NEVER AGAIN will I start a book, game, or movie hoping that my favourite character makes it through. It just won't happen.

I am not just talking Harry Potter, either!
Harry Potter just started the paranoia. It opened my eyes to the heinous character killing going on all around us. This is indeed a serious problem. This is something I have encountered in over thirty different "fandoms" and it's not making me very happy.
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My list:
Harry Potter, the da Vinci Code, Fullmetal Alchemist, Inkheart, the Hound of the Baskervilles (dead serious), Pirates of the Carribean, Dragonball Z, The Bartimeaous Trilogy, severall Redwall books (most especially The Long Patrol), the Chronicals of Narnia (Last Battle), the Wyrd Museum, Varjak Paw, The Invisible Man, Call of the Wild, Moby Dick, Kingom Hearts, The Matrix, All Quiet on the Western Front (but we all expected that one, really), Cirque de Freak, Age of Mythology, Things Fall Apart, Le Miserables, National Treasure II, Eragon, Brokeback Mountain, Timeline (movie), Stolen, 300, King Arthur, Animal Farm, The Last Samurai, the Outsiders, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Digimon, The Dark Knight, Naruto (WHY DID THEY HAVE TO DO THAT), Sounder, Quarentine (lol), The Great Gatsby, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,

IF THEY KILL CASTIEL I AM NOT WATCHING THE EFFING FIFTH SEASON DAMNIT
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[Both lists last updated May 28th]
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Your list (comment your sad deaths unless it's a spoiler for a relatively new series/movie/show/thing):
Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Trigun, Animamundi, Death Note, Full Metal Alchemist, Shaman King, Fast and the Furious, F&F Tokyo Drift, ER, King Arthur, Osmosis Jones, Hogfather, Star Wars, Dragonlance, G1 Transformers, Saiyuki, Yu-Gi-Oh!x2, Hunter X Hunter, Dragonriders of Pern, Alex Rider books, The Lord of the Rings, Warcraft III and Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Shakespeare (Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Ceasar, Romeo and Juliet), All Quiet on the Western Front, The Metamorphosis, Brokeback Mountain, just about everything ~kuroi-nekochan read in 10th grade english, Abhorsen Trilogy, The Long Patrol, Romeo and Juliet, the Nammed/the Dark, Collateral, Amos Daragon, Saw (I & III), Pirates of the Caribbean, Bleach, Gears of War I and II, Gladiator, Inkheart, Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, The Sight, Inkspell, Legend of Zelda TP, numerous DC comics, Plague Dogs, Watership Down, Hellsing, numerous Redwall books, Warriors, The Alanna series, Trickster's Queen, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The Titan's Curse, Cry of the Icemark, Year of the Hangman, Cujo, Ender's Game, The Book Theif, In the Belly of the Bloodhound, Lost, Higurashi, Final Fantasy (IV, V, VII, X, Tactics, & Crisis Core), New Gods, Four Brothers, The Spiritualist, Highlander, Water for Elephants, Elfen Lied, Angel Sanctuary, Beast Wars, both Transformers movies, Ayashi no Ceres, The Outsiders, Wolf's Rain, Saving Private Ryan, Metal Gear Solid, Spiderman 1, 2 & 3, Alien, New Moon, Eclipse, The Lord of the Flies, Scrubs, Tithe, The Silence of the Lambs, Sweeny Todd, No Country for Old Men, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, NCIS, Chrono Trigger, Digimon, Flame of Recca, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ginga Nagareboshi Gin, Halloween, Monster Rancher, The Fox and the Hound, Jurassic Park, Night of the Living Dead, Nightmare of Elm Street 3, The Witch Of Portobello, Neverwinter Nights 2, Lost, Titanic, Gurren Lagann, Bambi (book and movie), Impulse, Samurai Shamploo, Johny The Homicidal Maniac, Dean Kontz's Hideaway, Blood+, Dragonlance: The New Adventures, Stephen King's Cell, Persona3, Crown of Shadows, Musashi, Quigly Down Under, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Tombstone, Leon: The Professional, Mystic River, Dracula, Eoin Colfer's The Supernaturalist, Invader Zim, Halo, West Side Story, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Hunt for Red October, Onikakushi-hen, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Monochrome Factor, The Brothers Grimm, Seven Samurai/ Samurai 7/ The Magnificent Seven, Iron Man, Wheel of Time series, Godchild, Tengen Toppa, Of Mice and Men, S-Cry-Ed, Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Ginga Densetsu Weed, The Warriors, Fire Bringer, A Great and Terrible Beauty, Chosen, May Bird, Elsewhere, South Park, A Song for Summer, 30 Days of Night, Stealth, Last Exile, Aquarion, Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis), The Land Before Time, Troy, The Iliad, Little Women, White Fang (the