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The last scene in "Open Water." Close second: Samuel L. Jackson in the otherwise terrible "Deep Blue Sea."
Second best death scene?
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Movies:
Sgt. Elias, platoon.
Pretty much all from the Great Escape.
The sniper in Saving Private Ryan (In the tower, staring down the tank turret with his rifle scope)
Tons of ones from Star Wars. (Vader, Kenobi, Porkins, the A-wing pilot, lots of imperials)
Marv, Sin City
A lot of ones from Transformers (they were so epicly made)
Hal.
Maximus
John Wayne in 'The Cowboys'.
Colin, Billy, and Costello in "The Departed".
Lit
Tons of ones from A Song of Fire and Ice
- Fought off several hundred Yuuzhan Vong in one of the later Star Wars novels, and also
from one of the later novels.
Sgt. Elias, platoon.
Pretty much all from the Great Escape.
The sniper in Saving Private Ryan (In the tower, staring down the tank turret with his rifle scope)
Tons of ones from Star Wars. (Vader, Kenobi, Porkins, the A-wing pilot, lots of imperials)
Marv, Sin City
A lot of ones from Transformers (they were so epicly made)
Hal.
Maximus
John Wayne in 'The Cowboys'.
Colin, Billy, and Costello in "The Departed".
Lit
Tons of ones from A Song of Fire and Ice
Ganner Rhysode
Anakin Solo
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Particle_Man
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edit: my raison d'etre occured.
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Particle_Man said:
Read it again.
-Hyp.
Olgar Shiverstone
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milotha said:
Hell, yeah!
(Amazing threadcromancy, this one ...)
Lord Kyle Windsor
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Top three death scenes
The buildup to Cliff Worley's death in True Romance is one of the greatest scenes ever, with the story about why Sicilians have black hair and dark skin.
Leon and Stansfield in the Professional.
And nothing in the history of history is as tragic as Gaston being murdered at the end of Beauty and The Beast.
The buildup to Cliff Worley's death in True Romance is one of the greatest scenes ever, with the story about why Sicilians have black hair and dark skin.
Leon and Stansfield in the Professional.
And nothing in the history of history is as tragic as Gaston being murdered at the end of Beauty and The Beast.
Jeremy
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I don't know if anyone's read it but the death in a book that has moved me the most was
in Stronghold by Melanie Rawn. I really love the Sunrunner books and his death and the reaction to it by those who love him, the way the entire chapter is written, it tore me up.
As for the death in a movie that hit me the hardest, I was full out depressed for a month after
was brutally killed in Serenity.
On TV, Spike, Wolfwood, Wesley, they've all been mentioned and I agree. Poor Fred. Poor Wes.
Rohan's
As for the death in a movie that hit me the hardest, I was full out depressed for a month after
Wash
On TV, Spike, Wolfwood, Wesley, they've all been mentioned and I agree. Poor Fred. Poor Wes.
death tribble
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In the Battle of Britain the fighter pilots as they are killed by enemy fire, their planes blow up or their parachutes fail to open.
I agree with Bladerunner and Roy Batty's death being good.
The 50 as they try to escape in Great Escape
Alan Rickman in Die Hard.
The kid's death in the Host.
John Wayne in the Cowboys. You don't kill John Wayne before the pic ends. Even if you are Bruce Dern
The deaths of the Magnificent Seven. Particularly Robert Vaughan as he overcomes his cowardice.
Leonidas's death in 300. And the final death of the Spartans in the 60s film 300 Spartans when they won't leave the body of their king.
The death of the Predator in Predator dieing it activates a quasi-nuke.
Godzilla in Godzilla vs Destroyah. It is sad.
Pan's Labyrinth. The death of the little girl as she refuses to harm her brother to return to the fairy kingdom and is killed by her step father. When he tries for a noble death and asks that his son be told of him the communists refuse point blank
King Kong in the original film as he falls to his death after climbing the Empire State tower.
Various of the kids in Battle Royale.
Donnie Darko. The death at the end. That hits you.
Chow Yun Fat in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Kirk Douglas in the Vikings suddenly realising that he can't kill his own brother and then gets handed a sword so he can die like a viking.
On TV
Brad Dourif as Boggs in Beyond the Sea in the X-Files. He realises on the way to the gas chamber that Scully is not going to be there as his witness.
Peter Boyle as Clyde Bruckman in Clyde Bruckman's Last Repose as he commits suicide.
Angel getting stabbed and sent the portal by Buffy at the end of Season 2
Similarly the episode of Buffy, The Body
Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock abandoning her wealth and position after her secrets are discovered she dies outside the graveyard where her first love is buried. That gets me even thinking about it.
I agree with Bladerunner and Roy Batty's death being good.
The 50 as they try to escape in Great Escape
Alan Rickman in Die Hard.
The kid's death in the Host.
John Wayne in the Cowboys. You don't kill John Wayne before the pic ends. Even if you are Bruce Dern
The deaths of the Magnificent Seven. Particularly Robert Vaughan as he overcomes his cowardice.
Leonidas's death in 300. And the final death of the Spartans in the 60s film 300 Spartans when they won't leave the body of their king.
The death of the Predator in Predator dieing it activates a quasi-nuke.
Godzilla in Godzilla vs Destroyah. It is sad.
Pan's Labyrinth. The death of the little girl as she refuses to harm her brother to return to the fairy kingdom and is killed by her step father. When he tries for a noble death and asks that his son be told of him the communists refuse point blank
King Kong in the original film as he falls to his death after climbing the Empire State tower.
Various of the kids in Battle Royale.
Donnie Darko. The death at the end. That hits you.
Chow Yun Fat in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Kirk Douglas in the Vikings suddenly realising that he can't kill his own brother and then gets handed a sword so he can die like a viking.
On TV
Brad Dourif as Boggs in Beyond the Sea in the X-Files. He realises on the way to the gas chamber that Scully is not going to be there as his witness.
Peter Boyle as Clyde Bruckman in Clyde Bruckman's Last Repose as he commits suicide.
Angel getting stabbed and sent the portal by Buffy at the end of Season 2
Similarly the episode of Buffy, The Body
Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock abandoning her wealth and position after her secrets are discovered she dies outside the graveyard where her first love is buried. That gets me even thinking about it.
Hmm... let's go with books here, since movies and TV are pretty well covered, and I don't do comics...
Moiraine Damodred in Fires of Heaven (book 5 of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time).
Tazendra Lavode in Sethra Lavode by Steven Brust.
Sgt. Bothari in The Warrior's Aprentice (the first Miles book of Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga).
Moiraine Damodred in Fires of Heaven (book 5 of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time).
Tazendra Lavode in Sethra Lavode by Steven Brust.
Sgt. Bothari in The Warrior's Aprentice (the first Miles book of Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga).
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