the hospital.
Speaking of hospital dramas what was that show where a guy was running with a dude's heart in an ice box and he tripped and the heart spilled on the floor and a golden retriever wandered in and ate it with the guy who was set to get the heart just sitting there in shock. I remember howling with laughter at that lol
Her poor dad, I can't remember if Miki was spared learning about her family's fate. I don't think I can rewatch it.
Jigsaw designed the trap and approved of her being the victim. Amanda only rigged it so the key wouldn't work