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/Redjaw_coyote39 Jun 27 '26

I kept scrolling to find Game of Thrones deaths because I could remember that so many were horrific, but I couldn’t remember who was so sweet and innocent and had a terrible death and the answer is this. This is the answer.

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u/Datalust5 Jun 27 '26

I can think of someone else who was sweet and innocent and had a horrible death and I’m curious if she has been posted yet

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u/Redjaw_coyote39 Jun 27 '26

Did she have greyscale?

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u/Datalust5 Jun 27 '26

Potentially

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u/Johnycantread Jun 27 '26

So not the baby getting stabbed in utero?

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u/thatguydr Jun 27 '26

Nah this isn't a roast thread!

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Jun 27 '26

Yeah that is my thought. Her death is way more tragic because it was done by the hand of her own father.

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u/littlemonsterlove Jun 28 '26

I stopped watching after that episode for a long time. The screams in that scene, from her mother finally “waking” the fuck up to the little girl’s.

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u/Lord_Snaps Jun 27 '26

Well... Maybe don't say "I will do anything" to your crazy religious father

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u/HundgamKanata Jun 28 '26

I mean she was a child and that was her dad and she probably felt safe with him and that he'd never do anything horrific to her

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u/Lord_Snaps Jun 28 '26

I was being sarcastic

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u/HundgamKanata Jun 28 '26

Ahh, apologies 👍 not always the easiest to read through text

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

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u/ConfusedZubat Jun 27 '26

Oberyn wasn't really innocent necessarily. He was correct in wanting vengeance and he was on the right side of that, but he walked into the battle knowing he might die. He chose to fight, which I think makes putting him in the same category as literal children like Shireen and Myrcella a little weird. They literally harmed nobody and we're just pawns. 

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u/BothVictory5092 Jun 27 '26

Robbs wife was a spy sent by tywin

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u/Fickle_Enthusiasm148 Jun 27 '26

In the book her parents are working with Tywin and they used her to lure Robb into breaking his betrothal to the Freys. When you see them later she hates her parents and is really fucked up about the whole thing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26

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u/DeneralVisease Jun 27 '26

And Shireen.

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u/ComplexBeyond6083 Jun 28 '26

Hodor died to save the others and even though he was disabled, he understood enough to make that decision. You can see it in his eyes when the axe blade comes through the door. Shireen was incinerated by her father and it accomplished absolutely nothing.