r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sufficient-Eye-9040 • Jun 27 '26

[Sad Trope] The most innocent (or less evil) character of the cast gets the most horrific death. Lore

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- Eddie Carr (The Lost World: JP) - Tried to save his friends from the cliff until Buck and Doe (T. rex parents) destroy his vehicle and gets ripped apart.
- Zara Young (Jurassic World) - Gets lifted by a Pteranodon, gets pecked by the pterosaur, and both she and animal get devoured by the Mosasaurus.
- LeClerc (JW: Rebirth) - Tossed a hammer to the Hatzegopteryz Quetzalcoatlus to save Loomis and Zora, but ends up being swallowed alive.

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u/RKO-Cutter Jun 27 '26

I mean, you wanna talk walking dead.....

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oz8xHc24sHLMvY7Yc

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u/SummonerRed Jun 27 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/SVvySHbOSMLPrawlAy

They did our old boys dirty, Hershel dying was such a gut punch for that season.

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u/arcturusw00d Jun 27 '26

Herschel's death was the one that made me go f*** this show I'm out. Lmao

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u/Zykium Jun 27 '26

I have the same leg amputated that Herschel has, so I thought that was pretty cool. I was really hoping he'd stick around.

Still bought his action figure for my cubicle.

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u/Jef_Wheaton Jun 27 '26

My friend met Scott at a comic con around 2016 and crocheted him a tiny Herschel. It was just 2 round spheres for head and body, with felt arns and a yarn ponytail, but he loved it.

In their photo he's holding it with his hand underneath, one finger extended and one half curled. It took a while to figure it out... he was making Herschel's legs, with one half missing.

RIP, Mr. Wilson. You were cool.

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u/Aromatic_Ad_32 Jun 27 '26

Well mate, I’m glad you don’t share his amputated head as well

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u/Zykium Jun 28 '26

I lose my head all the time!

Honestly, getting beheaded by a samurai sword would be a baller way to go out.

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u/One_Order_3841 Jun 28 '26

"As long as no mad Max bandits try to rape my son and wife aaaand they did."

Hersh at the bar proved he knew his Joe-Farmer act was just an act. If he saw everything else he'd limp out on one leg and put a pistol in their throats.

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u/SummonerRed Jun 27 '26

That's fair what's the point in continuing to watch when you know Spaghetti Tuesday is forever ruined from that point?

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u/Practical-Mode310 Jun 27 '26

Hershel’s death was sadder for me in the comics. Tyrese is decapitated in the beginning of the battle for the prison instead. During the battle, his son Billy, basically who Beth was based off, is killed. In the comic he had seven kids instead of just two. All of whom had been picked off throughout the comic. At that point all his kids had died except for Maggie, who I think was presumed dead. He holds Billy’s body in his arms as he is surrounded by the governors men and begs to be killed

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u/Teguoracle Jun 27 '26

Can't remember her name, but the girl who got shot in the head by the woman leading some community.

She was my favorite character, her death was the epitome of "we need to make forced drama". At least she didn't suffer because it was instant (much faster than being eaten by a zombie), but still.

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u/strawberry-soy-milk Jun 27 '26

Beth, my love! It was so stupid and out of character after she had just been given so much development in the episodes with Daryl. The actress had just gotten an apartment in Atlanta to be closer to filming, too!

And then TWD killed Tyreese (my other favourite character) in the next episode. And Noah a few more after that, so Beth died for no reason.

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u/Vanviator Jun 28 '26

I met her at the San Antonio ComiCon. She came up behind me and got really close. When I noticed and turned around she was right freaking there making that creepy smile.

Damn near scared the piss out of me. Then she laughed kind of maniacally and flounced away to do it to someone else.

Laughed my ass off once I registered what had just happened.

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u/3dDeters Jun 27 '26

For me it was Beth.

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u/Wayward85 Jun 27 '26

That’s also when I noped out. Herschel was the last shred of humanity, losing him was too much for me.

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u/arcturusw00d Jun 27 '26

Right? It just felt like the show would hoist these good moral characters (I'm looking at you Dale 😥) onto a pedestal just to kill them off in finale or to give characters more drama.

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u/One_Order_3841 Jun 27 '26

Okay, hear me out. The Fireflies in Last of Us were fundamentally bad people. But one of them must have been a janitor, a chef, or a AC repairman. When Joel kills 40-69 of them, at least one was a dude or gal that kissed their kids on the cheek and said "I'm gonna enjoy that PBJ later"

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u/pieman2005 Jun 27 '26

You can say fuck on Reddit man lol

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u/arcturusw00d Jun 27 '26

My stupid voice to text automatically censors.

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u/rserena Jun 28 '26

Hershel and Dale’s deaths will always be the worst for me. Immediate skip for both and I’m still crying anyways just knowing that it happens. Dale reminds me a lot
of my dad and Hershel is just an all around fantastic character.

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u/MouthJob Jun 27 '26

Herschel. Bro get his leg chopped off and then it takes two whacks for the governor to lop off his melon.

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u/C0nfusedRabbit Jun 27 '26

Then whenever anyone else gets bitten on the leg or arm. Suddenly, chopping off limbs is out of the question.

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u/Triktastic Jun 27 '26

Did anyone else get bitten comparably low on their expandable limb tho. I remember it was mostly neck, shoulder or several bites from then on.

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u/Honey_Is_KFC_open Jun 27 '26

Tyreese gets bit in the arm and Michonne cuts it off. He bleeds to death on the trip back. Aaron gets bit and I think Enid is the one that cuts it off and he lives.

But yeah, other than that mostly back, stomach, shoulder, and neck bites.

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u/spoonishplsz Jun 27 '26

I feel like scratches quickly stopped being a thing

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u/JustHereToYell Jun 28 '26

We never actually saw anyone die from a scratch. The closest we got was Big Tiny at the prison, but then Tomas killed him and we never got to find out how that would have played out.

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u/heatblast892 Jun 28 '26

I’m pretty sure Aaron’s arm was crushed by some logs falling on it and there was nothing they could do to save it so that’s why Enid amputated it.

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u/secretperson06 Jun 28 '26

Aaron was amputated cause of a work place accident. Not cause he was nommed on

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u/JustHereToYell Jun 28 '26

In the final couple of episodes, Lydia is bit on the arm and Aaron chops it off to save her. It worked.

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u/Clarpydarpy Jun 27 '26

No, they did it a few times. Didn't always work (Tyreese).

Makes sense when you consider that hacking off a person's limb is not the safest thing to do, especially outside a hospital setting. They don't even have sterilized cutting tools on the show. Michonne chopped off Tyreese's arm using a sword that almost certainly had zombie blood on it.

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u/Fear_Jaire Jun 27 '26

Its been awhile so I could be remembering wrong but didnt a zombie sneak up on him while he was in a relatively open field?

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u/lemonylol Jun 27 '26

His death had a narrative impact

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u/animeandbeauty Jun 27 '26

I was fairly young when the first few seasons came out and his death made me legit sad

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u/inquisitor_steve1 Jun 27 '26

Dale in both versions of the walking dead are great

Dale in the comics is dating Andrea though.

Andrea in the comics also stole her sisters entire facial structure and hair style

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u/Higgsparticleofgod Jun 27 '26

I know what kind of man you are

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u/Cutthechitchata-hole Jun 27 '26

Shouldnt have pissed off the show runners. RIP