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"Dogmeat has died".
Oh no he fucking has not. Reload.
!Sayori in Doki Doki Literature Club!<. Hot Dam did that hit like a brick wall
Joyce Summers. That episode of Buffy was a masterpiece.
Holy hell, that was so brutal. How she was just lying there, with eyes open and all
I just saw this for the first time recently. It hit me so hard that I had to call my therapist for an extra session. The look on her face was identical to my father's when he passed.
My mom died when my sister and I were approximately Buffy’s and dawn’s ages, respectively. It was an absolute gut punch to watch for me too.
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Robin Williams as the Bicentennial Man. The movie was okay; his performance was amazing. I've struggled with mortality for a while, like I expect a lot of people do, and to see him as a character who started their existence immortal, and to choose mortality. His death in the movie hit me much, much harder than I expected. I haven't watched the movie again since my first viewing because I'm honestly afraid of going through that again.
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Sirius Black in Harry Potter. I had to go back and reread the paragraph several times, then put the book down. Seemed just so unfair.
Put in there just as a cheap way to get emotional reactions from the audience, it's the story telling equivalent of having the dog in the story die.
Especially since his death didn't really do anything. He didnt sacrifice himself or saved anyone and his death wasn't discussed much after the initial shock. I assume he had to be out of the picture so Harry could go Horcrux hunting, without him interfering
Technically, Sirius is the dog in the story.
Jesus, because no one ever shuts up about it
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood spoiler:
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Mayes Hughes
Bambi's mother.
Runner-ups:
- Carl's wife from Up
- The mother in Violet Evergarden
- Ghost and Roach from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Up wrecks me as an adult
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Mike from Breaking Bad😔. Had to stop watching for a few days after that
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Big dan and little anne from where the red fern grows. Fucked me up at like age 10
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Optimus Prime was a real shock for sure. For me it’s any animal death.
- Artax from The Neverending Story
- The dogs from Where the Red Fern Grows
- There’s a scene in the Sci-fi novel Armor where a puppy falls in a well and its owner, a child, unable to rescue it ,has to kill it by dropping stones on it to spare it drowning. I read that a long time ago, probably in the 80s, and it still haunts me.
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Arthur Morgan's death scene in RDR2 really got to me. But perhaps even more so, when my horse was killed right before. I remember pausing the game for a moment because I had had that horse for so long and somehow it felt like a major deal that happened so quickly.
Never had a game affect me like that before.
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BT in titanfall 2, one of the only scenes that made my shed a tear
That's a good one.
Saw it coming a mile away (i.e. from the start thanks to the protocol that says to protect the pilot), but it was such a good execution.
Rob and Catelyn Stark in the Red Wedding. So traumatizing!
John Marston. There are a lot of character deaths that really hit me hard. Hank from Breaking Bad comes to mind.
But man, John's death just hits so deeply. I played RDR a good 4 or so years after its release, so I knew it was coming. Even then, it barely felt real. And you better believe I was frantically trying to mark all those Pinkertons to help John get through it.
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The second death of Jake Chambers in Stephen King’s ”The Dark Tower” comes quite quickly to mind…
It's Oy for me. That little fucker knew how he was gonna go, knew how bad it was gonna be, and went ahead anyway...
I'm not crying, you're crying. 😭
Grave of fireflies. Just... Yeah.
The dragon from Dragonheart. It was my first time being sad from a movie.
Marley from Marley and Me
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Jackie Wells. Damn that broke me up; the whole buildup in Act1 to that scene was so artfully done. So immersed. Really felt like I lost my anchor and best friend in that fucked up life.
I’ll ride his Arch til the day I can’t. Not a scratch.
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I still think about Aeries/Arith from FF7. Such a senseless death. It makes no sense. Literally was done just to elicit a response from the player. This segment alone is why I am upset that the second game in the Rebirth series isn't on PC; I really want to know if that scene is going to be altered due to the weird storyline branches that come from the time-travel/alternate reality shenanigans that so far as I've seen from the first game, only Arith knows about.
The only other one I really think about randomly is your own character in Fallout 3. Fuck you Fawkes! I don't believe in fate. Now get your green ass in there so nobody has to die!
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My horse in Red Dead Redemption 2. I captured and tamed it from wild the moment I was able.
R.I.P Coffee!
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Chewbacca
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He sacrificed himself to save Anakin Solo on Sernpidal.
At the start of the war with the Yuuzhan Vong, before the galaxy even knew of the enemy they would soon be facing, the Millenial Falcon was on Sernipdal to pick up a shipment. Sernipdal's moon was falling, actually being pulled down by a Vong lifeform that manipulates gravity.
The Falcon was being loaded with evacuees and Anakin Solo was hit by a blast of wind taking him away from the ship. Chewy chases Anakin down, scoops him up, and rushes back to the Falcon. He's just able to get Anakin into the ship when another shockwave hits, knocking Chewy away from the Falcon.
With no time left, Han is forced to take off or lose everyone on board. Chewbacca understands and as a last defiant act he throws his arms wide and bellows out a might rookie roar.
Chewbacca's death hit me damn hard when I read that book. Recalling it now to write this even brought tears to my eyes. A hero so noble and mighty it took a moon to defeat him.
Anakin's death later in the same series was pretty awesome but not as wrenching emotionally.
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SPOILERS, dude.
Hedwig and Fred Weasley
A lot of people hate on Sword Art Online, but in the second season...
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When Yukio dies, and the last thing she sees is the all the players flying overhead in tribute to her... I was already crying, but that left me ugly crying. It hit real hard, way harder than I expected.
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