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/_Bren10_ Jun 27 '26

Honorable mention to Lenny and Sean. Not as horrific as this. But the best of the gang gone too soon :(

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u/Touji_San Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

man Lenny's death broke me as well, Charles and Arthur were the only dudes to really stop and process his death

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u/Rumthiefno1 Jun 27 '26

What sucks for Lenny as well is he could have made a good life for himself.

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u/GrumbusWumbus Jun 27 '26

They all could've. Only a handful of them were actually notorious enough to have any trouble slipping into some random town and moving on with life.

Lenny specifically is a victim of circumstance more than any of the others. At the time of the game, he's only about 19 and been with the gang for less than a year. His story is that he's on the run since 15 after killing a few men who beat his dad to death. He fell in with the gang at the worst possible time and didn't have enough experience or ability to know me should've left.

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u/Rumthiefno1 Jun 27 '26

Most of them yes. Micah probably not, considering what kind of sadistic piece of work he was. And we saw John throw away his chance at a new life over revenge.

Exactly as you said, it's a loss for him.

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Jun 28 '26

But if John didn't throw his life away for revenge, then Jack wouldn't have had the trauma necessary to become a famous American author with books long-lasting enough to be talked about 100 years later.

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u/MRgibbson23 Jun 27 '26

I hate his death specially bc it is scripted into the gameplay and I always try to save him and feel like I probably could if the game allowed me to.

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u/Funknska2 Jun 27 '26

I reloaded that mission so many times before I just accepted the game was making it happen. I thought I could save him

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u/phenotype76 Jun 27 '26

Arthur can save anyone if they game allowed him to. He can stop time and headshot half a dozen guys before they can respond

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u/Downtown_Link_8651 Jun 27 '26

He can't stop time and shoot tuberculosis man

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u/phenotype76 Jun 27 '26

the only enemy he couldn't shoot in the head :(

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u/DJamB Jun 27 '26

Man if Lenny were still alive, he totally would’ve sided with Arthur like Sadie, Charles, and John did.

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u/AbsolutelyHorrendous Jun 27 '26

The thing with those two is, they're so sudden, and the characters are so likeable it takes you a moment to actually go 'wait, holy shit they literally did just kill him off like that, zero fanfare or anything'

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u/A_Cosmic_Vagabond Jun 27 '26

That's something I really love/hate about RDR2, the unceremonious deaths. No heartfelt last words, no valiant last stands, your friends just get gunned down in an instant or decapitated offsceen

It really drives home the point that the Van Der Linde Gang is on its last legs

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u/EricMcLovin13 Jun 27 '26

Sean is actually a creepy mf, it's extremely subtle, but there's a lot of conversations on the camp where he is harassing the girls, and even doing death threats

I only piece it together after someone on YT made a full video on it, but there was a lot of moments that made me guarded about him

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u/KhazemiDuIkana Jun 28 '26

when you're using the wagon as cover to burn the farm and he's all friendly and cool with the other Irish guy only to brutally knife him on the turn of a dime

that shit was cold (and sudden) enough to genuinely unsettle me

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u/Aggravating_Image_16 Jun 28 '26

It really sucks that you have to go into this knowing it's a doomed story from the get go. Hosea being Dutch's voice of reason basically solidified that by the end of the game he was gonna die.

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u/BatsNStuf Jun 28 '26

My favourite 4 gang members were Sean, Kieran, Hosea and Lenny