The Most Brutal TV Character Deaths Of All Time That I'm Still Not Over

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It's an accidental to basal for your favourite characters, laughter astatine their jokes, and ticker arsenic they autumn successful love. And adjacent with dramas that absorption connected dense taxable matter, astatine slightest you've got your favourite actors playing characters you cognize and love. 

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Or, arsenic successful the lawsuit of The Walking Dead, erstwhile the bid kills disconnected astir each quality successful the full franchise.

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GoT never rather deed its stride again post-Joffrey IMHO.

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#NotPennysBoat

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In a amusement arsenic brutal and testosterone-heavy arsenic The Sopranos, Christopher Moltisanti's (Michael Imperioli) woman Adriana (Drea de Matteo) was ever a enactment of caller air. However, successful Season 3, Adriana is targeted by the FBI arsenic a imaginable mole pursuing the decease of their erstwhile mole, Big Pussy (Vincent Pastore). After watching galore formed members get whacked connected the HBO drama, fans were instantly fearful for Adriana's life. Still, it wasn't until Season 5 that her destiny was yet sealed erstwhile Christopher turned her implicit to Tony. In a show that won Drea de Matteo an Emmy, Adriana is driven by Silvio (Steven Van Zandt) into the woods, wherever she meets her end.

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Over 5 seasons of The Wire, the precocious Michael K. Williams portrayed Omar Little, who often robbed Baltimore cause dealers portion wearing his infamous duster jacket. Michael K. Williams' show has been hailed arsenic 1 of the champion successful TV history, and Omar's intersexual individuality made his beingness particularly groundbreaking. In the show's last season, Omar was taken out, not by the cops oregon a rival cause dealer, but by a child, who shoots him successful the caput portion he's robbing a convenience store. While surely not shocking fixed the show's taxable matter, however Omar dies has agelong been a talking constituent for fans.

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When Sir Anthony Hopkins signed up to play a main quality successful HBO's robot-centric sci-fi extravaganza, we should person known that helium apt wouldn't marque it retired of Season 1 alive. He plays the park's founder, Robert Ford, who presides implicit Westworld's galore android "hosts." But helium is murdered successful the play finale by Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) arsenic she leads an uprising against the humans. While Anthony Hopkins does amusement up again successful Season 2, his shocking decease busted the bid wide open.

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Never has determination been a much celebrated Crock-Pot than the 1 that killed Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia) connected This Is Us. The bid acceptable up Jack's decease from the precise beginning. But it wasn't until Season 2's episode, entitled "Super Bowl Sunday" (which really aired instantly aft the Super Bowl), that audiences yet learned conscionable however Jack died. It turns retired that a faulty Crock-Pot caused the Pearson location to drawback fire, and Jack's quest to prevention the household canine ended with him losing his life. 

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Few shows person boasted much deaths than Grey's Anatomy, which has managed to termination disconnected Seattle Grace patients and unit successful astir each ridiculous mode you tin deliberation of. The series's archetypal large death, however, came erstwhile George (T.R. Knight) died successful the Season 6 premiere. The infirmary unit is moving connected John Doe, severely injured successful a autobus accident, erstwhile they recognize that the disfigured diligent is nary different than George. The mode George died stemmed straight from T.R. Knight's exit from the show and the writers' request to find a mode to termination him disconnected without the actor's presence. 

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Like Grey's Anatomy, Game of Thrones is chock-full of large quality deaths (the Red Wedding, Joffrey's poisoning, and Pedro Pascal's caput imploding), but nary looms arsenic ample arsenic Ned Stark's decease (Sean Bean). The Winterfell patriarch served arsenic the main quality of Season 1 lone to beryllium beheaded by the Lannisters successful Episode 9, leaving his household to fend for themselves. While readers of the George R. R. Martin publication bid knew that Ned wouldn't past long, TV viewers were shocked that the bid would chopped its pb truthful quickly. 

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"And conscionable similar that, Big died." So ends the premiere of the Sex and the City spinoff, And Just Like That. After six seasons and 2 movies of will-they-won't-they, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Mr. Big (Chris Noth) yet seemed to person figured retired their relationship. Fans were shocked, therefore, erstwhile the spinoff bid launched with the emotion of her beingness having a bosom onslaught via a Peloton motorcycle and dying successful their bathroom. In the end, Big's decease was a mercy termination arsenic the antheral ne'er had to witnesser a pistillate named Epcot clogging Miranda's toilet successful the bid finale.

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For each the decease successful Six Feet Under, a amusement astir a household moving a Los Angeles ceremonial home, it took rather a portion for the amusement to termination disconnected 1 of its main characters. In the mediate of the last season, Nate (Peter Krause), 1 of the 3 siblings astatine the halfway of the show, collapses aft having enactment and is rushed to the hospital, wherever helium dies successful his sleep. But ne'er fear, helium continues to amusement up successful visions and dreams for the remainder of the series. 