book), Serenity, Where the Heart Is, Diablo (the computer game), Stranger in a Strange Land, Smallville, The Last Wolf Of Ireland, Dr. Horrible, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Silent Hill (2 & the movie), Poppy, I am Morgan le Fay, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, A Series of Unfortunate Events, the Secret of Nimh, TTGL, The Supernaturalists, Twilight, Higurashi no Naka Coroni, My Sisters Keeper, RENT, Fushigi Yuugi, Julie of the Wolves/Julie/Julie's Wolf Pack, Heroes, Murder with Mirrors, The Dark Portal, Megaman, Charlotte's Web, Snatch, The Lion King, Song of Ice and Fire, Snatch, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Ceasar, Redsteel, Full Moon, Marvel Comics, V for Vendetta (video game), SilverWing, Kannazuki no miko, Chrono crusade, Code Geass, Hoshi no Kaabii/Kirby of the Stars, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Wolfen, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Watchmen, Spiral, Alice 19th, Fire Emblem 7 & 8, Mother 3, Tales of Symphonia, Game of Thrones, Gone with the Wind, The Three Musketeers, Anne of Green Gables, Fairy Cube, Farseer Trilogy, Suikoden 3, every single Dirk Pitt novel, Fight Club, The Legend of Spyro, Cloverfield, Fallout 3, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Vampire Acadamy, The Blade of Fire, The Last Battle of the Icemark, Mortal Engines series (A Darkling Plain), Noughts And Crosses, Checkmate, the Last Herald-Mage, Animorphs, the original House of Wax, The Haunting, Torchwood, Anansi Boys, American Gods, The Sandman, Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Through Phantom Eyes series, Hellboy, X-Men, Star Trek, Phantom of the Paradise, Petshop of Horrors, Vampire Hunter D, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, 30 Days of Night, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Man Who Laughs, Eureka Seven, Primeval, Gungrave, Predator, Stardsut, Sonic-X, Neverwhere, Riviera, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Revelation Space, Charmed, Tokyo Mew Mew, Memorias de Idhún, Song of the Wolf, Cowboy Bebop, The Pendragon Series, Pocahontas (novel), Babe, Bridge to Teribithia, The Death Gate Cycle, The Princess and the Captain, Ravenheart, Stormrider, Godzilla (american version), Alexander, Age of Mythology, Pale Blue Dot, Peter Pan (live action), The Green Mile, Pay it Forward, Firebringer, 3:10 to Yuma, Madness Combat, Johnny Tremain, Old Yeller, Armageddon, BONE, A Beautiful Mind, The Road to Mars, Megaman Starforce, The Count of Monte-Cristo, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray, Tales of the Abyss, Angel, Tales of Legendia, Tales of Destiny, Skies of Arcadia, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Full Tilt, Outlaw Star, Zatch Bell, Kekkashi, Where the Red Fren Grows, Pokemon 3: The Movie, Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, Pokemon Heroes, Pokemon: The Movie, The Rise of Darkrai, Angels and Demons, Obscure: The Aftermath, PHD (manga), Dinobot, Legend of Dragoon, Italian Spiderman (YouTube series), Hollows, The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Spiral Suiri no Kizuna, Metroid Prime 3, Sandman, House, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Naughts & Crosses, Looking for Alaska, Bioshock, Coraline, City of Theives, The Toxic Avenger, Pluto (manga), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (and comic book compilation), Higurashi Shion, Azure Dreams, Brave Fencer Musashi, Shining Force 2, Wild Arms 3, Repo the Genetic Opera, DragonQuest (manga), Magic Knight Rayearth, Tales of Vesperia, The Sad Love Story, Xenosaga, Marley And Me, Interview with a Vampire,
Abarat, The Prestige, Tunnels, Battle of the Labyrinth, Skulduggery Pleasant, Exit the King, The Mummy, Blade Runner, The Matrix, Kai Doh Maru, Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Kuroshitsuji, Escaflowne, Teen Titans, The World Ends With You, Devil May Cry (1 & 3), Donni Darko, The Dark Knight, City of Dreaming, The Uninvited, Blood Diamond, the Drizzt Books, Firefly/Serentiy...

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Feel free to share your tragic character deaths (but if it's something that's been out for less than a year, please include a spoiler warning!).


I don't reply to every comment, but I read every comment. And I appreciate all the props this stamp is getting. Thank you all!

I've had somebody mention how it's neat that such different forms of literature and movies are all in the same list. Shakespeare and Naruto? Agatha Christie and Invader Zim? It's just neat that people of so many different tastes can come together. :') Lol.

Here is a great deviation in the (sad) spirit of favorite characters being no more: [link]

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