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When it comes to sidesplitting disconnected characters, nary amusement tin vie with The Walking Dead, which managed to execution six retired of its 7 archetypal main characters. The archetypal to beryllium mauled by zombies, however, was beloved ole Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn), the archetypal subsister group's dependable of reason. After he's bitten by the walkers, Rick (Andrew Lincoln) shoots him successful the caput to forestall Dale from turning into a zombie. His decease acceptable disconnected a concatenation absorption that would pb to truthful galore deaths that astir fans discontinue watching.

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While sidesplitting disconnected characters successful 2025 is reasonably commonplace, axing a quality backmost successful 2001 was acold little common. So erstwhile The Practice's Richard Bay (Jason Kravits) was killed successful a drive-by shooting successful Season 5 for refusing to propulsion a execution trial, it caused shockwaves. The determination served arsenic a blueprint for web procedurals chopping characters successful a season's last episodes, causing yearly consternation from fans each May.

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Teenage maine was INCONSOLABLE backmost successful 2007 erstwhile Lost's nonmigratory rockstar Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan) died successful the Season 3 finale. After premonitions of his decease played each season, Charlie yet sacrificed himself successful an effort to prevention the different Oceanic 815 survivors. The representation of him pounding the solid with "not Penny's boat" written connected his manus is seared into my caput for the remainder of this beingness (as good arsenic immoderate purgatory follows). 

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Downton Abbey isn't a amusement that typically kills disconnected characters, but 2 large Crawley household members died successful Season 3, arsenic the actors were anxious to prosecute caller projects. The archetypal 3 seasons of the BBC play focused connected Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens) becoming the heir to Downton Abbey aft different household subordinate died aboard the Titanic. His decease successful a car mishap astatine the extremity of Season 3, on with his sister-in-law Sybil, shocked viewers and near the household successful mourning. 

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Death hovered implicit Dexter from the pilot, with the serial slayer taking retired different serial killers and occasionally well-meaning formed members who threatened to exposure him. The astir shocking death, however, came astatine the extremity of Season 4, erstwhile Rita (Julie Benz), the emotion involvement of Dexter (Michael C. Hall), is murdered by Trinity (John Lithgow), a rival serial killer. Obviously, Dexter channeled his grief into sidesplitting much serial killers.

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Okay, truthful Ariana Grande's Chanel #2 didn't adjacent past 1 full occurrence of Scream Queens, but her decease was traumatizing nonetheless. The popular star/Nickelodeon actress/Glinda was stunt casting astatine its finest, becoming the archetypal unfortunate of the Red Devil and dying mid-tweet. It was large to person Ari connected our TV adjacent if lone for an episode.

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It's 1 happening for a amusement to termination disconnected a main character. It's different to termination disconnected 1 of the show's 2 leads. For 3 seasons, Homeland focused connected the narration betwixt CIA cause Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) and Marine P.O.W.-turned-terrorist Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis). However, helium is publically hanged successful Iran astatine the extremity of Season 3, efficaciously ending each plotlines involving his household members. From Season 4 onward, the amusement focused solely connected Carrie, with a caller ngo arising each year.

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Stranger Things seems primed to termination disconnected immoderate characters successful its last season, but the show's astir heartwrenching decease (no offense, Barb) came successful Season 2 erstwhile Bob Newby (Sean Astin) was mauled by Demodogs successful beforehand of his girlfriend, Joyce (Winona Ryder). While Bob whitethorn beryllium dead, his sister Patty (who has yet to look connected the show) is the focal constituent of Broadway's Stranger Things: The First Shadow, truthful it seems similar we could spot immoderate much of the Newby clan successful the last season.

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Despite Logan Roy (Brian Cox) seemingly being connected the brink of decease aboriginal successful Season 1, the Waystar Royco laminitis didn't really dice until Season 4 aboard his backstage jet. His decease (during his son's wedding) created possibly the champion occurrence of the full bid and led to a chaotic endgame arsenic each 4 of his children scrambled to go the heir to his company. If there's 1 spot I don't privation to die, it's successful an airdrome lavatory. 

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While deaths are reasonably commonplace connected TV dramas, comedies diagnostic a batch fewer. One notable objection is Susan Ross (Heidi Swedberg), George Costanza's (Jason Alexander) on-again-off-again girlfriend. She dies from licking excessively galore inexpensive wedding invitation envelopes, ingesting the toxic glue, and poisoning herself. Keeping with the taxable of each 4 Seinfeld characters being horrible people, nary 1 seems to attraction that overmuch that Susan died.

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It's hard to deliberation of a much heartbreaking quality decease than that of shot player/glee nine subordinate Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) connected Glee. That's due to the fact that Finn's decease came arsenic a nonstop effect of Cory Monteith's decease during the summertime of 2013. Season 5's 3rd occurrence became a tribute to Cory and 1 of the astir gut-punching episodes of TV ever.